Evening star., 1925-07-26

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Peaceful. that is. until ne came to
within earshot of the Heights.
Good Heavens!" he gasped then.
What's struck everybody"
The real estate agent who was ham
ding the Witherbee house was asking
| hlmsef the same question. He had
returned to the house. bringing with
| him the lady who, though so IL a day,
persisted in wearing the orange sport
suit with the hat that didn't match.
| She had been favorably enough Inn
pressed with the house and neighbor-
mood to draw her husband away from
MS Sunday papers to see it.
| "A good, quiet, thoroughly Ameri-
can neighborhood," the agent had as
sured her husband. "And you couldn' t
ask for better neighbors-"
| The Nortons spied them first. Ted's
| rather grabbed his cornet while his
wife rushed to the phone, a feminine
Paul Revere arousing the neighbor-
| hood.
The cornet opened the action with
massacre. The secondhand saxophone
that had been bought for John Junior
| came up in full force Immediately.
| EVERY household contributed some
| thing toward the musical barrage laid
down against the invaders.
Great Scott!' exclaimed the star
tied husband Of the lady in the orange
sport suit. Did they say this was a
quiet neighborhood?"
InF THE purpose of all this Ted had
had no inkling. The real estate
| agent and his prospects had vanished
when he arrived In sight of the With
erbee house, but the neighborhood was
| still going full tilt.
In the meantime, the month was
May. the morning warm. The win
dows of the Elton house were open.
| Ted glimpsed Kay at the piano. He
assembled the Elton path and broke in
upon her, without preface or apology.
II thank you" said he, from the
bottom of my heart"
For what?" she demanded.
For this remarkable. this crafty
| ing demonstration of my neighbors'
regard for me. I realize that the con-
quering hero, returning to the scenes
Of his youth, is more customarily met
at the station with a brass band.
But you were handicapped. You have
no station, no brass band. You did
| your best. I thank youi"
Kay paused in her playing to re-
| gard him scornfully. IT'S too bad
she remarked. that II didn't drive
| you off, tooi'
Drive me off? I am naturally
quick of wit. but there is something
in that remark that is beyond me. 1
AMI admit it-baffied. Explain,
| please"
And Kay explained.
II might have suspected it." he
said, when she finished. Bromley
| has
| "Oh, go home and change your
| clothesw she broke in rudely. II
should think you'd be ashamed of
yourself. looking as you do, on
Sunday"
And as he let that pass. regarding
her meditatively, she added. We'll,
what great thought are you thinking
now?"
THAT you might do worse than
powder your nose" he replied. And
as Bromley's roadster came to a stand.
| still outside he added, Il advise you
to make It snappy-the pride Of Man
| haitian has arrived"
With which he withdrew, departing
by the back door. outside he encoun-
tered Kay's father.
Greetings" said Ted. blithely.
'Fwhy aren't you giving three cheers
for that wonderful plan?"
| late rumble.
You're jealous" chided Ted. You
must be, or else you'd admit that it
was simply unprecedented. Worthy
of Colgate Derr Bromley at his best.
| "G-r-r" said Kay's father-or some
| thing that sounded remarkably like
that. anyway.
"If that's the way you feel about
| IT," Ted remarked. II suggest we take
a little walk. I would have word with
thee"
They walked. Indeed. II was not un-
| til dinner was on the table that Kay IS
father reappeared. Colgate Derr
Bromley was present. wearing his
honors modestly.
We'll" announced Kay's father
with a geniality that his wife ap'
proved, that plan of yours is GER
tainly corker.'
AND so it seemed. The men de.
a parted, perforce, to Boston every
morning during the week that follow
ed but their woman folk rose to each
and every crisis that presented itself
nobly. They proved again that the
female Of the species is as deadly as
the male The real estate agent who
was handling the Witherbeen house
at first approached it with his pros
poets wearing nervous and furtive
air, and finally, from Thursday
through TO the following Sunday, he
appeared not at all.
On that Sunday morning Ted called
to pay his disrespects to Kay.
Looks to me as if you'd scared
everybody off, he commented. ISM
that hard on the Randalls?"
'It would be harder on us II some
body simply impossible took the
house. i
ITO arms" Ted broke in. Here
comes the real estate agent again
And look who's with him.
Kay looked. And looked simply
stunned. Than which no better de
scription of the latest prospects o.
the Witherbee house could be con
trived.
And the Heights shared her feel
ings. It's efforts that Sabbath morn