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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1928)
£ MERRY SQUARE j A NEIGHBOURLY NOVEL by ORACH * RICHMOND < Sally walked away from Uir tot* man with the toueh of gray wr- kin brown hair and the com ms*m< ig air which makea |»eo grin listen, whether they wr II or **». &he looked out of the wiii and saw her guests upoa <b*« lawn. The (jildersleeres W' looking fixedly and in jmewdly toward the house. She ton a-ri hack to Doctor Kiake. *" 1 must go hack to them —I toto you I could slay only a ■iwj'r. Hut before 1 go 1 amt ay this, Itich: I’ll hare to forgive you -doctor* think tony have the right to say any torn 7. But when I married fiVt irylcr I went into the Her tr« with him, and if 1 can be of arrvice through him, or he tor nigh me, it’s to be done. ''Wr«»c doe.s it matter how mueh Jto from me—or I from him — an ‘at together we aeeou jxfiah somethingT” •"Then you admit-" admit nothing—except ton* yon are very impertinent —mm& very kind—and (hat I’m jBnuag to send you off mow. Tfaw.T- me to he as selfish thin aancr as 1 can manage with am* being too disagreeable. The atotoV horses are coming to ■aaMwaiv Mini I in I An <1 4 a Moll/kn •nary from all cares at least team a day.” tflhe held out her hand. He flaafc it and kept it, eyeing her <&mwvf. “There are tarn little Mima between your very lovely earn*, * lie said, “that I never anm before. Uallop away in <4or werning ami come back at *»SgJg. If I could I'd meet you alt tlh* fart heat point, and we'd 7.m4to">p together. As it is, I rbta# *>me up as often as I can g«f»; away to see for myself how jww arc obeying orders.” **SJn?i’l come too often, dlier rjr IPS )> will note and condemn wiiftwal a bearing, you know. MB* don’t say it, Rich I (low! Mgpa, I'm going hack to the TmlUJ' losses and be a total loss sr*Kb' ihem.” — Y<ni couldn't be that in a Slknmnml years.” Tb*y parted at the point 'abar. the flat stones, sunk dfew# » the grass, led down to 'Mm. white gate, and Doctor IMbrir* saw himself off while sum* returned to the group by Mm kra table. -I'm afraid we must be go nat’* said Mrs. (lildrralccve, nmtf as stiffly as one who hanas herself to be the Kind \amitf «f the Town may. “I’m gbul to have seen something of ywHt Mrs. Chase. It's a pleasure «*» lmve you and your children t-we, and I hope v/e may make yqv» *i'f of us—and Miss Stur IIP** ten.” —Thank you, Mrs. (lilder (dwtrze.” Adelaide’s rising was HM thing of lazy grace she Mswew ho^ to make it. She tbbn* surveying the departing pure before her as if they were mmmvftiing new and amusing u« Mwp <*aperii*nec, the hint of a touching her lips. Adc lawte •» silences always made jmw**1* 11 ko Mrs. (iildersleevc **rw*i*i,f©rtabU\ in spite of the rnp~ rnr poise the elder woman mgr ;? Ih> supposed to have ae T*«r"d. It was Sally who had i* p>».y the gracious hostess wutk wore warmth than she TV*. to offset Adelaide's effect wF i nolenee. She sent the Pr*W~ sleeves away charmed her, critical of her, and *!»**'- iiiicnihirably curious afewt her. What more could •mow sltort call have achieved? yrorn Jossohine Jennsy’a Note BJolt) Mwjdy atmosphere of this Inbmp* when one ur two of its *♦**••«• • s happen to he out nf itr UtMfvjTvhere signs of Mrs. Cftw ami her p*ntnna!ity ami tamdfes. Without her it would v.»r/T he <|unint. stiff old rrtfcee, in spile of f ine antique* »hr» furnish it. stately por hwits on walls, pars nf tall flMpereil vases on the mantle paw* which would bring ter i la**mff Ihmiiii for n*fi ■ the tUmn c.tf liisr 4a It* it * of provoking * flood m I jpmar *» frmi d* Ivu.m, who haw a* dgiucula i*.u Ui.ti mi Utetr al> flatmu and a HLupu.y ot Uivn, wv ( urn la atwoi wwa recent mu i d:>rlo|>«u *ni» of a wo »tv swv » . naiuro IK** nf a re.lje Um <fr. prop ski will cot I ail ti now Mu* cm -H<py 'rend of oou'i Ttm m*. » "»• * u*. j w*» a do j lot a dm >i » ■rgriutw su n tin r «i aaonr hot r tr question Nm. >' u Mw mv« iadan evil thu T.i ■mnaiw-;a» ts TUS of t!w unfortqwHe hy-pfr*. th of city inmti nf a « nrawa-jr t v .wmirv adluii«•*»«• * MM rific price at any decorator’s. In each room some sign of her, usually in dash of color for which she is responsible. Flame silk pillows on black horsehair davenport ; orange scarf on big mahogany table in library; blue taffeta hangings in her own rm>m; gay chintzes in oth er bedrooms. My little room un der caves, which I like best of all, really, has gay quilt on bed matched by runner of Chinese embroidery on bureau which give me a fresh thrill of pleas ure every time I come in. These embellishments appeared the next morning after the family arrived. Just wondering if they would have been put. here if - well—if Mrs. Lawton's youn ger sister had been maid! But why should I flatter myself! Very likely I’m just neat, quiet young person, in Mrs. Chase’s eyes, who merely deserves pleasant room. Brought a few hooks with me, favorites I ean’t live w ithout. Why should I! V. IIow to be a “fascinating servant!” That was the task Josephine .Jenney bad set, bee self. Many times since she bad made that, extraordinary dee laration to Norali O’drad.v had it occurred to her that the phrase was ill chosen. It was i % • >• • mi mil A i 11111 i iiu It I ll/ll Ml terms. An efficient, servant, a loyal servant, even an at tractive servant, it was con ceivable that one might he. come, but a fascinating servant -such a person was never beard of. As a matter of fact, who would be likely to want a fascinating servant! Let the mistress of the place exercise the fascinations, if any were to he let loose; hut her maids re main demure though capable if they wished to lie retained in her good grace. Association with Mrs. Law son, tlie cook, was likely to keep her assistants subdued. A stickler for conservatism was Mrs. Lawson. Not only was her cookery of the most appe tising, hut her ideas as to the manner of its service in the dining room, and of every de tail of that service, were un alterable. “Serve to the left, take away to the right," Mrs. Lawson laid down the laws. “Never let the place be lacking a plate. Never pile up the dishes in front, of the person when you are going to change courses." And so on. “Never do this, always do that, and never, never make the least noise about it, or fumble anything." Mrs. Lawson endlessly elabor ated her instructions. Jo went about these duties with an odd expression in her amused eyes, a queer little twist in tin' corner of her lips. If she had. been closed noted she might have been seen now ami then to lay a fork or place a finger bowl and then give a little wave of salutation. “Mow are you, out menui rutre you go there, are you? Always did, didn’t you? Take care you lion’ run away!” Outside of these matters, however. Mrs. Lawson was most reticent and tight-lipped, and of this Jo was exceedingly glad. The thing she had feared was that she would lie expected by Mrs. Chase’s other servants to discuss her with them, and this she would never do. Mary, Hie young nurse, had shown a tendency to indulge in house hold gossip, hut since she was younger than Jo it had been easy to show her that this was not in Jo’s own code. It was Norah O’Orady who most tempted the former teacher of her Put ay to break her resolu tion in thix respect, “Faith, ye're genin’ on like a house afire with yer worrk,’* Norah announced one day, when she and Jo had to them* selves the big airy hack kitch en where the ironing wax •f the : «d men and deg*. Herr, tor example, h K-uvum City, Kan. an • ntefpri»:itg neighbor witli *u ar4-uiac\rn -w riitvUv.v »hicn Ium roMirr mwr iviiiliin *or ih« owu -r *Uy aliOWX any dog, ban ly vul ul pup ‘oud to invade anotn* pcincpk void to rt-itroy i lower bed* or do o..,er dxmxge Tli* mutation ■n»*i u„.» of lompiamu ut n* i. ieeU v.: , would %»t(l Uuui W ten held ilif emnprim u toffe $! * tl ! nt •u ilMV tlZt* at# llloiuT dbutteil I* a* r -4*fi»i* k» trt-«* i„ fytmu Cuy Mo " tin x rtivi in a( fip iwm smarts xm ttM*r mmrt* »r.d njiwxnerl: Am a done. I can see they think ye’re the cat's whiskers in the place where ye a»e. But how about bein’ 1 ho fri'nd of the fatuity ye set out to bet Have they asked ye in to set by the fire on the cool avenin’s yet. at all!” If Jo Jenney had not been realty fond of Xorah O’Grady and had not understood that behind this challengingly ironic inquiry was actual so licitude that she attain her wish, she might have answered stingingly. As it was she sub dued that inclination, and only said quietly, with a little lift of her head: “I'm enjoying being in this house. It's quite as in teresting as I thought it would be.” Xorah stared at her, then nodded her head. “The time'll come,” she said, “Ye can’t keep a good man down, nor a girl like you. Ye have the look of tliimselves. I’ll sav that an’ why not? It's not in your own place von are, an’ some day somethin’ll happen that'll show it to tliim. I’ll be glad when that happens.” Xow Jo could smile at her, and did. so that the warm Irish heart could expand still more generously. “Maybe T can make it happen mesilf,” said Xorah to herself—but knew better than to say it to Jo. On the second Sunday of the Chases’ stay Sally eame down stairs with a definite intention as regarded Josephine. The first Sunday Mrs. Chase had let hep go comfortably by with the feeling that for once in many months she might for get that there was such a tiling as a church service, with hymns and prayers and re sponses and a sermon to be loyally listened to. It had seemed a luxury not to feel re sponsible—actuall.v responsible —-for the way she service went, but to be able to roam off as she had done that first Sunday into the lanes and fields which could he reached by five min utes’ walk from Cherry Square. She had said a little prayer of thankfulness out there under the blue sky, and had persuad ed herself that on this vaca tion from responsibility she would spend her Sundays as she pleased. But on Ibis second Sutodav. at her first, waking, she had somehow been assailed by the wish to go to church. Old habit asserting itself, she supposed, hut there it was. She wanted to see what a church service would In* like in the old white church with the needle-like spire on the south side of Cher ry Square. She wanted to sa.v a prayer for Schuyler between the walls of a sanctuary, al though she didn't know just why. She supposed it must be because her thoughts of Schuy ler were so closely tied up with sanctuaries. And she had sud denly remembered her new maid, Josephine. Curiously enough, she often found her self thinking of Josephine, even when the two were in the same room. * That spirited looking young woman might. have some Protestant church affiliation. Mrs. Lawson and Mary were Catholics, and the town held no Catholic church; hut to Josephine it might be her employer had an obliga tion. A minute’s conversation demonstrated tlie fact. ‘‘Thank you, Mrs. Chase, I should like to go to church very much,” assented Jo. ‘‘I wasn’t sure you could spare me.” ‘‘I always irrrange to spare anybody under my roof who cares to go to church,” Sally said. ‘ You and Mrs. Lawson may have alternate Sundays at church time, though she won't go here. Suppose you go to day. Which church do you pre fer?” Jo told her. It was the white church to which Sally herself meant to go. Mrs. Schuyler Chase, accustomed to being democratic as well as Christian, even in a city church which was as aristocratic in its tendencies as a wealthy mem bership could keep it, instani I ly invited Jo to go with her. matter o( precaution, we withhold judgment aa to who la right or who U wrong Our purpo*e holds to a dupe, .lunate presentation of what U going on In the world of dug , doni Moved by evenly balanced *ytn* pathleji. we would tuggrsl the prccc* ■tent of ptga Did rcjddrnu may re* caU the day when ptgv too had right* that, it not reaper led. at leaat wee’ tolerated pts*. even after they I’m* stta.ned their majority, *>mt | time* a ponderous majority, were permitted to roam a twill about city street*, u -t tits Jealous spirit at pit's res* brought * charge. TUf provoue of the pig waa harrowed Rathpr, she invited #)o to u&e her new mistress with her. “I’m practically a stranger in the town, it 's so long sinee I used to come hero,’’ Sally said, smiling the adorable smile which few people could resist. “So it will be nice to have you takp me. Are you a member of that church T” Jo said she wasn’t hut that she had a seat there with a nice old man who had been a mem ber all bis life. Upon which Sally felt a certain conviction of hers deepening, and as it was a conviction which inter ested her very much she was glad that, she had asked these questions of her maid. Though Josephine had not yet become to her mistress a “fascinating servant,” she was certainly an extremely interesting servant, and challenging to the imagin ation. The idea of going to church in her company was far from being repellent. Demo cratic though Sally was. she realized that she wouldn’t, from the standpoint of congen iality. have cared to be accom panied by either Mrs. Lawson. Mary Beales, or Norah 0’Grady. Therefore there was no question but that Josephine Jennev had already made up on her a distinct impression of (superiority not only to the others, and by a notable dis t (tut in till n»»nnlu wlmm Sally had ever known in such a capacity. When at her call Jo joined her, Sally looked at her companion with an almost startled recognition of the lest which is always made by t lie leaving off of the levelling effect of the uniform. Mary Beales, in uniform, was a satisfactory nursemaid; out of it, upon a holiday she looked her origin. Cheap materials, gay colors, and an evident ef fort, to be “stylish” turned Mary into a commonplaceness from which it wasn't conceiv able that anything could rescue her—not even the example of her perfectly turned-out mis tress. Mary had often said that Mrs. Chase coidd look much “grander” on the street than she did if she’d “just not dress so awful quiet. But 1 s’posc,” reflected Mary pity ingly, “she thinks she has to, ’count of him!” But Josephine Jenriey, as she followed Mrs. Schuyler Chase out of the front entrance of Cherry House—for the first time—might easily have been “one of the family.” Certainly that was what Lucinda Hunt, peering from her upper win dow, thought her, until the pair came nearer. Then, electrified ly, she informed C’larinda who became almost breathless at the news) that the girl she hadn’t recognized, and who was dressed almost, exactly as Sally Chase was dressed, was Josephine Jennev herself, and that the two were evidently on their way to church. “Miss Jenney always did have a sort of nice look about her,” de clared Lucinda, “sort of close and smooth and sot-well. Bnt T never noticed that she looked the way those city folks look— as if they come out of a band box—till I saw her just now. Seeing her in a uniform got me thinking of her as hired help. But she certainly don't look it now. Must he Sally intends to make of her. knowing she’s been a teacher and all—if she does know it. Maybe she don’t. 1 should think it would upset tlie other help, though.” (TO in: CONTINUED) A LEAP YEAR IDYL. "Will you be my husband?” the maiden said: But he shook the curls on his bright brown head; "Wliy: this is so sudden. I scarce ly know. But I very much fear that you haven’t the dough' To keen me in style as my parents do. Can you nav all my bills and the grocery man too?" “I cannot promise you that I fea« But then vou know that I love you dear:" "Well. I’ll slay with mother a while. I think. 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