Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-13
Depression
Chapter S

II won't go to Europe, II an
nounced.
But no n will make you"
Yes, they will. Dear Doctor En-
get won't you tell my family / must
stay here all summer so you can
keep on looking after me? I want
to buy a little white house I saw
today"
DIR. Engel laughed and assured me
he would do everything possible to
keep me away from Europe. I re-
turned to the letter.
your aunt has Just written de-
tails of your Illness" the letter went
OH. 1t was dated two weeks pre-
vious: she said she would not
cable me unless you were in actual
danger, so as not to alarm me, but
would wait and write. She waited
for that too. until you were out of
the worst of 1t, so vol see. my dear
child / have only recently heard
of all this illness. I deeply sympa-
thize and l am sorry / was not there
Though | suppose your aunt was
competent enough and l would have
been a burden at the time.
"As a matter of fact, her letter
did not come to me for many weeks.
l ran down to Nice for a time, and
! lIltH 10 INOlilb anu over 10 .AltAdll-
dria. The latter was n business trip
in connection with some excavations
the curator of the museum at home
is making in Northern Egypt. The
letter reached me when l landed at
Naples. AS you can see. / am now
back in Paris"
How father skipped lightly ovet
the face of the globe! He was al
ways going somewhere. or always
coming from somewhere. He pos
sessed an apartment in Paris that
was quite large. and here he stayed
a great deal of the time and enter
tanned generously. He had a very
tiny and inexpensive apartment in
Florence, and he belonged to a club
in Rome where a room was always
reserved for him. When he was in
Monte Carlo or Nice, where he spent
part of each year, he put up at one
of the hotels, always ordering the
same suite of rooms to be ready for
him. 1t was only when he was in
New York where he had been born
and brought up, that he was home
less.
Then he wandered from hotel to
hotel, stubbornly refusing my aunt's
offer of hospitality.
I liked my father very much. I
can't say that l ever regarded him
as a parent he never seemed to have
any relationship towards me-he
was merely an amusing older friend
who spent money on me but insist
ed on taking me to places that bored
me.
! went back to my letter:
"As a matter of fact, | think you
had better come over and join me
here. You did not like it here be-
fore, but YOU were a little prig then
"a quality you certainly never in
herited from me. Your aunt is
most disappointed because you
could not have a real season at
home. But I think that car wait
until next winter, though you will
be-is it 10 or 20 then? Meantime
I'll take you over to Lonodon for
the end of the season there. l have
a great many friends there, though
/ don't like the place much. Well
spend the sumner on the Continent
and go up to Scotland for some
shooting in the Fall. That should
bring you safely around to Novem-
Der, and then I'll turn o over to
your aunt.
II hope you will be quite we'll
when you arrive, for / am helpless
with an invalid about. l want you
10 look pretty too. Your last pic
ture was charming. l showed it to
Lord Rosedale, who quite raved
about you and wanted to meet you.
Too bad he's so and twice married!
He has everything desirable-a title,
wealth. a pedigree as long as that