The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-08-22
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the surprise which Gloria knew her
unexpected arrival would occasion
was even greater than she could I'M
agine Several things had happened
in Belmont recently to disturb DaVld
Kerr, and he was in no frame OIL MIND
for further complications.
The 0ck-yards company was be-
ginning to hint at certain favors 1t
wished extended, and with an election
coming on. Kerr was in no mood for
such concessions. Worse still, the
belmont News had just changed own
.rship. and the new editor was not
displaying that subseryient feaity
which had characterized all Belmont
papers Ia he past. Already the News
vas swapping at his heels and asking
questions which were extremely point
II TO have Gloria descend upon him
Al such a time was too much for even
David Kerr. His mastery of the stu
alton caused him to have no great
fear for the stock-yard demands and
tie newspaper outcry, vexing prob
TENS though they were, but Gloria
Gloria ia Beimont-was quite another
proposition
Father, this is Gloria" explained
David Kerr's daughter when she had
established telephone connection with
Locust Lawn
"Gloria' he exclaimed. Where
are your"
Here. in Belmont. at the station.
| just came"
How did It happen? l wasn't look
tug Tor you"
Aren't you glad to see me-"
Glad to see you? Of course l am,
hut it's surprise. When did you
coma2 How do you happen to be
here? Why didn't you let me know
4 wanted to surprise you" she
laughed "Annabel Hitchcocks aunt
dted. 40 we couldn't go to California.
had nothing else to do, SO / came
home Wasn't that right?'
Exactly. exactly. But it's bad
tine TO come to Belmont"
z don't care. I'm so glad to be
hone How do | get out to Locust
Lawn :"
YOU can't well wait there for me
- come in for you. Take a carriage
and tell the driver you want to go to
tJa end of the Townsend Park car
the Wait for me in the drug store.
I'll get there almost as soon as you
fo
Hurry, father, because I'm so anx-
toJs to see you. It's been an age
since I saw you, and you know | don t
know a thing about Belmont. I'm just
dying to s,eet everybody, and then
I'll ask Solac Of the girls out to visit
1ue"
Wen talk that over after awhile,
wss his nOncommittal response. Wait
fac me at the drug store. Good-by."
The carriage drive through Belmont
aud Townsend Park, a suburb, was OF
educational value. 1t gave her an in
creasiug respect for Belmont Al
though there was no remarkable resi-
JCuce district. there were uccas ora!
aomes which denoted refinement as
well as comfortable circumstances.
fThis was not in keeping with what
David Kerr's daughter had been
taught about her fathers town. The
uumber of automobiles also surprised
ter BY the time she reached the
piace appointed for her meeting with
her father there was not so much OF
coadescension in her attitude toward
Beimont
This changing viewpoint did not
sueau q diu;nution Of enthusiasm
Gore than anything else it spurred
her curiosity. She realized that the
zeal Belmont was an advance over
what she had been led to expect, just
how much only a dip into the social
whiCi could reveal The pleasurable
past of It ali was that Gloria was still
queen by right of inheritance, If the