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He had even seen such a stove in the window of a hardware store downtown, a tiled stove with a brass fender and with curious flamboyant ornaments of cast-iron a jewel of a stove. For two days Vandover hesitated between these two suites, undecided whether he should sacrifice his studio for his sitting-room, or his sitting-room for his studio.
Desmond raised his eyebrows. He had noticed the fragments in the fender: the faint suggestion of chlorodyne that still clung in the air. "My dear Lenox, I am sorry for that. And the remedy? You must have tried something before now?" "Yes. Drugged tobacco: opium, a good strong mixture," the other answered bluntly. "You may as well have it straight. You're an understanding fellow; and no Pharisee."
There is a fire in the room; and there is supper laid on the table; while Mr. Septimus White, with his feet on the fender and his back turned to the lamp, is seated in an easy-chair, and holding up a book to the light so that the pages almost touch his gold-rimmed spectacles. Miss White sits down on the sofa on the dark side of the room. She has made no response to his greeting of "Well, Gerty?"
With envious eyes and eager faces, their comrades surrounded them, wherever they went, asking questions about their outfit, their plans, and their future movements. Every boy in Dixon looked on the three prospective boy settlers as the most fortunate of all their young playfellows. "I wish my father would catch the 'Kansas fever," said Hiram Fender, excitedly.
Whether fire or fender will make no difference to me, and I wouldn't miss to-day's duck-shoot to make it either." "I hope there'll be plenty of birds, and strong on the wing," said I. This ended all the talk that passed between us on the great event that had so strangely brought us together.
They've a notion to run away to sea! The old woman spoke the last words in a whisper, though there was nobody to hear, save the sleepy old tortoiseshell cat by the fender, which opened one lazy eye, winked as if she, too, were in the secret, then, shutting it, purred off to sleep. 'Run away! Theo's fresh face turned chalky pale, and her eyes widened into a terrified stare.
She had advanced one foot on the iron fender; her head leaned back, rested on her hand.
The following anecdote well illustrates this point: My late father, when fellow of Corpus College, Oxford, many years ago, on arriving at his rooms late one night, found that a rat was running about among the books and geological specimens, behind the sofa, under the fender, and poking his nose into every hiding-place he could find.
Perhaps there is a paddle, with rude tracery on the handle, from the New Hebrides, part of a Fijian canoe that has been bundled over the Barrier, a wooden spoon such as Kanakas use, or the dusky globe of an incandescent lamp that has glowed out its life in the state-room of some ocean liner, or a broom of Japanese make, a coal-basket, a "fender," a tiger nautilus shell, an oar or a rudder, a tiller, a bottle cast away fat out from land to determine the strength and direction of ocean currents, the spinnaker boom of a yacht, the jib-boom of a staunch cutter.
I had no difficulty in understanding what was passing in my aunt's mind; the little packet it had fallen on the carpet close to the fender evidently contained letters which she wished to destroy, so that I should not read them.
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