The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-30
THE NEW
GENERATION
By JANE PHELPS
a DISAPPOINTING TRIP.
By JANE PHELPS
Chapter 1O7

Chapter 10I.
The more Margaret insisted that he
give her up. the more determined was
Craig Forester that he would find a
way to make Joan amenable. In pur-
suance of this idea he accompanied
Margaret and Janet to New Haven to
see Ted Walters graduated.
Something may turn up" he said
to himself, aside from the pleasure of
being with Margaret. That boy is fond
Of Joan, perhaps"
Fate was unkind to Craig Forester;
so he thought, and at times Margaret
agreed with him, altho as time passed
she talked less about it to him. In
her mind she had almost given up the
hope that she would ever be his wife;
yet her heart still chung to the hope
that Joan would change in her feel
ings, and become willing to accept
Craig into the family.
She was disappointed that Joan alb
solutely refused to go to New Haven
with them. Like Craig she had hoped
that seeing Ted in such an environ
ment as his graduation afforded would
have an appeal to Joan, and perhaps
lead her to think more seriously of
Ted's proposal than she seemed to at
present
Joan's obstinacy as regarded money
at times annoyed Margaret enormous
! ly. That her daughter should go with
I out things to which she had all her
| life been accustomed, that she should
deny herself this trip to New Haven,
her annoyance Margaret was con-
scious of a certain pride that. Joan
could deny herself; that she had
| strength of character enough to fol-
i low out the regime she had laid out
for herself. She had deliberately torn
fn l. l.
she had been raised, and in its place
| had built a house of effort which
/ bid fair to outshine the first.
1 Margaret had not worried as con-
stantly about Joan in the last few
weeks. To tell the truth Dean Ten
and he was now disposed of. She had
i weathered the days and nights of
doubt and fear that Joan might Be
Intrigued with Dean, and his dismissal
had given her comfort. Y ct she recog-
/ nized that the spirit of youth in Joan,
! her love of high adventure, might at
any moment induce other and per-
haps more serious complications.
h To Craig Forrester'S disappointment,
as well as to Margaret's, Ted Walters
said very little concerning Joan and
her failure to come with them. He
was immensely popular with the young
| ladies, sisters and sweethearts of his
| classmates, and Margaret felt that
while he liked Joan, perhaps cared
a bit more for her than for these girls,
he would not be miserable should he
not see her again.
| THE bounder," Forester said
struggling his shoulders while a COM
| ical look of Encouragement swept his
/ face.
HE isn't a bounder at all. Craig
| The idea of your calling him that"
Margaret returned, laughing at his
| lugubrious expression.
81 hoped to see him disappointed
down-hearted, out of sorts because
! Joan didn't come, and the young beg
| gar is doing just the other thing-haV-
ing the time of his young life with all
| the pretty girls who had sense enough
to come. I should like to shake that
daughter of yoursi"
And it isn't the first time you have
felt that way" Margaret replied
/ Don't be foolish, Craig. Joan is Joan
and we must let her work out her sal
walton in her own way. I am so re-
lieved to get Dean Tenant out OF the
| running that nothing else matters fol-
| the moment. Not that I have any
thing against the boy. 1 haven't! II
| fact, 1 rather like him, and I surely
| enjoy hin-he is so different, so abso-
| lutely unique in his handling of him
self. But he never will have anything
or be anybody, unless it is a soap-bos
.
become an agitator. 1t would have
been a terrible thing IL Joan had fall.
en- in love with him.
''T wish she had
"Craig!'
81 mean it, She simply won't take
anyone we select for her, so begin t.
think my only hope of marrying yol
is to have her fall in love with one o.
these extremists whose very oddly /!
the thing that intrigues her indepen
dent mind and heart, if she has one.'
stop talking like that, 1 won't lis
ten. You know I would give you up
thousand times before 1 would lie
Joan. marry such a man as you de
scribe. No, Craig. Joan must no
marry out of her class if I can help Il
1t would only mean unhappiness TO
her.
1T suppose it doesn't make any diff
ference whether I am unhappy o
not?" Craig asked with assumed in
dignation.
(Tomorrow-Joan plans for the fu
ture.)