The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-09-06
One week later

Vu' WEN iahTfs
There hasn't much happened
only one or two things But maybe
I'd better tell them before ! forget
II. especially az they have good
deal 20 do with the love part OF the
story. And I'm always 40 glad 20
get anything OF that kind. I've been
10 afraid this wouldn't be much Of a
love story. after all But I guess Il
will be. all right. Anyhow, know
mothers part Will be. for IT'S getting
more and more exci,ing--about Mr..
Easterbrook and the vioiinist. I
mean.
They both want mother. ANYBODY
mother sees IL. But which she'll
take don't know. Nobody knows.
Its perfectly plain to be seen,
though. which one grandfather and
Aunt Hattie want her to take. It's
Mr.. Easterbrook.
And he lA awfuily nice He
brought me a perfectly beautiful
bracele; the other day--but mother
wouldn't let me keep II, SO he had
TO take II back. | don't think he
liked I, very well. and ! didn't like
II. either. wanted that bracelet.
But mother says I'm much too
young 20 wear much jewciry. oh.
Will the time ever come when III be
old enough TO take my proper place
In the world7 Sometimes Il seems
rs II II never would,
Wall a..
seen who IL is that grandfather and
Aunt Hattie favor: but I'm not so
sure about mother. Mother acts
funny. Sometimes she won't 40 with
either of them anywhere: then she
seems to want TO 20 all the time
And she acts as IL she didn't care
which she went with. SO long as she
was just going somewhere. I think
though. she really likes the violinist
the best: and | guess grandfather
and Aunt Hattie think so. too.
Something happened last night.
Grandfather began to talk at the
dinner table. He'd heard something
he didn't like about the violinist. |
guess. and he started in TO tell moth.
er. But they stopped him. Mother
and Aunt Hattie looked at him and
then at me. and then back TO him,
In their most see-who' s-here!-you-
Observation-Disclosures way. SO he
shrugged his shoulders and stopped.
But l guess he told them In the
library afterwards. for | heard them
all talking very excitedly, and some
loud. and l guess mother didn't like
what they said. and got quite angry.
FOR ! heard her say. when she came
out through the door. that she didn't
believe word OF IL. and she thought
II was a wicked. cruel shame TO tell
stories like that just because they
didn't like a man.
, This morning she broke an engage.
nent with Mr.. Easterbrook to go
auto riding and went with the VIC.
linist TO morning musicale instead;
and after she'd gone Aunt Hattie
sighed and looked Mt grandfather and
shrugged her shoulders, and said she
was affair they'd driven her straight
into the arms of the one they want.
ed 10 avoid. and that Madge always
"'N'H Nan' ''' l'siit Vi INC unueF uOg.
| suppose they thought wouldn't
But did. perfectly.
They meant that by telling stories
about the violinist they'd been
hoping to get her TO give him IN,
but instead OF that. they'd made her
turn to him all the more. lust be.
cause she was so sorry for him.
Funny. isn't IT.
One week later:
Well. | guess something has hap.
pened all right And let me say right
away that ! don't like that violinist
now. either. any better than grand !
father and Aunt Hattie. And it's not
because OF what happened
last night either. Its been coming on
for quite a whichever since | first
saw him talking to Theresa in the