New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
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and perturbed faces, yet actually ceased
counting when he saw her:
'Lenny! Did Di Deacon take that train?"
Sure she did" said Lenny
and Bobby Earkin?" Lulu cared nothing
fer appearances now.
He went in on the local." said Lenny, and
his eyes widened.
''Where?"
See" Lenny thought it through, "Mill-
tom he said Eyes, sure. Milton Both of
en-"
How long till another train?"
"Well, sir said the ticket man, "youre in
luck, if you was goin', too. Seventeen was
late this morning-shell be along jerk of a
lambs tail"
"Then,' said Lulu, you got to give me a
ticket to Milton without me paying till after
and you got to lend me So"
Sure thing said Lcnny, with a manner
of laying the entire railway system at her
feet.
Seventeen would rather not have stopped
at WarbletoA, but Lennys signal was law
on the time card, and the magnificent yellow
express slowed down for Lulu. Hatless and
IN her blue cotton gown, she climbed aboard.
Then her old efficiency seized upon her.
What was she going to do? Millton She
had been there but once, years ago--how
could she ever find anybody? Why had she not
stayed in Warbeton and asked the sheriff or
sombcody-no not the sheriff. Cornish, per-
haps. Oh and Dwight and Ina were going to
be angry now. And Di!-little Di. AS Lulu
thought Of her she began to cry She said
to herself that she had taught Di to sew.
In sight of Milton Ldlu was seized with
trembling and physical nausea. She had
never been alone in any unfamiliar town She
put her hands to her hair and for the first
time realized her rolled-up sleeves She was
pulling down these sleeves when the conductor
came through the train.
Gould you tell me- she said timidly, "the
name Of the principal hotel in Milton?"
Ninian had asked this as they nearcd Sa-
vannah, Ga.
The conductor looked curiously at her.
why the Hess House. he said "Wasnt
you expecting anybody to meet you?" he
asked, kindly.
"No,' said Lulu, "but I'm going to find my
folks - Her voice trailed away
"Beats ALL" thought the conductor, using
his utility formula for the universe
In Milton Lulu's inquiry for the Hess
house produced CONSERVATION NOBODY
paid any attention to her She was almost
certainly taken to be new servant there
''You stop feeling so' she said to herself
angrily at the lobby entrance "Ain't YOU
been to that big hotel in Savannah, Ga.?"
'S'HE Hess House, Milton, had tradition
of It's own to maintain, it seemed, and
they sent her to the rear basement door She
obeyed meelly, but she lost good deal Of
time before she found herself at the end of
the Office desk It was still longer before any
one attended her.
please, sir." she burst out "See if Di
Deacon has put her name on your book"
Her appeal tremendous, compelling.
The young clerk listened to her, showed her
where to look in The register. When only
strange names and strange writing presented
themselves there, he said
Tried the parlor?'
And directed her kindly and with his thumb,
and in his other hand a pen divorced from his
ear for the express purpose.
In crossing the lobby in the hotel at Sa
vannah, Ga, Lulus most pressing problem
mad been to know where to look But now
the ldlers in the Hess House lobby did not
exist. In time She found the door of the in
tensely rosc-colored reception ROOM There
IN a fat rosc-colored chair, beside cataract
Of lace curtain, sat Di, alone
Lulu entered. She had no idea what to
say. When Di looked up, started up, frowned,
Lulu felt as if she herself were the culprit.
She said the first thing that occurred to her: