Show The Honorable Uncle Lancy By ETHEL HUESTON O CHAPTER XIV Continued When the door had closed on turned off the lights and for ten full minutes a deep and serene silence held the But Aunt was The poor dumb could lie there catching anything and never even recognize his Unable to endure her she turned on the lights and gave him a straight He was lying near-sighted eyes wide open with a broad smile on his seraphic I get you he said arc you smiling Do you feel said the Senator And then with modest did you notice the terrific wallop I gave Jim He went down like a ton of 1 never realized my own I noticed said turning off the light he went with shy my life I've dreamed of some Lochinvar who would knock out a state But naturally I never expected to do it You I know history pretty and as far as I know I'm absolutely I never heard of a United States Senator retiring over the prostrate form of his state too bad it couldn't have been the Opposition said for she was bruised in wouldn't be tho he said at all the CHAPTER XV Hilda went to the girls' They had the lights turned on again and were sitting up in talking in broken interrupting each being sad and had got in Helen's bed for Hilda hadn't the faintest idea what had transpired and was too proud to but she was apt at picking up shreds and piecing them And any dunce could see that something had gone She glowered at the should report this to your she carefully closing her to Keep Aunt Olympia from said had a ghastly She will go all to pieces if she doesn't get a little you got I got to report she said staring suspiciously at the three now flushed haven't any We're Just warmed up from the lemonade and the hot-water Helen assured got warm too suddenly after being cold and wet all Adele should have been took said knew she couldn't be trusted to keep anybody she couldn't help She had so much on her you She had our clothes all packed up ready for us but she forgot to put them in the sound That's Hilda pondered this There came the unmistakable crunch of motors pulling up to the garage It was Dave Cecil the stenographers and the dejected Ben arriving with the sound truck and the Almost immediately came a peal at the got to go get out my rat said and let me turn oil these Mis' was firm about them She turned off the lights and before she was halfway downstairs Adele had turned them on again were sitting talking in pieced a good deal together when she admitted Cecil and the two Before Dave could demand audience with the Cecil Dodd ordered her to show him Hilda gave him ah Icy not the habit of this house to admit publicity to their young she they all Is she all Did she catch Is she still were half or maybe not quite half asleep when I saw which was just said got to see the said Dave he come down or shall we go up be said squaring her angular got my orders and I'm keeping Not Nothing for six months but Dave and went into an argument and their their their explosive bursts of soothed Hilda to her normal state of you're going to sleep she show you to your rooms and lock you in- That's my I don't think they meant the rat poison for you but taking no did they take asked took it said never saw take Limpy still asked Cecil she it's In her sleep and continues in the same said you take a message up to the take nothing up but coffee and that not till I'm rung I'll show you your rooms lock the I we're not going to Make us some will It's probably better just to let them sleep it and we'll get We'll use this the library's we'll need the Get out your I'll do my Bring us some and fix up some will a shot of added Cecil Hilda assented to all that but before she left the room she gave one last I catch anybody sneaking up toward my young I got my orders and I brain she She went upstairs at once and as she had expected found the girls up in bed publicity's come and are going to work all night with coffee and Would you feel more sleepy if you saw please Hildal Don't let us see they go someplace else and moaned they have to said they get Have they been she asked worse they let them work if they want said Helen won't bother Just keep them away from Limpy was in abysmal depths of contrition for her childish outburst can't imagine what made me do she moaned again and never dreamed of doing such a why didn't you stop If only Aunt Olympia had been there to give me her shut-upping It's because I was out of that's what drove me to If L somebody's I'd never have said a If he's defeated it will be all my and I'd do anything in the world for Uncle Lancy for he's a swell just as I thought you did said Adele was proud of I couldn't think of a thing to say I could only shout Hilda entered with the everybody's I brought some along up with we can't said would choke said said more don't suppose we'll ever eat again as long as we the sooner we die the added put salted nuts said a fresh I might just nibble a pecan or said weakening and reaching for Uie good if I do say with lettuce and ham and cheese all together the way you like and butter on both I only gave them bam and butter one side said sleep easier on a full haven't had anything to eat since that fried chicken you sent said suddenly seems doesn't Uncle murmured fishing for was so fond of the a good In my said Hilda having gathered that the Senator was he can settle down private where he belongs and got rid of his The girls were When Hilda-had gone they nibbled the out of politeness at first and then with By two o'clock they had become philosophical about the whole was their making us said we boomeranged on they can't blame it was certainly they who wished that Len on added never have dreamed of meeting such a worm in this will be a good lesson for Helen he ever finds out about she added And course I shall tell him the whole thing myself as soon as I see him I wish I could tell him Maybe he would withdraw before it is too When Hilda came to take the tray they were showing signs of drowsy going to sleep Will you raise the window and put out the Hilda raised the window a scant turned out the lights and left the who had been most was asleep almost Adele closed her eyes but being did not sleep at alL At three-thirty Helen got up slipped down the hall to the Senator's closed the door behind her and spent half an at the Coming she tip-toed halfway downstairs and From the closed door of the library she could hear the faint click of still at Hilda was sound sitting bolt upright in a kitchen Helen went back to the room and switched on the She closed the lowered the she said in a brisk I want wake Adele sat up at looking more more than mumbling finally turned over and opened one Helen's first words brought her wide Get Help mcl I'm going is our have no nobody to go home is not my Iowa's my home and that's where I'm Helen was quite very She no longer looked am not going to stay here and face those horrible reporters I just can't do They've been making speeches all summer they all about exercising the sacred I'm going to exercise I may get there in time to save Brick before it's too Limpy bounded out of do we she Helen not starting at You're staying both of don't try to pull that on you little I'm not as weak-minded as Uncle Lancy 1 know what I'm My mind is made Adele has to stay here until she patches things up with And you have to to comfort Uncle Lancy and Aunt After they like you even better than the U. S. I'm going alone and I'm going to There's plane taking off at six o'clock and I'm going to catch it I've already for a cab to stand outside the hedge and wait for It will cost about fifty Have you any The girls ran for purses and dumped the contents on Helen's isn't but the company will take a check for my Do you mind if I draw on the insurance don't be money is it keep account of all I Tomorrow but not let them rest as long as they you just breeze in and tell them the speeches made such an impression on me that I flew out to You'd better do the they like you best And Adele can back you I'll take only a traveling will You'll take all your pretty clothes and look like a million going to expect to see after your year in your wind-up to vote That'll be something to take a picture The too excited yet to feel the sadness of fell to packing Helen's suitcases and helping her And at five o'clock when Limpy on the lookout reported that a cab had stopped near the gate behind the high Helen kissed them took a suitcase in each hand and slipped quietly down the The girls cried a for this was their first beginning of our united Limpy Adele and Limpy hung out the window In the foggy dawn of the gray morning and watched Helen walking down the flagstone carrying her At the she turned and waved to and threw a Then she went resolutely on and disappeared from their The girls waited In the waving their until they heard the motor hum Then they went to bed their arms around each crying-laughing a too and finally fell CHAPTER XVI Wakening about seven-thirty they rang at once and Hilda appeared with a promptness almost Adele and Limpy were still together in one propped up on looking no longer but cheerful and even who had brought coffee for made no comment on Helen's She seemed almost cheerful that a dour cheerfulness under close thought Helen was in the Adele said when she had a good We don't want her spilling the beans till the time Regularly at thirty-minute intervals after that Hilda appeared to ask if they wanted anything or felt a Usually she brought something for them on a small hot or cold Occasionally she brought a Hardesty says tell you he feels the same and more she told Tears came to Adele's eyes and she tried in vain to harden her heart Dodd is awake from a sleep on the davenport and they're at work again and two boys answering the telephone and he says if you feel nervous he'll challenge don't feel at all said if I see anybody I'm going to be very so keep everybody Another a lot of more cameramen would like your tell them to mosey right along and mind their own said tell them the campaign's over and we're never going to have any more pictures taken as long as we so help said got reporters down there I never even seen continued say will you please answer a few them we will not answer anybody don't have to see any more said Olympia said sol You tell them we're in bed and we're going to stay in bed and we've got campaign just let us know when Uncle Lancy and Aunt Olympia have had their coffee and got calmed down and leave it to This is the holy Sabbath and we're spending it in Aunt Olympia too had but Whenever she wakened she repressed the wish to look in on the girls repressed it for the Senator's for Lord knew he needed rest After the girls were their very youth would bring them back on the rebound from tills frightful But it was a bitter pill for the Senator and would require not only plenty of whisky and but rest as So Aunt Olympia lay rigidly in her bed and waited for him to Olympia was sick at heart The Senator would be a good sport about the she knew that But it would It would cut like the very Old A man like Senator eating humble pie at the hand of a louse like Brother think we'd done enough for she mused to all those poor sermons so many years and making a governor out of And Always First to the collection plate and then to the campaign There's no If only I hadn't ordered that Victory She started to vent her feelings in an impatient flounce remembering how lightly the Senator slept restrained The girls would leave after of She couldn't blame They wouldn't hold her and Hie Senator responsible for the but they couldn't help feeling they had had Aunt had had She told herself that she would be tickled pink to have it over and done with except that it griped her to sec Del play second fiddle to a When she felt that she would blow up in spontaneous combustion if she lay another she turned over on her very making no and took a look at the To her unbounded indignation he was lying his eyes wide looking at for pity's If you're awake why don't you say she flouncing vigorously a half-dozen times or was keeping quiet not to waken he said must be tired out Can't you turn over and catch forty more winks or popped out of bed and started for her The Senator went to And the splash of running the vigorous sloshing of testified that their night's such as it was RE |