The Nevada County picayune., 1922-05-18
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known It from the very first Oh, dear suz me. How l do wish could see Mother tonight and have I'm so tired of being Mary way off up here where nobody cares or wants me.
 Even Father doesn't want me, not really want me l know he doesn't don't see why he keeps me, only I suppose he'd be ashamed not to take me his six months as long as the court gave me to him for that time ANOTHER TWO WEEKS LATER.
 I'm 30 angry I can hardly write, and at the same time I'm so angry I've just got to write l can't talk. There ism anybody to talk 10; and I've got to tell somebody! So I'm going to tell t here.
 I've found out now what's the mat ter with the girls-you know. said there was something the matter with them; that they acted queer and stopped talking when l came up, and faded away til there wasn't anybody bul me left.
 We'll. it's been getting worse and worse. The girls have had parties. and more and more often the girls have stopped talking and have looked queer when l came up. We got up secret society and called il th" 'TonF Ten" and I was going 10 be it's presi- dent. Then all Of sudden one day found there wasn't any Tony Ten only Carrie HeyWood and me. The other eight had formed another soci- etS and stella Mayhew WAS their president
 l told Carrie We wouldn't care that wed just change it and call il the Irony Two" and that TWO was lot more exclusive than ten, anyway. But did care, and Carrie did. Enew she did. And l know it better now because last nighf-she told ne. You ! st. things have been getting simply unf 5tarable these last few days, and it got so il looked AS if l wasn't even going to have Carrie left. She began to act queer and l accused her of 1t, and told her if she didn't want to be- long to the Tony Two she needn 1. That 1 didn't car that I'd be .t secrei society ail by myself. But cried. couldn't help crying and she knew did-care. Then she began 10 cry and today. after school, we went to walk up on the hill 10 the big rock : and there-she told ne. And it was the divorce.
 And it's all that Stella Mayhew- the new girl. Her mother found out 1 was divorced q mean Mother was) and she .old Sielia rot 10 play with me. nor speak tu me, iior have a th ng to do wi h me. And said to Carrie. all right Who caredi ditnt. That never had Lied thai MaIheW girl, anyway. But Carrie said that wasn't all. She said Stella had got to be real popular before l came; that her folks had lols of money. and she al- ways had candy and could treat to ct..crean and uto rides, aId every 
 be ly with her as sure of good time. Sl.e had parties. t"o--lots of th'tn ; and of course. aii the girls and boys liked that.
 Well. when l came everything was All right till Steila's mother found ont about the divorce, and then-well, then things were difSrenf. First Stella contented herself with making fun of me, Carrie said. She laughed at the serge dresses and big hNnely shoes, and then she began on my name, and aid the idea of being called Mary by Father and Marie by Mother, and that twss just Ike Dr. Jekyll and Mir. Hyde. CrhatS story Carrie says. I'm going to read 1t, II Fathers got Ii. If there ever was another Mary and Marie all in one in the world l want to know what she l did.) But Carrie says the poking fun at me didn't make much difference with the girls, 90 Stella tried some thing else. She not only wouidn', speak to me herself, or invite me, or anything but she told all the Eirli that they couldn't go with her and me. too. That they might take theiI | choice. And Carrie said some of them did choose and stayed with me; but they lost all the good times and ice cream and parties and rides and ev erything; and so one by one the! dropped me and went back to Stella and now there wasn't anybody left ,i,, hor ro.r,o And theu she began