Evening star., 1932-01-02
WHAT HAS HAPPENED so FAR.

| gOoQ-looklnk STANLEY C&rteTs spOlAtu son "a
their wsddns Snn.r night Stan
When Stan at last rsturns@drunk tells
him. rspentant and io spologetic Judy'i
| aualms vanish and she forgives.
CHAPTER vi.
| Judy thought a good deal about
STAINS family on that trip out
| West. Every mile seemed to bring
~ the fact of their existence more
clearly to mind.
Stan had spoken of them before this,
| OF course. He had outlined their plans
to Judy. wen 60 on back and stay
with the family for awhile. You won't
mind for month or two, will you?
Give me chance to get on my feet
/ financially. It's like this, honey, I've
always been careless as the deuce with
i money, just having myself to look out
for and I spent every red cent I
made. You know how 1t is"
And Judy, who had lived under the
decent, frugal roof of Aunt Hetty-
Judy, whose small salary had been rig
| idly apportioned to cover her few small
wants, tried TO be fair to Stan and
know how 1t was. Stan came from
/ a different world, where money was
! tossed about like water. Stan spoke
, with easy familiarity of things which,
to her. we're the alf-mythical pursuits
Of the wealthy people she read about In
| the Sunday upplements-polo games,
yachting parties, bridge debts-things
which the natives Of Summerfield did
not dream about.
| So it was settled that they were to
! live with STAINS people In the big fam
! lily house at Lockwood. Judy would in
fnitely have preferred some small
apartment, either In the suburbs or in
| San Francisco, but she could see what
an advantage it was for them to be
rent free at first. Stan worked for a
stock and bond house in the city.
Things had been quiet, he told her ;
commissions had been few and small.
But things would pick up. They would
| live at home and save for their own
! apartment.
| At first Judy had not thought very
much about it. Such practical matters
had been swallowed up in the hectic
plans for the wedding. In the scurry
of getting over to Laceyville and shop
for a white dress. In the glorious
dream of STAINS love. . 1t was only
| liO"y "llcH SllS lIdu lOGIl1lS W uO puC
sit quietly here on the observation plat
| the telegraph poles spinning backward
across the country, that she felt the
fact of them sinking into her conscious
ness.
Her husbands family. >. They
loomed large to every bride, but not SO
| lsrge as this. That was because she
iYafN fhic 1fa etrinnpH
Of family and friends of her own. She
would be an alien in a strange coun-
| try She would be entirely dependent
upon STAINS family.
She went over them In her mind.
| The old grandmother-Stans mother
the girls" She wondered about the
girls. There was Vera, who was 20 and
not married. Twenty y-nine seemed very
distant to 22-year -old Judy. She had a
more companionable feeling for Amy,
who was 25, year older than Stan.
Amy had married young, put in two
hectic years of married life and was
now divorced and living at home. Judy
felt friendly and sympathetic toward
Amy. Dreadful-to be divorced. Amy
must be secretly unhappy all the time.
, Judy decided that she and Stan must
be careful not to fiaunt their happi-
ness in Amy's face and remind her of
the companionship she had lost.
The thought of Amy was comforting.
Judy felt that a friend awaited her at
the end of this trip.
And there was Nick. Already she was
sharing STAINS resentment toward the
/ half-brother. She had unconsciously
built up towering personality in her
mind for Nick, =. tricky and tyran-
nical. 1t was shameful that any one
like Nick Carter should be permitted to
rule and impose on a family who hated
him. There was only one bright thought
about Nick-he was not at home often,
Stan had said. Nick was interested in
an airplane factory. He was often away
from home for months at time nego-
tiating the sale of planes in distant
cities. Just pops In now and then to
see what fault he can find and how dis
agreeable he can be-" Stan said, with
the sulky resentment the thought of
Nick could always rouse In him.
Clickety- -click-click Clickety-
telegraph poles fed backward into a
long vanishing line in the distance, and
every mile hurled Judy forward into
the new, strange life awaiting her.
When Stan had told Judy that he
lived in Lockwood, suburb of San
francisco, she had been glad. I'm
glad it's small town." she had said.
Remember, you're marrying the SIM
pie village maid, darling! A large city
might be too much for me all at once.
I'm honestly glad it's small town
I'm a small-town person; I'm used
to It'll"
There had been little patronizing
edge to STAINS smile. she remembered.
She had not understood 1t at the time,
but with her first glimpse OF Lockwood
it became clear to Judy.
Lockwood was about the size of
Summerfield, but right there the re-
semblance ended Summerf1eld had
been a little center for country OF
small, long established farms. peace
full, unpretentious little place, where
the richest man was only comfortably
off,; where the village plumber called
the banker occasionally by his nrst
name. because they had entered the
tou, school together in the first grade.