The herald., 1922-07-20
.,ovp,GHT BY ELEANOR PORTER

| 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 a lot
more exclusive than ten, anyway. But
! did care, and Carrie did. | knew
she did. And | know it better now
! because last night-She told me. You
see things have been getting simply
| unhearable these last few days, and
! ii got 50 it looked as if | wasn't even
! going to have Carrie left. She began
Ia act queer and | accused her of it
| and told her if she didn't want 10 be-
long To the Tony Two she needn't.
: That | didn't care; that I'd be secret
, society all by myself. But | cried.
| couldn't help crying; and she knew
! 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 its all that Stella Mayhem
the new girl. Her mother found out
I was divorced q mean Mother was)
and she told Stella not To play with
me- nor speak to me. nor have a thing
10 do with me- And | said TO Carrie,
all right! Who cared? | didn't. That
| never had liked that Mayhem girl,
! cold that W. Sn'r
all. She said Stella had got 70 be
real popular before | came; that her
folks had lots of money, and she al
ways had candy and could treat to
ice-cream and auto rides. and every
body with her was sure of a good time.
She had parties. tOo-lotS of them !;
and of course all the girls and boys
liked that.
Well. when l came everything was
all right till Stella'S mother found
= out about the divorce. and then-well,
, then things were different. First
Stella contented herself with making
fun of me. Carrie said. She laughed
, at the serge dresses and big homely
, shoes, and then she began on my
I 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 story
D Carrie says. I'm going to read it, IL
n Fathers got it. If there ever was
another Mary and Marie all in one II
p the world / want TO know what SHE
Z did, But Carrie says the pOking fur
q AT me didn't make much difference
$ with the girls, so Stella tried some
j thing else. She not only wouldn
r sneak TO me herself. or invite me. OF
, ANYTHING. but she told all the g1rl'
@ that they couldn't go with her an'
o me. too. That they might take thei
choice. And Carrie said some of then
h did choose and stayed with me; bu
q they lost all the good times and Ice
a cream and parties and rides and CIV
erything; and so one by one the.
dropped me and went hack to Stella
and now there wasn't anybody left
only her, Carrie. And then she begal
TO cry.
And when she stopped speaking an
knew all, and saw her crying Their
\ before me. and thought of my dea
] blessed mother, l was so angry
! could scarcely speak. | just shoe
| with righteous Indignation. An" !
J NV most superb, naughty and disdair
ful manner / told Carrie Haywood
| dry her tears: that she needn't trOubl
i herself any further, nor worry abor
| losing any more ice-cream nor parte
4 That | would hereto declare ou
4 friendship null and void. and this da
! SET nv hand and seal to never spea
I IN her again, if she liked. and consi'
| cred that necessary to keeping the a.
ouaintance of the precious Stella.
J But she cried all the more at tina
ond flung herself upon me, and.
course, | began TO cry, too-and yo
n can't stay superb and naughty ar
disdainfuI when you're all the tin
|, irving to hunt up a handkerchief
"A wine away the tears that are cour
n ing down your wan cheeks. And
N course I didn't. We had real goo
cry together, and vowed we love
zach other better than ever, and n
hody could come between us, n
even bringing a acknowledgements
=. moIlow college ice-which we bo
% adore. But l told her that she wou
a be all right. just the same, for
course I should never step my 70
off inside of that schoolhOuSe again. tn
lts 7 couldn't. out Of respect TO Moth
That | should tell Aunt Jane that
Tot morrow morning. There isn't a
other school here, so they can't Sc
; I me anywhere else. But it's most I'll
Ike
the Observation-Disclosures
ne.