The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-04-20
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summer For dONt . meanneSS and
hatefulness giveorne Il lot of girls.
Why, a crowd Of fellows would 10
more act the way this crowd Of girls
has done than-than-" And he
stopped hopelesSly, as If the thing was
beyond comparison.
We'll. of course, boys are different"
Yes, they are! When fellow who
seems TO lie the right sort moves mo
a town. do the fellows of that town
let him alone-Smb him for three
straight months: Don't you think it,
They give him a show-they're civil 10
kind, then he's one Of the crowd, and
that's all there is TO it,
We'll. that does seem TO be the fair
way. And | don't know-I don't know
what il is I've done. l haven't done
anything; you see, l haven't had Il
chance. l uppOse'-Caroline'S lips
were quivering again-"that they just
don't like my looks"
Nonsense Why shouldn't they like
your looks? It's just their meanness." ="
will! Willr There was a note of
tragic excitement in his sisters voice.
There they come now-turning the
corner They 60 past nearly every day.
They have picnics and-and things"
Will seated himself on the railing of
the veranda and looked hard at the
five laughing girls who were coming
toward the house in an old-fashioned
carryall
Don't seem too interested, Will
Don't-don't look ut them like that"
why can't l look at themE" he re-
torted. savagely. Guess if l want 10
look at them there's nothing TO prevent
il. They're not so much to look at
anyway"
The crowd" of girls drove by with
rot glance toward the big house.
on the veranda of which Will and Caro-
line Stuart were sitting.
They do have awfully good times"
said Caroline, wistfully, "and they
seem awfully fond of one another
Il guess I'll go up and write some let
ters," she said, a few minutes later
Il like TO keep my letters written M.
been pleasant to get them since I've
been here"
Her brother looked after her darby
Poor Cal! She never did mean
thing in her life. Why any one should
want TO snub her is too much for me.
20 mother" he called, rs 4 pleasant
faced woman came round the house,
49, h.. -,
want to talk to YOU
She took the chair he offered her. ut
does seem good to have you home, VIII,
and I'm more glad for Carolne's sake
than for my own. She has had a
pretty hard summer Of it,
That's what | want to get at. What
under the suns the mattcrE What 90
those girls mean by lining up against
CALI"
His mother shook her head and
raised her hands hopclessly.
"Will, girls are queer" she said. II
can't understand it. Why, if they'd let
Cal be one Of them, they'd find her the
jolliest and best Of the lot. When she
first came here in the spring she saw
right away that they were the ones
she would like 20 know. and she was
SO pleased TO think that there would be
nice girls for her to have Il good time
with. The first night we sat here on
the porch they went by laughing and
talking. and Cal looked after them for
lornly, and | remember | said TO her.
Never mind. Cal. you'll be one Of them
in a week and she said she supposed
of course they'd call-or do something.
but they didn't. and that's all there is
TO it. They simply act as if Cal wasn't
in town"
We'll. of all the mean. contemplate,
petty" And tnrn words failed bin.
In addition TO everything else" said
the boy, after a few minutes of silent
fuming. these five csIimable young
ladies are acting pretty silly in snub-
biGg Caroline. Cal could give those
girls all sorts of good time. and she
would love 10 do it,
"Of course she would. When she
saw how big the house was. she said
10 me first thing. Isn't il lovely.
mother? We can have people here all
the time And your father bought
that automobile for no other reason in
the world except that he thought it
would he pleasant for Cal to take peo-
pie out in "
We'll, mother" said viii. quietly.
"it's just clear case Of snub. isn't it,
Perhaps the whole thing would not
have happened il just the week be-
fore the Stuarts moved TO Elmwood
Marion Foreman had not read a story
about some people who were "vui:arly
rich" No one I'm E.mwood was "vul-
carly rich and as Marion's imagiua-
ton was such that she was bound 10
fix the phrase on some one. il descend
ed upon the people who were expected
i'm a few days to move into the big
house.
That night she asked her father all
about the new family.