Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1926, Page 35

1l with. Snoozer the llww mt at her heels, and Junlnr. her daughter Bessie's youngest, in her arms. It was Saturday morning and she had heen up dnce 4 putting. the. wash a- getting th bathing the three ymmx Masons. Bessie had been up late the mnight before and had . arisen late—too late to be of much service. Besides, she was cross, and as her husband, George, supported the whole establishment, including Arvilla, she must be placated. So Arvilla had ignored the intense heat and & growing sense of weariness and accomplished her many tasks, includ- ing that of seeing that Mrs. Snyder, the weekly helper, got the clothes ¥ clean. Mrs. Snyder, it may be added, ‘was long on soap and extremely short on elbow grease. Therefore for Ar- villa the peal of the doorbell had come as a nuisance, to say the least. At the instant she opened the door Junior hud ken the notion to’ turn bottom nld p in her arms and as he was a very strong, fat baby of 7 months and Arvilla a .very small, slender woman of 50, she was no match for him, As well as she could for her armful of sprawling legs and arms she greeted her visitor. “Oh, it's Mr. Jones!” she exclaimed pand flushed with girlish perturbation. Mr. Jones smiled. He was slightly taller than Arvilla and a microscop- ically correct man of 55, beautifully i groomed and tailored, with a square- ly cut little gray mustache, gray hair, gray eyes and a smile that made all this grayness particularly attractive. A sunbeam shooting through a gray j cloud—that was -Mr. Jones' smile, | Arvilla " had. always thought. *“Dear me!” said Mr. Jones. And §n some gentle, unobtrusive way, he |ngm°a the baby, stopped his howls by giving him something out of his pocket and pressed Arvilla’s hands. “Won't you sit down, Mr. Jones?" Arvilla asked. She directed him to the easiest porch chalr, slipped the ‘baby into a corner of the porch ham- ‘mock and sank down herself. “It is ! RVILLA CHANDLER answered very warm morning,” she said. “I'd ask you in only Mrs. Snyder is | Washing—and Teddy is coming down with something; he’s all over a rash. 'm afraid it's measles.” She might ve added that her daughter was dl-wmubll, that Lewis, her oldest boy, had just bumped his forehead and that there was an ‘early dinner tto be got; George had ordered it. “It is a very nice morning,” said “I thought I'd take a stroll this way and’ see how you ‘were getting on. I don’t want to bother you, Arvilla, nor keqp you from your work if it ressis “‘Oh, no, you don't,”y prof (uud . Willa. She added with a little catch 'in her voice: “I am sorry that Anita is not here. You see, she was called is morning to nurse Mrs. she?” said Mr. Jones. He “I know you did and I am sorry #he isn't here,” sald Arvilla, trying to keep Junior from rolling off the ponch hammock, There was a silence during which became * vanquished by the -, He began to howl an ap) “Oh, good morning, Mr. - Jones! ‘Mother, what are you letting him cry for?” Bessie demanded, She was a thin, sunkeneyed young woman with - a shrewish - expression. She snatched her baby nn(rfly and bore him away, fully convinced obviously that Arvilla was ‘to blame for his howls. There was an uncomfortable instant and then Mr. Jones arose. “I won’t detain you longer, Ar- vllla‘" he said with -his sunny smile. *I see you have your hands full and your arms full as well.” / Arvilla faltered. : “I hope you will come Qllll\— .‘h.n Anita is here,” she said. She stood Appusntly busy lying a ine, but in Tealify watching him he went up the street—watching hlm 4 “with wistful, longing eyes, ‘ He had .&£ome to see Anita, her buxom younger sister, who was a practical nurse and lived with Bessie when off duty, ‘was handsome and hearty and ‘At wu no wonder Mr. Jones admired 4her. She would make him a vigorous, Elover ‘wite. , She wished that she more like Anita, who could get gor own way even with Bessie. She never been able to get her own way with any one, not with her hus- band, who was dead, nor his people, % mor with her daughter, who was so much like them and so unlike herself, A sob slipped from her dry throat. Bessie was calling and she went in. Later she found a moment to tele- phone Anita at Mrs. Hicks'. “Mr. Jones was here to see you this morning. He didn’t stay a min- ‘robust -Junior. Bessie, “Why didn’t you keep him longer?” Anita laughed. v That was all. The afternoon wore kway in heat and weariness. Aryllla jroned rompers &nd things. She got warmer. She put the babies to bed, Bessie, recovering from her-crossness at an invitation, dressed and went out. with her husband. . She. would be in mbout 11 and tomorrow she wmlld be. cross again. kg Arvilla darned mcklng- as lan‘ as she could see. .Then she closed her work basket and sat’ at moon. She -wonderad . how it could look so calm and peaceful when peo- . Dle suffered so. “I'm just HM” Mm Yet she knew that there never would be wmny chance for her:to-get rested. cried. and’ she The baby went in to turn him over and soothe him. Then she had to get the older children drinks of water. ‘When she returned to the veranda she found somebody sitting in the ; porel made her 'sit, down- beside him. ‘Arvilla,” he said, “I've come back |, to finish what I lrhd lo tell you thia morning. - I'm going for the rest of the hot w-,ther T've bflm! We & corass right on the ocean.” “Oh!"” ke was away. Of course. 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