Show r ti Where Washington Stopped Sopped i f i Cy Dy JANE OSDORN OSBORN t ft l lua 92 22 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate Lyda was sitting out before the oil old old- fashioned lored down run house where when she J Ih heIJ ed with her aunt Mrs Irs Chloe Jones She c wore sonic some sort of cool crl crisp p pink dunk Iud tort that first firs I attracted the CJ eye of v Dawes as as us h he motored slowly ly i edar street In search of sights t t to II s see Then n he hc noticed that lint the house fe K Ild I very ely old uld lIe Stopped He-Stopped stopped his aged Junes Jones roadster rl and stood before Lyda Idu knew In a minute that he was a ar af r f college sl student find and at sixteen Lyda Ida j. j of nothing more thrilling thun him to be bl noticed by hy a n student He lie amide e it clear however that It was the house that hud hid attracted him hint Excuse me he said but Im I'm looking lookIng look look- Ing o over or r the land for a n new line of sightseeing busses Im I'm to be the spiel spiel- 1 I cr er I for fur this route The Idea Is to go gom 0 m out to the battlegrounds beyond ond and Vwe we want to find some points of interest Interest Inter Inter- 1 est cst to 0 make the passengers think they ore are r getting their moneys money's worth on the way I heard heur that there was a n house O along here hele somewhere that was once the hc headquarters of Washington or Lafayette or some one It tray may be on the next road But this house looked ns os If it it was colonial This rond road Is touch much better hetter than limn the one beyond so SQ Id I'd like ilia to come down this way You 11 happen to know If Washington ever e did stop at nt this house or Lufay- Lufay elle or un anyone one Lydi Iyda was fascinated with I the he way the tw young oun man IOnn spoke Ills speech was decidedly more cultivated than that hut nf of Aunt Chloe ChiGe e Jones or nn any of her neighbors that formed d the world In n which Lyda Jones lived As peler of or tile the new lie Ine Inc of sightseeing I busses t the Ilene young Joun stranger would perhaps pass IJ by her house two wo or three times r n a week If he decided that It was not mint worth while perhaps she would never f eee see him him again She did not tint answer his question directly If It it is the house house If If some sonic one Interesting Interesting In In- did once stay here her you'd oud I conic curne by lIy often two often two or three times a week she said I 1 i m Yes und ind Robert Hobert Dawes found him him- 8 self stif lt looking Intently Into Inlo the time puzzling of L Lydus Lydas blue eyes eJes I am n a student b but t I 1 slum shall have hn time cline to tul take e the tour two 1 r three afternoons a n at t weel week and that Is as ns often orten ns as they will n need 1 to run it They have e sent me out now to work up the Information for formy fort T t my lecture I 1 1 see said Lyda slowly anti and mc she too ton was surprised and ashamed of herself when she realized how Intently sin h was studying th the sIJ shadowy dow depths of nf lime lie young Joung mans man's gray 11 eyes Well Wells ell ellI I kink this Is the house house I I wouldn wouldn't he at all nil surprised If It was s It looks like hike that sort 0 of house co dat doesn't nt It You never ne saw such sagging sag sag- ag- ag ging Jing floors or such crooked windows and my nay how the hinges creak cral I 1 Yes I think thInk thInk-I'm Im I'm almost certain that Wash Nash WashIngton In Ington lon Lafayette and and md and Daniel Webster and John Hancock nail Paul Hl Revere re and and lots lols of other people used to stop here quite often In fact I know Inow now the time room where Paul Revere He used to 10 sleep Lyda Jones paused to toe e see how the stranger r was taking her story She did not Dot explain that old Aunt Chloe had once had a n dog named Paul Revere ere who used to 10 take lung long will winters whiter's naps In the back back- parlor Now Nov ow you'll come by wont won't you ou And that flint Is how Ilow It happened that whenever henen r the tile sightseeing busses went nt out outto to the famous battleground the they node made a turn lulU up Cedar street and shopped for a n full two or III three minutes to gaze aze upon the d dilapidated old house wl wi ere Cre Lafayette ette and Washington ha hind had Dike e stopped to talk to Paul Revere He TIlt Tl it Is the time tradition Robert Dawes n s woud add and there was sure to he one In the party to ra rave rae e over tr I the he carved caned doorway or the quaint initial little dormer windows s and lul unite quite often sonic some one of the passengers passenger's mt would say What hat a pretty prell girl I that lint Is out omit there thre sweeping the time porch 1 I It did not ant take Aunt Chloe Jones IlIn lung long to 0 observe r e that the sightseeing bus bm always ns topped Stopper Tefol her lour door r You ou might think this was Hunker Bunker Milt monument or Old South routh Church Churchin in ur II something to see time the wn way that bus hus always slops here What in goodness goodness' s s is th e to 10 rubber at nl Im I'm going ti I. to Ft step 11 out Hud and tell that Impertinent Impertinent- looking hulking your young man inn to e mo on some saute someone Oll one of these da days s lies lles a college student nt put In 1 Lyda What 1 t do you ou know about aboul him 1 r p Flapped snapped hack back the tile Indignant nun And Amid L Iyda di said something mahout about simply thinking he looked II one une as ns a n mat mat- matir ir lf f self A few days s ns n's later Chloe lime had more to SU say on the sane same jet tUu t. t im HII you ou know what that young lII vim I says about this house she dem dent I heard down dawn nl ml he Ilme smote Some Slime one fine wa was In there Ihl rc Hint Kali been on the ride and wll she mid dial Ihal that thaI young fellow said Hint this house had hu- been lIeen or lr something like that lIch h Impudence Its It's old ohI enough h I dire ME say H but hut I guess none of If the Joneses would have ha wanted to let a n lot lilt lotof lotof I of fit common soldiers Into their Ir house JI themselves a n lot of notoriety like e any common folk Aunt Chloe 1110 sputtered from time to time Jimmie and ail made remarks about the ImI Impertinent Im Im- I pertinent Irl young nung man who on ont t lime Hie ht sightseeing bus but she was unsuccessful un successful sll c ul In keeping tier her pretty niece appearing three times In tu UJ week In n front o of or the house when rl the e bus bur stopped Always time the Impertinent I 1 young oun roan lifted man his hat politely when he saw bet het Once Onre In In- a 3 while when Aunt Chloe wasn't home Lyda accepted accept accept- cd ed the time young nung mans man's invitation to ge gt get t tInto Into the car cur amid ride as ns far as the battleground mind and back buck It was only minty oDI a matter of ot half halt an hour IH And though Huh Roles Robert rl Dawes had to go on with Ida his l lecture and had lo Jo to I ItIle the tIle pretty prell girl him In time the thelms bus It was quite plain that these two young folk were wre very hu happy to be In each ach others other's company One rainy day tiny when n there were no passengers ers for Cor the sightseeing ride Robert Dawes Da dispensing dis- dis with the chauffeur ran Fan the time big bus hus out J Just t the same same Lyda Junes Jones saw f him tutu coming am amran and ran rm out of or time the house calling to Aunt Chloe flint she would be back before Ion long Then th time the two Lyda and Robert Roberi f awes rude rode on together to the the old ok battleground As soon as ns the they were Vero out of sight of prying eyes ees on Cedar street 1 Robert stopped time the car t time tilt protection of or some same spreading elm trees tree Then quite solemnly he took I. I Lydas Lyda's das hand I had to come carne be he Je said looking with more than tenderness Into her herl l' l eyes es hern because use I couldn't go on keepIng keeping keep keep- Ing It all nil to tn myself how much I love you Juu Lyda Jones Joncs m my own little Lyda Im I'm going to be he through with college In another year and then Ill I'll work a year jear or so more and perhaps by that time tine Ill I'll be able to come back to you arid and ask you JOU to he be my wife And that was nil all Ida Lyda needed to seal those eyes of hers forever fore from Crom any other admirer and to make the years Jears that I were to 10 pass before Robert nobert Dawes' Dawes return return return re re- turn years Jeus of glorious anticipation It was Just before the day for the time wedding when Lyda was In a n mood to confess 1 I think I must have deceived deceived de de- Ct i c 11 you rou she site said Im afraid I Isaid Isaid said that this old house was Washington's Wash ash ington's Inon's lu or something nut Cut well I was W-IS afraid you OU wouldn't come clime back If I didn't sa say It was and andI I knew train from the start tint that I would never ne be he happy If you Jou didn't I 1 only said It was a n tradition said Robert After nil all It might have been heen een And Anti the funny part of It Is smiled yda Lyda Jones that while Aunt Chloe Chine WitS was so Indi Indignant 11 t with me about It at first she Is planning when I am nm gone to o have Ine the old house open every day dayI for or sightseers She's going to have hu a n alot lot ot of ol old furniture from the attic rought down flown to replace the newer pieces and she's going to sell some cookies and cakes made after an nn old recipe that's been In the tile Jones Tones family since ince colonial times s. s She says sars it will keep keel her from being lonel lonely and md will keep her in pin money lunacy Besl Besides es since the he members of the Historical society have lave been heen looking at the place with the he Idea of buying u It as ns their headquarters head hend quarters she said that she recollects that hat her grandmother did lid say something something some some- thing about Washington having h put up there for a night or t two |