Nebraska Newspapers

    | £ KERRY SQUARE
| A NEIGHBOURLY NOVEL
by CHUCK M. RICKWWD
lie set three baskets of flow
jis, five hampers of fruit, and a
package of books and magazines
out of the way, so that he and
Sally could sit down, lie hadn’t
taken the trouble to scan the ac
oomanying cards; he knew well
enough which of hi parishers
were likely to have demonstrated
their regret at parting and their
good wishes for the voyage in
this marked way. That largest
banket with the biggest bow of
ribbon was sure to be from Miss
Alder, and the hint of a frown
between his handsome eyebrows
suggested her clergyman’s dis
taste. To the credit, of Doctor
Chase he didn’t much enjoy the
conspicuous worship of women,
bnt there seemed no way to
avoid it wholly. At 42 he was
■till so young, so good looking,
and witiial so unquestionably
able, that his popularity was a
thing which followed as the dust
the chariot.
“Just throw a kiss at the
places we’ve been together,’’
commanded Hally, “as you pass
by And when you coine to
Nice—’’
“When I come to Nice,”
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j/u/hijd' u nriiujiri uiiasr, I ll
write you such a letter as you've
never had yet. Sally, T wouldn’t
go without you, if—’’
"If I didn’t make you. Yes,
I know that. Well, I atn mak
ing you because you need to get
away, not only from the church
and its Miss Adlers and Mrs.
Brahants and the other devotees,
but from nie, myself."
He smiled. "I know you
think no. and probably you’re
right. You usually are. The
converse of that statement must
be equally true—or more so. And
you’re a trump about it. But I’ll
be so eager to get back to von
I’ll probably jump off the ship
and swim out to meet you,
Schuy," she promised him.
Except for a long minute
Which they spent in each other’s
arms, that was all the real leave
taking they could indulge in. Al
most at once the stateroom was
besieged by the hearers of more
flowers, more fruit, more sheaves
of magazines. A great bundle of
letters and telegrams was
brought to Doctor Chase. A
group of people came down to
see the quarters of the three j
clergymen who were to occupy
the commodious stateroom to
gether. The other two clergy
men summonded Schuyler Chase
back to the deck to receive the
bails and farewells of a large
delegation of men from his
church—much larger than those
from their own churches, though
they were well known, too. Al
together —
"It’s enough to spoil him."
•aid one friend to another,
watching the scene. He was not
a devotee—his head was too
level.
The other nodded, lie also
had a level head, "lie carries
it very well, hut lie’s onlv
human, amt [ sometimes tit :ik
he shows the strain of trying not
to seem spoiled. If it weren’t
for Hint sensible, charming wife
►^fhif— Tmok at her now. Flat
never him her head, and
"•he won’t let it turn his. It would
jfbe e fool who could look her in
The eve and sav. ‘See how pop- |
ular I am.’ She’d laugh at him. I
presume she laughs at Chase just
often enough to keep his brain
enol. ”
Sally Chase, looking fresh and
fit in her street clothes, was
standing hv her husband in the
midst of the group which sur
rounded him.
"What shall we do without
him so many months!" sighed
one Inrge woman. elegantly
turned out and obviously senti
mental, Mrs, Sehuvler Chase
showed her a smiling face.
"Extremely well. T know, Mrs
Brabant." she said. "And think
how he needs to do without us
for a time "
"My deart . . . But T know
Ne Verbatim* In Nrm.
Pro ml hr Wichita Deacon
"Hello, u thto the reporter?"
’Th.» to one of lhe reporter* **
"Wfll I want the reporter who
Write* the articles tor the paper *
"Are you the reporter wixi put*
!n alt those article*?"
*Tm one ot them. What can 1
do lor you?"
"Well, I want ta put an article In
the paper Have you got your pm
etl *
"Ye* I in all ready *
"Well, here it to Take It down
Juat m I give It to you. Mrs J. J.
WhttoKU, W H-O-Z Ji I H. and her
cham.ng and •*»«»••* M*r,
lie must be fearfully tired. I’ve
thought lie's looked so worn
these last few weeks. His face
is more beautiful than ever,
through his weariness. More
saint like—1 could have wept to
look at him last Sunday, „wheu
lie said goodbye to us. 1 felt at
first 1 couldn’t eome down to see
him off, then I thought—we
must be with him to the last—
make him feel lie’s taking us
with him.”
“Heaven forbid!” thought
Sally Chase. Mrs. Brabant was
one of her pet aversions, any
way; and just now she seemed
rather more absurd than usual.
“My idea is to have him feel lie
isn’t taking us with him.”
Schuyler Chase’s wife couldn't
resist sounding this note again.
“Every man, particularly every
minister, needs to get away from
the thought of his parish for a
while. Never mind”—she was
aware of Mrs. Brabant's grow
ing indignation—■ “lie’ll he as
delighted to eome baek as he is
to go.”
“You eight to be going with
him, Mrs. Chase,” put in an
other woman, a tall, thin person
with a pointed nose, who had
been listening with unmixed
pleasure to Mrs. Brabant’s little
discomfiture at the hands of the
minister’s wife. “Of eourse you
would he. if it weren’t for the
dear children.”
“I’m sure T shouldn’t, really.
Mrs. ( rosin',” declared Sally. “ I
believe so thoroughly in sending
husbands off on vacations, as
well as ministers.”
They were used to their min
ister’s wife, and knew her to
he kind "as well as frank. Slip
was the happy possessor of so
much personal charm that she
seldom really offended. They
watched her now, with peculiar
interest mixed with envy. It
must he very wonderful, thought
these admiring ones, to be the
wife of such a husband; no
wonder she could be gay. Though
how fciie could be gay today was
difficult to see. Wasn’t she los
ing—him ?
After all. and in spite of the
too tealous ones, it was a pleas
ant S'-ene. Tall Schuyler Chase,
slender and elegant in clothes
unclerical, his heavy chestnut
ha ir smooth and gleaming under
the May sunlight, his beautifully
cut lips parting over a flash of
of white teeth as lie sent to one
and another his quick witted re
plies and retorts, was a figure to
command attention. Only his
wife was likely to note the slight
twitch in the upper lip, the tiny
involuntary jerk of t lie* comely,
head which to her betrayed her
husband's tension. He was always
taut umler any publicity—how
well she knew that! And he was
tired from the long strain of the
year’s work tired and thin, and
of late nearly sleepless. It. was
time he got away.
Preaching to such audiences as
he commanded meant that he
went into his pulpit strung to the
highest pitch. Though his pulpit
manner was so poised and na
tural that he seemed to he ah
solutely at his ease. Sally knew
it to he the result of the sternest
self control. And when he chose
to exercise that peculiar atti.ic
tion of his. which fairly com
pelled many of his hearers to his
point of view by its own all hut
hvpnotie power, he did it. always
at a cost. There Was such pro
digal expense of nerve and sinew
that afterward—an hour after
ward when she saw him at
home, he was limp and pallid,
and the touch of his hand was
eoldlv damn. All the spring he
had been showing what seemed
to her a more than normal ex
haustion after each public ap
pearance Yea, it was time he got
awnv, even from her. upon whom
he depended for help in restor
ing his halanee when it had been
upset in a way no member of his
great congregations evn dream
ed of. Him physician. Dr. lliehnrd
H’iskc, to whom lie now ami then
Kuphraata. will leave Uielr palatial
I Mane. WMI West Thirty Ktghth
*tnwl. today for a motor trip
through the East, where thev will
visit tier Aunt Lucv to the meiropo
Ua at New York City. Hhe ha* a
fine home there ud la very rich
Thaae two prominent Wirhlta
ladle* will return in three month*
to thetr maiutwi Now read that
hark to me '
"I luit took down notes. I didn't
take It verbatim "
“I didn't want u verbatim. I
wanted you to lake It the way I
read It. That's the way I want It
In U»e paper,**
**111 put It in with all the farta
applied, when his occasional
spells of insomnia became too
frequent, understood this clearly.
Yes, Sally was glad to see him
go, though when the moment of
parting came she felt the wrench
poignantly, as she had known
she would. People crowding
round left her the chance only
for the brief clasp and kiss per
mitted to good taste even in ship
board farewells, but she felt, that
Schuyler bated leaving her, and
that was all she needed to be
sure of. Their eyes clung for a
moment as they drew apart, and
Schuyler murmured: “God keep
you. dear.” She nodded, smil
ing her most splendid smile.
Then she was rushed off the ship
by a friendly pillar of the church
who especially admired Mrs.
Schuyler Chase,'and who took
her in charge with a distinct
thrill of pleasure in his mature
breast. From the pier she waved
back at Schuyler until bis face
was lost in the dimming blue of
distance, then turned with Mr.
Pierpont and hurried hack to
her car, into which he put her
in his most gallant manner.
“Yes, I suppose the country is
the best place for you and the
children,’’ he said, leaning in at
the window of her motor, his
striking iron gray head bare in
the May sunshine. “But we
shall miss you from the Manse.
Where did you say you were go
going Cherry Hills? Cherry trees
there, so some long established
family, to give it the name?”
“My mother’s family, Mr.
Pierpont. My aunt—Mother’s
sister—left the old place to me;
I used to visit, there with the
greatst joy when I was a girl.”
“You still look like one, Mrs.
Chase.” His admiring gaze
rested upon Sally’s fair colour
ing and the exquisite texture of
her skin. “You’ll merely be the
oldest of your children as they
romp about tbe country. I hope
you have saddle horses there?”
“I shall find some. I mean to
spend much time with the chil
dren, ns you suggest. Life in the
Manse doesn’t leave me many
hours for them, and they’re
growing so fast.”
“Forget all the organizations
and the complications of the city^
parish,” he advised. “They’re
harder on the minister’s family
than most people guess. You’ve
been an ideal wife for your gen
ius of a husband—you’ve
earned a vacation, too. See that
you take it, if you want us who
are devoted to you both to be
satisfied.”
Sally’s eyes responded to this
pleasant little speech, and she
gave back the friendly pressure
of the hand offered her—that of
a magnate in worldly affairs
who found much time to give to
the church as well.
“When you come motoring
through Cherry Hills with Mrs.
Pierpont this summer, be sure
to look us up. Or are you going
abroad?”
“My wife and daughters prob
ably will, as usual, Not I—I
can’t get my rest that way. I’ll
be glad to hunt up Cherry Hills
and pay you a call. The name
sounds enticing.”
“It’s really quite lovely there.
We’ll expect you.”
She looked after his erect,
massive figure as he turned
away, hat still in his hand, and
thought, gleefully how good it
was going to be to escape for a
time from alt these familiar con
tacts, full of kindness though
they were. Not to have to he
thoughtful of consequences over
every smallest word or deed; not
to have to consider each step she
took, to give her time when she
had none to spare, her smiles
when she felt like frowning, her
advice when she knew she
needed it more than those who
came to confide in her. She
would be off for the country as
fast as she eould finish the pack
ing and go! She had not meant
to leave till tomorrow she
would speed things up and get
away tonight. Plenty of time—
the ship had sailed at 10 o'clock
in the morning. With Selmvler
gone the dignified dark walls of
the Manse would he gloomy
enough; she would forsake them
before the sunset.
It took all her executive abil
correct."
"That ain’t the idea. ! want It
rt in the way I gave It to you, |(
have to pay (or it. How much
will I have to pay to get it put in
the way I gave It to von?"
' You'll have to talk to 'the adver
tUm« department about that.*
Well, in take It to the other
paper l never wa* so Insulted in
my life "
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ity to accomplish this plan—at*»
she was famous for thaA in the
parish, and could rush ; I group
of women through a business
meeting with as little loss of
time as is possible when there
are several divergent opinions
and tlie will to speak tb;m. She
telephoned Norah O’Grady firs'
of all, and though she got back a
somewhat flurried: “I’ll be
doin’ the best I can, Mrs. Chase,
an’ I’ll be ready some ways,’
she turned away with a sense of
being already almost at her
goal.
“Just have the beds made, and
some sandwiches and milk,’’ she
had directed, and. had smiled to
realize that she was already com
fortably letting down in her re
quirements. The Manse had tc
be ready for visitors at an\
moment of the day, almost of the
night; at Cherry house she
mcant to be as vagabond as a
fastidious preference for ordet
would permit.
And she was taking nobody
with her except the children
ami the servants. . . . Blessed,
glorious vacation!
(From the Josephine Jenney’s 1
Note-Book
Made dash to see Julian. Told
him of coming adventure. He
went atraight up into the air.
“No! My Lord, no! Jo, you
can’t—shan’t! I won’t have
it!”
“Yes, you will, dear. It’s
exactly the thing. I'm wildly
excited about it I’ll write you
all sorts of funny letters—you’ll
love getting them.”
“I’ll hate them! I tell you
I wont have it! Stop itstop the
thing! Oh, .Jo!—
(lot him quieted and fairly
reasonable at last. Left him
with his head in his hands—
tragic Julian! . . . But he’ll see
how wise a plan it is, presently.
No other would keep me in
Cherry Hills, where I need to be.
Ill
Jimmy, run tell Miss Jenney
to come over quick as she can be
inakin’ it. The family’ll be here
this night, an’ there’s tow days’
work to do in less than wati.
Hurry. Jimmy!”
Jo came flying. “What first,
Mrs. O’Grady?”
“The upstairs rooms. Hang up
the curtains— praises be they’re
fresh from me hands. Make up all
the beds—there’s the sheets an’
blankets an’ pillys in this big
box that come yesterday. Tuck
’em in tight an’ smooth—”
“I know. I will.”
“Two thin blankets on each
bed, an’ a silk puff (she calls
’em) on the foot of each wan to
match the room. Towels in the
bathroom. Ivory room lookin’
like it was new born. The big
room at the back’ll be Mrs.
Chase’s—she Avint over the house
AVith me an’ shoAved me ivery
Avan—an’ knoAvin’ ’em all like a
book, what Avith washin’ an’
elanin’ for Miss Eldora Cherry
for twinty years. The west room
Avith the tAvo beds for Master
Bob —mind you be savin’
Master Bob, Miss Jenney.”
“And you might as well begin
calling me Josephine, Mrs.
O’Grady.”
“Howiver’ll I be doin’ that!
Faith, thin— Josvnhine—listen
to this—the cast room for Miss
Barbara an’ the one nixt the
bathroom for the nure an’ baby.
There’s a crib Mrs. Chase sint
up. an’ you'll find pink baby
blankets for it. I’ll be in the
kitchen if ye made me. I’ve got
to get every pot an’ pan scoured
for that cook—an’ I hope she’s
a swate, r’asonable person, for
I mind there’ll be plenty of com
pany. Mrs. Chase told me she
wasn’t havin’ no company, but
I know her. Flics folly's the
sugar, an’ she can’t kape folks
away from her. If her two
cousins, the Sturgises, don’t be
showin’ us the light o’ their
countenances before the wake is
gone, my name ain’t Xorah
O’Gradv.”
She vanished down the back
stairs, still, talking.
(TO BR CONTINUED)
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