Show 0 r M by MOM ED MELISSA ABHORS A VOCAL wOL CANO i 7 almost immediately after tho the street door closed sirs mrs tot tottered into tho the room where her maternal material maiden aunt jane was sitting at a ht tie tea table there she be collapsed lir in gradual movement move merit at tho the toot foot of an easy chair allowing her he head to droop weakly against its ita cushion I 1 got up melissa Mell and dont mako make a fool of yourself sold said aunt jano jane tea give mo me teal murmured mrs faintly you might have had it 11 before it got cold it you had been a little more hospitable aunt jano jane remarked as she poured ile he give mo me a chance 0 to o invite him said bald mrs Merr livid scrambling to a moro more conventional posture ile ho was so eo much occupied with wl thour our pleasant little chat that I 1 have bavo interjected interject Inter Jec ted an invitation to partake of a glass of water iles hea a great little monologue artist mr licks la is ill bet you could use his vocal chords for an elevator cable and get past the inspector ho certainly has a command of dt language aunt jane agreed ife he any control of it said mrs Morri wid it runa away with him every time and the great trouble Is it never gets any place placa in particular ti talk about speaking volumes moil I 1 that man will speak a congressional library during a morning call and never bat an eye it if I 1 had a dear little lap dog whose hind bind leg I 1 had bad any regard tor for id certainly tie him up in the basement when aben brolly called my own understanding P Moll osal said aunt jano jane reprovingly pardon me dearie said mrs mer plucking down her skirt it was careless of me I 1 mean to say bay it passes my comprehension how any creature that a red beals beak and green feathers can make such a con nuisance of himself im 11 eq e AN good Grac loual Is it really se ho late as aa that i pretty good single handed banded talker me when I 1 get an intelligent and appreciative precia tive listener like you dearlo dearie but mr air licks could fill hla his mouth with hot mush and make inake me seem tongue longue tied it if hod hed only whistle one in a while hed be ba so BO mu rauh h better som pany well observed aunt jane thyre ro some men who never have a hance to say aay tor for themselves 1 I doubt it replied mrs Merrl wid when it comes to themselves they iro ire all more or less loquacious wei its when you try to switch to a less interesting te le subject that they fall back n U grunts runts women have wider con erns extend the disc discussion 0 o their husbands and the servant problem ro blem and infant culture and ceif i ons at least mr himself to anything g bowser it if anybody started the eracles of Ichthyosaur i as a topic hed in and hold the floor la indefinitely definitely explaining how it camo came that he be had lever ever devoted any time to that thal branch if C information what did ho he talk about this atter after toon loon asked aunt jane mra biro merrield ld cast her eyes eye upward let lct me see she began tho the weather veather first I 1 think then other pre fictions and fortune tolling telling and clair oance and esoteric buddhism lam and vir isaacs from isaacs to oppen eim was wae a natural transition and detective stories carried him to clence which embraced wireless telegraphy ele graphy and aeroplanes aero planes then he planed rol to earth and automobiles n wide and fluent spirals and by way it if country roads he be arrived at bunga aws and from bungalows to cottages nd did from e cottages to love ie I 1 obbo oh Ob ho said aunt jane rubbing ir sapient nose with her fore anger rd smiling all ah hal ha mrs Merri wid mimicked yes lie ho said that after all it was waa lovo love that made th the e world go round I 1 suggested that at times it was an injudicious indulgence in cocktails cock talla and such but he hear hiie me because he was busy explaining his bis theory at length it seems that he had bad imagined several times that he had bad been in lovo love only to discover that it was a passing fancy and ho he thought it not improbable that marriages had been made on equally ba baseless soless foxy brolly Pr olly it was there he paused for the first time and gave mo me my opportunity 1 I lovo love a good game of bridge bridge whist ablat I 1 said and I 1 love to fish where you have to be very quiet and I 1 lovo love the reading rooms in the public libraries and desert solitudes and dumb animals and watch cases and clam cianfa s 11 why clams says bays he be because ill eyre happy 11 no says 1 I sweetly for another reason altogether lie ile seemed a little bewildered and mechanically pulled out his watch good gracious grac loual I 1 said eald la 10 it really as late as thata that well he thought he would have to be going lie he even a ask about ui the watch case what was waa there about it inquired aunt jane oh ob nothing but generally easy to shut up replied mrs merrl merri wid copyright 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