The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-06
THE ROSE-GAR-
DEN HUSBAND
BY WIDDEMER
Copyright, by j. P. L.ppincott Co.

across her bed. wt,teh he overlapped.
FROM his nose he seemed to have
been dipping largely into the cup OF
chocolate somebody had brought TO
her, and which she had forgotten to
dc.nk when she found il. on aer first
retiring.
"Inu aren't a bit high-minded.f
sad Phyiiis Indignantly. She was
100 sleepy to do more than shove him
over 20 the back OF the bed. ALI
the beds here are so-tuil.'' she com
planned s.eepily: and era wled inside.
and never woke again til, nearly aft
ernoou.
There was ali the grave business to
be done, in the days that followed. OF
taxing Mrs. Harrington to a quiet
place beside her husband, and draw
ine together again the strings Of the
disorganized household. Phyllis found
herself whispering over and over
again:
The sweeping up the heart
And putting love away
We shall not need to use again,
Until the judgement Day"
And with all there was to see after,
it was some days before she saw
Alan again, more thar to speak to
brightly as she crossed THEN COM
mon sitting room. He did not ask
he@. She looked after his comfort
faithfully, and tried to see to it that
"A task which was almost hopeless
from the fact that Wallis knew much
more about his duties than she did.
even with Mrs. ~Harrington's pains
taktngly detailed notes to help her.
Also his attitude to his master was
OF such untiring patience and wor-
snip hat it made Phyllis feel like
a L d outsider Interfering between
mar n wife.
However, Wallis was inclined to
approve of his new mistress, who was
not fussy, seemed kind, and had Civ
en- his beloved Mr.. Allan nearly three
hours of u%nbroken sleep. Allan had
been u little better ever since. WAL
lis had told Phyllis this. But she
was inclined to think tina the better
ment was caused by the counter
shock Of his mothers death. which
mad shaken him from his lethargy,
and perhaps ever given his nerves a
better balance. And she insisted that
the pink paper stay on the electric
lights.
After about a week of this, Phyllis
suddenly remembered that she had
not been selfish at all yet. Where
was her rose ~garden-the garden h
had married the %wolfhound and Allan
and the ~checkbook for? Where were
all the things she had intended to
get? The only item she had bought
as yet ran, on the charge account
she had take over with the rest, 81
doz. checked dish towels" and Mrs.
Clancy. the housekeeper's. pressing
de.ceca YRS ~-esponsiDie Tor these.
IT'S certainly time I was selfish"
said Phyllis to the ~wolfhound, who
followed her round u%nendingly as if
she had patches of sunshine in her
pocket: glorious patches, fit for a
life-sized wolfhound. Perhaps he
was grateful because she had ordered
him long daily walks. He wagged
his tail now az she spoke. and rubbed
himself ~curvingly against her. He
was a rather affected dog.
So Phyllis made herself out a list
in a superlatively neat library hand:
One string Of blue beads.
One lot of very fluffy summer
frocks with flowers on them.
One rose-garden.
One banjo and a ~self-teacher.
(And a sound-proof room.o
One set Arabian Nights.
One set Of Stevenson, all but his
novels.
Ever so many Maxfield Parrish
pictures full OF Prussian- blue skies.
"A house to put them in, with fire.
places.
A iady's size motor car that likes
ma
A plain cat with a tame DISPOSE
ton.
A hammock.
A sun-dial. (But hat might be
thrown in with the garden.)
A gold watch bracelet
All the colored satin slippers /
want.
A room big enough to put all faith
ers books up.
1t looked sl,amelessiy long. but
Phyilis'S discretionary powers"
would cover it, she knew. Mrs. Har-
rington's final will. while full OF adj
vice. had been recklessly trusting.
She could order everything in one
afternoon, h was sure. ali but the
house. the garden. the motorswhiehs
she put checks against. and the plain
cat. which she thought she could pick
up in the village where her house
would be-
Next she went to see Allan. She
didn't want to bother him, but she