The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-23
THE REVOLT OF
VERA SANDERSON
VACATION PLANS.
BY JANE PHELPS

heitn was perfectly lovely 10 me al
the rest of the week. But while I
was, happy. all the lightness seemed to
be gone out of my happiness. I don't
know that make myself understood,
but while was content. having love-
lyJtime, and all, in the back of my
mind was a fear of the future, and
linked with that fear the thought of
Mrs. De Isle.
Mrs. Brown did not talk to me OF
anything personal again One tried
to coax her, but she said:
This old tongue of mine runs away
with me when I start talking
The last night we were with her she
made a gala night as she had the first,
She cooked US a delicious dinner, ar
ranged the table with flowers as she
had that night, and donned my white
dress again.
ST see I shall have to dress also"
Keith said laughingly when he came
in.
Eyes. dol" replied.
After dinner played and sang for
him as I had the night we arrived.
We retired early as we were to go
home on the morning train. dreaded
| to go, hated to leave the peaceful
happy place where I had been my own
mistress for SO short a time; hated to
go back to the carping criticism I
knew should encounter daily.
But even dreading 1t as I did, had
| no idea that the week just passed
would stand out like a brilliant white
light against the darkness of the COM
/ thought of it. of Keith's kindness. his
/ devotion when we were alone, would
help me bear the seeming GOODNESS.
the unhappiness brought about be-
cause of his devotion to his sister,
| "Auntie Vera is back!" 1t was
Gloria who announced my home-com-
ing in her fresh young voice.
II don't see why you should scream
| like that if she is" Margaret said
reproyingly in her icy tones. Did
housekeeper7
Very! Mrs. Brown is intelligent,
as you know. and she did everything
, to make it pleasant and comfortable
4 for u.s."
IT want to go with you sometime"
Gloria tugged at-my sleeve, and fol-
/ lowed me to my rooms.
never could become accustomed to
Margaret's Indifferent ways. I knew
my lip quivered as I turned away
hand-shake had been proffered/ me
Yet had to live in the same house.
and my husband paid more than half
OF the expenses of the home in which
was almost ignored unless I did
something to be found fault with.
|
spent seemed Immediately to recede
into the distance. could almost have
sworn had not been beyond the reach
of Margaret's cold voice, such an i'm
preston did 1t make upon me.
Temperamental, you say-perhaps,
impulses is not an easy task.
THAT night at dinner Margaret
monopolized Keith as usual. 1t was
all could do to keep from referring
to- the difference in being alone with
| him and where she was. I longed to
say: You are so nice to me, Keith,
| when we are alone, SO neglectful when
Margaret is around" But had ], he
would have been angry and perhaps
have punished me by even more tangi-
BILE neglect.
you see. Keith. I need a. change.
School will soon be out, and the girls
can go away. Suppose you let Vera
goshome for visit to her parents. and
the rest of us will 60 to the shore for
two months. / shall have to be quiet
because of fathers death. SO we will
go somewhere near"
81 will stay and keep house for you.
Keith" I broke in. For much as l
would have liked to go home. would
rather stay with him, if we could be
alone, than go anywhere on earth.
Keith can commute. That is my
idea in going somewhere near home,''
Margaret replied. You caR visit your
family for two months. and Keith can
come to me at the shore"
81 do not care to go home. 1 will
stay with Keith" I don't know where
i got the courage to say it, but add
ed: Either here or at the shore as
1 he wishes
I A baffled look on Margaret's face
showed me I had scored for once, and
something more. In her anger she
revealed what 1t was. After some
desultory conversation with Keith. she
said:
"Alice will be with me-"
i He made no reply. but I noticed he
flushed notieeably and changed the
subject. Now I would NOT go home.
forgotten that altho man proposes,
rood himself often takes a hand in
i our affairs.
(Tomorrow-Illness calls Vera honey