The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
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CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

"HYPOCRITEl" said Cecily. q
Il don't see how you bear it
angel. Truly don't.
If they start acting toward me
now that Barry and l. Well, II
they act about us as they act about
you mad Phil, will not stand for it.
Eyes, you will, dear. You'll have
. to. 1t is odd, though" said Ann
Il was so afraid they'd blame Phil
and be all soppy about sympathiz-
ing with me-that line. And in
stead they act as if I'd injured them
personally and on purpose, by break
ing my engagement"
you never can see through them
can you? can read them like a
primer. They are so glad and SO
relieved-away down deep, 1 mean
they don't know that they are, of
course-that they have to cover
quickly, and petulance always is at
hand and easy.
"All that talk the other evening
about Mrs. Carmichael's sister and
her husband being so happy and
well off suppose you didn't get
that, either?"
mo, I didn't. Do you think they
we're just pretending to think that
the old peoples home was pleas
ant?"
Honestly, as Marta would say
No, they weren't pretending that
the Days-is that their name?-
we're we'll off, nor that the home
was pleasant.
"They we're thinking so with all
their nights and mains, so that
they couldn't possibly be glad that
you and Phil were no longer en-
gagged, and that we both we're
working for them, and that there
was no danger of their ever having
to live in such a place.
ut is all very well for us to be
sentimental and say they don't
now that we are keeping them,
and keeping this ding dang old
house for them to live in.
They do, too, know it. They'd
have to. But knowing ana recog-
nizing or admitting are different
things. We are as bad as they are
We won't admit that they know
because we don't want to be sorry
for them or ashamed of them.
Grand has been disagreeable and
ugly about Barry from the very
first. The only excuse in the world
he could give for trying to make
trouble was because we weren't en-
gagged.
He'd have had a better excuse,
and made more fuss if we had been
engaged the minute we met No
they are afraid. They are scared
to DEATH"
"Oh, poor dears."
stop it, Ann. You make me
sick. They can be blissful enough
now"
Just the same, whether you like
it or not, Cissy, we do owe them
4 lot"
YVES, but in all conscience,
Il aren't we ever going to get the
debt paid? Do you know what is
going to happen to us, Ann, mort
gagged for life, as we are?
Before long We'll stop being the
Fenwick girls, and we'll be those
Fenwick girls. Well go queer. Well
shrivel and shipper and look bony
and pathetic.
Wen sniffle and have stys on
our eyes and cavities in our teeth
and Wen pick 'em with our fin
gers"
"CiSsy, stop that, now. I won't
have it. That isn't funny. That's
coarse and horrid"
I'll say it's horrid! And I know
I'm getting slangy, SO you don't need
to tell me. I'm doing it on pur-
pose. After this I'm going to do as
I please; or, at any rate, I'm going
to be what please as we'll as l
can, chained up in prison.
Il think I'll begin to smoke. They
say smoking is remarkably quiet
ing to the nerves. I wish I had a
cigaret now. wish 1 had a pipeI"
That's it," Ann approved. I'D
much rather have you go on the
loose than languish. In the old
books, you know, the heroines al