Show I i JUST A DINNER PARTY i133 Fanny Burling for The Tribune t Frank cried Mrs Newman cc cltcdly 1 opening the study door whore the Bishop was quietly reading the sermons of Phillips Brooks Norah has the mumps 1 lllas she my dear said the Blsh lip suavely Knocking the ash from Ills cigar and looking up through his glasses at his handsome spouse That Us unfortunate J Unfortunate Frank rather with a dinner party invited for tonight Now what am I to do without a maid 1f wait on the table and her portly figure fig-ure dropped 01 despairingly into the big chair beside his desk while she twisted thu diamond rings on her plump white I hands and wailed for an answer Bravely the Bishop attempted It but accustomed JJB hu was to facing human problems and settling them this one was beyond him until with a1 secret hope of shirking his responsibilities responsi-bilities he ventured Why dOt you ring up Miss Yancy and usk her advice ad-vice 1 Mrs Newman rose energetically and I taking down the received cal l peremptorily peremp-torily for St Catherines hull > St Catherines n church school for girls under the cure of Bishop Newman GIls of man was on the same telephone line with the See house and Mlas Yancy the principal promptly responded The Bishops wife related her tragic dilemma dilem-ma jMIss Yancy W aqaympalhlilng but inadequate to the situation h But there arc sixteen people coming com-ing to dinner and sbc of them clergymen clergy-men from out of town besides Dr Mu Inilre of Chicago I must have a waiter and a capable one too walled the Imperious volce over the wire 11 could HCnd you my Mary but this Is her day out and her sister has the measles offered Miss Yancy through the 1 phone yNo thank you that wouldnt do at vn1l accompanied by the sound of n receiver being hung up frMiss Yaney turned from tho telephone as the heavy hall dcor oC St Cather ines opened and an unusually pretty girl with coppercolored lnlr under a black hat brightened the doorway Her cheeks were wet and pink from the leaky clouds over Seattle where the clouds do return after the rain Her short skirt and heavy shoes were wfit and mudspattered As she shook the drops energetically fiom her hat nhe looked so bright and capable thin Miss Yancy was moved to r do to her the disaster which had befallen the house of Newman Miss Averett was interested Miss Averett suggested sug-gested an expedient More than over convinced of the brightness and capabilities of her music teacher Miss Yancy rang up the Bishops house Hello demanded its mistress 3 This Is St Catherines hull elZ Icun furnish you with an excellent excel-lent waiter for tonight It you will take her came Miss Yancys pleasant tonesWho Who Is she asked the Bishops wife wifeYou You may have seen her hut none of your guests have She Is I not only very experienced but clever enough to cr I do anything But who Miss Yancy continued Imperturbably without noticing the vehement attempts tempt of the lady at the other end of the connection both to listen and talk at the same time She can borrow bor-row the necessary ccstuinc to look the part and nhe nued tOt speak But who Is she fairly willssort ncrosB the wire Mlmi llnor I luilson Avcr2tt t my music mu-sic teacher calmly replied the principal prin-cipal of St Catherines Hall select school for ulilfj Thai evening1 promply at 7 Minn Eli nor JudKon J Averelt dresuod like unto the lady ainicled with munipy look I her place behind her mistresss chair In the hnmlKone diningroom of the Bishops iouic The bit of whit mUG lin upon tin copper hair ant thn conventional con-ventional dress of a table maid did not entirely obliterate the beauty and style of the ra hlonihle Mhis Elinor Judson Averott hut the visiting clergyman doubtless had their minds full of thu t church council about to meet at Son Frnnclneo and except Dr McTnthc noticed not the maid at all But DP Mclntiro did Hud his gaze following more earnestly than form rlsl lmn good lnrl allows ito 2 > movements oi the Sill with I the I bright liaif nnJ 1 slrmig white hands tlpiiedJwJth pnll hcdibts oC pearl I AVhat uimsutiil waiters thy had In I the West ho thought I was a long dinner and everything I was moving on In Just the way Mrs Newmans dlrfher parlies always did 1 move The hotJ dishes were hot the cold Ujshes cold the service so noiseless i noise-less and light the talk si gay and informal in-formal selniliUng with story and light retort the bright talk of the clergy when the surplice has beer changed for the dinner coat Mrs Newmans quick eye traveled down the white expanse before her sparkling with silver and cut glass the Bishop a genial host was holding up his end nobly her glance comprehended I compre-hended tins smiling guests on cither slide and the redits bed mull lining the glassy the soft perfume of ilowcrs I and the savor of clullrulu food touched I her pleasantly She folded her plump white hands In chastened thankfulness I thankful-ness that everything hud gone well In 1 sidle of the mumps Her I mild wandered wan-dered the table talk drifted past her unheeded She caught tin name 7Ic I Clallnn Miss Yaucy wis turning to I her I with a question Was the second number which Mr McCUllnn had playcdron the great organ that afternoon I after-noon at the recital his own composition i composi-tion or was it something of Bee thovenn Mlas Yaicy had forgotten thlei visiting clergyman was politely I awaiting the answer Absently the hOStess responded Oh J dont know i u chant from a twobtcp Ask Miss j Averett and turning tnthe maid with I the redgold hair t1w continued You ought to know Miss Averett was It McClelInns or Beethoven A sudden tuiifrlhlesllfcrieu i followed this revealing question ind then the ob slruclcd wave of conversation flowi evenly on with velllm dliiuta Dr Mclntlro thoroughly approved the un nilllcd composure of the soclotybrpd girl who continued Mlllng the glasses without C glance 1 at the hosiers Months after Dr hJn lt Innlht arI MdrUro sat again at the Bishops table but this time it was his own wedding breakfast On I Ills right shone Elinor Judson Averett In her bridal robes the copper hair uncovered A maid of different nationality nation-ality fills the glasses |