News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-07-19


suppose he'd be ashamed not to TAKE
me his six months as long as thu
court gave me to him for that time
ANOTHER TWO WEEKS LATER.
I'm so angry can hardly write, and
at the same time I'm so angry I've
just got to write. / can't talk. There
isn't anybody to talk to; and I've got
to tell somebody. So I'm going to tell
it here.
I've found out now what's the mat
ter with the girls-you know, l said
there was something the, matter with
them; that they acted queer and
stopped talking when I came up, and
faded away till there wasn't anybody
but me left.
Well, 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 came up. We got up a
secret society and called it the 'Tony
Ten" and l was going to be it's presi-
dent. Then all Of sudden one day
l found there wasn't any Tony Ten
only Carrie Haywood and me. The
other eight had formed another soci
ETY. and Stella Mayhem was their
president
told Carrie we wouldn't care; that
we'd just change it and call it the
''Tony Two" and that two was lot
more exclusive than ten, anyway, But
/ did care, and Carrie did l knew
she did. And l know it better now
because last night-she told me. You
see things have been getting simply
unbearable these last few days, and
it got so it looked as if wasn't even
going to have Carrie left. She began
and told her If she didn't want to be-
long to the Tony Two she needn't.
That l didn't care; that I'd be a secret
society all by myself But l cried.
l couldn't help crying; and she knew
I did-care. Then she began to cry;
and today, after school, we went to
walk up on the hill to the big rock
and there-she told me. And it was
the divorce.
And it's all that Stella Mayhem
I was divorced Il mean Mother was)
and she told Stella not to play with
me, nor speak to me, nor have a thing
to do with me. And l said to Carrie,
all right! Who cared? l didn't. That
l never had liked that Mayhem 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 lots of money, and she al
ways had candy and could treat to
body with her was sure of good time. |
She had parties, too-lots of them;
and of course, all the girls and boys |
liked that.
Well, when I came everything was
all right till Stella's mother found |
out about the divorce, and then-well,
then things were different. First
Stella eontented herself with making
fun of me, Carrie said. She laughed
at the serge dresses and big homely
shoes, and then she began on my
name, and said the idea Of being
called Mary by Father and Marie by
Mother, and that twas just like DR..
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde. CHATS a story,
Carrie says. I'm going to read it, If
Fathers got it. If there ever was
another Mary and Marie all in one In
he world l want to know what she
lido But Carrie says the poking fun
It me didn't make much difference
With the girls, so Stella tried some
hing else. She not only wouldn't
peak to me herself, or invite me, or
lnything, but she told all the girls
hat they couldn't go with her and
ne, too. That they might take their
hoice. And Carrie said some of them
I'D choose and stayed with me; but
hey lost all the good times and Ice
ream and parties and rides and ev-
rything; and so one by one they
ropped me and went back to Stella,
nd now there wasn't anybody left,
My her, Carrie. And then she began
0 cry.
And when she stopped speaking, and
knew all, and saw her crying there
efore me, and thought of my dear
lessed mother, / was so angry /
Ould scarcely speak. | just shook
18th righteous indignation. And In
" most superb. naughty and disdain-
Il manner l told Carrie Haywood to
ry her tears; that she needn't trouble
arself any further, nor worry about
sing any more ice-cream nor parties.
hat l would hereto declare our
null and void, and this day
t my hand and seal to never speak
her again, if she liked and consid-
ed that necessary to keeping the ac-
laintance of the precious Stella.
But she cried all the more at that,
Id flung herself upon me, and, Of
'urse, / began to cry, too-and you