The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-16
DEPRESSION.
Chapter 5.


81 won't go to Europe" I an
nounced.
But no one viii make you"
Yes, they will Dear Doctor En-
gel, won't you tell my family I must
stay here all summer so you can keep
on looking after me? ! want to buy
a little white house saw today
Dr. Engel laughed and assured me
he would do everything possible to
keep me away from Europe. / re-
turned to the letter.
You aunt has just written details
of your illness" the letter went on.
1t was dated two weeks previous.
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 you see, my dear child, ] have only
recently heard of all this illness. l
deeply sympathiZe and / am sorry |
was not there Though suppose your
aunt was competent enough and !
| would have been burden at the time.
LAS a matter of fact, her letter did
not come to me for many weeks. !
ran down to Nice for a time, and then
| to Rome and over to Alexandria. The
| latter was business trip, in connec-
| ton with some excavations the Gu
rator of the museum at home is max
| ing in northern Egypt. The letter
| reached me when I landed at Naples.
| AS you can see, am now back at
Paris"
How father skipped lightly over the
| face of the globe! He was always
going somewhere or always coming
apartment in Paris that was quite
large, and here he stayed a great
deal of the time and entertained gen
erously He had very tiny and in
expensive 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 Or
dering the same suite of rooms to be
ready for him. 1t was only when IN
New York, where he had been born
and brought up that he was home
less.
Then he wandered from hotel to
hotek stubbornly refusing my aunt's
offer of hospitality.
l liked my father very much. |
can't say that / ever regarded his 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 insisted on
taking me to places that bored me.
l went back to my letter.
"As a matter of fact, l think you
had better come over and join me
here. You did not like it here be-
fore, but you were little prig then
a quality you. certainly never inherited
from me-. Your aunt is most disap-
pointed because you could not have
season at horne. But l think that
F.! can wait until next winter, though you
will be--is it 10 or 20 then? Mean
time, will take you over to London
for the end of the season there.
have great many friends there,
though I don't like the place much.
/ We will spend the summer on the con-
| tinent and go up to Scotland for
some shooting in the fall. That should
bring you around safely to November,
and then | will turn you over to your
aunt
q hope you will be quite well
when you arrive, for / am helpless
with an invalid about ! want you to
look pretty, too. Your last picture
was charming I showed it to Lord
Rosedale, who quite raved about you
and wanted to meet you. Two bad
he's so and twice married! He has
every thing desirable-a title, wealth,
a pedigree as long as that of prize
terrier in a dog shog. They say his
first wife married him because she
liked the looks of his family crest, and
divorced him when democracy became
| the fashion and we put away our
| EIrUU or DAVNS AMI nIyyVNEGS