Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-02-25

and Hope breathed with relief that
brought a puff of disgust from Mama
Ross.
The spring dragged Unfortunately
while Hope went horseback riding
each morning, generally in the COM
pany of Rusty Crandall. More ana
more frequently Hope drove over TO
staying only when Goody was alone,
and finding strange solace i'm long
talks with the puzzling Granger who
had grown up with her. Often, Hope
would sit for long spaces in silence.
while Goody checked bills or made
out weekly menus, or wrote invita-
tons to dinner parties. Listening to
Goodys quiet, low-voiced condolences
with only occasional m~onosyllables
for an W
1t was a strange friendship between
the sisters who had grown up des-
pising each other. At sight Of Hope,
Goody would set about mixing a high
ball (Which she never drank herseIf)
and upon each visit Hope would drag
a new piece of linen. a boudoir clock,
an etching, or a fresh supply of liquor
and would frown upon Goody if she
dared express gratitude. Yes, a
strange c-ompanionship and under
standing, especially when Goody was
a bit frightened of her husbands
criticism of Hope. and especially
above all, when she longed 20 break
faith with the Rosses Sr., and tell
the thinning, mousy-eyed child of all
that happened to Dickey in the bill
lard room. But an exaggerated
honor sealed Goody's lips. and an
exaggerated pride kept Hopes clos
ed, so the two talked of everything
but a hapless marriage in the face
of a blissful marriage.
Often, too, when she was in town
shopping, Hope would drop over to
the tiny apartment in Gramerey Park
that was Mrs. Manly's home. There
she would listen to past SORROWS, un-
forgotten heartaches and grief. Those
hours with Mrs. Manly seeped into
Hopes heart. A life spread out be-
fore her-a story lived and told her
for the first time-a human being
capable of sitting back and taking the
rough deals when life had held so
much. 1t drew Hope strangely close,
particularly when, without a painful
WORD between them, Mrs. Manly un-
derstood Hopes ~listless silence, and
understood about Sassy.
What did Rusty and Judy mean?
only loyalty. Priceless, gorgeous, re-
liable loyalty. Their lives, their in
t%erests, their words were no longer
Hopes But Goody and Mrs. Manly
brought her a peculiar balance.
Goody signified the happiness of re-
served and conventional young wo-
manhood tasting of life and of liv-
Ing, forging a new world from old
hopes, brewing new wine In old BOT
ties; and Mrs. Manly stood for a life
graciously lived, for an age that had
passed and that seemed Incompetent
sible but patheticaily beautiful to
Hope.
When summer came Hope rebelled.
With one single, brittle word she re-
belled. Not for fame, fortune. family
or friendship would she go to Bar
Harbor and face months Of boredom
with the same old crowd OF cotton
mouths and lord1y nit-wits.
Mrs. Manly came to her rescue.
And Papa Ross, finding his temper
a matter of amusement instead Of
fear, changed his policy to one Of
large understanding. AS a result,
Hope and Mrs. Manly were sent to
a dude ranch in Wyoming. So great
was Hopes delight i'm the complete
change of routine, so utter her aban-
don TO the sheer JOY of physical strain
and outdoor life, that for the first
time In years something of her old
self-sufficiency returned.