The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-31
SYNOPSIS

Susan Broderick, young and
pretty member Of 4 poor but aris-
tocratic family. 10 engaged to Wal.
lace Stsden, promising young
banker. Susan 10 exceptionally
fond Of Wallace but 10 not sure
that she loves him. Although she
doesn't realize it, Susan 10 more
attracted by Allen Sholes, the new
roomer,. whom her snobbish rela.
lives ignore. Uncle Worthy. his
wife Edna and Aunt Lutte, still
consider themselves the cream Of
society and will not tolerate any
one they regard beneath them.
That 10 why they discourage Su-
sans and Johns Cher brother)
friendship for Uncle Arthur Gull
len and his family, their late
mothsr'e relatives. A few days
before Christmas, John. tired Of
his relatives superior attitude,
upbeaids them for being snobbish.
He stalks out Of the room, asking
Susan to 60 with him to the Gull
lens. who were always ready for
company. Fearing family disap-
pfoval, Susan refuses. Just then
Allen appears and John invites him
TO 60 to place where there's
real" people. Wallace calls but
Susan cannot warm to his caresses.
He speaks of the Country Club
house he 10 interested in for their
future home. but Susan 10 not en-.
thusiastic for the reason that the
present owners are forced to give
L up because of financial reverses.
Christmas morning, Morris Brod-
eriek, Susan's father, stuns the fam
lily with the news that he i to
marry Mrs.. Hopper, . widow. John
takes Allen to the Cullens' for din
ner, leaving Susan to help entertain
her aunts' and uncle's guests. That
Afternoon, Sara Cullen phones
asking Suean to leave the old folks
and 1}oin them. While dressing,
Susan keeps thinking Of Allen, hop
.ng oomething viii make him look
q her the way men do her cousin,
Mary.
CHAPTER XIV
When Susan came running DOWN
,tairs IN her hat and coat Mr.. HUI
me, one Of Uncle Worthy's cronies,
was ct the piano singing "Rose In
The Bud" and playing his own &C.
compartment in . loud wooden
fashion, % II al Of his fingers were
The same length.
She stood In the hall doorway.
trying 20 catch Aunt Edna's eye
across the crowded room but Aunt
edna WAS beaming ct everybody as
,he turned Mr.. Hulme's music for
him and she had no eyes for Susan.
This WAS the big day Of Aunt Edna's
year-tho day when the towns
hest people" came back to Center
Street. and made her feel that the
0rodericks were somebody" in
spite Of their falling fortunes.
"Rose In the bud" sang Mr..
Hume.
sThs: Jswn airs wahm and ten
Susan waited for him to finish.
and Is she waited her courage left
her. "I'll Just say that I'm going
,yer TO Cullens, and then 60" she
had kept falling herself. But she
knew that it wouldn't b 20 easy %
III that. Il wouldn't Be It al easy
10 ret away. It WAS going to be
very hard. Aunt Edna would have
what Lutte called q "conniptiou
at" IL she announced that she was
leaving the house. and she would
probably stop her just - she had
often stopped her from doing thing.
In the past. "Why. we're announc.
ine your engagement to everyone
she would say. "You can't leave
Susan"
Mr.. Hulme's rich tenor voice fol
lowed Susan as she went down the
rear hall to the side door and out
into the soft gray Christmas twi'
light:
.sLife 70 % shawl,
sAnd love il Ill, I'm thinking"
AZ the corner Of Mills Road ani
Center Street three figures that
me knew came looming up out o.
the dusk that made everything lool
large and indistinct: John and Mr.
Sholes and Mary Cullen. Mary wa
between the two men, holding Mr.
Sholes by one arm and saying some
thing that made him laugh. "Sh'
probably knows him better RICH
nov than I ever SHALL" though
Susan @ they came up to her.
The Cullen house was Lighted
from top to bottom. the Christina
wreaths In the downstairs window
castine their shadows on the SNOW
oufslde, and 81 the living room
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