The Washington times., 1930-09-25
LUCKY CIR
,Bu Hazel Livingstone

nessy,s tongue, long and pointed
and pink. @Of course being
near Ileirfbors / couldn't help
| know that things weren't very
good. With them. The girls
done their best, but when Mrs.
Paige was taken sick the neigh.
bors Just naturally wondered"
"Not what the neighbors
wondered. just what you know,
please"
A "Wash Out"
Mrs. Hennessy gulped. well.
They never could afford a tele-
phone, the Paiges - they bor-
rowed mine for years. So when
Mrs. Paige was took sick and
they had the best food for
her I naturally wondered
/ mean well, I give you
my word they was poor. The
washing on the line. hate to
talk, but ! never see SO many
patches. The boys B.VD's
was lust solid with them!"
Cathie stole a glance at Ma.
Ma sitting ON the edge OF her
chair, nostrils dilated, eyes hard
-" Mad clear through! Poor,
darling Ma -" as If it was
disgrace to have the patches
known, and so much worse
coming
"This boy you speak Of. He
was helping to support the
family?"
BLESS you, Eddie! Say, If
Frank Prout's uncle hadn't OF
gotten Eddie a job of going to
sea on boat I give you my
word he'd be living off the girls
yet. No, he never done any
thing much, and the youngest
Jean was spoiled Brought up
above her station
Ma opened her mouth and
shut it hastily.
stick to the factSJR the
judge warned, kindly. ~
ea MaFFleu IOr MUMey
"Stick to the facts When
I've kissed the Book? YOU, don't
have to tell me that. your
.shonor. I'm no more anxious to
go to jail for perjury than you
are. We've always been b good,
respectable family, and none
of us ever in trouble, not that
we haven't had our troubles.
you might say, in a way"
with a really apologetic look at
Mary Paige.
do you believe Catherine
Farnsworth married for money!"
What else? And I don't
blame her. A good girl she
always was. I'd Just give her
q good talking to and let her
go if it was me running this.
A woman can have her own
good reasons"
Order! Order!"
What do you know Of her
married life?"
Well. 1t had two sides, SO to
speak. There was what her ma
said about everything being
lovely. But when I come into
the kitchen
Whose kitchen, Mrs. Hen
nessy?"
Rambling Testimony
Whose else but MRS. Paige's?
said come into the kitchen
without knocking one day, be-
ing an old neighbor and all like
that, and I wanted to borrow
the loan Of a preserving kettle
on account Of my girl Lillian
sending me a box of oranges.
And a couple of green onions.
Or was it dry onionS?"
Never mind that"
What, sir?''
II said stick to the essentials"
Mrs. HenneSsy rubbed her
long gray nose. Il was doing
my best"
Titters from the crowd.
"All right, go on. You came
in and found what?"
I didn't hear much. seen
Cathie-Mrs. Farnsworth, sit
ting on her mothers lap, and
, her mother comforting her, and
her crying. So it looked to
ME"
Never mind how it looked to
you. What else did you hear?"
"Nothingl"
Nothingl Is that all2a
ont YOU think that's pretty
The bailiff was ra ppitag again.
Or course 7 do. But the way
you're all swapping at me T don't
knows ! care to tell It'll"
Order, orderl"
We'll, it's this way. MY girl
Lillian" again Mrs. Hennesy
cast an appealing look in Mary
Paige's direction, My girl Lii
liam married we'll, and she has a
maid. And her and the maid
Of the C. T. Farnsgortllg was
friends. Not the A. A. Farms
worths-but the C. r. Farms
worths see? Well, her ard
Chester Farnsworth's maid was
friends. So this other maid told
my girls maid that the two
G. T. FarnsWorths was expecting
a divorce any time with the
A. "A. Farnsworths, on account
OF Cathie. I mean Mrs. Farms
worth, having aLa affair. with
Mr.. Moore.,.e
There was more Cathie
heard, and still she didn't hear.
She saw her mother &c, saw
the droop Of Mr. AliasI,s broad