The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-14
A QUEER LETTER
Chapter 104

In spite of Pans good resolutions |
about not wanting new home, nor
eyen-as she went so far as to say n |
her first enthusiasm-wanting tol
change anything in the apartment, she
found herself weakening after ten
days or so.
First of all, there was the matter q
the bedrooms. The partment was sol
arranged that most of it was studio.
This room was the height of the two
floors, after the usual manner of art
lists flats. 1t was very large with ?
great studio window to the North, and
two low ones at the side, big enough
to swallow up the easel and model
stand, the grand piano and diyans. AMI
SO arranged that many people could
dance when the furniture was pushed
back to the walls.
The long hall that ran up to II,
turned SO it was possible, by shutting
doors, to close off the room from the
rest of the fiat, an ideal arrangement
for undisturbed work. 1t opened onto
the hall, and the dining room, to
reach which one crossed the foot OF
the stairway. The dining room was
big, but half the height of the studio,
and with its tapestries and old oak,
Pan thought it perfect. Pantry, kit
chen and servants room completed
the floor.
But up the short stairs was a little
room or rather balcony, possessing
its own bright window, but opening to
the studio. AS Pan wanted a separate
little living room, and did not want TO
bother George at work, she had sent
home one day two huge curtains of
golden color brocade, which toned well
with the rich browns of the studio.
which were added to deaden sound and
which, when hung at the balcony
made it really separate room.
Il told you So" said George, who
had prophesied changes.
Pan explained her reasons.
Before, you could hear everything
from the other rooms, which is bad for
you when you work and bad for your
sitters. 1t was all right before. You
hadn't wife and adopted child about
to make a lot of noise"
Besides" and George laughed al
this feminine reason. 81 bought this
material for half price from some PEG
pie Gloria deals with. 1t was the end
of a piece, and then had it made up
through her firm, SO she'll get CON-
mission on it."
After that she gave her attention to
the bedrooms, which always worried
her. George had done his with a sim
plicity that may have been Spartan,
but that looked bare to his young wife
His aunt, though she did herself very
we'll in the way of clothes, had nothing
feminine about her surroundings. A
straight wooden bed, handsome but
plain as she could find, straight chairs
a stingy sized mirror, one armchair by
table and shelves for her books
the third room was fitted with odds
and ends and frankie had it now
Pan spent days among furniture
stores, seeking inspiration and combi-
ming an idea here with another idea
there, hint from a magazine, some
thing suggested by the pattern OF
chintZ-then boldly swept out the
lot and put in the dark mahogany and
quaint cretones she loved so, carved
pedestal tables. a desk with low gra-
cious lines and the inevitable and Wis
ible secret" drawer ''tip-top" tables
to hold old silver candlesticks-and
finally all she lacked was the oval
braided rugs that she felt necessary
to complete the rooms
"Quaintness" one paid we'll for in
the city Such rugs were priced so
high she refused to purchase
Eat home, they still make them
helped aunt Maude often when l was
a child she told her husband. 81
think I'll write there and ask Aunt
Maude to sell me some, or get some
for me in the village"
So she wrote-she had written from
London, simply announcing her intend
ed marriage and adding practically no
details. beyond a brief description Of
what George looked like and what his
profession was. 1t was in this way
that she picked up her almost broken
connection with her family. For Aun;