The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-10-12

pitaity. She led Aunt Lulu within,
pulled forward the winged chair and
asked her to take off her things But
Aunt Lulu shook her head.
'Not this time. I can stay only a
short time. I'm really very tired after
my journey-the longest / have ever
taken. got in at three last night"
'But why didn't you wire u.s." Hal
ly asked. "We would have met you"
Not at the unearthly hour. I've
too much respect for peoples slumbel
TO haul them out of bed in the mid
die of the night. Besides | am going
TO the hotel anyway. It's the King
ston, very nice place. | have the
incest suite. But you will see it to-
morrow. You and your husband must
come to take Sunday luncheon with
me-"
Hally, f1uttersd, tried incoherentlS
to say that they had expected her TO
stay with them. Aunt Lulu laughed
you must have misunderstood my
meaning, dear, but no wonder I'm Il
very poor letter writer. How cozy il
looks here. And how pretty you are!
1t was all very bewildering. Haly
could scarcely make Dick believe il
when she told him. Aunt Lulu was
not DID, she was only middle-aged
Uncle Ed had been her guardian and
had married her when she was six
teen as the easiest way of looking af
ter her.
Next day Hally and Dick found tha.
instead of entertaining Aunt Lulu
she was determined that she should
entertain them. There was no doubi
she had money, plenty of it. And she
knew how to spend It.
Within week she and Hally were
fast friends. Hally found great en-
joyment in Aunt Lulu's society. Some
times she seemed almost as young as
Hally was, and they laughed together
like two school girls, especially when
Hally presented the portrait Of the
Aunt Lulu she had expected.
Il haven't any real folks of my own
since Ed died." Aunt Lulu said THAT
was why | was suddenly taken with
desire to see you. Ed always planne
TO bring me back home, as he called
it, but after he got SO old and tired
he felt that he could be more com
Portable where he was. Then, too his
copper mine turned out To be dean
failure | sometimes think It has
tened his death. But | had a little
money of my own. 1t was a good
thing that / had, and that | kept it,"
Gradually Hally pieced out the story
of Aunt Lulu's lonely life. Bereft, she
had married too young an old man
who had been kind to her, the only
friend she had. She had been denied
ything-romance, love, happi
ness. In her middle age she was SET
tling down into q dull existence.
Hally could not have 1t so. One
night she gave dinner party for four
and invited Mr.. Hallman-Mr Hall.
man of the silk department. He was
about Aunt Lulu's age, fine, genial
gentleman and widower, who sadly
needed wife. Hally, you see, was
trying her hand at matchmaking.
And she succeeded. With hutterlng
heart she saw happiness dawn for
those dear people. Aunt Lulu was to
stay until spring, but Hally was not
surprised when little later she
announced her intention of staying
altogether as Mr. Hallman's wife
When Dick finally went to Tech
Hally went to stay with the Hallmans
She stayed there until Dick returned
a full-fedged craftsman. No one ex-
cept her mother had ever been so
good TO Hally and so when the baby
came Hally named her after Aunt
Lulu Not lulu as 1t happened, but
Louise Marie, which was the real
name of the woman who had been
Uncle Eds widow.