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PAGE TWELVE THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1915

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John Proves at Home at Mrs. Simmons and Entertains the Whole Company with Song.

BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER. CHAPTER XVIII. (Copyright, 1915, Star Company) Even If Isabel had not had the mortifying and painful experience of falling down and marring the daintiness of her appearance, she could not have

pnjoyed the evening at Mrs. Simmons home as much as John seemed to. It was a distinct surprise to her to observe how entirely at ease he was in this environment. Several of the guests called him by his first name, and the hostess ordered him about as if he were a member of the family. "You see," Adelaide explained to her after a while, "that I treat Jack as if he was like a tame cat about the house. He and I were great chums before his marriage." "Yes." Isabel rejoined unflinchingly. "He has told me of it." The statement contained a grain of truth, for John had referred to Mrs. Simmons occasionally as a woman at whose house he used to call. But Isabel had not supposed that he had been as intimate here as his hostess' manner tonight indicated. "I'm glad the weather did not keep vou away," Dennis said to Isabel after he had greeted her with delight. "Adelaide is a great one for having jolly parties. You know," dropping his voice, "I think she likes to have lots of people around her to make her

forget the worries she's had. She's a kind-hearted woman in spite of her rather odd ways," he added, as if excusing Adelaide's unconventional manner. It needed some excuse, the young wife thought as she heard her hostess call the men by their first names, talk and laugh loudly and noted her familiar manner with every one. During the evening there was some rather cnoH sineinc bv one man. some atro

cious singing by an unnaturally blond woman, and several recitations of original verses by a theatrical-looking male person with longish hair. "Almost everybody here can do something interesting or amusing," Mrs. Simmons told Isabel. "But they do better after refreshments. Let's go into the dining room now." She Suggests That She Do the Honors. Isabel hailed the suggestion with

j relief. If the evening was so far gone I that refreshments were to be served, ' she might go home soon. It was a i quarter to eleven now, she noted, I glacing at the elaborate time-piece on

the dining room mantel. men ner eyes turned to the table. It was a huge affair, about which the guests sat closely. In the center was an immense bowl of roses. In front of Mrs. Simmons was a bowl of punch flanked by plates of sandwiches

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and fancy cakes. At the other end of the table was a tray of tall glasses, several siphons of vlchy, a bottle of rye whiskey, another of Scotch, and a bowl of cracked Ice. "Henry!" Mrs. Simmons called to Mr. Dennis, "you can do the honors of the highballs. But no" as she noted that he was about to take his seat beside Isabel "you stay where you are and let Jack take care of that end of the table, as he used to do. Jack! will you serve the highballs?" "Surely!" John Hamilton agreed. "But you have punch there, too.

Which comes first?" "We might begin with the punch," said Mrs. Simmons. "Or anybody preferring the highballs can begin on them at once. I guess most of us are thirsty enough to want both kinds of drinks."

The matter of eating seemed a secondard consideration," Isabel thought. "I'd be afraid to drink as much as these people do," she said later to

Henry Dennis. The man sitting on her other side had been introduced to her as "David Duval." He overheard her remark and laughed. "It's plain that you are new to this sort of an affair, Mrs. Hamilton," he observed. "Addie likes to see people jolly, so she gives them good thingsf to eat, but more good things to drink. You know it's a fact that after a little stimulant wit flows freely. There's your husband, for instance, he was not nearly as amusing the first part of the evening as he is now." Isabel knew that Duval spoke the truth. She herself had had only two glasses of punch, yet she felt her cheeks burn and found herself laughing and talking more loudly than she meant to. Jack, being a man, could stand much more than she, yet she wished that he had not taken a second highball after he had already had a second glass of punch. Of course she knew he was not the least bit confused by the liquor, but she had never seen him quite as merry as he was now. He had probably been telling some very funny stories to the woman on his right, for she was wiping the tears of laughter from her eyes. To make her companions think that she did not notice these things, or object to them, Isabel laugh

ed at the jests of her companions. One who did not know her might have thought her very happy. . "Jack!" Mrs. Simmons called from her end of the table after she had succeeded In getting several of her guests to obey her command to "sing a song or tell a story," "it's time you did some stunt. I've asked your wife to sing or recite, but she says she can't. As she's not used yet to this crowd, I'll excuse her. But you've got to sing. Give us your time-honored ditty of 'Oblige the Lady.' " Isabel Surprised at Her Husband's Song. "What?" Isabel asked Dennis, sotto voice. "He doesn't know such a song!" "Yes, he does," Dennis asserted. "And he's going to sing it, too." He was right. Jack, leaning back in

his chair, at that moment burst into

song a song Isabel had never heard

before. She tried to laugh at the re

frain of "'blige a lady," but the words seemed coarse to her, and not nearly

as funny as the others thought them.

"Said he, 'Old chap, she may have my lap, but' I won't stand up for her,'" drew shrieks of mirth from the vari

ous women present. When the applause had subsided, David Duval spoke: "Now," he said, "it's Addie's turn to sing." "It's time we were going home,"

Isabel began, but her suggestion was overpowered by exclamations of "Not until Adelaide sings!" The room was hot and clouded with tobacco smoke; the punch was so strong that the youg wife's head ached. Yet she sat still and tried to smile, as Adelaide, standing up a glass of punch in her hand, sang with zest and abandon, "My Girl's a Corker." Most of the guests joined lustily in the refrain. Isabel was silent. For she felt just then more like crying than singing. To be Continued

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