Patty’s Visit to
the Reunion
By Evelyn Snead Barnett
(Copyright, by Shortstory Pub. Co.)
Patty Eldred was pink of cheek and
brown of hair, which was perhaps the
reason that when the colonel, her fa
ther, promised to take her to the re
union in Louisville she ordered a pink
umbrella edged with a gold-brown
stripe.
Patty had always gone everywhere
with her father, but that everywhere
was neither far nor vide, as, with the
exception of the Lee ball at “The
White" and two trips to Richmond,
she had never left the tow'n of Dins
more, where she had first seen the
light. The excitement of making so
extended a trip inclined her to airs,
so when she waved her hand from
the back of the train to the crowd of
devoted swains who had come ■with
flowers and candy to speed her on her
way, she rather hurt the feelings of
Will Rogers, whom she was supposed
to favor.
As flie train was about rounding a
curve he had run by the car calling:
“I’ve a great mind to get ahead of
these fellows and meet you In Ixmis
ville."
To which she had replied: “Do you
think 1 would look at you by the side
of the gallant Kentuckians? If you
know when you are well off you will
stay where you are.”
Which retort roused a certain qual
ity in Will that he went home and
packed his valise. Dinsmore was on
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his clothes.
Patty fled only to bump against
more men in the corridor and more
cots. Making her way back to the
office now swarming with gray coats
she again sought the desk. A strange
clerk listened politely to her tale of
woe. He was certain that her father
had not yet arrived, but as he might
come at any moment he advised her
to stay in sight and—impelled by the
pink cheeks and brown eyes—he even
went so far as to wake a sleeping sol
dier and make him vacate his chair.
Tired as Patty was, she was too for
lorn and nervous to sit still. She was
here bent over the register.
“Why, Wfli—how on earth!”
"Came by train after yonrs, colonel.
Where do you suppose she is?”
“These people don't seem to know
or care. Cotne, help me find her. One
thing is plain—she couldn't get in
here, so went somewhere else. Of
course she left a message, but nobody
seems to remember it. She should
have written a note, but one can't ex
pect an inexperienced child to think.
1 see nothing to do but make the
rounds.”
In the congestion caused by 30,000
extra inhabitants not a carriage was
to be had. so the colonel and Will
were somewhat longer than need be
going to all the hotels and prominent
boarding houses. But their search
was fruitless
Returning to the hotel nothing
would do but the colonel and Will
must investigate the sleepers on the
parlor floor, and soon they had a lot
of half-dressed men rudely awakened.
Not one had seen Patty, but reveral
told the colonel to go to a certain
piace to find her.
All night the two distracted men
hung over the telephone in the office
Patty's train mast needs make so
many stops to pick tip soldiers and
their families that it was late by
two hours. The colonel grew fidgety,
for ho was on the program for an an
swer to the first speech of welcome
to the national committee at eight.
As they left Lexington he looked at
liis watch, made a calculation, and
announced that by the time he had
taken Patty to the hotel and dressed
himself he would he just one hour
too late.
Arrived in Louisville, he put his
daughter and her belongings into a
coupe and gave minute instructions
and large money to the driver.
"As 1 engaged the rooms several
daj% ago, you will have no trouble
whatever,” said he as he banged the
carriage door.
When she reached the hotel the
crowd in the lobby was somewhat
confusing, and Patty became a trifle
nervous. A cheerful bellboy piloted
her tc the desk, where she registered
in a good vertical hand. and. with an
air that she fancied was nonchalant
ly cosmopolitan, asked to be shown
to her rooms.
The clerk questioned and investi
gated and reported that no rooms
had been engaged and that none were
to be had. Patty's looks appeal, d to
him. and he heard her tale and ad
vised her to go tip to one of the par
lors, where her father should be sent
the moment lie arrived.
Patty entered the very red and
white room and settled herself in a
big armchair near the window, where
the roar of carriages and the buzzing
of many voices fostered meditation,
but prevented slumber. She was
unaware of the lapse of time when she
was suddenly brought to a conscious
ness of her surroundings by the en
trance of a string of porters hearing
cots with which they rapidly trans
formed the parlor into a dormitory
and then—Oh. horrors!—an awful man
in the corner actually began taking off
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also embarrassed by the attention she
attracted—so many men all staring.
She left her chair and went over to a
less conspicious place by the wall. A
little farther on she spied a glass door
ajar and edging her way towards it
found that it led to a dark empty room
containing a row of chairs shrouded
in white. She chuckled as she found
that here she could escape observa
tion yet still remain in sight of the
desk. In she slipped, closing the
glass door and, lifting the sheet,
climbed into one of the chairs.
“Funny place for a dentist.” she
! said aloud as, settling herself with a
relieved sigh, she fixed her eyes on
i (he big register distinctly visible on
| the clerks desk. As soon as a fami
I liar head bent over that register she
1 was ready to come to light. In the
| meantime here was soothing darkness
and rest from staring eyes. The ..i.air
offered a comfortable reclining posi
tion with its cool linen head-rest.
Fatigue dulled her brain and before
she knew it she slept.
She did not see a white-jacketed
man come out of the bar-room, open
the door, pull down its green blind,
lock a safe and stagger away, but,
with the soundness of tired youth and
health, slept on.
Then came the colonel, holding him
self with extra straightness, flushed
with the success of his speech. Meet
ing the cast-iron smile of Clerk Num
ber Three he signed his name with a
flourish and asked to he shown to his
rooms.
"Rooms!" repeated Number Three,
making the word unnecessarily plural,
“how many do you want?”
“Two,” answered the colonel, “or
dered two weeks ago. My daughter
h is already taken possession of one
of them; I ask to be shown to the
other.”
The clerk looked at the signature:
' N. A. Eldred, Eldred Park, Dinsmore,
Va.,“ then went behind a mottled
rlass box and consulted another book.
Next, he called a tired straw-colored
woman, who examined various pigeon
holes. Returning, he announced with
the same fixed smile that no letter
had been received, and behind the
wurus uie iuiuiibi » aeiiBiuveueso »ttv\
doubt.
“Mv daughter is here." he said with
quiet firmness, pointing to the modern
characters inscribed some lines above
his flourishes. “All I ask is to be
shown to her room."
Number Three did not know any
thing about that party, as he was
night-clerk, just come on duty, but he
pointed to the blank opposite the
party's name, proving that she had
not been assigned a room.
Then the colonel shed the dignity
of the soldier and became the parent.
“The man before you probably gave
her some corner for the night. Can’t
you call him up and see?”
"He doesn't sleep here—has a home
some distance away, and it would be
of no use, as with all the will in the
world, he could not create space.”
“I came here six hours ago,” Inter
rupted one of the bystanders, a smart
looking drummer with upstanding
ears, “and 1 have a cot under the stair
case."
"And I, following after, was glad
enough to get a slab down In the
Turkish bathroom*,” added a very
red-faced, little, fat man, who looked
as if hs had already tried his bed and
had some lo the aurfaoe for air.
A very spick and span young man
'w'
Oh, Horrors! An Awful Man Actually
Began Taking Off His Clothes.
of the Holt House, but for them it
was silent. That signature was all
they had to hold by. She had been
there once—she might come again.
At six came the barber. After pay
ing a morning call on the barkeeper,
was his custom, he took his towels
and soap to make ready for business
The office was almost deserted. The
smart drummer was pricking up his
aro over a newspaper tale of million
aires; the little fat man who had
-I pt on a slab was writing a telegram
rd exhaling steam; a couple of maids
on wet knees were wiping up the
amble floor; u row of dusky bell-boys
were nodding on a bench; and the
ck !-:s behind the counter were busily
writing.
Suddenly a piercing scream broke
he stillness. Will and the colonel
u m ed to their feet—there was some
thing familiar about that scream.
Clerks’, bell-boys, maids, men and bar
keeper f( llc-wcd the sound to the bar
ber shop. At the door, flying straight
n o Will’s arms, came Patty, a big
swipe of lather on one cheek. She
i< died at Will, at her father, and ut
tered a glad cry. The frightened bar
her hurried to explain—he had mis
taken her curly head for a customer.
Hut Patty had forgotten her terror
and her sorrow’s. She continued to
embrace impartially Will and her
father, leaving big dabs of tear-mixed
lather on the coats of each. Will
looked ecstatic. An embrace from
this Virginia girl was as good as an
"1 will” before the altar. Suddenly
she recovered herself, straightened up
and said with dignity:
”1 thought 1 warned you not tc
come.”
”Hut willing to be compared to the
fascinating Kentuckians, 1 have von
tured to disobey you; you seem tc
have succumbed at first sight.”
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