The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-07-31
A Choice Morsel for
the Gossips
By AMY DUNN
&C Az. l wouldn't wonder but yor

- could do some business with
those Miss Grays.n announced Mr..
little. regarding Tom Kenyon with
critical approval. Want to get
EN- interested in buying some lots
out Biddletown WAY rs an invest
ment. They've got plenty of money,
hut they've never seen me, and |
sent young SmitherS out Ia see them
and he couldn't get by the front
door. Awful snohs, they are. But
shouldn't wonder but they'd see
YOU
Tom Kenyon had worked in one
of the banks there in Bradhurst for
eight years, and now ut thirty he
had arranged To work for MIR. Tit
tie, the leading reator in the town,
taking with him his savings 10 give
himself the digniied title of
partner" Now Tom WAS what
people in Bradhurst called a nice
young man. He had gone To col
lege, and his clothes were always
carefully pressed his shoes were
polished and his ties were quiet
and subdued. He would have
made d desirable extra man. in
any small town society, but Tom
was shy, and when the young ladies
of Bradhurst limited that they
would like To have him call, he
never took tile hint.
I'D rather not call on the Miss
Grays,s Tom told Mr.. Title. j
have met them, for ole thing, and
it would be taking an advantage Of
social introduction. But Mr..
Title would take no excuses and
ut three that afternoon Tom WAS
making his unwilling way TO the
fine old mansion where Miss Nora
Gray and her niece Vera lived.
Apparently the perfectly uni
formed maid who opened Miss
Gray's front door WIS well I'M
pressed, for she took his card on
her silver tray with solemn respect
and asked him to be seated while
she carried il TO Miss Gray. Soon
she came back and led him to a
large and charming room in the
back Of the house where The Miss
Grays were sitting, about to take
afternoon tea.
The elder Miss Gray greeted him
with polite cordiality, aud Miss
Vera smiled very prettily and WAS
well bred enough not to seem TO
| be at all surprised to see him
there.
The country is charming now"
said Miss Gray, and Tom said, i
was out Biddletown way the other
day. The views are charming
there" He had intended to take
leap FROM this point in the d.
rection of the lots he had to sell.
If he could only manage TO find a
transition to some part of his reg
ular sales speech it would then be
easy going.
Its quite a pity they have been
spelling the section with those
cheap building lots" said Miss
Nora.
Tom felt that this was not the
psychological moment to lead on
To his sales talk. lie fingered hop
ing to have courage to resume, but
tile courage did not come. Meafl-
time conversation about things in
general went along pleasantly
enough aud when he bowed his way
out little while later Miss Nora
asked him 10 come again and Miss
Vera clasped his hand and said,
please do. We have SO few COLI
genial callers"
Tom reported defeat and Mr.. Tit
tie said, TRY again" So Tom did
so again, and again missed the
chance to talk about Biddletown
lots. Then the ladies asked him
to dine with them, and then il
seemed to Tom that it would be
breach of hospitality to speak OF
real estate.
"You ought to be able to sell
them ten or fifteen lots nOw,' saiG
Mr.. little.
All Bradhurst soon began to talk
Mr.. little told Tom that his wife
friends had heard that he haC
asked Vera Gray to marry him.
, 1t happened that that very eve
ming Tom was dining for the sixtl
time that month with the Gray
ladies. He had decided, however
that this would he the last time
He had come under false pretenses
and, of course, he would neve
be ill bred enough to have men
toned Biddletown lots. However
he did not intend to continue al
the victim of Vera's charms wheI
quite obviously she was only play
ing with him for lack OF othe
men.
Tom felt that some sort OF apot
ogy was due the ladies, and ye
: he would not tell them what la'
led him TO make his first calls
7 Never had he suffered from n"l
acute shyness than he did thai eve
ming when he set abont telling then
that while he appreciated their hos
pitality he would be a less frequei
nnIlnr in tha f11tlrp He didn't knON