Evening star., 1931-06-21

you might say made me all the more In
dignant. II she'd left out word particu-
larly that she'd thought At to use, I could
have pardoned her more easily; but pom
pous" was a word couldn't help but resent
pretty warmly. Just because man of mature
age saw proper to behave with considerable
dignity in an important position didn't strike
me as any justification for his wifes using
an unpleasant term like that.
IA /EIL, 1 walked on over to the club, and
wv hadn't any more than got inside the
door before saw that some meddler had been
interfering with my arrangements there, too,
because all of the club furniture had been
put back the way it was before I'd had 1t
changed around. 1 sent for the steward he
explained that number CT the lady members
had done this interfering and he hadn't liked
to object for fear Of giving ofTense. was
pretty sharp with him and asked him why he
hadn't told those ladies who it was that had
ordered the arrangement Of the furniture.
"I did, SIR he told me- Would you like
1t put back the way you had it?"
Instantly" I told him. Instantly" And
he said Eyes, sir. Instantly" and while
he was attending to it and 1 was overseeing
the job, feeling pretty put cut, that Mrs.
Hapburn came up to me again. looking right
peeviSh.
IT don't wish to be critical" she said, mean
ing that she did. But it does seem to me
that when you give an order, Mr.. Massey, you
ought to see that it's enforced The news
. papers were all carried back to the billiard
room the day after you had them moved and
they've been there ever since"
I called the steward over to where we were
standing and asked him why he'd done such
a thing. II didn't" he said. Its old Mr..
Francis He was quite upset about them be-
ing moved because he says it's quieter in the
billiard room than it is in the reading room.
He carried them back, himself, and said If
they weren't left there he'd resign from the
club"
Then let him do it," I said. Let him
resign!"
But the steward looked worried I'm
afraid it wouldn't do, SIR" he told me. "You
see, Mr.. Francis is one of the founders of the
club. 1t would hardly do OF course, though,
if you give me orders to move them back to
the reading room"
Instantly said. Take them back there
instantly"
So he did it, and the next morning old Mr.
Francis moved them back to the billiard room
and sent me word by the steward that if they
were moved again he'd resign. The ladies
came in that afternoon, too and moved the
furniture back to where they wanted it. and
I had it changed again and the newspapers
carried back to the reading room. Then Mr..
Francis carried his darned old papers back to
the billiard room and said more about resign
ing, and the ladies interfered with the furni-
ture some more, and the thing went on this
way until began to be pretty hot upon these
questions and determined to show who was who
in that club, no matter how worn out it got the
steward and the other employees
But just about then began to have diff
culties a good deal worse than this old Mr.
Francis and the furniture-moving ladies.
Right up to that part of the season we'd been
having bright, fair weather at Marys Neck,
day after day of it, with hardly more than
two or three short little showers that didn't
keep anybody indoors to speak of. Then one
northeaster set in, terrible weather
wind bowling, rain pouring as If it never
intended to let up again at all-and inside
that clubhouse you couldn't hear yourself
think
Not because Cf the elements; my goodness,