The Bismarck tribune., 1933-05-15
CHAPTER FORTY.EICHT

Raymond and May met her 4tI
Sixteenth Street, In oakland.
"Well, We might - we'll 60 and
have some breakfast" Raymond
said. "We've got plenty Of time.
The funeral isn't till two o'clock. ~
Raymond did all tho talking.
1--WE got the day of, Of course" he
said. IT figured it was only right.
Pa, he would have come, too, but
funerals break him all up. You
know how it is when they get
along. Hates to hear the word. All
the time thinking he'll be the next
one. That's pa. He's cheerful, and
his health amt what you'd call
bad, but he's all the time thinking
how many years he's got left. I
know him. You can't fool me, eh,
May"
eyes, you're pretty smart" May
agreed absently. II hope you didn't
find it too difficult to come out,
Lily Lou. I hate to have you spend
that much money, especially when
it turned out this way. Did you
borrow from Madame Nahlman?"
"No, she is still abroad. I bor-
rowed it from Dwight Gwin."
Raymond wrinkled his forehead.
"You don't want to get under any
obligations to those fellows. If was
you, Lily Lou, I'd pay that fellow,
.>>- -. ,,o,, >.Ak Aon1r ~
"With what, Raymond"
"Well, with the first money you
get. You're working. aren't you?"
Eyes, but I don't make . fortune,
and living il so high"
"That's just it," May cut in. 'eYou
ought to come back to San Fran
cisco. New York isn't any better.
Irene's friend, Lefa, has . friend, .
Mrs. Clemson, who studied in New
York for two years. Two years,
mind you. Well, when she came
back and went to study with .
teacher, named what WAS his
name? Well, anyway, he said they
had ruined her voice in New York.
She never did make anything Of it,
after all she spent. She's selling
real estate now, but with business
what it is -"
eyes, it's = long, uphill drag," "
Lily Lou agreed.
She thought about it, sitting
alone in the back seat of Raymond's
car, as they drove out San Pablo
Avenue, on the way to Woodlake.
Maybe it would have been better
if she had never tried it. All the
chances she'd had, Europe with
Mailman, Dwight Gwin's lessons,
Metropolitan chorus, and dramatic
lessons there, Tony's patient help
with Italian and French and
still miles from the goal. Still every
chance in the world that she'd be
just one more who tried 80.
It was . hot and tiresome drive.
over the mountains, that smelled Of
sage and chaparral, giving up their
spicy, aromatic sweetness in the
hot, dusty wind that blew straight
from the sun.
How different, how terribly dh-
ferent from the last time, thirteen
months ago, when she and Ken
when she and Ken -.
May leaned over from the front
seat. Don't cry 50, Lily Lou. You
can't help things by feeling 30 bad.
I'm sure we Ill feel bad to lose
mother. But after all, she VA
hfty-eisht. It isn't as though she
were younger"
Lily Lou wept heartbrokenly
then.
To think that she could have "a
far forgotten her mother - to cry
over old memories, on the way ia
her mothers funeral.
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It was hot and crowded in the
little house. There was Bess and
her husband, and the three chill.
dren, the youngest asleep on the
old feather bed that had been Lily
Louis.
John was there with his wife
Ena, and his two shy little boys
that looked like twins, and weren't
Earl was there, and his wife and
their children, Ruby and Junior.