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Neugass, sit down and let me tell you the whole story? I need you " "The whole story, Miss Mrs. Parlow or whatever it is you call yourself ain't what bothers me. All I want is you should go while my husband is down in his store and my daughter in her position. I am ashamed they should know. I'm lucky yet I saved myself from having a disgrace in the house a few weeks from now." "Oh, Mrs.
To Lilly, who had never seen her out of the cotton-stuff uniform of housewife, it seemed to her that something of her Old Testament beauty had died beneath the bunchy jetted taffeta that brought out in her the look of peasant her husband in camphoric broadcloth suffering the same demotion. "Now doan' get egcited," said Mr. Neugass, himself shaken of voice. "Remember it is home folks."
You've made it so difficult, with your kindness, but I well, I There are certain conditions I want you to know about. I Not a I could only take the room for a few months, Mrs. Neugass, because I " "Say, doan' I know how it is with students?" "No, no " "They go home when it comes summer. You doan' got to worry. It ain't like we need it to pay rent with.
But instead, to Lilly's importuning arm, Miss Neugass slid into her room, closing the door softly behind her, standing there shivering in the blue kind of darkness. "It's the old story," she said "some girl in a fix and trying to get pa to help her. It makes me sick, positively sick." "A fix?" "Every once in a while some poor creature comes begging pa to break the law and help her.
Two minutes of his time may mean everything to you and nothing to him." Lilly flashed to her feet. "To-night!" "Keep your head. Sing the 'Jewel Song. It's always a good, showy standby. Let go the way I heard you practice the other Sunday morning and forget that it's Auchinloss or anyone else listening to you." "No, no, not to-night, Miss Neugass. I I'm not prepared. It's too sudden."
Neugass sat by, not releasing hold of Millie's hand, her eyes as if they could never finish their feast of her. Her timidity forbade her much that she would say, and so she sat smilingly silent and held the little ring-littered hand, stroked it and lay it to her cheek.
It takes a man like Auchinloss or Trieste or one of the big guns." "If only I could get started, Miss Neugass, on the right track!" "I'll tell you what I'll do. When Auchinloss comes this winter I'll have him hear you. That may pave the way to something. He's the prince of them all. His judgment never fails. He's only stamped his approval on five or six, but he's never missed.
"Miss Neugass this is not the time. Not now." A cocaine sort of courage seemed to lock her face back into its rather nondescript immobility. "You're right," she said. "I'm acting like a fool," and rose. "What I came in to say, get into that little pink dress of yours about nine-thirty and I may be able to manage it for you to-night.
O Lordy! such is life!" And went out. For the third time in her life, Lilly fainted that night, standing shivering in her nightdress for a second after Miss Neugass had left. In a room barely wide enough to contain her length she dropped softly against the bed, and, her fall broken, slid the remaining distance to the floor.
There never was any doubt about Millie." "Oh, Miss Neugass, you frighten me! What if my arm is too short? Your sister's teacher, Ballman, to whom your mother sent me, says so little." "Ballman is a great voice builder, but he doesn't concern himself with the future of his pupils. He's a dear old fogy with a single-track mind." "What did he used to say of your sister?"
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