Show have you this habit I 1 by margaret Alo morison tison THE MONKEYS til so eAlly most important three nitin numbers bers of mis alias aile kites a hoarding boarding houe house etere ling lingering tring on sunday evening round the supper tulle table discussing the latest new arraial 11 beian MISS pry her door mas open the oilier other day and I 1 pushed it a little further so that I 1 help seeing into tho the room do you get ethere me in there was ast nothing in it absolute I 1 ly y nothing except some kind of chi nese idol above her desk have you noticed went nent on mrs INh whisper isper her bead pushed for forward aard her eye starting out so 10 that they seemed tol be getting ahead of the rest of ber her face ace have you noticed that ehe she li always oat out at nights she came last lost monday and not one night has ae been in returns when its al most midnight if it you ask me I 1 mr grundy slid back in bis his chair and pushed his hi hands into his pock ets eta bis his eyes halt half shut that seem as strange to me as the fact that shies in all day looks loas as 83 if she eru erb hiding from something what credentials have we anyway to let us know she tie isn I 1 a bad sort sounds to me I 1 finally misa MUs pry turned to mrs 11 chisper you ray say aiwas out in the she will have been here a week tomorrow and not one night so to far has she he been at home 1 I think said miss silas pry that we line bia a right Indeed a duty to know ahava going on an under the root that supports pup ports us UL I 1 think that in ber her ab fenre we ae three should investigate this womans room those are unsettled times and we cant afford to trust any one po so led by mr grundy they tiptoed above the door was unlocked and they pushed it open groping their way into the unlighted room they acre ere all well past the threshold and in 1 a huddled group in the center of 0 the floor when suddenly the tile light went on there wa was hared the newcomer a fair haired bright colored wholesome young per eon son of twenty five curled up on the cushions under the ceuric an itch come ID it bhe she aid said somewhat so su au i bow nice of you to call the only night I 1 have an aisy ay from the theater sit downto down do ob oh you nr arv looking at my mascot that I 1 cot got in japan last summer its the three sacred monkeys the one with his handa hands over his eye eyes miss pry means see DO no evil eyll and the next one with his hands ever over his ears mrs whisper means hear no evil and that last mr grundy with bis his hands over his mouth means speak no evil evill curl bously christian Christ lan that habit babit of see no evil eyll bearno no em speak no evil elili HAVE TOO YOU THIS HABIT 0 by metropolitan newspaper 1 |