The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-30

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How perfectly lovely" returned
Grace, wistful dark eyes on the 9th
Ser'B face, ito move into a cottage
sAnd feel that the room Is really al!
your own, to step out into a grassy
yard and be free TO dig about and
set out shrubs. Why. Betty,
wouldn't care II the cottage was
only three rooms and far out in the
country"
Betty smiled. Just as romantic
ever" she teassd. You used TO
talk about a kitchen done in blue
Ssnd white, with crisp white cur
stains blowing out from easement
windows, and I believe you insisted
upon a pink geranium in the pot on
the shelf above the sink. Now. for
myself, I am quite willing to leave
culinary decorations to the ser-
wants"
Shall you keep a maid?" asked
Grace, who went downtown daily
to an office and chung to a strap
twice a day.
Betty's head lifted pridefully. my
dear, / haven't had I chance to tell
you yet, but that uncle OF mothers
in Australia died and left us a pot
of money. We never cared for the
East. and we decided to come back
here and get a fine little home
where we know everybody"
Then OF course you'll buy in
Briar Clii." said Grace confidently.
You never lived right there, but
gu couldn't find a lovelier suburb
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now, but I couldn't get board there
after" she broke off. her dark
= Rs suddenly dim, and Betty for.
cot her newly rich airs and
squeezed her hand lovingly. She
knew how much Grace had lost two
years before.
Don't think about the past" she
Sadvised. Look. how poor mother
tand I were a few months past. lis.
ing in a one-room and kitchenette
IN. New York Rnd'both OF us work
ding. You never know what's Just
ahead Of you. I'm determined TO
get a house on the lake. and think
how you'll enjoy your week ends
/ nut there. Well golf every
Nj don't know how" Grace
Thought Of an old friends OF hersr
back in that happy past, who had
+ discouraged the learning OF the
popular game. He had told her
~ he admired her domestic tastes
and she, thinking confidently OF the
little blue.and.white Kitchen, had.
not learned to play. That Don had
not been to call on her for over two
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keen disappointment to her.
you'll 500 pick 1t up" laughed
Betty. Suppose We taxi out TO
Priar Cllih this afternoon and look
houses? Mother-ls tired out from
her trip and wants to rest. but |
AXE TO be doing something every
minute
Grace looked about the handsome
foyer OF the Michigan boulevard
hotel with rather swed eyes. She
had never been there before and
she rather wondered at her chum's
high spirits. She usually spent her
Saturday half.holiday sewing or
resting, for her work was exhaust
fng. Betty, however, looked at her
with brilliant. happy eyes that
urged her to respond to her high
} spirits.
During the swift ride out to the
suburb the bracing lake air sent a
dash OF color into Grace's white
cheeks. She scarcely listened to
her chum, who Chnttered on OF sun.
rooms. terraces and refrigerators
cooled by electricity.
"At last we. can have Just what
we want" went on Betty. "a low
rambling bungalow type that witt
ire really large rooms under the
Steeply sloping roof and still have
that air OF ooziness that is lost in
a regular house. | like those red
tiled roofs; don't YOU? Or do yon
prefer the green-root and greenland
white awnings 10 match?"
Grace reused herself: Wont 4
bungalow OF that type cost a lot OF
2noney?"
fspend about thirty thousand dollars
J for it." she said, enjoying GraCe's
start OF ama2ement, "and-" here
the tender.hearted youth of her was
cfy stallizcd into rather shy speech
81 remember how dreadfully we
wanted a home OF Dur own, never
dreaming that Uncle Don would
think OF US in his will, and l have
made UP my mind that I Will buy
from a young salesman, some n
who really needs that commission
to get a start. told the chauffeur
to go to Tan-Niurray's real estate
office, but I'm no. going TO talk to
Sany pompous old head. I'm going
b look about and select the young
man who looks the poorest. Don't
you think that is a glorious idea?"
Grace, mentally computing the
per cent. that would be paid to a
real estate firms assistant, gaspcd.
Ton thirty thousand dollars even
the smallest per cent. usual to the
salesman would be considerable.
Don had once talked OF going into
real estate in Brlar Clitf and she
wondered IL he had a little office
bar the station. 81 would love to
ask you to let me look around a lit.
tie before she goes 10 Van-Murray's
office" she thought. but perhaps
bon would be Texed." She had G
1iyely recollection Of Don's pride.
had come between them more
a once and she was pretty sure
mat this same pride had prevented
Ills proposal. He had told her once
that he'd I'VE ask a girl to live
IN a rented flat. His theory was that
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