The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-05-12
Mary
Marie
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ONE WEEK LATER

There hasn't much happened-only
one or two things But maybe I'd bet
ter tell them before / forget Ii, espe-
cially as they have q good deal to do
with the love part OF the story. And
I'm always so glad to get anything of
that kind I've been SO afraid this
wouldn't be much Of love story, after
all. But / guess it win be, all right.
Anyhow. | know Mothers part will be,
for it's getting more and more excit'
ing-about Mr. Easterbrook and the
violinist, / mean.
They both want Mother. Anybody
can see that now, and, Of course. Moth
er sees 1t. But which she'll take ]
don't know. Nobody knows. It's per.
fectly plain to be seen, though, which
one Grandfather and Aunt Hattie want
her to take! It's Mr.. Easterbrook.
And he is awfully nice. He brought
me a perfectly beautiful bracelet the
other day-but Mother wouldn't let me
keep it. So he had to take 1t back.
| don't think he liked it very well. and
] didn't like it, either. / wanted that
bracelet. But Mother says I'm much
too young to wear much jewelry. Oh
will the time ever come when I'll be
old enough to take my proper place in
the world? Sometimes It seems as II
it never would!
Well, as / said, it's plain to be seen
who it is that Grandfather and Aunt
Hattie favor; but I'm not so sure about
Mother Mother acts funny. Some
times she won't go with either of them
anywhere; then she seems to want &c
go all the time. And she acts as Ii
she didn't care which she went with
so long as she was just going-some
where. think, though, she really hkei
the violinist the best; and 1 guess
Grandfather and Aunt Hattie think so
too.
Something happened last night
Grandfather began to talk at the din
ner table. He'd heard something he
didn't like about the violinist, l guess,
and he started in to tell Mother But
they stopped him. Mother and Aunt
Hattie looked at him and then at me,
and then back to him, in their most
see-who's-here! - you mustn't-talk-be-
fore-her way. So he shrugged his
shoulders and stopped
But / guess he told them in the IL
brary afterwards, for l heard them all
talking very excitedly, and some loud ;
and 1 guess Mother didn't like what
they said, and got quite angry, for
heard her say, when she came out
| through the door, that she didn't be
lieve a word of it, and she thought ii
was a wicked, cruel shame to tell
| stories like that just because they
didn't like a man.
This morning she broke an engage
ment with Mr.. Easterbrook to go auto
riding and went with the violinist te
a morning musicale instead; and after
she'd gone Aunt Hattie sighed an6
looked at Grandfather and shrugged
her shoulders, and said she was afraiC
they'd driven her straight into thu
arms of the one they wanted to avoid
and that Madge always would take
the part of the under dog.
/ suppose they thought I wouldn'
understand. But / did, perfectly
They meant that by telling stories
about the violinist they'd been hoping
to get her to give him up, but instead
of that, they'd made her turn to hin
all the more, just because she was o.
sorry for him.
Funny, isn't it7