The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-09-24
When Perky Was PACED
A SHORT STORY By SEWELL FORD
By SEWELL FORD

| says Urania.
And you've been coming up here
ever since?" asks Wee
NO." says Urania, "but we talked
about it every year. And this year
we came"
Gust shows, don't it," says :,
smotherin' a grin.
"Shows?" says Urania, starin' az me
puzzled.
"That if you talk a thing up strong
enough" says l, cts bound to come.
Like Noah and the food"
"Tm sure you must be having u
wonderful time," cuts in Wee. "The
city is so dull in summer"
"Joralemon Street isn't" says Aletla
land we have an upstairs bay window
from which we can see everything
that goes on. Through the Venetian
blinds, you know"
There was a double wedding from
the Patricia apartments, just across
from us, only last month";" says
Urania.
"And the week before" adds Aletta,
1.-the janitor of the house two doors
laboye was taken away with delirum
Itremens. He'd been stealing private
stock, they say"
"And the man on the second floor
across the street." says Urania, has
been carrying on high since his wife
went away"
$50 has the bald old wretch on the
third" comes in Aletta. 1--WE watched
him"
"And the woman we call the grass
widow in the next house" says
IUrania, shakin' her head solemn.
my" says Wee, rollin' her eyes at
me.
"But up here nothing has hap
lpened," says Aletta. We've been here
NEARLY two weeks, too"
Something will" says Urania
hopeful. Last season they say there
was an elopement from here. The
chambermaid told me-"
"And several years ago young
married couple, just about your age"
says Aletta, were caught out on the
mountain in a storm and lost their
way and the searching party didn't
find them until nearly noon next day.
She died. Pneumonia"
people are often lost on the noun
tain" says Urania, "and have dread
full times getting back, so the house
keeper says. They haven't this sea-
son, though"
mot as yet" chimes in Aletta, al
ways hopeful.
Say, between them, they put up a
great duet. Maybe as soloists they
wouldn't rate with Lulu Belle, from
Georgia, but their team work was 100
per cent perfect. Sometimes one
would start sentence and the other
would finish it, and the very second
one eased up the other came right in.
They left mighty few chinks for Wee
and me to fill. And there was no
chance for us to end the converse
ton. For nearly two hours they
rambled on, from this subject to that
but mainly about the prospects of
something thrilling taking place, I'M
til Wee consults her wrist watch and
announces that she must get back If
she's going to dress for dinner.
ooh, dol" says Aletta. I'VE were
saying at luncheon that you must look
perfectly lovely in evening dress.
Well see you after dinner"
HUH" says l. as we scrambles
down the trail, mot if we see you
first"
But they're such innocent, simple
souls" protects Wee.
They're simple enough" says l, but
don't know as I'd call EN- so inno-
cent. I'll bet they can sniff scandal
three blocks off. And did you notice
how well posted they were on all the
murder mysteries? Say, that pair of
old maids has minds that ought to be
sprinkled with chloride of lime"
| At which Wee giggles. Just think
what they're missing" says she, "by
being away from Joralemon Street all
this time"
We spent kind of hectic evenin'
dodgin' Urania and Aletta While
there were near hundred other peo-
pie in the hotel that they might have
gone buZzin' around, we noticed that
they didn't seem to be on speakin
terms with any of 'em. Maybe the
others hadn't been so easy to break
in on, or perhaps they'd had their turn
hearin' about the destinations of Jora-
lemon street.
| Three times the Brooklyn sisters
,ornered u.s. Twice we was saved by
the orchestra strikin' up a favorite
fox trot that Wee said she simply must
dance, and once she claimed she was
dyin' to go out on the east veranda
to see the moon rise. But at $50 the
chase got so warm that we sneaked
off to our room and locked the door.
Looks to me-" says /, "as if three
/ or four more days of this would get
us nicely acquainted with our new
/ friends. Eth
Wee signs. But l haven't the heart