The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-23
A VISIT
Chapter so

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The only thing Pan could find to
carry hot to the invalid was some
.hick celery soup. She heated this as
much as possible with lavish addi-
ton of cream and poured in into
Thermos bottle. Then pulled an old fur
cloak of Gloria's over her shoulders,
half wished she had on her cream col
ored silk which was so becoming
cided that if she stopped to change L
would be coquetry, whereas now 1t was
merely a friendly errand-and slipped
out of the house.
She was so much in earnest over her
errand that she took taxi, an unheard
of extravaganza for her, so George
could have his supper that much soon
er.
George had phoned downstairs to
the hall boy of the apartment house to
let her in-she found him sitting in
little pool of lamp light at the big ia
BILE in his studio, with books and news
papers scattered over the table and
floor, and the rest of the huge place
in friendly sort of gloom.
you are an angel to come like this"
he said I'm like all men, l hate be-
ing sick so much that when have the
least ache or pain l pretend it's some
thing tremendous.
ITO have the satisfaction of feeling
sorry for YOURSELF" Pan said and
laughed little.
That's the sort of remark Gloria
would make. l believe you are too
much under her influence" George re-
piled
The girl wondered at this answer, 1t
seemed to reflect a trifle upon Gloria.
She lookly closely at George-who did
indeed seem very i'll. Whatever tiny
resentment she felt vanished at once,
she threw her cape over a chair and
went into the dining room to find
bowl for the hot soup.
One of the big armchairs was placed
at the end of the long table. An ex-
quisite lace and linen scarf was thrown
across the polished dark oak, coffee in
a percolator needed only a light to
begin its heating, sandwiches, salad,
cold meat, everything his servants
could think of to tempt him in their
absence, was ready there.
George watched her through the
arched doorway. She seemed so al
home as she found a tray, and arrang-
ed the meal, and as she went back and
forth from the buffers panty, where
scalding hot water was ready to heat
the plates.
When she carried in the tray, he ate
all the hot soup and cold supper with
a perfectly healthy appetite, let her
put an extra cushion under the band
aged ankle. sent her up to the balcony
for a fresh supply of cigarets, and then
leaned back in the armchair feet out
on a STOOL hands Imply on the chair
arms, the cigaret he rarely puffed al
held between his fingers.
Pan carried away the tray and the
coffee, and came back again.
81 feel awkward now for the first
time she said That's because I've
nothing further to do"
Now you must sit down on that
little stool where I can look at you
and let me amuse you, to pay back for
all YOUR nice attentions to me-" George
said.
Pan sat down obediently, folded heI
arms around her knees, remembered
that was ungraceful and clasped hel
hands in her lap.
Don't try to sit in a dignified atti
tude in an undignified chair" George
|. said. You look best when you forge
yourSeu ran, and on that stool yOl
look very much like a quaint little CIR
who lived a century ago. I'm going t
paint you that way-sometime.
Pan, do you know, think you mus
be the ideal woman!" His eyes were
smiling and the mouth that was usual
ly cynical was whimsical.
'Why?" Pan asked You look a.
though you were laughing at mel"
Bah, now you're spelling things b!
getting self-conscious! I said that be
cause Aunt Harriet would have had NJ
sympathy for me this evening Sh
would have said, and been perfectl.
right, that if l wasn't able to wall
around, shouldn't have sent the SCI
wants out, and if intended to be eros
and not answer the telephone all day
I shouldn't complain of loneliness il
the evening and call you up for sym