The Ordway new era., 1920-01-23

who're she foliuf, it, but yeii never
can tell Whit anyhodv wil do-pP--
bdrs she'd have done fRgt me sar'.. II
IA to,d her NOT To-. Tor she mixed
those slippers IN md SCI tlis,u in a
ro'v be>fie my bed along with oxford
ties and bath Slippers.
II was on tise da- TINT Mrs Tirhi;,-
son rieansh thur Claire earne ripping
| up to see me and tell me INIT her Ia
ther had arrived
It was the arst tirnr IA seen her
since we'd parted AZ the ca,le ofiics,
and Of cdurve had 70 spare her a
seyv ruinures and hear what she hnh 20
'ny she was stnyin- with her farifer
ar hotci-n1animr hadn't YET come,
bccause grundpapa aas lying every
eay and she dfdn'y dare 10 iesre him.
Aud then she snddenIY wished - know
r. an Americans lived the way Mrs.
Dsiarfn I'D and did Anlericnn indies
works
7 haa 70 ask her whar she meant,
and she explained that ererytiifng at
afrs Driario's was 80 unlike the way
they llved abroad p tint Mrs Deiurio
never left her bedruon1 unlocked Tor
a single minnie, TINT all HE upstairs
rooms were locked: titar she made
he--CIafrs- Keep her dncr locked.
because" she snid, "yar never cnn
ten = hat people most Of whom we're
strangsrs, were coming 20 The house
an day from nine IN five. Mrs. Dvla-
rio called them "sitters'' and gave
tiien "readings~ in an awf1lly queer
room whore the shutters weren't ever
ohened, ana she ~ Claire- believed
thar Mrs. Deiarfo took morey FOR
these readings. though she never wnuld
say what she read; and n she took
money how cohid she be iady7
Though she wns very nice and kind
ard papa wauted her 70 keep her
Clafre-tiil her mother arrived and
Mrs. Delnrfo wouldn't on account of
her work. and what sort Of work could
II possibly be5
I saw BY that that Mr. neiarfo
hadn't taken C1aire much INTO her com
couitn't gusss wtnt Afrs Dciarfo dld,
ernctfT. though he thought he knew
lirte. oniy hr didn't know thnt la-
dies DID II IN America
White 7 was considering what I'd
better say the clock struch and
bounced out os my chair In a hurry
II was the hour os an appointment.
and here was i've miles away. sos-
siplug
told Crafre 7 hndto run. and she
followed me 70 ny bedroom while !
got my coar, and IL was she who ex-
claimed why. there's Mrs petario's
slfpperI She's hunred everywhere for
81. You picked IL up. az the customs
house and pur II in your suitcase"
I'm the thfef." laughed. slipping
on my coat
Ciafre tooS coupieaof steps toward
the slippers md said. ''i1I take lt bnci
to her"
aNo. my dear-inst Ieave i.. don't
Know which IS iiers-I see Mrs. sJinnnn-
son has rnf1ed thern gil up-and
hnven't tiraesto find out now"
"oh, I can soor teil,p ana Claire was
about to pounee on them, but I headed
ifer of. -
That's a matter for me to attend
70, Claire, and entirely between Mrs
DeInrfo and myself"
BY this time mad on my ven and
gloves. and herring tire eIevatot stop
ping at the floor. shooed Ciaire and
boitei for t.
Now I'd looked AZ the slippers as
cInire spoke, and they were standing
HEEL TO TRY WALL. between
paid of oxford ties and pair OF
bnth slippers thnt were toe to the
wall. as were all tho r,st but these
three slippers; and I noticed this par
ticuinriy and remembered II later COM
ing home In the curs when the incident
recurred to me. and I wondered why
since Claire was no longer With Mrs.
Deiarfo-siie hai been 80 ANXIOUS to
tnke the slipper back, and II she need
ed an eRcuse-possibly-t her father
for going to the horse TO see her
friend. and how II II HADN'T been for
Mrs. Tirnnson + could have let her
tnke the slipper and been glad to have
her do II; and how Mrs Jmmson must
have pleased berseif in p'ncing the
slippers just Il 9t wny. bncks to the
wall so theyd <nov or 10 best adynn-
taRe MS works Of art md decorate the
room nt large with their beauty; and
how IT must have puzzled her to fnd
three slippers all alike II, my room
not two. not four but three; and why
three? And what would the good
/ creature say If T fold her ia stolen the
odd oneY
I These thoughts nny seem too trivial
| TO mention, but the point IS thnt I
thought them and they were so obvi
ously suggested by the way Jimnnson
plncef the slippers, heel to the wan.
fsut here's the uncHnny thing TINT hnp
pened; When I got home one hour
nfter seeing them that wny and turned
on the light my eyes fell upon the