Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-19
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JANE DIXON

very hard. After all, am your daugh-
ter-and hers"
"You are no daughter Of mine" Dan
CAROLS jaw was stubborn. i have
only one child-my son, Danny"
"Only Danny, eh?" Cathleens eyes
should have withered him with their
scorn. And not him for long unless
you take the Nelson curse off Of him"
Dan CARROTS wrath famed. you
interfere with Danny" he ragged, you
put any of your crazy notions into my
boys head, and Ill-Ill-"
ct shouldn't say it if I were you, u
Cathleen advised. "I'll take the will
fer the word But please understand
mean to see mother and Danny when
ever can"
mot in my housed"
"'Never in your housed"
| Cathleen returned upstairs.
II suppose I'd better CO." Margaret
Carroll said weakly. He'll be raising
the whole neighborhood if I don't. He's
| that bull-headed."
Yes, darling, CO." Cathleens lips
trenbled despite her effort to smile
Sorry We couldn't go to the movies
Some other time"
IF you'd only come with me,
Kitty" Margaret Carroll fingered,
shifting, in the doorway.
You wouldn't have me quit, mummy,
when I've just begun?"
Eyes would. too. A womans place
is at home. You have a good home.
It's not as if you had to work for a
living. Kitty, my little girl"
quick, mummy, before father blows
up!" Cathleen pressed her lips against
her mothers quivering cheek and urged
her down the stairs. "We1l finish the
party another time. Tell Danny I want
to see him."
She waited to hear Dan CAROLS re-
proving bark and her mothers answer,
half defiant, half complaining, before
she turned back into her room and
threw herself on her bed to wrestle with
the anger and resentment that tor
mented her.
How dare he make an outcast of
me?" she demanded of Julia. How dare
he say I've cut myself off from my fam
lily? Just because want decency and
honesty and-and-"
Love" Julia supplied. Don't deny
1t, Kit. Every woman wants love-some
kind Of love. It happens that you will
not be satisfied with loves makeshift.
Neither will I. That's why we're here"
He says I've cut myself of from
mother and Danny"
I'm way, your father has told you
the TRUTH" said Julia. There's no use
mincing matters. You have shaken
yourself loose from the family tree and
rolled out from under 1t. Now you
must start on your own. AS yet you are
and to grow straight and strong. Quite
a job for the Seeding of a clinging vine
to grow up into regular tree"
Cathleen perched herself on the edge
Of the bed and clenched her hands.
'I'll grow into whole darned forest"
she vowed. But if Dan Carroll gets
caught in storm and tries to find shell
ter under any of my branches I'll fall
on him. I'll flatten him out, and his
pride with him!"
"No you won't" Julia shook her head
wisely. You'll always be ready to
offer him shelter. That's part of being
a regular tree
Cathleen was sure she would not, but
Julia insisted. There was to be time,
soon, when Cathleen would remember
her friends prediction.
At o'clock the next morning Cath
leen took Seventh avenue trolley car
uptown. She wanted to stay out In the
open as long as possible. The subway
was depressing.
Reaching Forty-sixth street, she got
of and walked east, her mind busy with
visualizing her imminent entrance into
the Offices Of Drew & Co. Halfway
along the block, she stopped. Her at
tention was riveted on car parked at
the curb. A long, cream colored car
with shiny metal trimmings Neil Neil
sens car? OF course not What would
Neil Nielsen be doing up here at this
hour of the morning? There must be
dozens of cars like this in the city.
Funny, though, she couldn't recall
having seen another.
(To be continued)