The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-10
Carved LAX and Spanish
s IISo, l,ay.5 80 Fl i
Leather
BY Harriet Brunkhurst


were a wholly superfluous add.
ton. Pretty, good top-p1ece'
her brother conceded.
s,..Level-headedne is not In the
q picture, but you get used TO IT,
said her father.
So being accustomed to using
j her wits, Dorothy set them to dis
e cover 1ust3why amid all the luxury
and kindflness of her prospective
3 YeIatiyess home there was SO
aingu1ar an air of constraint.
Could 1t be that they are dis
pleased because we came before
the decorating was finish ed in the
sndining Toom2n she puzzled. NO
itscouIdn,ttb be that, for they spec
iffcaIly asked us to come before
they went south. Then what?''
suddenly she sat erect among
the cushions.
ss5E1s75tsWhy, she exclaimed, "these
old sdears have not spoken to each
,@otberS since we have been here
two daya!'
dorothy nodded her heao
ggoIemnly.
mo wonder there is peculiar
atmogphere. the old lovers QUAR-
aled just before we came and are
dying for us to be gone 80 that
that they may make up. III f1nd
out il Ted has noticed, and we
must go at once
Her fiance, however, gave her
queer little SMILE when she
sounded him upon the subject
IN other wins" he said lightly
She said you would find 1t out
& within forty-eight hours. Dad and
bet that granddad and Mamma
would fool you"
How? Why? Dorothy, came
as near to a. puzzled frown as was
possible with her round smooth
brow
s....It is the family shelton" said
Ted with an odd gravity Mother
said you should be told, but I've
heard you say you abhor quarrels
and I was afraid you might not
want husband with such record
in his family.
Il have an infallible remedy for
bad stemper-never knew it to
fail, y smiledSDorothy-
Tell me-, pleaded Ted.
Not II 49, laughed Dorothy.
Especially with all this. dark fam
lily history as yet mystery.
Tell3me all about this family
skeleton OF yours.
st9tcW ell first, m other said might
ell you that she can vouch for
4mysGte mper and dad says he can
ssNouch for m Others.
$500. Old goosel" scoffed Dorothy,
tend erly.
That's approximately what
smother said you'd say" Ted re-
with a sigh of relief.
granddad and Mama quar-
S8reIeds thirty years ago and, have
mot spoken to each other since
sIt was something about the redec-
Grating of the dining room. That
81 why it is SunfinishedY
How dreadfully uncomforta BILE
for the poor dears, murmured
Dorothy.
sssT They quarreled furiously all the
first eighteen years of their mar
Il rfed life, while now they have
lived in peace for thirty years
81 on cynical boy!" chided
Dorothy mo, really, insisted
Tied. dad and have felt like
Sfhat about it for long time.
tut 1T worries mother. for she
thinks 1t a disgrace. The truth
IS that she lis banking upon you
555sssss.SS.sHowFcouId I?' Dorothy looked
her bewilderment.
d H. little merry sunshine and
! all that! But take my advice.
Toots, and keep out of it. See
Slothing II don't want to let you
Il In for my squalls. If they made
Sfnp they'd start quarreling dir
.est1y,
& w onder?'s unused Dorothy.
q Before the2end Of the week Dor
pthy regretfullya admitted her a
greementa with Ted. The quarrel
was dead and peace reigned.
Grandfatherw courtliness it
self always the dain-
4 thy exquisite old lady.
They really do talk to each
other, although it is through the
& butler or the cat and there isn't
r. trace of bitterness about their
relationship = Dorothy said to her
fiance. .1 did not believe that
could become reconciled to a
3Sgftuation that seems SO dreadful,
sGAt} am
ssf53l Then. write mother just how
you feel about it," urged Ted.
The following day turmoil
4 seized the household, Grandfathe r
Alden was suddenly stricken with
q mess, and surgeons and nurses
took possession.
Grandmother. tense with anxiety
talked of grandfather as might
any wife Dorothy, gripped
with the possibility of tragic
outcome, found it difficult to be-
lefve grandmother had not forgot
ten the quarrel. But the read
mess of each OF the old -neople to
talk in friend fashion of the
other was from the beginning one
or the most puzzling phases of the
4 situetion.
Grandfather came through
svith@fIying colors. 1t was then
& that grandmother revealed how
severe was the strain.
"a Never once in their thirty years.
admitted the situation. Grand
mother broke her reserve.
Never once when I broke my
arm did Henry ask me how was"
she said crisply. He will expect
M Is to YIELD now that he is Ill. ]
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