The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-18
SYNOPSIS

Susan Broderick and her aunt.
Lutte. who had seen more pros
porous times, order q pillow at
Harris department store where the
family had Z charge account for
years. They are summoned to the
Office of the manager, Mr.. Dillon,
who informs them the account has
been discontinued - it had not
been paid for Ave months. Susie
and Lutte leave in embarrassment.
Lutte goes home By trolley but SUI
san prefers to walk. En- route the
latter meets her 6ance, Wallace
Steffen, rising young banker. Susan
and Wallace are distinctly differ
ent types; he Is the sheltered,
meticulous type while she 10 the
kind who loves to walk in the rain
and 70 without gloves in the win
ter. Susan realizes that, while
her future life with Wallace will
not be thrilling, it will be COM
Portable. Tender hearted Susan
shows little enthusiasm when Wal
lace plans to inspect house which
the present owners are forced to
sell because Of financial reverses.
CHAPTER Nv
He kissed her again IS he helped
her out Of the car 1T her own door,
told her he would see her ut eight
o'clock. and stood in the snow with
his hat in his hand. watching her
70 up the long walk to the house.
It was an odd thing, thought SUI
san % she left him, that two people
could be as utterly unlike as she
and Wallace were, and still be IN
love with each other They felt dif-
ferently about almost everything.
including the buying Of the Country
Club house and the wearing OF
gloves. Wallace liked = warm car
In winter and he couldn't under
stand why Susan loved to tramp
miles through snowy wind.swept
streets. He did his only walking on
: golf course, and Susan thought
that the dullest Of exercise. He en-
loved contract bridge which Susan:
In her secret soul, knew she would
never really understand.
ut must Be the law Of opposites
that makes Us attractive to eacn
other" she decided, going up the
front steps Of the house.
The Brodericks' house stood in .
quarter acre Of ground on center
Street, and it was the only house in
the block that did not have .
"Dressmakine' or "Music Taught
Here" or "Rooms For Rent" sign
over the doorbell.
There it had stood ever since
1880 when Susan's grandfather,
Huro Broderick, had built it. At
that time it had beer . show place
and Center Street actually had been
the fashionable center OF the town.
But since then the town had grown
by leaps and bounds. and it, prog
ress had been toward the south.
Center Street was only > dingy
thorou1hfare on the smoky North
Side now. and the plate glass win
dows Of the Brodericks' parlor
looked out 1T . beauty shop, . cash
and-carry grocery, and 2 plumoers
establishment on the other side Of
Years before the house. with its
twenty-five rooms, had been the
show place Of the city. But It was
only 1 big gloomy old-fashioned
house now with its cupolas, its high
pointed roof, its soot-blackened
stone porches. Beside it stood IN
elm tree, its bare black branches
frozen against the evening sky: and
"a the middle Of the front lawn
stood I cast iron deer. A broad
drive led from the street to q RED
brick carriage house in the back
yard. -.
looks g II it has had m interesting
history. In her childhood Susan had
always thought Of Dickens Bleak
House or the Tower Of London q
looking exactly like it. "AnythinR
on earth could happen n . mouse
that looks like this house." she had
said to herself hundreds OF times
But nothing ever did happen il
Il. Nothing unusual. Ut any rae
That was what was wrong with It
II Susan's opinion. Whole days
went By with nothing more excit'
inR than the arrival Of the morning
milk ct the back steps or the thuc
Of the evening paper as the news
boy tossed it Ct the front door.