Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 163, 20 May 1914 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1914

Married Life the Fourth Year

By MABEL HERBERT URNER. "Dear, I don't see him." Helen was leaning over the railing trying to loaate Warren's father In the waving crowd on the pier below. "Right there just back of that woman in the white dress." 'Oh, yes, now I do," waving her handkerchief. "And by jove, there's Carrie too! See her? Just back of father J" Helen had hoped that Carrie would not come to meet them, for she dreaded the awkwardness of trying to entertain her while they stood around waiting for their baggage. Carrie was always so difficult to talk to. The great ocean liner with the aid of four tugs was now being slowly swung into her dock. With a shuddering jar they struck the floating end of the pier, the ropes were thrown off and the gang planks hoisted. The air was tense with the eagerness and excitement of landing. "Here they are over this way," as Warren pushed through the excited crowd to where his father and sister were waiting. There were the usual greetings, the Questions about the voyage, the folks at home, and the mutual, "You're looking mighty well." After the first enthusiasm, Warren and his father went off to see about the baggage, while Helen was left with Carrie. "Oh, yes, we had a very pleasant trip. Yes, we liked Paris very much," vere Helen's stereotyped answers to Carrie's stereotyped questions. Why, oh, WHY is the homecomer always greeted with the inane, "And did you have a pleasant trip?" Who would admit that their trip had not been pleasant? "Yes, it was finite warm in Paris. 1 suppose you had some warm weather here." "Oh, yes; it's been quite warm " answered Carrie, and this brillian conversation came to an awkward pause. Helen was uncomfortably conscious that Carrie was scrutinizing her clothes. When you arrive from Paris your friends expect you to look like a Parisian fashion plate, and Helen knew there was nothing "Parisian" or "chic" about her simple traveling suit. "I'd no idea so many people would be down to meet the boat so early in the morning," was Carrie's next profound observation. "Yes, there are a great many. But 1 suppose there's always a crowd to meet these big steamers." When Warren and his father returned, to escape from these strained comments Helen suddenly remembered that she wanted to 'phone to the apartment to tell Maggie to have the ice box filled. So she excused herself and hurried to a booth farther down on the pier. They had written Maggie from Paris that they would arrive on the 23th, and for her to have the apartment opened and aired. In order to keep her, they were to pay her half her regular wages for the time they were away, and she was to stay at her cousin's in the country. The hall boy who answered Helen, said that the Curtises were abroad and that no one was in their apartment. "No, this is Mrs. Curtis talking. We've just landed, I'm 'phoning from

the dock. Connect me with my apartment, I'm sure our maid is there." "I'll connect you, ma'am, but there ain't no one there." Then Helen insisted on speaking to the superintendent, who told her their apartment was still closed, and that he had no seen their maid. What could have happened? Could Maggie have failed to receive the letter? Helen hurried back to Warren worried and anxious. "She may have not got the letter. Better send her a telegram right away," he suggested. "It's just out in Jersey she can get in to-day." Carrie murmured some sympathetic platitude about never being able to depend on any servant, and that Maggie may have taken another place. But Helen insisted stoutly that Maggie was very loyal, and that she had really wanted to come back. A SUGGESTION. "See here," Warren turned to Helen suddenly. "There's no need of us both waiting. I'll have to stay to pass the baggage, but why can't you go on get that wire off to Maggie and open up the place?" Helen eagerly accepted this excuse to escape from the long wait and strained conversation with his people. And to Carrie's suggestation that she go with her, Helen insisted that she did not at all mind going alone. Ten minutes later Helen left the pier. Disregarding Warren's advice to take a taxi, she took the first crosstown car to the subway. How strange the streets looked! After a few months abroad one's own city looks curiously foreign. Even their own apartment house seemed unfamiliar. There was a new elevator boy, to whom Helen had to give the number of her floor. With a feeling of depression she unlocked the door of the darkened, musty smelling apartment. Quickly throwing up the blinds and windows, she glanced over the accumulated mass of mn.il for some message from Maggie. Yes, there it was a cheap envelope addressed in Maggie's cramped hand. Dear Mrs. Curtis: I got your letter, but I ain't coming back any more. I got a place where tha work ain't so hard on me. I don't have to clean no hard floors, and no ironing. I hope you get somebody just as good. Respectfully, Maggie Murphy. So Maggie was not coming back! Helen's dismay was mingled with indignation. If she had thought the work too hard, why had she not said so before they sailed? Helen looked helplessly around the dusty dismantled apartment. The first thing to do was to get some one to clean up. Hurriedly she penciled a note to Mrs. O'Grady, her washerwoman and standby, asking her to come at once today, if possible; if not. the first thing in the morning. When she had sent the note she got out of her traveling suit and into a working house dress. She wanted to get some of the dusting done before Warren and the trunks came, or there would be no place to lay anything when she unpacked. VERY DEPRESSING. There is nothing more depressing or discouraging than the opening up of an apartment after several months' absence, and for the moment Helen was almost homesick for their rooms in Paris. Just now her mind's picture of those rooms seemed more famaliar than this, their own home. It was almost an hour before she saw a cab with their trunks driven up

and Warren jumped out. Eagerly j Helen ran out to the hall. "Dear, she's not coming back," she announced tragically, as Warren stepped from the elevator followed by the boy with their bags. "Who's not coming back? .Now, where do you want these things put?" "In my room I'll unpack everything in there. Why, Maggie here's a letter from her! She says she has a place where the work's not so hard. And after she promised so faithfully to come back J" "Well, what of it?" glancing over the pile of mail on the diningroom table. "Plenty of other girls. What's this bill from Ardman's? Thought I paid that before we sailed." "I haven't had time to look over any of the mail yet. Oh, here come the trunks!" and Helen ran to hold open the door. "Be careful don't scar the walls J You can take them right into that last room." When the men had gone. Warren glanced around the apartment with an indifferent air. "Well, you're all right now. I must be getting down to the office." "But, dear, what shall I do about a girl? Had we better advertise? I dread going to those employment agencies. Wonder if we could get that sister of Mrs. Stevens's girl? She wanted to come last winter." "Nothing like that, we don't want anyone carrying news back and forth to the Stevens. Get a girl on your own hook." Helen hesitated. "You know that Swedish agency? It's not far from your office. Do you suppose you'd have time to run in there?" "Now, see here, I've enough to do today without trotting around for any girl. If you can't go yourself, telephone. Get my umbrella out of that shawl strap, will you? Looks like it'll rain before night. Jove, this place is dusty," as he took his hat from the hall table. I "I know, dear, it's dreadful. You .wouldn't thiug it would get so dusty when everything's been closed up. I'll try to have the worst of it off before you get home. I've sent for Mrs. O'Grady, but she may not come today." "Don't know what time I'll be home," as he strode toward the door. "But we'll have to so out for dinner tonipht anyway, so it won't matter." I Helen followed hi into the door with ; a wistful: "Dear, do call me up some time during the day. I'll be so lonely here all j alone." A CRUEL REPLY. "Lonely?" as he rang for the e!ej vator. "Should think you'd have i enougli to do to keep from being j lonely. I'll not have any time for telephoning," and Warren entered the elevator with a curt, "So long." She turned back into the apartment. It had never looked to her so deso

late. The lonely day and the dreariness of unpacking lay before her. She could have cried from sheer despondency. It was the inevitable "let down" that comes after a trip. There is no mental state more depressing than that which comes with the unpacking of on'e trunk. And the heart-sick lump in Helen's throat stayed there most of the day. For Sale 500 loads good dirt at North Tenth and D streets. Call Miller-Kemper Co. 19-3t

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Messrs. Earl Sheffer, Milburn McClain, Fred Overholser, Walter Benner and J. H. Jackson motored to Hamilton Sunday and spent the day. I Mr. and Mrs. Bert Packer spent Sunday with Mrs. Fannie Packer. i Mr. and Mrs. Porterfield and daughter, Lucile, motored to Indianapolis last week. Mrs. Tracey Osborn is not much improved. Miss Grace Parks will leave next Sunday for Peru, Ind., for a ten days' visit with relatives and friends. Miss Dorothy Gill, of Cincinnati, O., has returned home after visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Roscoo Stanford and family. Mrs. Joseph Samphier has returned to her home in Chicago, 111., after visiting with her sister, Mrs. A. H. Piper. Mr. and Mrs. A. II. Piper have as

their guest Mrs. Charles Kennedy, of Peru, Ind., this week. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Johnson have as their guests, Mrs. Bruce and children, of Indianapolis. Miss Gladys Chittum, of Cilftou Forge, Va., will come Saturday for a visit with Mis Leah Parks. Mrs. Charles Kennedy, of Peru. Ind., and Miss Grace Parks were guests of the Misses Maude and Letha Phillips Monday evening. Mrs. Adam Eby, who has been confined to her home with neuralgia, is much improved. P. L. Beard purchased a new Hupmoblle last week.

TWO LOSE LIVES IN ST. LOUIS FIRE

BY LEASED WIRE ST. LOUIS. May 20. Two persons were burned to death and two seriously injured in a fire which destroyed the home of Sam Stoltz, a tailor here early today. Mrs. Stoltz, aged 24, and her son Morris, aged 3, lost their lives. Stoltz was injured by jumping and was taken to the hospital a raving maniac. Lottie, a one year old child was seriously burned.

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