The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-12-29
"Atwater & Co. Newspaper Building
% Cents Per Years"
PART THREE

Throughout the afternoon adult
members of the Atwater family con
nection made futile efforts TO secure
all the copies of that weeks edition
of the North End Daily Oriole. Ii
could not be done.
1t was a trying time for 1.-The fam
ily." Great-aunt Carrie said that she
had the worst afternoon of any OF
EN-" because young Newland aun
ders came to her house at two and did
not leave until five all the time count
ing over, one by one, the hours he'd
spent with Julia since she was seven
teen and turned out, unfortunately,
to be a Beauty. Newland had not re
strained himself, Aunt Carrie said,
and long before he left she wished
Jnlia had never been bOrn-and as
for Herbert nlingsworth Atwater,
Junior, the only thing to do with him
was to send him to some strict mill
tary school.
Forence's father telephoned to her
mother from downtown at three, and
said that Mr.. George Plum and the
ardent vocalist, Clairdyce, two of the
s%uitors, had just left his office. They
had not called in company, however,
but coincidentally; and each had a
copy of the North End Daily Oriole,
already somewhat worn with folding
and unfolding. Mr.. Clairdyce's condi-
ton was one of desperate calm. Flor
~ oS,, .fn+l,ox a.s,1 tI,,,+ M, fD1n,atc a ri
tation left him rather u~npresentable
for the street, though he had finally
zone forth with his hair just as he
had rumpled it, and with his hat In
his hand. They wished the truth, they
said: Was 1t true or was it not true?
Mr.. .Atwater had told them that he
feared Julia was indeed engaged,
though he knew nothing of her
fiance'S previous marriage or mar
riages, or of the number of his
previous children. They had respond
ed that they cared nothing about that.
This man Crumis record was q matter
of indifference to them. All they
to know was whether Julia
was engaged on not-and she was!
1.-The odd thing to me-" Mr.. Atwater
continued, to his wife, lis where on
earth Herbert could have got his story
about this .Crnm's being a widower. or
divorced, and with all these children.
DO you know If .Dulia,s written any of
the family about these things and they
told the rest of us?'
NO said Mrs. Atwater. I'm sure
,he HASN'T. Every letter she's written
% any of ms has passed all through
he family, and i know I've seen every
me of lem. She's never said anything
lbout him at all, except that he was "a
I'm sure i can't imagine
where Herbert got his awful informa-
ION; i never thought he was the kind
# boy to Just make up unpleasant
Florence, sitting quietly in a chair
earbx, with a copy of Sesame and
lilies" In her dap, listened to her
side OF this conversation
18th al expression of imperS0pal in F.,
srest; anG if she could have realized
ew completely her parents had for F,
(natusally enough) the details }
their first rambling discussion of !,
llia's engagement, she might base ;
1T as little alarm as she showed. :.
We'll" said Mr.. Atwater, I'm glad +,
isn't our branch Of the famaly that's II
sponsible. That's a comfort, any :
w. especially as people are reading :
pies of Herbert's manifesto ali up :"
q down the town, M clerk says ="
g tells me that over at the Cole conf
ny, where young Murdoch Halves is u
shier. they only got hold of one copy. ne
1t %typewrote it and multigraphed it. oo
ID some of 'em have already learned
by hear to recite to poor young W,
He's the one who Sent Julia II.
e three fiye-pound boxes of chOco-
les all at the same lime, you re- ,s