Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-04-17
By Lucille Van Slyke

Il cnap over near bllAAS'4ttN wiz la
one dog too many.
A dogl He hadn't a dog since he was
four when poor old Bimbo ate The
poison the cook put III the cellar To-
rats.
"Whillikens. Camilla" he Squealed
you're not SO dusty
Nor was she. Standing there in hel
smart Chinese blue damaSk she dldn1
look more than twenty OF her twenty
eight years. For she was tall and tris
and blonde. Hard from swimming anc
tennis and dancing and golf. Ano
though she smoked too much she was
rather q darling. A spoiled darling
In spite of all the things the goSsipS
said about %her-which were plenty!-
she did have q code of morals. 1t was
Don't be a gutter!
With divorces to the right of hel
and divorces to the left Of her anc
Ted behaving most casually at times
she had stuck to her Ted. That is
she stuck whenever he was within
sticking distance. He frequently drifted
about the world like the casual post
wal tramp that he was and never did
make enough to take her away from
iltl lttllcl , llOuSC. NiiASli Woo q ucdI
funny, rambling old thing on a West
chester hilltop.
1t was Bobbo's house now Camilla's
father had left it in trust for his grand
son in a will that mentioned an ade-
quate income to take care of the ex-
"travagant Camilla and her boy. But
four and twenty lawyers were sitting
on the dead mans chest and Ted said
hotly that he thought there must be
a lot OF dirty work going on at the
cross roads. Anyway the alleged in
come was not forthcoming.
In June Camilla had appeared at
Bobbo's boarding school and command
ed briefly:
Pack up your buds and tell your
pals farewell forever; this is more
swank than the traffic will bear so
you will have to come home to sup
port your aged parents"
Right on top of that came the
blamed measles. With an antiseptic
nurse who quarantined him on the
third floor in the room that had been
his nursery when he was a baby. Per-
haps it was being again in that
where he had been quartered until
he was five, that made him think SO
much about Daddy Hearn, who had
used to discipline him by threatening
TO throw him into the caddy cage
whenever he whimpered.
Don't beef" Daddy Hearn would
say. If you don't like whats going
on shut up and don't whine or whim-
per. Stick it or get out but don't
you Whimper, young man, or I'll throw
you into the caddy cage!"
The caddy cage was the horror of
MS young life in those days. It was
a high, iron fenced enclosure back of
the caddy house at the golf club lust
beyond the Hearn place.
3 hadn't thought much more
about the place since he was five when
Daddy Hearn took him over to the
school on the Hudson and told him
gruff1y to learn to count straight and
behave himself.
Of course Bobbo had seen Daddy
Hearn after that but at almost going
On twelve" hat was about all he could
remember about his grandfather be-
cause school and summer camps had
absorbed him completely.
he a been a mute, inarticulate
person in the brief intervals when he
went home for holidays, as undemon-
Strative as Camilla herself. But he
vas Unfortunately vain of her good
.ooks and used to grin a maddening.
,antalizing grin when other boys
brought. their double chins
md gray hairs to school.
And he had a little discolored snap
mot OF Ted in aviator clothes that
lie used to leave on his bureau and
when some kid looked at it, he'd tell
lin almost too casually:
"Mfather always gets a tough break.
ie was just ready for college when
hat OF war busted out and he was
ust ready to fly when the OF thing
luit. Kin you beat that for a couple
# tough breaks?"
Technically the house he had come
home to should have been a house of
mourning, for his grandfather had
lied at Easter time, but actually if
perpetually gay with synthetic
Ted was always bringing home a
lvely gang because anybody could see
hat the old dump was giving Camilla
he willies.
A'cp C'SA Vic QCpdlIulc Vi oh Ol0
established staff of household
ervants could cramp Ted's social in
He taught Bobbo to squeeze
oranges and he learned to scram-
lie a mean egg himself, he looked
perfect scream in the ex-butler's
oat, which vas miles too big for him
lie kept everybody roaring with laugh
er.
Everybody except Camilla. Her blue
yes would narrow inscrutably and
fter the gang had gone home Bobbo
new she would give Ted the razz.
eds snappy comeback would be:
Il can get out any time. l only
anne back for the funeral"
Sheer bravado as even Bobbo knew
ed really adored his Camilla.
He sticks around because he's inst
uts about you, Milla," Bobbo told his
lother gravely. And 1 think he's a
lnda nice guy to have around. He
ever beefs about anything and Daddy
learn vas an awful crouch when his
Id liver went blotto. Gee, Camilla
on oughta wait until Ted gets one
God break and see what he can do
The new pup helped a lot. He was
mean little tike, mostly sealyham
'obbo spent hours teaching him TO sa-
lite Camilla. Bobbo would sit on her
oudoir floor while she dressed to 90
ut and plan for his dogs future.
Mind you tuck in early, Robert