Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05

thing, nobody had any right to interfere,
1t looked to me a good deal as If Mr.. Timbe
lake was right about it. although his attitu
had certainly been pretty contradictory.
Then, that very day, kind Of funny thl
happened to me and Mrs. Massey. When
got home from the beach, Enid and Eddie Blu
finch were In the side yard, working vi
Eddie's clotheswringer and the frame of an
motor cycle and something that looked like
child's bathtub. I asked them what they We
doing and they said they were fixing up
motor cycle and a sidecar.
But isn't that the thing you had fasten
onto your little boat?" I asked Eddie.
He told yes, but said they'd got Dor
with the motor boating and weren't going
do it any more. They were too old for 1t, TN
said; only children could keep excited abo [
tearing round and round the harbor for lort
and, anyway, there was so much carbon mono
ide down there from exhausts it gave Enid
headache. They were through.
Well, sir, the funny thing was that right tn
very minute the noise from down in the ha
Dor began to sound more disagreeable to me, ali
when asked Mrs. Massey how she felt, she sal
1t did to her, too, and by late afternoon 81
said If that roaring didn't stop pretty sod
she believed she'd go crazy. AS for the poop,
that lived down there right by the water,
Just didn't see how they could bear it an
we oelHlAteiy JoAneo Tie party Oh '4oAeht "
jectors.
Next day at the beach we found the Bull
fnches-Eddie's father and mother-had joind
that party, too, but there happened to tai
place o little encounter between Mrs. Mass
and Mrs. Bullfnch. Mrs. Bullfnch was spea1
ing in an amiable manner, but she made
remark that both Mrs. Massey and felt vi
uncalled for
"Of course, everybody's blaming you and
- cfo oil nc fo{
rible nuisance" Mrs. Bullfnch said "Naturan|
our Eddie is too considerate and unselfish
boy to keep on doing anything that he fou1i
out was disturbing the pleasure of quiet-lovirI
people, and I've been telling the MacGregoi
and GriggseS and everybody I could see thu
he's stopped. OF course, he really had prad
tically nothing to do with it from the begin
ming; he's always eager to give pleasure
others that almost any girl wind him roull
her little finger, and if one of 'em wanted
see how fast he could make boat go Wit
his old motor cycle engine, why, the poor chill
would just break his neck to do it for her"
ARS. MASSEY made little sound in h
WI throat, kind of polite, but one 1 nevt
like to hear because I've learned that it NEAR
she's internally confusing. Good gracious
she said. "You don't suppose Enid influence
him to do such a thing!"
Mrs. Bullf1nch gave a kind Of painful sn1il
"Oh, no." she said. II never dreamed of allut
ing to Enid. I have no idea just which of tt
big crowd Of fiappers here got him into it,
only meant it must have been one of EN-. He
so good-natured, any of em seems to be abb
to make whatever of him she likes"
Mrs Massey didn't answer right away, bt
her face was red, and was beginning TO
scared about what she'd say as soon as she e
good and able to speak, when there came g
interruption that fortunately changed the cour:
Of the conversation. Right near U.S. on tn
sand, were two little boys, Paulie Timberlas
and Brooke Griggs, and what prevented Mr.
Massey from saying anything to Mrs. Bullfnc
just then was ruckus that broke out betwee
these two children.
Paulie wasn't contributing to the uproar
the harbor that morning. He was in his bath
ing suit, and he and Brooke Griggs had bee
talking together pretty shrilly when, all {
once. both Of them began to squawk and h
each other as hard as they could, and cry.
They had quite real little set-to, and
seemed to me that heard several Bit. I
grown-up fighting language from each Of theI
before their parents could jump up and g
them separated Mr. Tinberlake took Paul
away somewhere and Mr.. Griggs walked dow
the beach with Brockie, leaving Mrs. Grigl
and Mrs Timberiake together; and 1t SCENE
to me never heard two women show MOI