Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-01
CHAPTER I

trou AN oyerRrown, good -looklnl
tne nyu ,hny. and had started to bully am
ccnooloUs' ccoy over her, Marie Chester hat
domiIn, MIN the most wonderful persoi
thousnt. .ha % world. She waited on hin
IN ~ "a "a. foot, she was his willing BOND
hmd sbe aid not mind at all wher
slave ,n % an unusual At Of eloquence
oncs, a. mcondded In him that she though,
sne nau tbe loveliest thing on earth u
was hrother, Young Christopher an
hsye = almost brutally that she talked
.s sws',u snyway, and that sisters were
bal5I ,ooked at her with a sort OF con
ne for a moment, then added Be
.sa,p tsmp' we're not brother and sister
resny MS., we're not but their fathers had
,.Ijfslons friends, and when George
2csn.,.,,a 2csn wife inconsiderately-or 80
sasbsnd thought-died without
nu..ntine nu him with q son, and almost
psha anne time young Christopher
samie,. ~ , was left an orphan, George
1ssstsr promptly adopted him.
o W, viii do Marie good to have a
II A.,,hsr" he maintained, when his
.i',sr' p Miss Chester, who. kept house
sh 80 h;m. raised an objection. shes
..UOrn,lsd--shockingl .Ur spoiled--and a boy
sSout Tho place will knock on some OF
~ airs and graces.'
nv younr Christopher certainly did that
uueh. Il no moro. for In fortni ght he
hsS turned Marie, who was naturally
rsshsr shy and reserved, into a tomboy
10 climbed trees with him regardless
II ~ jn;ury 10 life and limb. who rode q
coh barebacked round the paddock, who
SS In fact, everything he dare or
ordered her to do.
Miss. Chester protested % Mares
father In vain.
Christopher is running neri 1 can
/ DO nothing with her now one ID qui.e
different chiid since ne came 10 the
house.
Msrie's father cnucEied. no was not
particularly. rchned man. ana tne
daintness and ehyness OF mis- little
daughter had rather embarrassed MIN.
BE was pleased 70 thlhk tnht under
Christophers gulolng mana sne was
what he chose 70 Gsi improving.
DO ner Rooo no sslu piuntIy'
where's the harm! Ihey're only
children"
But the climax came rather vloiently
when one afternoon marie feii out or
the loft into the YARD oelow, ana broke
her arm.
One OF the grooms went running to
the rescue ana picked her up, a forlorn
little heap with race as white as her
ncek' 49,. ,.v, IA,
Qulyerihs hps' 1eh OUT ah my own
self -
iouns OnristopnsE, VINO naa ciam
pered down .ns iauoer from the lott'
orohe IN 'ioienuy
'She didn't! II was my fault! She
made me wild. and / pushed her. I
didn't think she'd be so silly as to fall,
though he added, with an angry look
a. her. And don't you trouble to tell
'eT Ths uUVu. vroom m,' .,,d ot.-,-s ..,.
hid no. shea n teor t;li thsn hnt ,ta -. she she
angry words she h-oLa dow, W, .uSS.Is a. .Ie
ipto bitter sobbine, 'u''eN'
She aid not mind her broLo, o
Int she minded bavine n#snSaJ rb.;'
topher. Il was the greatest trorhia sbo
bad ever known when-as n consennenco @
Of the accident-Christophe WAS snnt
sway to a boarding school.
and starts during the HOLIDAYS. and then
no seemed somehow quite different.
He took but little notice of her. md
no generally brought n friend home with |
him from school. He was getting be-
yond the "boy" stage, and deyeIopinr
wholesome contempt for girls as n
whole!
,When--later-he went to n nubl,c
school, he forgot to ignore her md
took to Datronizing her instead. She
wasn't such bad little thing, he told
neg, and next term If she liked she might
kit him tie.
Marie knitted him two--wbicb bc
'et ii, hoOto wore! g. Shc would have blacked
inc siightest wish for her to do so.
Then. later still, he went to Cam.
UUioge and forgot all about her. He
aNiy ever came home during vacation
,ave !, tor week ends; he had so many
n.nds, II seemed and was in great de-
nind amongst them all.
.,. Marle could quite believe 1t. She was
aisnds, and incidentally of the sisters {
Which she was sure some of them must {
'aSs! l
she was still at school herself, md I
III ,i, sott 10Y, brown hair wns tied in a pig. d
=, aou'l soon have to put your hnir a
Y u you grow so fast, Marie" Miss b
IasNer :. ~ said to her rather sadly, when II
%e end OF one term she came home, "
IL. s'ahSeu ht nerBeIf In the RlasR |
,.e was tall and slim for her age, which d
sas not quito seventeen. and as shc o
'as entirely free from conccit sbe cowId "
Va. :, ,,Siy SSIiau'y In her pale face and dark I!
isri. "%.gh, together with her name of Il
er Frennh -, She had inherited from -
a. 1fencn mother. a
Am like mother. Aunt,o Nodsopn -
ae asked, and Miss Chester smiInJ no Z
oe answered: '|' "' :,
You have your mothers avsan
Marie looked at her refiection ooo;, -