. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . led off to the Masters hotel and waitedfor the Master to come back. I expected itwould be at least two hours before I wouldsee him again, and it wouldnt have sur-prised me if he had gone to the Mistressshouse to dinner. However, he was backin less than a half hour and without a wordof explanation; he seemed happy enough,though, during the short while I watchedhim dress for dinner he whistled andhummed snatches of some of his, or I €t)e .Suburbanite should say the Mistresss, favorite
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . led off to the Masters hotel and waitedfor the Master to come back. I expected itwould be at least two hours before I wouldsee him again, and it wouldnt have sur-prised me if he had gone to the Mistressshouse to dinner. However, he was backin less than a half hour and without a wordof explanation; he seemed happy enough,though, during the short while I watchedhim dress for dinner he whistled andhummed snatches of some of his, or I €t)e .Suburbanite should say the Mistresss, favorite songs;he was singing very softly The Shade ofthe Sheltering Palm, when they led meaway for my evening eats, so I saw noth-ing more of the Master till we went onour walk the next morning. Of course, 1hadnt a notion that he hadnt spent theevening with the little Mistress, all ofwhich made me think that the slate wasclean. But, as 1 have said, my surmise was pre-mature, for there had scarcely been timefor the Master to say more than Hello,and Good-by, and he had not been toher house in the evening at all. 1. \ tresss father was going to have somebusiness friends of great importance todinner, and wanted her to take her mothersplace as hostess. Miss Vivian had simplyhad to hurry back. She had asked herPat to come to call in the evening, buihe had said, No; he had waited so longhe certainly could wait until the , when there wouldnt be any im-l)ortant business friends on the premiseswhom she would have to help entertain. Ithought the .Master was quite wise and Iwanted to tell him so, but even had I beenable to make myself understood, 1 wouldiiave had no chance. Right ahead of us,not more than a hundred yards, was a fig-ure 1 should have known in a thousand,depite the fact that the back was toward lad I not been so interested in what was saying, head cocked up andears alert, my olfactory sense would inall probability have spotted the trail andmy eagerness w
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