The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-29
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ChaDter 65

Unexpectedly, it was Aunt Maude
who met the train.
MY land, but you look expensive
she remarked after perfunctory kiss.
Did Mrs. Gates give you that suit or
did you buy with your own money!"
Il bought it." Pan answered, and
wondered why she should resent this
remark. Surely ones aunt had a per-
feet right to ask such personal ques-
tons!
Aunt Maude thought so, at least.
She went straight along.
That's a nice hat-sort of odd, but
nice. How much did nit COST"
Il don't know" the girl answered,
still sitting her irritation.
''Oh, Mrs. Gates gave lit to you?
Well, it does look like the sort OF
things she wore"
she did give it to me, but she never
wore it. l can't wear her type of
clothes" Pan tried to explain.
Type of clothes! My land, don't
you sound grand! Clothes are clothes,
some cost more than others, if you
mean type by that. Gladys says you
wear a nurses uniform, like that nuns
rig the nurse wore here last summer"
GLADYS is quite wrong" Pan said
calmly, then regretted the quite. ="
Somehow Norris City never used
quite" It's distinctions were as hard
and sharp as black from white, quite"
implied shades of meaning with which
Norris City never bothered.
She fastened to ask,
How is Gladys?"
This was enough to divert Aunt
Maude
ooh, doing fine. We've been making
baby clothes Did you bring anything
from the stores in the city,"
Pan was glad she had remembered
package of dainty little objects suit
able for a newly born infant
II was this package, indeed, which
started her visit pleasantly. Some few
letters had been exchanged; Gladys
was consumed with curiosity about
her cousin. She did not recognize, in
the slim, self-possessed attractively
dressed yong figure that jumped light
ly from the wagon, the impossibly
shabby, terrified little creature wh1
had departed six months before
For the first time, she disliked her
self. She felt huge, awkward, cumber-
some, out-of-date, out of the world, be
side the once-snubbed Pandora. Pans
greeting, indeed, was pleasant-but
lacking in either affection or gratitude
and somehow Gladys felt she should
expect both from her cousin.
Pan ran to her father, here was the
magnet, here the reason for her week
end home. And she greeted Morton
when he drove out little later, with
out single feeling but one of quiet
friendliness.
They sat in the big farm house "sit
ting-room" after supper,-it was a lit
tie to chilly for the porch in the eve
nings. Pan was piled with questions
and she was led into telling more anC
more of her new life, she felt the at
mosphere CONCEAL.
Aunt Maude could not understand
such a life And what she could not
understand, she could not approve of
What does a woman want her owr
business for anyway" she asked. 81
she's so attractive, she must have plen
ty of men wanting to marry her. Why
doesn't she take one an dsettle down
then she could look after her son."
"She is married she doesn't live
with her husband Gladys interrupted
her voice showing that any woman
who elected to be Independent wa
quite likely very bad indeed.
why should she live with him? H:
came back to New York and she wa
so upset she was ill for weeks. How
can you disapprove, Gladys? You don
konw what he was LIKE do No self