The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-18
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 ANN and CECILY FENWICK have for years supported them. selves, their younger sister, MARY FRANCES and their grandparents, known as "ItOsalic" and "Grand''. 5 l3ccausc Of this financial respOnsi- to marry PHIL ECROYD, young lawyer to whom she has been enc gagged for eight years. CeciIy, 22, loves BARRY McKEEL, an en- ginccr, hut when he proposes she refuses to name their wedding date for the same reason.
 Mary Frances, 15, and still in school, believes herself i'm love with EARL DE ARMOUNT, vaudeville actor whom she has met without the knowledge of her sisters. He urges her to leave home and be- come iis stage partner.
 Ann and Phil quarrel when sine hears LEFTY KING, who works in Phil's office building, address him with endcarnrents. Ann tries to forget Phil by going about with KENNETH SMITH, rich and att tcntive.
 Mary Frances agrees to go away with De Armount. The same day Cccily quarrels with her grand father and drives away with Barry in his car.
 Kenneth Smith asks Anna to marry him and she refuses. She comes home to find note saying her grandparents have gone to spend the day with friends. At 6:3O CeciIy arrives with news that she and Barry are to be married that evening.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLIII
 Mrs Hill was sitting in wicker chair on the front porch reading the evening paper. Ermintrude was on the steps with a book in her lap. Mir Hill and Uncle Chaney were in the yard bending over the lawn mower, which was turned upside down between them. The four persons, and the green lawn, and the white house, and the pink rose hedge composed neatly into an attractive picture of suburban home life. Nothing seemed lack ing.
 Mrs Hill looked over the edge of her paper, and smiled and stood, and held out her hand, and said, Good evening, Miss Fen wick. I'm so glad to see you. Take this chair. won't you? Honey, bring out another chair for mother"
 "No, thank you," Ann said. "I can't stay. I'm in hurry, rather. = T I.v
 Mary-Frances? Mrs Hill questioned. more as if she had never heard the name before than as if Ann had said she had come for Bonnie Prince Charlie.
 "Yes. I want her to come home with me-"
 "But, Miss Fenwick. MaryFran- ces isn't here. She hasn't been nere since this afternoon"
 "Oh," said Ann flatly, not as an exclamation. But - she said she was coming here. She brought Cecely's bag. She-she must be here. I mean-but, then. where in the world is she?"
 why, I don't know, I'm sure. We asked her to stay for dinner, and she said she couldn't. That your grandfather was i'll and that she was needed at home
 Well. But - she's too big to get lost. Ermintrude, do you know where Mary-F'rances is?"
 Ermintrude slumped; her neck disappeared as her stomach col Iapsed. She seemed at the same time to be squirming away from herself and to be dwindling. wrig- gling, as 1t were, down into her. self.
 "stop acting like that, Ermin- trude," Mrs Hill said, land an- swer at once. Do you know where Mary-Frances is?"
 Ermintrude muttered. Ann learned close. "she says" she con- strued for Mrs Hill. "that, in way she does"
 "That's enough of that, now. Ermintrude. You will please an- swer at once. Where is Mary Frances?"
 Ermintrude moistened her lips. She swallowed. "I-well, I guess I couldn't help it. could I? She sloped." hunting a place for it. seeking a definition, pushing her fingers through her hair.
 "E-loped," pronounced Ermin- trude distinctly. "E-loped off with a man."
 Ann took Ermintrude by the shoulders and shook her, not hard but back and forth. ''No, no, no, no. She couldn't. She's a boby. She couldn't. Why do you say such a thing? No, no"
 Mrs Hill went down the steps and put an arm around Ann. "Don't, dear" she said. Zoe" she called. across the lawn. "Joe come here. Joe. Come, Come quickly-Joe."
 Joe came bounding. He ex- pected to put out the fire, to grab the murderer and robber, and to rescue his wife and his daughter. In IF years of married life only once before had he heard Trudie's voice go insane.
 On her way home, in MT Hills car, Ann listened to him telling