Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-24

AND first off it all seemed to be goin smooth and
n easy. Eth? Why, this Giddingss- Waller affair
You see, Mrs. Purdy Pell sort of had it in charge.
being as how she shrUsd chaper f%a %
of the younger set: but it happens that her dad
is John Henry Waller. and that Purdy Pell is lucky
enough to handle the New York end Of the Waller en-
terprises.
You should have heard the howl Mrs Purdy-Pel puts
up too when the scheme of includin' Miss Waller in
unknown from Grand Forks? Why, the picture she had
framed up was young lady cowboy, who would wear
beaded buckskin skirt and amuse the passengers by
shootn' seaguls the way She'd heard stories
of how John Henry had gone prospectin out there in
the gold hills with his little sixyearold girl strapped on
a pack mule and how the two of EN- had lived
SOUL
But say amt always safe to Judge young lady of
twenty-five by the way she lived when she was six. Not
when they hail from out Grand Forks direction What
shows up four days after John Henry has wired that his
Peggy has started East well finished classy dressed
young with French maid and two trunks full OF
hossy dresses that has had the duty paid on en- About
all she knew of Grand Forks what she acquired IN
a three-weeks visit; for Marjorie had been at boardin
school and Vassar for the last ten or dozen years ever
since Dad made his big strike.
Course that made diff renee. The fact that she
half owner of the Peggy Creek mine, was sumner
in evening gowns and could push the table chatter
in three languages helped too. AS matter OF fact
Miss Marjorie all around queen, and the steamer
hadn't cleared Sandy Hook before Mrs Purdy-Pel
pannn marry1n her OH 10 some OOunt or Otner De-
fore they got back. So you guess she was some
Jared when Marjorie condes to her that she has made
up her mind never to get married.
THEN they hadn't been over in this Passion Play Joint
more'n week before Talbot Giddngs begins to
show up some prominent Marjorie's found him all by
herself and she less satisfied with the dis
covery. She don't exactly know who he is They've
been SO busy exchangn high brow conversation on art
and literature and music that she hasn't had time to find
out But he was introduced proper; so what does it
matter, anyway!
When it comes to Marjorie seem Mr. Giddngs eight
hours a day reglar though. wakin' with him, drivin
with him. and not notcin' anybody else, Mrs. Purdy-
Pel decides it's time she got busy The Joke is on her.
though; for it turns out he's Talbot Giddings-he Tai
bot Gddings if you please talented young English
dramatist of the Bernard Shaw crowd first cousin
to Lady Macintosh, and all that Her smart English
friends her that Talbot is quite all right don't
YOU know
So Mrs Purdy- Pe sits back and waits for EN- to talk
each other tired. That amt the way it turns out,
though The next thing she knows Marjorie calmly an
that, while neither she nor Mr. Giddings APP
proves of marriage as general proposition they think
they'll try this Also shed like to take the next
steamer back and get ready.
But my dear, gasps Mrs Purdy-Pel, what about
your father"
oh I've cabled Dad all about it," she says and
I've told him to be in New York when we get there.
THAT was Marjorie's way of dom things and there
wouldn't have been any fuss made the business
at all if Mrs PurdyPell hadn't insisted stickin to
the rules of the game Her plan is give house party
by way OF ntroducn the young people to her Set and
then maxim regulation announcement at engage
ment dinner. Marjorie says it's good deal of bore:
but she consents.
WE'LL they'd all come over and they'd got as far as
havin the house party in full swing up at the Purdy
Pels country place near and everything was runnin
lovely That is, it looked so to And the first
of any hitch that hear only the day before the big
dinner. Seems there difficulty in ocatin Pa
Waller. He wa mt lost anything like that. He had
shown up at the dock when the steamer in, all
right, hello