The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-20
SYNOPSIS


department store, where the family
had Z charge account for years.
They are summoned 70 the Office
Of the manager. Mr.. Dillon, who In
forms them the account has been
discontinued ~ Il had not been
paid for Ave months. Susie and
Lutte leave in embarrassment. Lu-
de goes home b. trolley, but Susan
prefers to walk. Enfoute. the lat
ter meets hss 6anee, Wallace Stef-
fen, rising young banker. Susan
and Wallace are distinctly differ.
ent types; be 10 the sheltered, me-
tieulous type. while she 10 the kind
Who loves to walk In the rain and
90 without gloves in the winter.
Susan realises that, while her fl.
ture life with Wallace will not b
thrilling. It will be comfortable.
Tender-hearted Susan shows little
enthusiasm when Wallace plans to
inspect house which the present
owners are forced to sell because
Of financial revefses. In her room.
Susan reflects on her feelings
toward Wallace. She 10 not GER
tain she loves him. However, she
feels she 10 engaged and every.
thing 70 settled: besides. il would
be Z relief to get away from the
drab. old house she shared with
her father, Morris Drodefiek;
Brother John, Uncle Worthy, his
wife Edna, and Aunt Lutte. Years
ago. their home had been the show
place Of the city. Uncle Worthy
rents Grandpa Broderick's room
(which hadn't been touched since
the old man died) to Try and meet
expenses. Aunt Edna, full Of
family prids.s informs Susan
they won't have 20 take the pay.
ing guest" into the bosom Of the
family. Susan fesls sorry for the
stranger, moving the chill atti.
tuds 81 her "class-eonscious" rela-
tives. Susan's brother. John.
frankly calls them snobs.
CHAPTER VI
Susan wondered what John would
Gay when be found out that they
were actually going 70 take one Of
The people Of the district into the
house. By no stretch Of her imagi-
nation could she picture . roomer
living with them, leaving his um.
brello IN the tall Satsuma vase that
had BEEN used % m umbrella stand
ever since Grandfather Broderick
sent It home from the Orient thirty
years before, or sitting on the stone
porch on hot nights next summer.
That ID, II he stayed until next sum-
mer.
The house simply Was not the
kind Of house that took In room
err, che went on thinking, her cray
eyes, clear - gray crystals. going
around the room. e was old and
urly. true enough. but there vas
solid richness in the cutglass chan
doliers. the 9arnet-colored damask
curtains &C the tall windows. the oil
paintings that hung on the walls IN
heavy 9old leaf frames.
"Why do We have to rent this
room, upstairs7 Have ~ become 50
horriblY poor al 1t once!" she
asled suddenly. "And II We have
sYou know just how desperate
things are with ~, Susan" Lutte
hroEs "a sharply. "You know what
hAppened 70 you and me In Harris
store today. We simply don't have
any ready money at Ill these days.
eve haven't had any to speak Of
for years." Aunt Edna's voice
chimed ii. "But the thing that made
YOUR uncle decide to rent part OF
the house was . letter that he got
from Napss this morning. One OF
The tenants Is going to move on the
first. and the others want their rent
cut. -. Worthy says he'll have to
Napss Was the janitor Of The
Broderick Arms. He came 20 Cen
ter Street once . month to help
Anna wash windows and woodwork,
and every Saturday afternoon he
Vent downtown 70 clean the law Of
Ace Of Susan's father. Morris Brod-
erick.
"Too bad " can't rent the room
Or q suite IN The Arms" Aunt Edna
added. "He'd And more Of his own
kind 81 people down there. I imag.
Inc. Worthy says that everybody IN
the place works in the steel mills o.
the stockyards near there"
Outside the hall Susan could
hear her uncle bidding the strangel
goo6by IN his loud voice. Then there
came the sound Of the front door