The Crimson Patch

The Crimson Patch

So this was to be her homeand for three long months! Patricia Meade dropped her suitcase on a convenient chair and gazed curiously about her. A hotel bedroom, with stiff-looking twin brass beds, two willow rockers, one straight chair, an imposing mahogany bureau and one small tableabsolutely all the furniture, if one excepted the stiff draperies at the windows and one or two not particularly artistic pastel pictures adorning the wall. Through a door and across the intervening sitting-room she could see another bedroom similarly equipped. In the sitting-room, her father, Captain 4Meade, was tipping the grinning bell-boy who had brought up their luggage,a snub-nosed, blue-eyed, curly-haired young chap whose gaze was rivetted adoringly on the captain's khaki uniform. When the boy was gone, the captain turned to the door of Patricia's bedroom. "Oh, it's jolly!" she replied, over her shoulder. "But you're right about it's not being much like home. I felt as if I'd just expire if I couldn't see things strewn around in a sort of careless and cosy way, as if people really lived here!" She rose suddenly from her kneeling posture before the suitcase, ran across the room and thumped both stiff pillows on the beds, knocking them a trifle awry. "There! Now they look more like real beds that you 5sleep in and less like advertisements in the back of a magazine!" she laughed. "The sitting-room's a little better, with that big table and the pretty reading-lamp and the comfortable chairs. But do let's get a lot of papers and magazines and books at once, and have them lying all around as we do at home. Mother would be scandalizedshe's always picking them up after us," she went rattling on, and then stopped abruptly, lips quivering, eyes bright with sudden tears. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 52509
Author: Seaman, Augusta Huiell
Release Date: Jul 6, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Relyea, C. M. (Charles M.), 1863-1932