The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-31
Copyright. 1926 by Upton sinclair.)

ana then--that Ruth Watkinsl
Vi course Bunny wouldn't be in love
with an ignorant country girl. with.
out any education; but all the same,
she was setting her snares for him.
and Wee had seen enough OF men TO
know that woman can always get
what she wants, if she keeps after
1t. Bunny kept going to that IodS.
lng-house room, and plotting and
schor1ing with Paul to worry his
rather, and make trouble with Verne
and Annabelle, so that pretty soon
they wouldn't welcome Bunny anv
more at the Monastery, which was
practically Wees country club. and
where you met the most important
people. 1t wasn't just the social life
1t was the business connections that
meant everything in the career Of
an actress. In the screen world pro
motion goes by favor, and Wee sim
ply couldn't afford to give up her
intimacy with Verne and Annabelle
she tried to convey this tactfully to
Sunny, but when he failed to heed
II, she had to keep insisting, until &
began to sound like nagging. Bunny
remembered her playful remark 10
her Applesauce, TITS as bad as if
We were married."
VI.
Dad and Verne had a lot Of hayo.
tiating to do with Pete O'Reillv
concerning the new leases they were
putting thru, and Dad was invited To
spend weekend at this famous
mans country place. Bunny was
included in the invitation, and Dad
said he ought to come; Dad was
always nourishing the hope that
something is this great" world thar
SO impressed him would impress his
Iastldious son. Beside, he added
with a grin, the O'Reillys had a mar.
riageable daughter.
Bunny had already met Young
Pete" at the university, in connec-
ton with athletic events. Bunny
nad been singled out for attention
because he also was a scion of oil.
some day he and Young Pete,
would be running the government
OF the United States, as their two
fathers were running it now. Young
Pete" was perfectly colorless bust
ness man, of the nationally adver.
Used brand; but the father was the
real thing-an old Irishman who had
wandered over the deserts leading a
burro loaded with a pick, a blan.
Ret, sack of bacon and beans. and
SKIN full OF water. This had con-
tinued up to middle age-he de-
lighted to tell how, when ne had
come to Angel City to print a pros.
pectus about his find, the printshou
would not trust him for a thirteen
dollar job. Now, nobody could
guess his millions; but he was plain
as an old shoe, a likeabIe old fall
low who wanted to sit in his shirt
in hot weather, but was not al.
lowed to.
The boss Of the family was Mrs.
Pete, who had risen from a section
foreman's daughter to this high sta.
tlon In Southern California society
She was large and decisive; when
she went into a department store
she did not fool with the clerks, but
strobe at once to the floor walker
and announced: 81 am Mrs. Peter
O'Reilly, and ! wish to be waited on
promptly" The functionary would
hit the floor with his forehead, and
tear three clerks loose from their
duties and set them rushing about
at the great lady's behest.
Mrs. Peter it was who had sum.
moned the architects and ordered
the royal palace in parq, and set
the. high bronze fence all about, and
the bronze gates; she it was who
had caused the name of the owner
OF the estate to be craven on the
gates. She had negotiated for the
yacht OF fallen European monarch,
and then torn it all out inside and
~'N'c ~ OfCA " NC III lOf an lrlS0-
American oil rospector-hnished in
Circassian walnut and blue satin,
and with the owners name in plain
sight Also there was a private car
finished in Circassian walnut and
blue satin, and with the owners
name on big brass platel
Now Mrs. Peter had Dad and
Bunny to practice society" upon;
to shade hands high up in the air.
and remark the early cold weather
and the snow upon the mountains.
And then to introduce Patricia, and
to watch while Patricia did the
stunts which her director had
taught her, and which gave Bunny
an impulse to say Camera" Miss
Patricia o'Reilly was tall like her
mother, and had tendency TO grow
stout too early, so she was taking
reducing medicine, which was in
juring her heart and making her
pale and aristocratic. She had
learned every motion and every for
mula so carefully that she was as
interesting as large French doll,
and her mother beamed upon the