The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-04-29
THE ROSE-GAR-
DEN HUSBAND
BY WIDDEMER
copyriaa., by J. p. Lipeinoott Co.

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ia running a house. but a good deal
in keeping her head. And that. after
all. is the main thing. She had a FAR
off feeling as il. she, were hearing
some other young onte giving
swift. poised executive orders. She
| ra,hes admired her.
After Dime; the DE G%uenihers went.
And Phyllis Braithwaite, the little
Liberty Teacher who had been living
IN a hall! bedroom on much less money
than she needed. found herself a,ons,
sole mistress OF the great Harrington
house, Il corps of servants. a husband
passive enough to satisfy the most
militant sufTraget. a check book, a
wistful woifhound, and $500, cash, for
current expenses. The last weighed
on her mind more than all the rest
put tngethnr.
"Why. / don't know how to make
current expenses u of all that" she
had said to MIR. De Guenther. st
looks to me exactly like about 10
months salary. I'm perfectly Ger
tain ] shall get up in my sleep n
try to pay my board ahead with it, SO
shan't have 1t all spent before the 10
months are up! There was q blue
bead necklace she went on medita-
lively, "in the F~ive-and-Ten, that I
Ina We -,,n nta1 to b,y,- Hr1p I ava
quite felt / could afford it. Oh, just
imagine going to the Five-and-Ten
and buying at least S. worth Of things
you dinn't need!'
You have great discretionary pow
ers-great discretionary powers, my
dear you will find" Mr.. De Guenther
said, as he patted her shoulder, Phyl-
lis took it as a compliment at the
time. discretionary powers sound
ed as If he thought she was Il quite
intelligent young person. 1t did not
occur to her till ne had gone, and she
it meant she had a good deal of lib
erty to d. as she liked.
stay. Nobody even suggested a pos
sibility of her going home again, even
| 10 pack her trurk. Mrs. De Guenther
casually volunteered to do that, a lit
tie after the h~ousekeeper had told her
where her rooms We're. She a been
consulting with the housekeeper for
what seemed ages. when she happen
ed to want some pins for something,
and asked for her suit case.
Its in your rooms" said the house
keeper. Mrs. Harrington-the late
Mrs. Harrington, I should say"
Phyllis stopped listening at this
point. Who was the present Mrs. Har-
rington? she wondered. Why-she
was! SO there was no Phyllis Braith-
waite any more! OF course not. .
Yet she had always liked the name
so-well, a last name was a small
thing to give up. Into her
mind fitted an in congruous, silly
story she had heard once at the IL
brary, about a girl whose last name
was Rose, and whose parents chris
tened her Wild, because the combina-
!; ton appealed TO them. Anu nen she
married a man named Bull. /.
Meanwhile the housekeeper had been
going on.
"She had the bedroom and
bath opening from the other side of
Mr.. Allan's day room ready for you.
madam. It's been ready several
weeks"
Has it?" said Phyllis. It was like
Mrs. Harrington, that careful plann-
ing OF even where she should be put
us Mr.. Harrington in his day room
now?"
For some reason she did not at
tempt to give herself. she did not
want to see him again just now. Be-
sides. it was nearly II and time q
very tired girl was in bed. She
wanted a good nights rest, before
she had to get up and be Mrs. Har-
rlngton, with Allan and the check
book and the current expenses all tied
to her.
Some one had laid everything out
for her in the bedroom; the flmy new
nightgown over a chair. the blue satin
mules underneath, her plain toile,
things On a dressing table. and over
another chair the exquisite ivory
crepe negligee with its floating rose
ribbons. She took a hasty bath
there va so much hot water that she
was quite reconciled for a moment
to being a check booked and wolf
bounded Mrs. Harrington-and
slid straight into bed without ever
stopping to braid her loosened. honey
colored hair.
It seemed to her that she was bare
" asleep when there came an, urgent
Knocking at her door.
Yes?" She said sleepily. looking
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