Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-09-03
THE
VAMPIRE
NEXT DOOR
By MARY B. WooDsoN
"a. 1929, western Newspaper UnionJ

~ looked up. Her eyes were
hard and sharp.
TITS shame" she snapped, vicious
ly. we've never had anything like
that before In these apartments"
Crane moved uneasily. 1t was get
ting to be rather an old story.
Jaw, shucks" he grunted, after the
fashion of husbands.
81 don't care" said Crissa Crane.
ITS getting worse ana worse That
woman Is awful. Why, she must be
forty If she's a day"
Surprising she is, can't she love all
the same" Crane was facetious. But
Crlssa Cranes eyes were harder, her
lips tighter.
"Well, IL she's going to have af-
fairs" she snapped, "she might at
least choose men old enough to look
out for themselves"
"AIenr Crane smiled crookedly.
"Why, they don't make 'em any older
than they are at twenty or So"
Crlssa Crane dropped into chair
and rocked violently minute.
college boysl Every last one of
EN-" she said. "Why they racket in
there week-ends like they owned the
place, and they stay all hours, and
one of 'em camps there all the
time"
Jaw, for Pete's sakeW Crane
smoked hard suddenly. 1--WE never
seen anything out OF the way. She
always seems Just jolly to me-the
sort Of woman boys would Ike to
frollc wlth-college widow stuff. She's
awfully good-notured, always smiling
except once when | caught her cry
ing in the hall, accidentally. She
wasn't pretty then and--it hurts yet.
Let's let her alone"
"Let her alone" Crlssa Crane
stormed. "Of course we won't let her
alone. She's q married woman and
well, we've simply never had people
like that without tangible husbands
and we're not going TO now. Even II
there's no harm in what she does 1t
looks bad, and either she gets out or
we do, that's all-wlth her bobbed
hair and her painted face and fixing
herself up like she was twenty"
"And looking It," interposed Crane
"Well, yes, and looking 1t. But that
makes II worse than ever. Pooling
those boys, rOmplng around like Il
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dov Ae coon "a l,now sbo bod y
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swift Glance ot the window where
Criseo had stood and nnnrod
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foco
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