Smyrna times., 1905-09-13
A STRONG:
MAN |
By Martha
Observation-Disclosures
COl)1iffght, 1905, bu 10,fbo JreC,,uo.b
Copyright, 1905, bU Martha lfcCulloch-
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neral as Wilton Roy" Granny Bunch
said, her short nose in air.
Sunshine laughed aloud. Sunshine
was otherwise Anne Trevor, heiress of
Ways End, and Granny Bunch was
Mrs. Richard Lee. Sunshine was tall
and twenty. Granny Bunch was short
and stout, with a fresh, rosy face. The
two were cronies despite the forty
years between them, also despite the
fact that Granny Bunch was bent on
matching Sunshine to her mind.
They lived half a mile apart, and
Sunshine did the visiting for the most
part. She was not yet mistress at
Ways End. Her stepmother Nine.
Trevor, had a life estate there and
was as austerely unsocial as Granny
Bunch was hospitable. She had also a
grudge against Granny in that she,
too. had views as to Anne's proper be-
stowal. Granny was all for marrying
Sunshine to her grandson, Richard
Lee Sd, whereas Nine. Trevor held
1t little short of her stepdaughter's
Christian duty to take Wilton Roy,
her nephew. He had come with her
to Ways End and lived there. He
was dignified, sober and sensible, ex-
actly the husband for such a piece of
quicksilver as Anne. T4e match would
be in every way ideal. Wilton had only
a modest competence, along with
capacity for handling fine fortune. .
Thus Nine. Trevor to hCt inmost
self, thus also obscurely, with much
wrapping about of fine phases, to
Sunshine. She hated bitterly Richard
Sd and did not scruple to bay out
right thSt he and his fat OIL grand
mother ere rank fortune huIterS, lay
ing traps and pitfalls for Al ines un-
wary feet. Anne's usual ans JIwer was
to mount her horse and gallbp away
to her dear Granny Bunch. If Rich
ard Sd happened to be the Re when
she arrived, why, so much the better.
He was younger than Sur Shine by
whole month and fancied himself
madly in love with her. He had been
courting her since they wen fifteen,
with the usual interludes-col ege esca-
pades and summer filtration S. Sun
shine knew all about them, 70 Granny
Bunch was Richard 3d's cont liant.
You mustn't mind, honey" she had
said to Sunshine. Indeed, you ought
to be obliged to these other girls-they
are taking out such a lot of the fool
lshness. BY the time Dicky is through
college he will have come to knpw him
self in a measure. Then he'll find out
over, again what he knew in the be-
ginning-that there is nobody in all the
world like Sunshine"
1t was Dicky's story-the tale of his
latest enthrallment-that had led to
Granny Bunch's revilement Of Wilton
Roy. Sunshine had said demurely she
did not understand how men could be
so different. Wilton Roy had told her
he should never make love to any girl
but the one he meant to marry And
then Granny Bunch had exploded. She
hated the superfine Wilton.
zone couldn't very we'll marry 9
funeral-marrying a minister is abou
the nearest thing to It." Sunshine sale
refectively. Granny Bunch eyed he
narrowly, then broke into a laugh, say
ing:
Honey, you nearly fooled me then
Honest now-don't you find hin
mighty wearing%
"Not always; he has his uses" Sun
shine said. He says an undisput&
+b;,o, Il, e,1ob a colau,u xr-av and a Pfo
1 have heard him awhile almost any
body else is refreshingly brilliant
even Dicky dear"
"Dicky is no genius-hell never sc
the river afire-but he is mona
athlete, strong as mule, gentle as
lamb" Granny Bunch retorted.
Sunshine laughed. ''Tell him In you
letter 1 send him klss-for his grant
mothers sake" she said. Tell hin
too, have named the pup he sent N
for him, and ask him If he does NJ
think his namesake deserves ne
collar"
II know he thinks yes. l shall wri
him to bring the collar, not send It
Granny Bunch said, eying SunshiI
lovingly. Sunshine held up | e. hand
crying:
what! Take him from h J studi
for whole week! You mus n t thir
of it, Granny! Diczy dear b at al
too much scholarship now-certain
none to lose"
"a hang for books and lectures al
all that fiddle faddle," Granny sa
stoutly. "The boy is net there to era
N his head with such stuT. l only wa
the place to mold him as it helped
mold his father and grandfather If
ii thought it could make a prig Of h
II like-well, somebody l might name
III should leave tomorrow"
81 see you are an obstinate person
r. likewise opinionated, my dear NJ
Lee" Sunshine Knocked In Nine. T
# vor's own manner
The two were laughing so heart
they did not hear Wilton Roy ride