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Richmond's step was heard in the hall, and Joe hobbled on his crutches to meet him. Frisky, the Chattering Squirrel, had skipped out of the open window in the kitchen as soon as he had eaten the nuts Joe gave him. "How is my boy to-night?" asked Mr. Richmond, as he hugged Joe. "Oh, I'm fine!" was the answer. "And look what Mother bought me!" Joe pointed to the Nodding Donkey on the mantel.
The interior was dark, in spite of the wood fire in the big stone fireplace. Strings of herbs and red-pepper pods and twisted tobacco hung from the ceiling and down the wall on either side of the fire; and in one corner, near the two beds in the room, hand-made quilts of many colours were piled several feet high. From the mantel the butt of a big 44-Colt's revolver protruded ominously.
A mighty effort wrenched Langham, again his lips came together convulsively, and then in a whisper he said: "I did," and fell back on his pillow. There was a moment of stillness, and then from behind the long curtains at the window came the sound of hysterical weeping. Moxlow, utterly dazed by his partner's confession, looked again at the clock on the mantel. Fifteen minutes had passed.
The girl was in the front room on the second floor, peering through the blinds. It was the "best room." There was a very new rag carpet on the floor. The edges of it had been dyed with alternate stripes of red and green. Upon the wooden mantel there were two little puffy figures in clay a shepherd and a shepherdess probably.
Checkers," he said, and his voice grew husky, "ye 're God's own kind; may He have ye in His keepin'!" and he climbed upon his wagon, and drove slowly out into the night. Checkers was alone. He went slowly into the house. A clock upon the mantel was chiming ten. There was still two hours before train time.
Few apartments have fireplaces, and if you are fortunate enough to find one with a real fireplace and a simple mantel shelf you will be far on the way toward making a home of your group of rooms.
Upper right, at the end of the wall, is a glass door looking out on the lawn. There is another door, lower right, and a door, lower left, leading into ASHER PINDAR'S study. A marble mantel, which holds a clock and certain ornaments, is just beyond this door. The wall spaces on the right and left are occupied by high bookcases filled with respectable volumes in calf and dark cloth bindings.
"And Van," said Mrs. Pepper, pausing a minute in her work, and smiling over at him in a lull in the chatter "I think flowers are most beautiful!" and she pointed to a little framed picture on the mantel, of the bunch of buttercups and one huge rose that Van had with infinite patience drawn, and then colored to suit his fancy.
A half-hearted little coal fire flickered in the grate, and Koga was cleaning silver at the table. Sammy took David Copperfield from the mantel and settled herself in a great chair. "Koga, you go fix Clown now," she suggested. Koga beamed assent. Departing, he wrestled with a remark: "Oh! Nise day. I sink so." Sammy agreed. "You don't have weather like this in Japan in April!"
At midnight they left him to watch alone in her chamber, and while he sat in the shadow beside the tester bed his thoughts encircled the still form on the white counterpane. On the mantel two candles burned dimly, and the melted tallow dripped slowly down into the tall brass candlesticks.
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