Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-02-04
Chapter 5
LAUNCHING THE HOUSE PARTY

"You find some excuse to stay In
town. Then you'll have Charlie here
-lonley-mlsslng the party-all by
himself. Why. it's a cinch, Goody.
only make a good excuse SO he won't
Gee! | wonderi'
Hope turned away because of the
happiness in Goody's face was slight
ly pathetic-and embarrassing.
Listen" she said quietly. Mama
would do anything for you to make
you happy. Why don'a you go and
up a reason to stay home. Some busi-
ness reason. or something-like more
Of that palaver over her mothers
will. She hates Placid and winter
sports anyway"
or "oIh, hey" breathed Goody raptur-
tax to her right now. You know,
Hope, Id even diet for Charlie Rand.
| mean really diet!'
Hope watched Goody as she stalk
ed unceremoniously out of the room.
She wanted .dreadfully to grin-but
the grin wouldn't come!
She sighed and looked around
Goody's scrupulously clean and shin
ing Dol almost nunlike In its rural
and homely simplicity.
Her eyes met themselves In the
mirror as she completed her survey.
AAhN1 tA0dtiCQ dff0 StlEftif AOk~
BY, and one eyebrow went up as
Hope broke into O hooking and
somewhat explosive smile.
You poor melon" she told her
self with that sly delight which most
very young girls experience I'm talk
ing to themselves via a mirror so
they may study their expressions
"a secret pastime which many wo-
never quite outgrow). "Goody's
north pole and you're the south
pole, and your botn pretty much ex-
actly the. same, but you'll never get
AIRS. Ross and Goody remained on
DID Ross estate for the Christ
mas holidays. And only Papa Ross
the houseparty 10 Placid.
The party. In toto. included:
Rusty Crandall, of the Gotham Oil
.randalls. who as soon as Yale had
him.. would make by far the
best husband for Hope In the eyes
u Mama and Papa Ross, and Of the
Crandalls as well:
Judy Hunt, Hopes "grandest
lily hands, n q model Of no mean
as a baby-talk vamp, to
up, mostly for her lack of wor-
dly and hence desirable status. For
Judy, while not as poor as Angel,
ived In magnificent sumptuousness
hat was kept up on nothing a year
nothing meaning debts and loans),
most of the Hunt money had
lribbled year by year to the endless,
'ottomless bucket of medical expen-
that did little more than keep
Ter mother alive. II was certainly
10 to Judy to marry, and to marry
veil; a combination many girls have
ound difficult in itself. but Judy
1t almost unbearable inasmuch
8 she was being politely forced In to
amused and bored arms of Frisky
~ IL all @ 4a-.- - --
vas given over TO an unripe but WE'LL
meaning and adoring saxophone play
r In a road-house orchestra.
Betty Preston, a school chum OF
since the days of lollipops and
tray kittens, who had the keen wit
0 suit herself, and still please her
arents;
Maaax Morley, of Dartmouth, who
xcelled in mathematics. and could
lde a horse blindfolded.
Frisky Hall o. Princeton; who
% of red hair, a millionaire father,
multi-millionaire aunt, a sail-boat
I his own, a Rolls Royce roadster,
dependable unreliability. a sarpris-
Ugly genial temper, a tendency to-
ard kleptomania, a love affair every
week, a mean right arm with
tennis racquet, and a meaner right
'rist with q banjo;
Pat Hollins, known to society coll
as Patricia Fitzhay Hollins,
hose coming out had to be report
4 three times; once in New York,
In Bar Harbor, and once in Par
]; and who would be presented al
ourt next year (provided she didn't
IN off with her golf instructor be-
which tragedy looked very
imminent indeed);
Jed Bloom, the white hope of Col
mbia. the swiftest drinker. sharpest
ii, and best dresser in the five Dor
lghs of New York;
Donald Russell, of Harvard, who
trying to work himself back to
he gutter from which his political
.ther had risen;
And Agnes Thorn, known as "An-
ii" because of her willingness to do
lything for anybody within the law,
he sweet, pale blonde who had slav-
over Hopes Latin for q good three
sars as payment for her acceptance
to the society of Hopes gang); and
no was noted also for turning her
1T gray eyes toward Rusty wherever
} tOddled about, as a Sunflower
rms 1t eager, well-meaning face to-
ard the sun, forgetting all subtlety.
1t must be said for Hope that Latin
apers alone wouldn't convince her
the rating necessary for acceptance
her private society. For while
ope's crowd were apt to pick up,
ION occasion, anyone from the gar
re boy to the girl who served ba-
ina splits in the favorite tea-room,
e actual gang itself was as tight
adhesive plaster. and as snooty as
Ily the very young can be.
No-Angel Thorn had something,
sides her ability to divide all Gaul
TO three parts, to offset her obvi-
IS poverty and the fact that she
ed on the wrong side Of the tracks.
Copyright, Grace Perkins)