Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-12
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CHAPTER ",
Mrs. Taylor became a frequent Wis
itor. From the nurse | learned that
she was supposed to be quite wealthy
but that she lived in a little frame
house in the village. in a very SIM
pie style. and that she gave away a
lot Of her money.
She went to the house when she
was married and there she's stayed
and you couldn't bulge her." Par
ker said. "Sure, she's got a grown
soma handsome young chap he is.
too. He'd spend her money If she'd
let him. but she hangs onto 1t tight.
He did make her get a housekeeper'
or she'd be doing her own work to
this day. And now she's a lady
with nothing to do, she says, so she
spends her time bringing flowers out
here to sick folks. and looking after
the poor folks at the other end of
the town"
How sweet of herr" I enthused.
Parker was silent. Her answer vas
an enigma.
There's them as needs charity and
doesn't get it, and them as doesn't
need it and go after it,"
! began to laugh.
I was feeling so much better now.
1t became almost a game to see how
| much better | would look and feel.
After my bath and breakfast. and the
rub down and massage Parker gave
me. | walked to an upper piazza to
my chair, and then Parker brought
me the mirror. My hair was coming
out in fine golden ringlets all over
my head; it vas growing fast, and
my cheeks were getting pink again.
Sure, you're pretty as an angel,
but o look like you might stay on
earth for a while yet" Parker would
comment. And / was pleased. be-
cause l had been very pretty before
it was my beauty. which / accepted
quite simply as an inherited gift. that
made my aunt fond of me. She had
no patience with any of my plans or
ambitions-she only saw that l had
SNOWY, golden hair, a skin as clear
as when | was a child, and what she
chose to call rather dramatic" blue
eyes.
One day a car drove up to the san
atarium and L was old that my
aunt had hired it for me by the week
so | could take an afternoon drive.
This delighted me. for / wanted to
see the little town. All | could
glimpse through the park around the
place was an angle of a brown house.
SO some days with Parker, and more
often with Mrs. Taylor, | drove all
over the little village and miles and
miles over the country around it.
Wellsville was set in the cup
formed by three hills. on the banks
of a tiny little rivera mere creek,
in fact. 1t seemed in a valley. until
M topped the hill. then it was
evident that the town was really very
high for the nearby valleys were
hundreds of feet lower than the
Geneseo valley.
The air and sun were making me
we'll so fast they began talking of
allowing me TO leave. But. / did
not want to go. So my letters to
my aunt were not so optimistic as L
might have made them.
One day l took the car out alone.
How wonderful that you can
drive!" Mrs. Taylor said, as we
started off.
/ smiled a little. I had my own
car at school. / had always driven,
even when | was too young to have
a license. And | had ridden as well,
and handled horses at horse shows
on summer vacations at my aunt's
country house. [ accepted these
things as part of any girls training,
Mrs. Taylor was much impressed
that ! knew them.
"And now you're well. you'll be
leaving" she said as we neared the
sanatarium again.
II hope not. | like it here. I think
I'd like to rent that little white house
at the end oGJthis street." | said,
slowing the car as we passed a vac