Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-03-03
Chapter 2
A LONELY HOMECOMING

Bridgewater made no distinction of
wealth. John Brandon owned and
ran the general store which his
grandfather had established and
which netted him Just about enough
TO support his family in the rambling
ola house his grandfather had built
put he ranked in social prestiage with
James Corey, Brdgewater's banker
and man of affairs.
Kitty Brandon, because she was a
Brandon and because she was pretty
and hlithe, had moved securely in
the young life of the community. IL
never had nattered that she had lit
tie money 10 spend on her clothes
Her friends were the friends of her
childhood: closest of these were Sal
ly Withers and Phil Corey.
Maybe one of us will marry Phil,
some day" Sally had said, once.
GU cam kitty's answer had
been prompt. I'm going to marry
a man with dark hair and dark ewes.
He's coming from away somewhere. .
Ana then, one June day when Kit
y was twenty, Phil Corey had come
home with him. Within an hour of
his arrival he had taken his guest
over TO the Brandons. They had
found Kitty on the porch picking
over cherries for pie, big apron
tied over her flowered dress, her slim
hare arms and fingers stained GRIM
son. her hair deeply golden where the
sun fell on ii. her blue eyes. a little
9luer In her genuine delight at seeing
Phil
The next day Gar was sprawled on
the Brandon porch os If. like Phil, he
had lived next door TO il all his life.
At the end of the week he was telling
her that she was the only girl he'd
ever been crazy about; she was diff
ferent, that was il. He was fed up
on the promtrotters. Did Phil stand
anywhere with her? Well, then, she
was his.
During Cars whirlwind wooine
Kitty had not thought of any material
advantages she might gain in mar
rving him. That he was the son of
Dalton Frew, Of FTew and Winters,
grain merchants, meant nothing to
! her. She had not the vaguest idea
Just what grain merchants We're But
, of every detail of Cars handsome
features, his charm Of manner his
carefully careless collegiate attire she
was always ecstatically aware. He
was the dark haired. dark-eyed lover
OF her girlish dreaming.
"Fll love keeping house. Gar. Moth
er always said / was very good
housekeeper.' Kitty had said dur
ing their honeymoon on Panther
MY wife isn't going to slave in g
| kitchen"
"But, Gar, we wouldn't want any.
one else around us. How much viii
you earn, Carr"
"oh, I guess Dad win start me with
| at least seventy-five a week"
And that had seemed a fortune t
Kitty. She had calculated swiftly
| out of ii they would save something
"I don't intend to stick all my lift
to Dads business. I'd like to get in
to the diplomatic service. Or som'
big brokerage firm in New York.
i Avenue, Kit"
Whatever Gar wanted to do III
could do, Kitty knew.
On their last night at Panther
Mountain they had sat on pinnacle
of rock to watch the moon rise.
'Tomorrow at this time you'll b'
4 in Winton, Kit. You'll like II"
!, 'Tll like II anywhere with you
Car" She had Aput her head on hi:
shoulder, soberls contented in thei'
closeness. 1t would be always lik'
this, she had thought, wherever they
were.
And now, the very next day. rid
ing with Gar in the taxi from th'
station, she had lost something o
!, that beautiful contentment.
Il She was thinking Of that tone il
Cars voice when he had talked talked t. t.
. l NldHECiN NsiOHNyg NhR ~e17Nh''NS1
which had left her on the outside
; The approaching meeting with Gar
! family loomed terrifyingly before her
She wished Gar would take hold o
her hand, her hands were trembling
lso.
But Gar was intent upon pointini
! out to her places of interest aloni
, 1.-THE way
II Presently they stopped before
! lpretentious mansion of Georgian lin
and proportions.
Here we are. Kit Some littl
dump, isn't it?' His voice was frank
: Ily proud He did not notice that Kit
) ty made no answer.
: He did not use key. He rang th'
, bell impatiently. And after wha
sseemed to Kitty a long interval tn
door was opened by white-heade'