Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-06
ror, With soma dca,er beforehand.

ment with some dcaicr beforehand.
In any case, it gave us excitement
for weeks. All our neighbors were too busy,
TO be able to lend us horses, so jim had
to buy two heavy work horses, at once,
and one for light work later. The cost OF
these and the search came almost 70
thousand dollars. Esther blamed jim 10,
not carrying insurance, and jim stormed
angrily about the place for weeks.
But the result was that, one evening
on the porch, he turned to me and SAID
ENID. if your offer to send vi to col
lege still holds, Ill take it. Esther says
I'm wrong to accept your money for the
educ ltion of my daughter. And think 1
ought to have enough to do 1t myself,
or else that she should be willing to take
only what her father can give her
He leaned over to the post and knock
ed the ashes from his pipe into the flower
bed and went on:
"But Wis spoiled, headstrong girl.
You've helped to spoil her, by giving
her her own way all the time. Anyway,
I can't spare the money now, so IL ac-
cept your offer, even if Esther doesn't
want me to.
1t was a long speech for jim. He settled
down to new pipeful when he had hlish-
ed. 49,.
So Henly Falls heard again that Nio-
let and | were to go the city that iaii'
And this time there was an even greater
amount of gossip. Some | overheard one
afternoon when | was dusting the bed
rooms Some people had stopped In on
their way past the house. Laura was
doing crocheting. Esther, soup ladlc IN
hand, was standing talking in the doorway.
81 couldn't do nothin' about it, she
remarked, ungrammatically. IL did all
/ could. but then, she's Jims own SIS
ter, not mine. And when she and VI get
together"
She left the sentence unfinished. l
could picture her there, her eyes rolling
up rs she spoke a picture OF virtuous
helplessness.
''Of course it will be hard on you,
with her away" Mrs. Haskins said.
Laura | suppose will be goin off soon
Charlie amt comm up here SO often
for nothin. ."
Laura probably dropped her eyes and
looked pleased and embarrassed at this.
/ could picture the scene so well, m
cluding Lauras blpsh-which would
have been more romantic u Laura
nose didn't blush too, when her checks
Redeemed.
"Yes, it will be hard, I spose," Es-
ther agreed. but what can | dor VI wants
her to 60, and she had her mind set on IT
too, and you know what that meansl
Her tone implled-as It always did
when she was talking to people not
members of the family-that she her
self was of a yielding nature, completely
| dominated by her husband and children.
| moved away from the window. But
! Mrs Haskins had n pentrating voice
it came back through the house to me-
''Of course, | don't see why she wants
| TO go in the first place. The city IS foI
young folks, say it's no place for old
/ women. unless, of course, they've al
ways lived there. And just at this time
4 too.
she can do just what she wants, 7
| Laura's voice came moro family, ''as
| long as We have TO take her money.
smiled little. As Vi had said, money
was power.
/ "At this time" Mr. Haskins voice
came clearly. Everyone knows Marx
| Upiohn's huntin' q wife. and he's got
money too. A fine chance, call II, even fol
a younger woman. Mark not so old-4p
maybe, and he's settled down. Enid
never had such chance.
'Nor ever likely TO again, Esthei
answered But what can 4 do? He has
10 do the speakin', and she won't en-
courage him-runs away if she can.
shouldn { bc at all surprised if he made uT
to Anna Lee Kendall.
"He was over there Tuesday. DO you
suppose"
/ had had more than enough. | de
| liberately went down the back stair'
| into the kitchen, where the voices coulC
not reach me. How terrible 20 be talked
over this way