The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-05


ITO himself hat ne did have 4
4 read y-made bull
Thorough1y disgusted and feel
4 ing h9out of patience Withahiis
! sister, h e5made his wayst to the hos
1 pital. He had planned to take the
I rest OF the afternoono OF, but he
] would make some calls there that
| he had planned to put on till the
! following morning.
Just as he was going out of
one of the wards into the Office
he fairly coliided with the charm
| ing Mrs. Blodget herself She was
carrying something dark and
bulky over her right arm.
II hardly saw where was
going, said Mrs. Blodget.
have such an awkward bundle.
I'm going to see IL the head nurse
will have this suit fumigated.
Or. Godfrey recognized at once
his wandering spring tweed.
"But the Dobbinses didn't
have scarletcfever," he explained,
taking the suit from her arms.
j-I told Priscilla they did because
at first I thought there was
chance that they did.
| you don't imagine that | have
your suit?" said Mrs. Blodget with
t'some hauteur. :.
I am sure that you nave,
said DR.. Godfrey
II just bought it at the second
! hand store. I have poor family
! am interested in. I wanted to
get something for one OF the sons
who has just taken new posi-
tion. thought I'd see if there
was anything at the secondhand
store. But one never knows
where those things come from, SO
| I wanted to get it funhgated.
Its all Priscilla's fault, SAID
DR.. Godfrey.
ella negIects you fearfully, said
Mrs. Blodget, with eyes, dancing
with amusement, focused square
| into the eyes of DR. Godfrey.
DR.. Godfrey laughed with
much Embarrassment. Would
YOU very much mind if Kept the
suit?' he said. IF you will let
me take it, / will get the very
best ready-made suit I can find
in town for the poor young man
, in whom you are interested. You
see, this suit fits me very we'll
I rather like it, in fact, and 1t
| happens that I wanted to look as
presentable as possible this after
noon. have been asked to tea
| party"
Suddenly Mrs. Blodget's express
sion of habitual hauteur returned.
..Oh to be sure 1 did ask you to
tea Pardon me for forgetting. l
! thought you and Hilda would
want to meet again. You seemed
SO entertained with her. I am
sorry about the suit 1t was most
| amusing"
maintaining her manner of haul
| teur, hurried OFF, leaving DR..
! Godfrey a little nonplused but in
possession of his suit.
| He spent no time trying to
| figure out the meaning of Mrs.
Blodget's mood, but fastened
home, and without waiting to get
one of the maids toSpress out the
! wrinkles. donned his retrieved
| suit in place of the shabby one
he was wearing and .steered his
course to the home of Mrs. Blod-
! get. 1t was past the time set for
| the tea party, but Mrs. Blodget
had only just arrived.
The role that was apparently
expected of him-that of devoted
! follower of the gushing Kinda
! DR.. Godfrey did not play. For
a rather tiresome hour he took
| part in conversation that he tried
| to keep general, drank tea and
listened to the loquacious Hilda.
| When his sister had left and he
| stood up to take his departure he
| said to Mrs. 3lodget, still seated
rather YEARLY beside her tea
| table:
It want to make up to the
| young man You are interested in.
Won't you come with me to select
the sort of suit You think would
do instead? If you will come with
me now, We can get to the store
before closing"
Perhaps it wasn't quite fair to
| get her alone with him in his car
on false pretenses. But DR.. God
frey had definitely decided to put
off his proposal of marriage no
longer And when he had told
her, with much gatherings and
many apologies, Mrs. Blodget's
hauteur departed, never to return,
at least as far as Dr. Godfrey was
concerned.
/ Il fancied you were in love
| with Hilda," she said, "and the
l fact that 1 felt really jealous OF
her first proved to me that real
ly loved you myself"
Copyright, 1922, by the Nc
| Clure Newspaper Syndicate).
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