The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-04-01

tent personality. Phyllis hsrrisd
somewhat with Robin Hood among
his little fishes, and felG happier It
was always, in her eventless Fife.
something Of pleasant adventure
to have Mr.. De Guenther Or his wife
drop in to see her There was Hsu-
ally something pleasant at the end
OF It.
They were an elderly couple
whom she had known for some
years They were so leasurely and
trim and gentle spoken that long ago
when she was only timorous sub
stitute behind the circle Of the big
charging desk. she had picked them
both out as people you'd like II you
got the chance Then she had waited
on them, and identified them by
their cards as belonging to the same
family. Then, one day with a pleased
little culver of joy. she had found
him In the city Who's Who, age, pro-
fession he was corporation lawyer)
middle names, favorite recreation,
and all. Gradually she had come to
know them both very well in a wait
ing CT way. She often chose 1--we
stories that ended happily and had
colorfed illustrations for Mrs. De
Guenther when she was at home hav-
ing rheumatism; she had saved more
detective stories for Mr.. De Guen-
Their than her superiors ever knew;
and once she had found his black
trimmed eye glasses where he had
left them between the pages of the
Pri-Zuz volume of the encyclopedia,
and mailed them to him.
When she had vanished temporar-
lily from sight into the nunnery pro-
motion of the cataloguing room the
De Guenthers had still remembered
her. Twice she had been asked to
dinner. at their house. and had Joy
ously gone and remembered it as
joyously for months afterward Now
that she was out in the light of par
tial day again, in the Children's
room, she ran across both of them
every little while in her errands up
stairs; and once Mrs. De Guenther,
gentle, lorgnetted and gray clad, had
been shown over the Children's
room. The couple lived all alone in
great, handsome old house that was
being crowded now by the business
district She had always thought
that if she were Theosophist She
would try to plan to have them for
an uncle and aunt in her next in
carnation. They suited her exactly
for the parts.
But it's a long way down to the
basement where city Libraries are
apt to keep their children and the
De Guenthers hadn't been down
there since the last time they asked
her to dinner. And here, with every
sign of having come to say some
thing very special, stood Mrs. De
Guenther! Phyllis irrepressibly
cheerful disposition gave a little
jump toward the light. But she went
on with her story-business before
pleasure!
However, she did manage to get
Robin Hood out OF his brook a little
more quickly than she had planned.
She scattered her children with
swift executive whisk, and made so
straight for her friend that she de-
ceived the children into thinking
they were going to see him expelled.
and they banked up and watched
with anticipatory grins.
Il do hope you want to see me
especially" she said briefly.
The children, disappointed, relaxed
their attention.
Mr.. De Guenther rose slowly and
neatly from his seat beside the
rather bored Isaac Rabinowitz. who
dived into his book again with
alacrity.
"Good afternoon. Miss Braith-
waite" he said In the amicably pre-
else voice which matched so admir-
ably his beautifully precise move
ments and his immaculate gray
spats. Yes. In the language Of our
young friend here, am the guy"
Phyllis giggled before she thought.
Some people in the world always
make your spirits 60 up with a
bound. and the De Guenther pair In
variably had that effect on her.
Oh, Mr.. De Guenther!" she said
7 am shocked at you! That's
slang!"
1T was more in the nature Of a
quotation" said he apologetically.
And how are You this exceedingly
Unpleasant day, MISS Braithwaite,
We have seen very little Of you
lately Mrs De Guenther and ts
The Liber1y Teacher. gracefully
RESPECTFUL IN her place, wiggled with
Invisible Impotence over this care
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