The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-01-22
Maiden Lady" Won
His Heart
By JANE OSBORN

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err Of her boarders there at Cliff
house. Now it was George Ken
nedy's turn-as he stopped in Mrs.
Hawkins little office off the main
hall to ask her for his mail. He
had hesitated as he stood there
with his mail, turned to 90, and
then turned back again.
"By the way, Mrs. Hawkins" he
said rather suddenly. do you hap
pen to know who lives in the little
white cottage just east of this
Sarah seabury," said Mrs. Haw-
kins, only she said something like
" Say-rie"-and then she added,
lives pretty much alone-a maid
en- lady,"
George Kennedy was more dis
than he liked to admit
even to himself. OF course there
was no reason why a maiden lady
with the name of Sarah couldn't
sing diyinely.
George Kennedy was not partic-
ularly interested in music. Even
gay music usually made him feel
sad But the strains that had
loated over from the little white
cottage the night before after he
had gone early to his room at the
hotel had filled him with a sort of
ioyousness that he could not ex-
plain. For a time he thought that
it all came from some radio-and
that the voice was in fact that of
some world-famous diva. But then
as he heard the same voice prac-
tieing scales a little later and
sometimes stop to sing the same
bars of a song over number of
times, George was convinced that
there was nothing radio about it.
AS he had listened the night be-
fore he had felt that he knew her,
that he could see her-and now all
he had TO satisfy him was the
knowledge that the musician was a
maiden lady and that her name
was Say-rie-Sarah Seabury.
George Joined friends of his on
the beach, went golfing that after
noon and idled an hour or so away
with girls at the country club.
And all the time he felt the semi
aweness that he had been disap-
pointed. He had listened to that
sweet, magnetic voice with the as
surance that he might actually
know the woman who owned it.
And here he was listening to the
chatter of two girls with voices
that seemed to him particularly IT.
ritating and metallic In his room
he might hear the enchanting voice
again.
He was turning to go, amidst
some protest on the part of the
merry little party sitting in the
clubhouse, when they seemed to
forget all about him. There were
cries OF greeting from the girls.
Some one said: Hello there,
Sukie." The men rose-and a girl
or as it seemed to George a god.
dess-came into the room from the
door through which he had intend
ed to leave. Seeing that George
was not so intent on leaving, as
he had appeared to be, some one
mumbled an Introduction. George
made gesture of regarding his
watch-and said something about
not knowing it was so early. And
as he sat looking at the girl he
realized that he had fallen in love
love at first sight-and only a lit
tie while ago he had fallen in love
love at first sound. He marveled
at his own susceptibility.
Then some one suggested that
the girl.sing for them, and without
waiting for the urging that would
have followed, she went to the
piano. With the first two or three
notes George sat up in his chair
amazed. 1t was the voice he had
heard the night before. Abruptly
the girl stopped singing. She said
she had to hurry home. George
looked at his watch again, said
something about going, and started
her. They went off in the same
direction. George said ne was go
ing TO Cliff house and the girl
who was going in the same direc-
tion seemed willing enough to have
George walk with her.
81 live in the little cottage just
beyond Cliff house, she told him.
"Father and mother have gone to
Europe so I'm staying there for a
while with our old nanny"
"But | understand that there was
some one there named Sarah Sea-
bury"
I'm Sarah Seabury," said the
girl, "only they all call me Sukie."
"But the woman at the hotel
said it was maiden lad,'" STAN
mered George.
well, did you think l was a
widow or divorcee?" asked the
girl laughing. maiden lady is a
polite way of saying I'm an old
maid. I'm twenty-five"
George fingered two weeks long
err than he had any right to do that
summer-sent word to his office
that he had found he needed q
longer rest.
Mrs. Hawkins looked a little de-
pressed after he had gone. well
he'll never come back here" she
said. 81 counted on having him
for a regular after this-he liked
it so much but that maiden lady
next door set her cap for him.
understand she actually got her
self engaged to him. | suppose
they'll be married soon and next
year they'll both he at the cottage
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