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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-03-24
i KITTY FREW &
Th by JAM ABBOTT 4

naid her gave her a meager lnde-
pendence. She was living in a smaii
room on the same floor as Dorcas
apartment.
the old house on ketchum street.
knew that Mrs. Gentle to whom
She maid her weeks rent only acted
as Dorcas' agent. David had totd
her about Mrs. Gentle. One day
Dorcas had found her. destitute.
evicted with her two children from Z
basement apartment in the block ana
had taken her in. she can get on
if omeo just gives her q hand,
David had quoted Dorcas as Sayihs.
And Mrs. Gentle, installed in the big
kitchen Of the old house, sleeping IN
what once had been the dining room
had gotten on, jast as Emil ScheA-
ing was getting on. Kitty herself
Kitty had met others in hurcas
apartment. TO whom she knew Dor
cas- had given a hand. Young Marx
Quinn who worked in a garage ana
went to art classes at night. Lean
Moore. a lawyer, thirty, cynical
brilliant of intellect, decrying senti-
ment, sneering at any ideals and yet
somehow softening to humanness al
ter an evening around Durcas IRE
Max Adler, a sensitive faced, dark
browed Jew. shouting communism
yet arrogant himself. He was a Nio-
linist. Ii vas Dorcas who had Sc
cured for him a place in the Palace
Theater orchestra. Perhaps Doreas
had helped them all, in one way or
another, to regain their self-respect.
In the ups and downs OF everything
each of them "a doing, Dorcas
showed a deep interest. But she
would not tolerate whining, "Oh,
stand up" she'd cry impatiently at
such times.
Kitty heard her berate David.
You haven't done a bit of work to-
day. | can tell by the hang OF your
| mead. Are you going to be content
all your life with a column OF drib-
BILE for the Times? Well, if you a-e,
| go on home And David had gone.
his face angry, slamming the door
behind him.
Kitty had come to know, with
some excitement. that DaVid's work
was the writing of a novel, But
neither he nor Dorcas talked about
II except, now and then, to exchange
some pertinent comment concerning
il, or a question and a brief answer,
or often, on Dorcas' part, a sharp
rebuke. 1t seemed to be something
letween the two of them and Kitty
sensed that Dorcas cared a great
Deal about it; she'd seen the look in
her eyes when David went out. slam
ming the door behind him, a sorry
| tender look.
Kitty. even in her most intimate
moments with Dorcas never touched
on her own disbursement. She
could tell David how frightfully tired
| she got. And with David she could
| talk of Gar. David hadn't said any
thing about self-respect. David's
sympathy was different from Dor
cas-.
Four blocks from STATIONS was
the Times building. As Kitty reached
ii David stepped from the wide en-
! rance way and joined her, just as
he met her nearly every evening
making the encounter seem to hap
pen without any planning. And al
ways, on the instant of seeing him
tall and lanky, a little shabby. his
hat pulled down owe his eyes, Kitty
felt a little rush of gladness.
well, how did it go today?'
ooh. better" Her eyes chung t
David's face. She slipped her hand
thru his arm.
David did YOU see him today,
Hear anything?"
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Chapter l6
WHILE KITTY WAITS

"You have TO hang on to your self
respect or you're nowhere, DOrcas
said finally, concisely.
Now, it's up TO you to see II thru.
But you don't have to plan anything
tonight. TomorrowM be time en-
ough. Let's get TO bed. I'll fix you
on the couch here.
She sprang up and vigorously fell
to work Transforming the couch
into a bed. folding covers spreading
sheets and blankets.
She tucked the covers about Kit
tvs shoulders and the touch of her
hand was warming ana reassuring.
Like a weary child Kitty snuggled
further down under the soft blankets.
The embers of the fire made fingers
of light across the darkened o
Thru the h~alf-opened door of Dor
cas- bedroom Kitty could see her
moving back and forth. A blessed
drowsiness enwrapped her.
Tomorrow, they'd plan things out.
Dorcas would help her. But tomor-
row Gar would come for her, OF
Counsel
1t was closing time at STATIONS
department store, three weeks later.
The last minute shoppers had hur-
ried off. The salesclerks were put
ting away the stock. working furi-
ously against precious time.
No. IL in the sportswear Depart
ment was hanging tweed ensembles
i'm a case. Her unaccustomed fingers
made slow work of il and the other
girls. folding sweaters and ~blouses,
watched her and smiled slyly at one
another. No. IL was new and ii was
game to leave to a new m the job
of hanging the suits away. 1t took
longer.
A bright-eyed. blonde girl passing
No. 10. hesitated. Gee, don't bother
so much. Lees gone" She caught
up an armful of the garments and
swung them on to the bar of the
case. Rotten day, wasn't it?"
No. ~ knew Josie Price was try
ing to be friendly. Her tired face
flushed gratefully. She agreed that
it had been a rotten day.
Bet you're dead" Josie went on.
MY feet used to hurt as If they had
hollis on EN-. But you get used to it.
/ guess you get used to most any
thing unless it's Lees tongue, after
the ad bunch've taken her for a ride.
Anyway, you don't have to mind that,
do you? Didn't she take you into
her officer"
Miss Lee, the head of the depart
ment, had taken No. IL into her Of
stock. But just then No. u vas too
tired to wonder why Josie put the
question. to read into it the jeal-
ousy with which each salesclerk OBJ
served any distinction paid to n
one of them. No. IL had not been at
STATIONS long enough to lift her
eyes toward the glamorous position of
assistant buyer. +,
why, yes, she nd" she answered
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Chapter Is

Chapter 10
SYMPATHY AND A TOOTHBRUSH
Hurry have tamales left" 1t
was a. throaty, low, level voice.
In her shrinking Kitty had imag-
tned herself barring the unhappy de-
tails of her story to a masterful We
man, calloused by social service, and
here in the lighted doorway stood a
girl not larger than herself, no older
at first glance, in a mans straight
lined flannel dressing robe and sort
heelless leather slippers on bare feet.
ia vowed | wasn't going TO let
anyone in tonight she was saying
when she saw Kitty.
IT'S Mrs. Garfield" David ex-
planned.
Dorcas caught Kitty's elbow and
drew her into the room. I'm glad
TO know you Her tone made Kitty
feel that she was glad. You'll eat
with me, won't you? You've had nn-
David can tell you that my coffee is
just a little better than the best ever
made. David-chairs and things"
1t was a long room of soft light
and color and inviting comfort. The
meal of tamales was spread at one
corner of an old refectory table set
in an alcove. Close to it was a chest
of the same fine old polished wood;
from shelves hanging over it David
was taking down cups, delicate old
Spode cups over which at any other
time Kitty might have wondered,
Dorcas poured coffee from a squatty
silver coffee pot so like Grandmother
Brandon's coffee pot at home that
Kitty had an irresistible desire to put
out her hand and caress 1t.
A great relief had Iightened the
terror which had gripped her below
stairs. She wished she could give
David some sign to tell him that she
liked Dorcas. Ii was just that, at
once. Wondering that this could be
so she appraised Dorcas, a little
shyly. From all claims of p%rettiness
too broad. her mouth too wide, her
body was curVeless n flat like
a boys, her shoulders square and
lean. But Kitty did not single out
any such features; she was trying to
put into definition the indebtedness
of the other. the forthrightness that
was smooth-edged and friendly. the
directness of speech and manner that
won instant liking.
Dorcas had MADE no apologies for
her dress, and the flannel robe seen
in a fuller light was faded from much
washing and ragged about the cuffs.
And she had shown no curiosity
over the unusualness of Kittys COM
ing. with David, at this hour.
When they finished their coffee she
told David to build up a fire. We
IL clear these dishes Of the way
And Kitty was heartened by the
sharing of that task, working elbow
to elbow with Dorcas in the limited
space before the tiny sink.
His fire kindled, David had drawn
two chairs up to it. Dorcas pushed
Kitty into one and took the other.
David sat Gown on a cushion on the
floor, his long legs drawn to his chin.
just as he had sat. in his fathers
library.
81 call this bliss-now let the world
go by" And Dorcas stretched her
small, slippered feet toward the blaze.
cts beer a stupid day, David. But
she said II gaily, as If its stupid
ness only made this moment of ease
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tiredly.
one time or another
They took their wraps from their
lockers. Josie jammed a tight lit
tie red hat down over her head ar
ranged crescents of blonde hair at
each temple, applied powder to her
nose and a daub of scarlet to her
lips. She drew her coat tightly
about her thin hips, holding 1t there
with crossed arms.
"Taking the street car home Her
eyes were pointed with curiousity.
mo. / walk home"
well, by by, Miss Brandon. See
you tomorrow
Good night, Miss Price"
och, make it Josie!' the friendly
Josie called over a hunched shout
der.
inc Brandon. /,
As she walked out into the chilled
dusk. Kitty felt a little cheered by
Josie's advances. Until today the
girls in her department had left her
alone. Her own fault, of course
| she'd wanted to be friendly, but IN
her awkwardness she'd felt shy, anu
probably they'd taken that for stand
offishness.
Josie was a leading spirit in the
| s%portswear department. She was
/ good-natured, sympathetic and ready
with n Joke, mimicked her customers
when they departed, bantered with
the floormen. Every morning she
RECALLED her associates with her ex-
p~eriences of the evening before. Dates
and boy-friends made the substance
of her easy chatter. She was alert IN
her work, approaching shoppers with
an attentiveness that held them and
more often than not sold something
to them. This and the fact that she
had been in Stratton's for four years
beginning at the bundle desk gave
her an unofficial seniority over the
others. Kitty had recognized tina
Thinking Of Josie, she walked
swiftly, liking the touch Of the coo
air against her tired face. Like
Josie and the hundreds of Others
who had left STATIONS before her.
she felt a sense of lightness with the
day behind her. At this hour ever
the pain in her heart lifted a little.
Most of all she walked swiftly
because she was going back (
Ketchum Street and Ketchum street
meant to Dorcas' room with it's lamp
light and it's flre-Dorcas herself.
1t had been three weeks since thai
night David had taken her to Dorcas
infinitely longer when she measured
1t In heartache. Gar a not triec
to find her. He must know Where
she was-Pound knew and must nave
told him.
Dorcas had taken her to STATIONS
Dorcas knew the head OF the per-
sonnet there. The wages Stratton''
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Chapter is
I'll TAKE THE NIGHT TRAIN"

Mrs. Frew turned to her mirror
ana carefully put into place a lock
of hair that had escaped Cora's at
tention.
Mrs. Garfield has been homesick,
doubtless. There is no need for your
concern, Pound. She may have gone
to her home for a little visit, and
Gar knows, Of course"
Pound shifted uneasily from n
foot to the other.
"She didn't go home, madam. She
went to Mr.. David's. | gave the ad-
dress to the driver"
Mrs. Frew's establishment at that
vas more than she could control. Her
voice took a higher note.
But. Pound, you are mistaken!
Kitty-Mrs. Garfield never met Da-
vid.'
Poor Pound, he had lived to six
Ity-two in service, obedient to
the slightest command. Mrs. Frews
statement commanded, He obeyed.
"She knows him, madam. She met
him here. Mr.. David comes some
times, to have dinner with his ia
Their" He waited, his kindly wrinkl-
ed face marked with distress. lie
was betraying Mr.. David!
Mrs. Frew appeared to be weigh
ing what he had said. Except that
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You're wonderful Gar repeated
warmly.
Now run away, dear. I've a very
busy day ahead of me-"
IN hunt up Pound, maybe Kitty
left some message with him for me-
I'm sorry, Gar. / have had to dis
miss Pound. | discovered that he
was shockingly dishonest"
"Pound?" Gar stared at her. "Old
1T distressed me to send him
away. But to have kept him on
would have undermined the whole
service in the house"
You must have hated to fire himl
How long-fourteen years, isn't it?
He came that fall I was getting over
tie measles. And he's been putting
ii over you all that time, has Re?
The old devil"
I'D rather not talk about it, Gar.
I Do feel very badly over it."
Gar left his mothers room and
| went to his own to dress. Half
| dressed he called Marge on the tele-
phone. She'd wanted him to come
in for tea. Somerset and Di and
| some of the others were coming and
they were going to talk over the cast
ing of the first play. He'd told her
he didn't think he could make it; he'd
, thot Of Kitty, that he'd been leaving
her alone too much. Well, now, Kitty
had left him.
He informed Marge, when he stop
ped for her, that Kitty had gone to
visit her family. She might be there
a week or more. Her mother wasn't
we'll. He remembered, conveniently,
that Kitty had said that her mother
wasn't well.
"Goodl" Marge cried. Then she
laughed. 81 mean it, Carl need
you so much just now. I'm stunt
whenever / think Of building I'VE
that barn and you know so much
more than l do"
He spent the greater part of each
day that followed with Marge anC
Decker, the architect. He luncheC
with Marge, going over with her thu
plans and plumbers and painters
estimates which Decker sent in
Somerset usually met them at tea.
time and then later the others FOL
dinner somewhere. Because his room
seemed lonesome without Kitty h
spent only enough time in 1t to dresi
and undress ana sleep.
Every morning going down earle
than was his custom he asked Jones
the new butler, If there'd been a tele
gram or a letter.
Every morning he stopped in hi
mothers room to talk to her. H
told her what the Players were do
ing.
"You won't believe your eyes
mother, when you see that old bar
-Marge sure is an artist. She know
what she wants too. We hunted a.
over the city yesterday for some oil
lanterns-big ones. She's going I
have them bronzed. The prosceniur
arch's going to be mauve and bronze
Decker couldn't get it at first, blu
Marge stuck to IL. OF course whe
it m to the plumbing and tina
sort of detail she depends on me-"
"Of coursel'
But after a little, shutting him
self out of his room, rushing her
and there with Marge and the other
could not crowd down his hunge
} for Kitty. His mother guessed i
noted his growing restlessness.
He sought her out early one morn
/ ing. Cora had not yet begun her OF
CREATIONS, and he found his mothe
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the more pleasant. "Carruthers was
on his head, all day. Raging. spent
three hours with that Austrian sing
er what's-her-name and got about
enough out of it to fill three lines
she's that sort
"Dorcas does the special features
for the Times David explained 10
Kitty. ~.
something" Dorcas retorted, I'm
supposed to be a human ferret Then
suddenly she sat alert. but Oh, Ia
vi6-Emil Seedlings got a contract
with WAN. He's fearful, he's SO
happy. Seven weeks-Starr said a
lot of nice things about his addition
Hell get some pupils now.
He's off your HANDS, David put
mot at all. I've told him he may
use the front room downstairs. Mrs.
Drinkwater's going back to her home
town-she's going to open a beauty
parlor there
There was evidently much funny
about Mrs. Drinkwater's venture;
David and Dorcas talked 1t over n
laughed over it. And Kitty, not know
ing what they were talking about,
welded to the cheer Of the fire, 10
the apartness of this o NOW
She was more aware Of the ROOF it.
self, of the fine INES or the Olu SEE
rotary against the further wall, the
prints hanging on each sid OF II,
the old silver candle sticks on the
narrow mantel over the fireplace. A
curious home for this girl in the ola
flannel robe and yet she seemed not
incongruous in 1t.
A doctor Of souls-David had called
Dorcas Taber hat. This Emil Schell-
ing, Mrs. Drinkwater-had she doc
tored them? David? David seemed
different now, yo~unger-there was
a more vital look about him. Her
wandering thOts came sharply VI
against the fact that she had been
brought here for doctoring.
David saw the distress in her face
interpreted the involuntary move
ment of her hand toward him. He
stopped abruptly halfway in a care
less retort to something Dorcas hac
II suppos you've guessed. Dor
cas. that we've come TO you for ad'
vice. Kitty's declared an ultima.
tum. 1t needs some thinking out.
Dorcas merely inclined her head
But when David started TO spear
she stopped him. $500
s'Suppose you u along nome
David. Kitty and / can get thing
straighter II you leave us alone. !
Kitty: You'll stay with me tonleht
I've everything youu want-eVeh L
q toothbrush"
David glanced ~questioningly a
Kitty and Kitty confirmed ms dls.
mIssal with a little smile intendes
to show him that she was not atraiu
ssw.
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Chapter 10
DON'T BE

That's exactly what's been the
trouble, mother" Gar said. kitty
hasn't gotten on to our way of living.
She thinks leisure is loafing, and in
Bridgewater loafing's a sin. But
she'll learn"
'Of course, dear, She must learn.
Your father has spent the best part
Of his life in building up a fortune
and an honorable place in our COM
munity. These will be yours some
day. And we want you to use both
for the advanceu ant Of culture and
good citizenship. Kitty must see that
such occupation is worthy a mans
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by JANE ABBOTT,

II was easier to tell Dorcas than
IL had been 10 tell David-there was
in her listening a quality OF noe
standing that helped Kitty over the
things she could not say.
And when she had finished Dor
cas- did not answer for a few mo-
ments. as II she were weighing what
Kitty had told her.
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her mouth was drawn into a INN
hard line she rave no sign OF =
emotion. After a moment n Walk
ed to a desk in the corner OF her room
and took from il a check DOOR ohe
filled In one Of the blank sneels' uh-
hurriedly, blotting it carefully.
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time. | hoped you Would marry some
girl who had been reared to the res
possibility Of wealth. some girl ike
Margery Crosby. but as your choice
q hasty choice you must let me re-
peat. CARTEL on Kitty, we must
make the best Of IT,
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she can obtain that review as long as the status of
France is that Of a willing defaulter.
There is hope in Washington that the present
unnecessary deadlock between President Hoover and
-resident-Elect Roosevelt o~er the proposed fact
1nding debt commission Will end in some kind of
cooperation.
Even such reopening Of the debt question, how
ever doubtless would be limited to Great Britain and
the debtors who made December payments
At BEST the solution Of this important problem of
war debts will be very difficult for the Roosevelt
administration, proved impossible for the Hoover
administration. 1t is hard enough for the over
burdened American taxpayer to see the fact-and it
is fact-that debt reduction in exchange for arms
and tariff reductions is profitable deal for all con-
cerned
But that fact never will be understood by Amer
lean taxpayers if it is obscured by charges that
debtors are acting in bad faith.
To prove her good faith and to enter revision
negotiations with clean hands, France in the end
will have to make that defaulted December pay
ment
The sooner it is made the better chance France
will have of getting fair hearing in congress and
the court of public opinion
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A NEW FRONTIER

Nobody knows how much land has been taken
back by the states for taxes from its former
But some indication may be had from the fact that
South Dakota recently sent than 100000 acres
under the auctioneers hammer.
is estimated that 20 per cent of the states total
agricultural acreage will be removed from the tax
lists when the counties take title.
There's problem for you'll We have grown &C
customed to the thought that public lands were ex
hausted Are we to have great areas of public lands
again2 If so, what we going to DO with them?
way must be found to dovetail this new factor
into the unemployment situation Can the states
resell this land on longtime payments and easy
terms to workers forced out of city jobs by the rise
of machinery? Can they perhaps farm them them
selves? Can they be state forested?
Here is a chance for some pioneering in state
legislatures this winter.
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exist, and that no race. no nation
can be happy and free alone: an
insight which time and tragedy
alike have confirmed.
He may have been too plant
abroad and too unyielding at
home; he may have been unfit
tee by temperament and train
ing for acknowledging to do
it all off his own bat. But he
alone had the spiritual touch.
and his vision. uttered with the
dignity of a golden voice. will
haunt the hearts of men, though.
alas, his mortal eyes did not see
its frultion-it was too far off
and he too frail.
A writer of history before he
became a maker Of history he
knew the slow processes of time
and wisdom of patience; and he
will not wait in vain for the full
ness of his fame.
Appealing from the clamor of
the hour to the serenity of the
years, from mad passion to calm
intelligence, he left an epigram
which is also an epitaph in which
both historian and prophet find
vindication: L would rather be
defeated IN cause that will one
day triumph than to triumph in a
cause that will one day be de-
feated.' 1t will be recorded in
days to be: Wilson won, Clemen-
ceau lost
Copyright. 1888 United Features
Svndicatel
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FRANCE, DEBTOR AND CREDITOR

Following her temporary default on the American
debt, France now appears ready to rub it in. The
new Paris government has recommended loan to
Austria. AS pointed out by some Of the Socialist
newspapers in Paris France can not argue poverty
as a debtor at one moment and pose as wealthy
creditor the next moment-and expect to convince
Americans of her sincerity
We underline this sentiment without in any way
questioning the validity of the proposed advance to
Austria as such We see no reason why France
should not join in the international loan agreed
to last summer, which Austria needs so much, with
other European countries subject to shocks origi
mating in Vienna.
Good craftsmanship requires the kind of financial
sanitation contemplated in the Austrian loan.
But good craftsmanship also requires that France
make her December payment to the United States,
which she can well afford to do on financial
well as psychological grounds. This newspaper
agrees with the French request for a review of her
American debt terms in line with changed world
conditions
That is a straight business proposition and
much to our interest as creditor as to hers
debtor But it is nonsense for her to suppose that