The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-09


scription for tonic, and could not
remember what it was all about,
when, four months later, Ann called
at his Office to pay him S..
Il have a position" she explained.
But I get only $40 a week, and 1
have something to pay with this
other five. I'll bring five again next
week"
DR. ELM detained her. He asked
- questions. Ann answered them
all. The Redeem Plumbing and
Heating Company. She liked it
pretty well. She was feeling pretty
well. Yes, she had gone to Reed
college, but she had stopped for a
number of reasons. Her sister,
Cecily, was going to college. No Ce-
oily now was in the sixth grade at
grammar school.
Rosalie and Grand accepted AIMS
entrance into what Grand called
the world Of commerce with girls
will-be-girls expressions. 1t was
so odd of the darling. However,
both Rosalie and Grand believed
in autonomy for children.
Too, as Rosalie explained to their
best friends, the Carmichaels, who
lived on the corner across the street,
she and Grand felt even more re-
luctance in opposing the whims of
their grandchildren than they might
have felt in opposing the whims of
children of their own.
When Cecily, in her senior year at
high school, determined to quit high
school and go at once to the bust
ness college to which Ann had gone,
they again offered no objections.
"Of course" Cecily said to the
peachy English instructor who in
sisted that surely she could wait
until after her graduation, L die
hope to finish here and go on tC
college. 1t doesn't seem possible
! just now. But my sister Ann anc
are going to manage so that our
little sister, Mary Frances, can have
a college education"
Grand told Mr.. Carmichael that
same afternoon, Modern girls
upon my soul, they seem money
mad. Not that I am criticising my
! granddaughter. Better girls never
lived to bless a mans declining
/ years. Better at heart, that is
And when Mr.. Carmichael had sug-
gested that the girls with their
salaries might be able to help out
a trifle at home, Grand had waved
gestures and declared:
Not a penny, my friend. Not
one penny. Their little chicken feed
is theirs, to spend as they like
Their own, for little girlish luxuries
and extravagances. 1 hope they
are extravaganza with their poor
little moneys.
1t will make me feel easier about
permitting them to enter the world
of commerce, rub shoulders, as it
were, with the herd. At the time
of my sons passing I gladly under
took the care, the support, the edu-
cation of his little brood. I shall
always so care for them. I shall
always support them" And Grand
believed it, as he said it; he sincerely
believed it.
DY the time that Ann was earn
Ding $25 a week and Cecily SIG
a week, Grand had retired from
the real estate business. Had, as
he told Rosalie and the girls, de-
cided to leave the game to the
youngsters, the lads-unlicked cubs
fresh from college, who were will
ing to step on the other fellows
fingers to gain footholds Of then
own.
He could compete with them; yes
He would not stoop to do so; no
He would now and at last devote
himself to the field wherein he
knew his real talents lay-the f1ele
Of inventions.
It'll wager you $4,000" said Crane
to Ann, though neither of them that
day had 10000 cents in the world
that at the end of one year shall
have more to show for my efforts
than I would have after ten years
of this miserable land hawking"
This seemed possible. 1t hac
been more than a year now since
Grand had made even small dea
in real estate. The reason, not Wis
ible either to Ann or to Grand, wa;
that for the last several years
Grand had been disposing Of the
remnants of his own land holdings
at prices so low that he could fine
buyers for them with no difficulty
Other landowners were unwilling
to make these sacrifices or, if prod
ded by necessity, they made then
for themselves without Grand's aid
Grand owned nothing now excep
the family house and that land up
on which it stood These, he stated
he would sell at the same time thai
he sold his wife and his grand
daughters. He made speeches about
it.
His son and his sons children .hao
been born there. CThey hadn't, al
all; but Grand's memory at IA was
failing) 1t had stood through The
years, in stress and storm, an ever
ready haven for him and his-that
sort of thing. Rosalie, getting vino
of the fact, some way or other
that there were such things as
mortgages. had once suggested
during a trying month that they
borrow mortgage-or whatever one
did with mortgage-on the home
place. TO Be Continued)