The Washington times., 1930-01-09

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Aunt EN- shook her head.
"You can't" she said, briskly.
"Half Of them need mending,
and the other half need press
ing and cleaning. So you'll
just have to leave them here
until I can get at 'em
Goodness knows you'd never be
able to fix them UP yourself,
Lovejoy Mason"
And that was the truth.
Aunt EN- had done more than
| her duty for her dead sisters
child all her life. She had
waited on her hand, foot and
finger for 20 years.
/ She had mended her clothes,
washed her head, brought her
breakfasts to her in bed, kept
her room clean, done hun.
/ dred and one things for her
that most girls do for them.
sselves.
The result was that Lovejoy,
1 without a penny in the world,
was as helpless as a baby and
Jas spoiled as a pampered
daughter Of a millionaire.
/ "I'n put some things into a
ssuitcaSe for you," Aunt EN- de-
J cided, and dragged a shabby
sStraw case out of the clothes
tCloset. "Apd on Monday, I'll
sget to work on the rest of
5your clothes-L,ovejoy, what am
II goink to say to Steve Ogle-
hay when he calls up?"
! Lovejoy, picking up her
lbrushes and bottles from the
sdresSer-top, frowned. She put
:her bright head to one side
sand studied her reflection in
.the mirror before her with
Isomber thoughtful eyes
+; well, he'll have to know I'm
married sooner or later" she
sanswered slowly. 80 you'd
better. just tell him the truth.
Hes known for a Ions time
show much Tom and I think Of
leach other"
She gave her shoulders a
little shake as if she were shak-
ing herself free from the very
Thought of Steve OglebaY.
;Steve, who had wanted to
marry her for three years, and
who never had had the ghost
sof a chance with her.
/ But it wasn't so easy to put
him out Of her mind just then.
/ For the very bottle of per-
:fume that she held in her
.handS had been a birthday
present from him a month be-
1ore.
! He had given her tina photo
Egraph of himself that hung on
her wall in a silver frame.
7 On the little table beside her
5bed was a package OF books
that he had sent to her only
yesterday.
"He called up at 4 this after
moon Aunt EN- said after a
spalise. Il told him to tele-
phone tomorrow morning, so I
suppose he will"
/ She sighed. Hes the man
would have liked to see you
marry" she added with all the
sfrankness in the world. HE
had everything I wanted you to
have. Money, and position
and"
{ Money!" Lovejoy's eyes were
full of sudden scorn and she
snapped her fingers to show
how little money meant to her.
s"Who cares about money!"
"You!" her aunt told her
with snap and vigor. You
care about it. You don't real.
ize 1t yet, because you've always
had me to look after you, and
your Uncle James to put pen
nies into your pocket when you
needed them. But wait until
you haven't the price of a mani
cure in your purse: and your
clothes begin to wear out, and
so on and so forth. Wait till
the pinch comes. You won't
he SO ready to snap your fin
gers, young lady"
#~&
! But right from the beginning
they did snap their fingers at
money-Lovejoy and Tom.
Right from the beginning
they snapped their fingers at
stheir poverty. They chucked
it under their chin. They
kidded it. and made it their
pal.
There is an old saying that
goes like this:
k'When poverty comec in at the
] door,
Love flies out of the window"
( But that wasn't true of the
young NicholSonS.
i Poverty was right with them
from the start, even on that
first Saturday night when they
scame home to the little flat
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