Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1935-01-12

| shall note now the tables ana &xi84zz
are jamned together, how the walters
and extra walters can scarcely move
how the dance-floor has diminished and
4 the BIT ct the head Of the stairs has
bean taken in; how plated lcehuckete
are everywhere and cigars are pro-
I tx1zding from innumerable congeSeed
cos1ntenances. All this We shall have
an opportunity OF observing as the
plainest sort q proof that the man
agement knew what It was about.
But st the moment we're not in the
Serene Hotel at ali. Our duty takes US
elsewhere and from the general to the
particular.
There was q young man standing IN a
teleph0ne-box who pressed Button A,
and heard twO-peDce vanishing forever,
! and said: ct that Lady Courtfield's
house?" And then he said: do you
think could speak TO Miss Trueloye2"
whereupon the voice which had Just
answered him Ia q tone Of civility verg-
I ing On humility underwent g distinct
change. Became more human. possibly
| but much less obsequious 1t said:
what name, please27 quite sharply;
] nor, on this second occasion, did it
employ the enclitic "sir."
oh" said Mark Matheson, in his
caIl-box, tits Mr.. Matheson, would you
say2 I mean, don't want to disturb
f, her If she's busy, but"
In the midst Of this mis-statement-
for actually he was consumed with
eagerness and impotence heard
sound as Of a receiver being laid on
shelf OF table, followed by further faint
thuds of departing footsteps. he
thought: THAT footman or whoever 1t
is has gone to fetch her. III be speak
ing to her in a moment now, and can
tell her-wen, at any rate I can tell
her how hellishly I've missed her while
was away He thought: IN hear her
marvellous voice again He thought.
"And can tell her that the firm is
pleased with me-even If they haven't
said anything about raising my screw
yet"
And again he thought Of the agony
Of that months separation, and Of the
dull letters that he'd written her-blIt
how could one put more when she was
probably just sweet like that to every
body? And OF his long train journey
back from the north just now and
The faint thuds again-c coming near
er this time. Still louder thumpings
In that young mans thorax, though, as
he gripped his own receiver and drew
in his breath. @Hullo2" he began say
ing. "HuIlo? HuIl--"
"Are you there9" said the same voice
as before. well, I forgot jes' now.
Went alf-way upstairs an then re-
membered. She's CORN. She's left. En-
Ia'ship's got new guV-ness coming IN,
you see. 'Uullo2 What's that?"
I'll said, when did She
"Aow-A Monday, think: only I was
down In the country meself. Sorry"
"But-but you've got her new adj
dress?"
"Aow, naohl" said the voice, losing
more Of its veneer every moment. Il
dunno where shes CORN to I'm shore"
So that, with couple Of clicks, was
that, and if you're young man in
Mark Matheson's situation you don't
spend another two-pence on recalling
50 insufferable q personality and de-
manding to be placed In communica-
ton with its mistress. You just or
SO it appears-slink out Of your call
box and resume your journey to your
lodgings. That hard labor up In New
castle doesn't seem so very profitable
now. It may occur to you, even, that
It was Just trick on the part Of Fate
that well-known trick Of lifting you
up merely so as to dash you down
and the likelihood is that you1I pass
the rest Of the evening In q rather
dismal and dumpish frame of mind.
"She might have written" youm say,
"She knew was coming back. She
knew was-well, fond Of her. She
must have. So now what do do2
Pride and dignity, or-Oh, gosh, mol
III write TO her again, suppose. Lady
Courtfield must forward 1t. I've got
to see that girl again, somehow"
There's flaw In this reasoning The
very rich employ nursery governesses
SO as to delegate responsibility, not 50
as TO assume one avoidahae fragment
OF it themselves. The very rich have
large houses, big establishments, and
crowded and complicated Lives. No
communication addressed to Miss
Griselda Truelove, care OF Lady Court
field. would ever come within yards OF
her ladyShtp's bureau or escritoire- II
would lie in her haIl for a bit, with
heavy deposit Of unopened circulars.
Soon it wolld be covered by stin mora
Of them, and still It would be nobody'sl
particular business though her lady
ship had fifteen servantsto pay any
particular attention to e. IL there were
a general clearance presently. It might
get as far as the buffers pantry for
while; and the butler might glance 50
It now and then, with vague feeling
that Miss Truelove ought TO have cali
ed for It and stfu wagner notion Of
getting possman 20 remove il.
And then, one day, It would pass
somehow into q drawer fun Of corks
and ragged busters and pieces OF string
and would remain there indefinitely.
For what's q nursery governess. any
way, except a slight nuisance between
he upper and neither miIlstonesP They g