The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-08-20
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CONTINUED From Yesterday
CHAPTER XIII.
Writing Home.

Dear Brick and Bill:
Il don't know what to tell first.
It's all so strange and grand-the,
people are just people, but the
things are wonderful.
They have certain ways of do
lines for .s sna Ss If yoa o
a wrong thing at a right time. II
a right thing at a wrong time, IT
shows you are from the West. At
around. Without showing that /
was from the West. But I'm try
ing to be just like the one I'm
slider can tell that I have any more
sense than the rest of them.
Miss Sellimer is SO nice to me.
told her right at the start that
big world. and she teaches me ev-
erything. Her mother is very pleas
ant to me.
'Tm learning to dress. I used TO
herself, but no. the dresses are a
> thousand times more important
than the people inside them.
kind Of game 't to @ @esft to be sol With
these people, and say, Just what
they say, and like what they like,
and act as they act-and that's the
difference between me and them;
it's not a game TO them, it's dead
~ earnest. They think they're iiv-
a
where all the feathers are In ladies
hats instead of in the gentlemen's
hair. To get 70 our room you go
to dark little door and push
something that makes a bell ring,
and then you step into a dugout
on pulleys, that shoots up in the
air SO quick IL makes yeu feel
part of you has fallen out and got
lost. The dugout doesn't slow up
for the third story. it just stops
that quick-they call il an 'elevat-
or. .., End i Sss,rtsiniy does docs elevate eva
ented, and from the way she treats
me. 1 know she has a tender heart
And her mother is perfect wonder
Compton could be splendid. for he
seems to know everything. He
knows what to do ali the time
about everything But there ne
do anything that matters. Neither
are any of the rest.
II know Mrs. Sellimer wants her
daughter to marry rich man, and
Mr.. Edgerton Compton isn't rich. he
only looks like he 10.
"Annabel-that's Miss Sellimer-
likes Mr.. Compton very, very much,
but she feels like her mother about
marrying a rich man, and I don't
thing he has much chance.
I'VE are not going straight on to
tha b;sh q, h Course lnsi e
country not far from Kansas City.
He is very rich man of middle age
so they tell me, a widower, who Is
Interested in Annabel Sellimer.
Mr.. Edgerton Compton isn't In
vited.
ton Annabefd have married his
house before now, 1 gather. The
house Is said to be immense In a
splendid estate near the river |
am all excitement when I think of
going there for ten days. The
name of the country-house we are
to visit Is the same as that of the
WiIfred Compton held the let
ter closer TO the light.
Brick Wilcox spoke impatient
Iy: mo use to stare at that there
word-we couldn't make Il out.
Just go ahead"
Wilfred resumed the letter:
II must tell you good-by, now,
for Annabefs maid has come to
help me dress for dinner. and It
takes longer than tt did to do up
the washing ,sssn at the S H9ys and ms Is
these fine, soft, beautiful things.
I like the big world. and I would
like to live in IL forever and ever,
be near enough for me TO run In,
any time of the day. I wish could
run in this minute and tell you the
thousands ana NnOusan0e OF NnthEs
I'll never have time to write.
Your loving. adoring, half
homesick. a1f-bewfldered. some
what dizzy little girl
"P. s.-Nobody has been able TO
tell from word or look of mine that
I have been surprised at a single
thing I have heard or seen. You
may be quite sure of that.
81 bet you," cried WILCOX al
miringly. Now, what's the mat
ter, wilfred2 Cant you let go of
that letter."
I've made out the name of
that widower who's paving court
TO my old sweetheart" he said
TITS Gledware."
wilcox uttered a sharp ex-
clamation. LET me see It." He
started up abruptly. and bent
over the page.
what of ftf" asked Bill in
surprise. wilcox had uttered
words to which the dugout was
unaceustomed.
That's what Il II" WILCOX
growIed: Its Gledvarei"
"Out with I'll" cried Bill, growl-I
ing wrathful az the other glow
cred at the fire. whats come
over your"