The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-28

her husband some property on which |
oil bad been discovered; that his pos
session of it had come about through
events which reflected no glory on him
seemed to make no difference. To
Sally's honest eyes it seemed that IAr.
Finch had deliberately cheated the
man who owned the land, but appar
emily that mattered little to the re-
splendent Mrs. Finch, who twisted
great diamond rings on her fingers as
she prattled of the family fortunes.
Claire Finch had inherited her moth
er's tendency to stoutness, and the
maternal pompousness of manner as
WELL She also was inclined to patron
ize Sally and drag the Finch wealth
into the foreground. But she realized,
as her mother did not, that Sally's
costume, though unostenatious, was
correct in every detail, and in far bet
ter taste than the rustling silks which
Mrs. Finch favored for morning wear
She was one of those large, bulgy
looking girls over whom modistes
wiring their hands in despair. No mat
ter what she wore, she was destined
to look as if she should have worn al
most anything else. Her hair was
luxuriant and beautiful, but she had
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schoolmates and dressed it fashionably
but unbecomingly. Beside Sally she
looked hopelessly large and unattrac-
tive.
Mrs. Finch made no secret of her
desire to get her daughter married off
In the East, as soon as possible.
claire won't ever be happy at
home; the towns too small" she de-
clared; Sally suspected that the Finch
es did not have the social position
they desired in the town which had
seen their sudden and questionable at
tainment of wealth. 81 want her to
have everything she's entitled to, and
l guess if she can marry and settle
down here in New York she'd better"
Mrs Finch went on at length about
her ambitions for Claire; the man
must have position and money Of
course, though that didn't matter
much; Dan Finch could set UP a home
for his girl as good as any in the city,
if he'd a mind to! Clarie was just
child still, she assured Sally; she
didn't know a thing about the ways Of
the world! Sally, catching a glimpse
at that moment of Clarie's shrewd,
shifty eyes, formed an opinion of her
own.
And Clarie was to have a good time
Ego places and see folks as Mrs.
Finch put it. She was honest at least
in her desire to make the girl happy.
Sally thought, as she listened to the
pretentious little woman; if only she
had been honest about other things
she would have had some dignity
Clarie went out to the elevator with
Sally; slipping one arm through hers,
she exclaimed
Wen have a good time when we
cut loose from Ma-Mama, won't we?
/. I'm not such kid as she thinks l am,
you know can smoke and jazz
around with any live bunch, believe
me! I'm pretty snappy vamp when
l get started. I'll let the world knowi'
Sally fought with a sense of de-
spondency as the elevator carried her
down to the lobby. She had thought,
when Clarie seemed like her mother,
that things were as bad as they could
be- To find that the overgrown.
gawky girl was of the cabaret type
made matters infinitely worse. Clarie
had begun to tell her of a filtration
she had had with a strange man on
the train coming down from school,
giggling and stammering through the
silly recital.
"And that's what I've got to live
with" she told herself disgustedly,
sinking down for moment in one of
the chairs in the lobby to rest before
she made the trip back to her board
ing house.
She had always liked this hotel, had
always had little special fondness
for it. When she and Dick returned
from their honeymoon they had come
to it for a few days until their apart
ment was ready for them. Sally had
never forgotten those days-she had
been selecting the very Furnishings
that were now being stored! The day
when Dick phoned that he'd found
exactly the rug for the library; the
morning when they had discovered