The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-01-28
DAHL
STORY
AS Plain AS An Old Shoe
BY MARrAA MccuLLocH;WlL
esFF7IstB the very longest day
Clare ali but mOaued.

egFT7AsiB the very longest day
Clare all but tn0aned.
with the yery shortest
night ~ make up for ~ sensible
Jane retoFted. Clare popted;
know that, Miss smarty-but You
know l am not talking about real
times I'm just so tired waiting for
tomorrow, and the train. an1 the
Springs afterward. How can you
s6it there stock still? You've never
kheet anywhere, either
pfa enough l haYep't-.but
thdgettng won't get me there q min:
utA eafiIer-and 1t may get me
theTescress and tired and red,eYed
rom lack Of Eleep-1 Jane began.
ph, do huEh. old eommonsenSsiR
Glare flung back, pouting. aYou
have no business TO be always so
right I almost hate YOU
Iate me all you like+eit II does
yen any goed,s Jane returned tran
jkniiiy. ASLEEP IL can't hurt me-
nd I'M going sound asleep In just
about two minutes.
Clare wanted to pinch her
Esdnable cousin. Herself q bit Of
human quicksilver, she really 70
ssented danes even temper and lack
sof nerves. Il was we'll she lacked
hneryes-otherwise Grandma B'ng.
tham open fayorltism would have
made her unhappy; Glare could do
no wFongin gTandma's partial eyes.
tIane. indeed, often got seedlings,
tthe baelSwash Of Irritation over
tClaress small transgression-which
e1uld not be yisitedupon its right,
Hui object,
iorphanss q bare week apart in
eage, they had come 20 wpmanhood
neither friends nor enemies. Glare
WAS lar and away the better look.
ing, Jane the more intelligent, ca.
kpabie and obedient-also something
lxiehefs
There was the rub-the home
would be- hers when grandma no
longer needed II, also fine silver,
china. rugs and 90 on, that had
been her mothers when she was
brought there a bride. Naturally
grandma pfnGhed herself, and
Rwould have pinched the household
tfcr Clare's benefit had not James
Guardian put his foot down on such
kscanting a curmudgeonly old
bachelor lawyer, grandma rated
him, because f1rspoth he did not
melt at the Establishments Of her
pet Yet he had not been illiberal
a-nasterss he had engaged for Jane
gave free service to Clare. When
Grandma brought the girls to town,
for Christmas and Easter shop
ming, MI. Joyce behaved handsome
~ to everybody, buying theatre
Tickets paying for dinners and 9th.
err t%ncidentals quite us though hs
reatly liked It,
More, this journey was at his in.
stance, and morethan half at James
eost AS we'll pay for grandma as
any other Tchaperon, said Joyce,
adding that Clare need not spend
e1traYagantly-she would not re.
olttre an extra room, and there
would be space enough for her in
his big limousine. Clare was en-,
ehpnted,, especially after grandma
bought her two new evening gowns
handsomer than anything Jane
owned.
ought to come home engaged
tola millionaire she said over her
shoulder looking at herself in the
big blurred pierglass. ST / do
bbeS sure you will never see me here
after the wedding. I hate this
frowsy, mussy place, stuck full OF
samples, and portraits like sign.
boards, Granny Is the only thing
I'D take away with me il I could"
Jane laughed proyokingly. Spring
water somehow does not under.
stand quicksilver. Some ways she
was generous as sunshine, in 9th.
ers too Just to be over merciful.
Freq OF envy or jealousy, she could
NOT inthe least understand Clare,
who ramon resentfully: "You don't
care Tor things as l do because you
knew you can have them IL you
{choose-as I ca1't."
Never mind, Clarissy." Jane
said smiling. '"You don't have to
igtye houseroom to any OF the hor.
rcrs here. I'll give you a brand.