The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-21
THE NEW
GENERATION
By JANE PHELPS
JOAN AND MALCOLM FROST VISIT
MARGARET.
By JANE PHELPS
CHAPTER 80.

CHAPTER 81.
Malcolm and Joan climbed atop the
bus. They had much to talk about,
and their interested young voices
caused more than one to look at them
with sympathetic smile. Malcolm
was in Harvard. a sophomore. He was
only in New York for the weekend,
but he had kept in touch with all the
people Joan knew in the old home
and SO had plenty of interest to- tell
her.
GLORIA Freeman and Clarence To-
bin are engaged" he said.
Really! l remember 1 used to call
Clarence that 'smarty boy I suppose
he'd be very different now"
Not so very! He still thinks he is
pretty smart-says things he thinks
cute but which no one else cares to
hear"
But Gloria is going to marry him.
Yes, and Edna and Lonf1ie Carpen-
ter are awfully chumny. Nothing set
tied 1 guess, but everyone seems to
think it will be a match. Now tell me
about yourself and your mother. Is
she still Mrs. Hayden?"
"I'Il tell the world she ISL
Il used to think that Mr.. Forester
Yves awfully interested in her.
HE was, and-is. Precious little
good it will do him. Here is where we
get off," said Joan as the bus stopped
with a lurch. Come hurry, they don't
stop long,"
TITS awfully nice to see you, NAL
colm," the girl said as they walked the
few steps to her mothers apartment.
"And it's a lot nicer to see you. You
haven't changed much, Joan. I guess
it is because you still wear your hair
bobbed. If you did it up it would
make you look different I guess
Everyone wears bobbed hair, even
Mary Garden. 1t is SO much more
comfortable"
And becoming-to some"
This is where mother lives. Won't
she be surprised
Hannah opened the door to their
ring, and Joan laid her finger on her
lips, with a nod toward Malcolm, be-
fore she greeted her. Then she pushed
Malcolm ahead into her mothers sit
ting room where Margaret was en-
gagged in writing a note to Craig For
rested.
"Hel1o, Mumsie! See who's here!'
"Why, Malcolm Frost" Margaret
knew him at once. Il am glad to see
YOU"
"And I you. Mrs. Hayden"
AS he had told Joan, so now he had
to tell Margaret the news and gossip
of the old home town-of the older
people as well as Joan's friends Han
nah had been captured by Joan, leav-
ing Malcolm and her mother alone
for a few minutes, and the odor of
fresh cakes soon filled the apartment.
HE used to love them so. Hannah"
But he's a. growed man now,
child"
I'm grown up too, but like them
just as we'll as I ever did, so will he"
"All right, honey! They only takes
five minutes to whip up, and twenty
h. ENoI hot
long?"
'Of course!"
'They are the same cakes you used
to love, Ma1colm!" Joan said when
Hannah brought them in. '"Hannah
thought you'd be too grown up to
want them, but said you wouldn't"
"You said something!" He smiled
roguishly as he helped himself. Then
said to Mrs. Hayden: May have
two? I used to eat five or six, re-
member"
They talked until late, than NAL
colin invited Joan and Margaret to
the theater.
81 hope you have no other engage
ment," he said.
None that cannot be broken" Joan
answered, f'haVe we, mumsie ?" She
explained to Malcolm that If there
was nothing going on Saturday night
the village usually met at some stu
dio and spent the evening.
Margaret made no reply. But she
reached out and tore up the note she
had been writing to Craig Forester
accepting an invitation for the eve
ning-one she received at a late hour
because he had been out of town I'M
til that afternoon.
what time shall you come for u.s."
she asked when he refused an invi-
tation to remain for dinner because
he had to dress.
AT o'clock. Will you be here,
Joan or at your studio?"
'I'Il be here, Malcolm. always
keep emergency clothes here"
(Tomorrow-Joan receives a terri
BILE fright.)