Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-05
And, with handclasp and a nod,
the friends parted for the night.
CYNTHIA READS OVER DORhS IN.
NlTATION on HER WAY TO
NEW YORK
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NEW YORK.
CHAPTER V.
Thee arc few more dreary cXpcr-
fences than that of awakening carly
in large hotel, taking ones break
fast alone and boarding a train for
| a place where one has few acquaint-
! anccs
! Such thoughts as these were upper
! most In Cynthia Longs mind as she
! LEFT Chicago and It's familiar envirous
behind her on the morning after her
/ parting rom ne" fathers OIL :i,cnd
/ AMI lawyer
! P&. sac was determined 10 make
! Eerself ;s comfortable az possible IN
! TIC Pullman in which she h.J ser
! scat So after taking Off her hat and
coat adjusting a footstool under her
/ feet and setting herself back In a
| corner she opened her hand bag and
| drew forth couple OF magazines
| As she did this the letter she had
received the night before caught er
! eye She had laid 1t away in her bag
, with the consciousness that she would
want TO read it again some time That
courage 1t might give her. She was
! uncomfortable homcsick at seeing the
! last Of the place near which she had
I spent all her life
II may some time marry ana 80
: back to Lake Forest TO live she mus
! cd. Meanwhile I mus; try TO learn
F. TO be content elsewhere"
She had been to New York twice
I with her father-once when she was
child OF twelve. soon after her moth
! er's death: the other time, when she
was sixteen. Her father had been
too busy TO stay away from home
, long, or TO make many social visits.
! He had taken his daughter with him
! 20 the Waldorf. and had dined or
lunched several times with the Living
stones. Cynthia recalled these occas-
ions now, trying 10 recoliect just what
her aunt and cousin had been like She
remembered that Dora was pretty and
HiHacious. and that her Aunt Amanda
Mrs LivinCstone-was stately and
rather conventional. yet kindly.
She now wondered for the twentieth
time II she was doing right In making
her home with these relatives Ii
might not be easy 10 adjus, oneself
to their waEs. Well she would not be
| burden upon them, for she had Il
sufficient income from her fathers es-
tate TO dress herself we'll and 10 supply
her various needs. But she was oc-
cupying room in her uncles house.
! Would she be in the way when the
first novelty Of her arrival had worn
on?
She realized with relief that she had
not proposed this arrangement II had
been her uncle's idea. Her lawyer, Mr.
Blake, had insisted that her father
would have wished her TO agree to it,
That and her loneliness had moved her
TO do SO. At any rate. the letter she
had received last night had convinced
her that her cousin ioyfully aniicipat-
cd her arrival.
A Nice Letter.
She re-read the letter, now slowly.
Dear Cynthia" it ran. "of course.
father and mother have written you
the proper and altogether truthful!
cp!s:ics Of welcome 10 our homo. I
have not written. although have been
thinking lot OF and banking on your
comm. 20 live with US. I; occurs to
me to tell YOU this in a letter 10 reach
You on your last evening before you
Leave Chicago Father tells me you are
TO stay at a hotel that night. Mother
thinks. that most unusual. think Il
must be rather jolly. | suppose you
will be blue and Will feel that you are
leaving behind you all your old friends
and everything.
Dear, please don't be blue. Try TO
think what good chums you and | will
be. never had sister. fancy
mother thought ii moro conventional
and select TO have only one younsster
Anyway. am the only young person
In this big house, and do SO often long
for girl. who will belong 10 me- 10
have good times with. ! have always
wanted n sister. I want you 10 make
believe you are one. Won't you? You
viii not have chance TO answer this
letter, but please let It tell you all the
things I am not clever enough to say.
Come as fast as the train will bring
you. Cynthia. my dear. 1t cannot be
too soon for your loving cousin sister.
DORA"
she's a dear" Cynthia decided. her
eyes moist and her lips curved by
tender smile as she gazed on the land
scapc beyond the car windows.
Everything was bathed in the mid
winter sunlight sunlight that was
cold. yet brilliant. After all. the girl
unused, she was young, and all life lay
before her.
The Spirit Of Adventure.
A spirit OF adventure stirred within
her. There were going TO be new eX-
perienccs in her life: she was going TO
meet new people: perhaps. In spite Of
her misgivings, she would not be as
homesck as she had feared.
Her father had always spoke of New
York with admiration. His wife had
been a New York girl. That may have
accounted for his sentiments Ellis
child, remembering this, felt growing
certainty that she might he happy in
the great city toward which she was
travelling:
Sc looked back at her loneliness OF
yesterday and last evening. What had
wrought this change in her state OF
mind? IT must have been the rc-rcad-
ing or Dora LivinGstone's letter. Gym
thia had slept better last night for
having received this message. She was
glad she had stopped to ask the hotel
clerk IL there was any mail for her.
Suddenly she remembered how. In
crossing the lobby, she had dropped the
letter and young man had sprung
forward and picked it up for her. She
did not see where he came from. II
was as if he had started UP from the
floor right in front of her. He had
very blue eyes, she had noticed In
fact. she had considered him really
quite good looking.
Yet she had not thought Of the In
cident from the moment of Its occur
renee until now.
CYNTHIA GETS a CORDIAL VEL
COME FROM HER NEW YORK
AUNT
CHAPTER VI.
CYNTHIA WnIleA ,lo,,1,, 49,. -.