The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-27
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and utterly dismayed, 'Not IN five
years, Lorna?"
Lorna had shrugged. "Well, you
might postpone the calamity q year
by sending her around the world
but eventually you've got to face
the unpleasant responsibility Of .
grown-up daughter"
But rs it happened he had never
had to, at least not for long.
Stanley had been taken sway
from the quiet apartment in tho
Gramercy Park district and sent
to m expensive and correct girls
school on the Hudson. Vacations
she had spent in . New York hotel
with Ellen and once : year her
father had arranged for her to run
over to Paris, or Vienna or Ostend,
or wherever he had happened at
the moment to be staying.
During the next five years, STAN
ley had grown from q thin-legged,
grave-eyed child into q rather beau
tiful girl. She had been neither
more nor less happy than when
she had lived in New York with
Ellen. She had always been quite
happy and little lonely and q bit
entranced by life and lot puzzled
by it. She still was. She didn't feel
sorry for herself. She never had.
But she did feel lonely. It wasn't
exactly IN unpleasant loneliness but
it was there all the time - some
where 1T the back Of her heart. It
was . feeling that more than any.
thing else in the world she wanted
to belong somewhere-to someone.
To someone besides Ellen who was
kind and sturdy and honest but
didn't understand. She had made
friends easily and eagerly but
never intimately. She had found
life an altogether pleasant and de-
sirable thing but she had been I
bit bewildered by it and sometimes
family hurt. She had thought her
father handsome and gay and quite
charming-and not . very impor-
tant part Of her life.
And yet when he had died sud-
denly at the end Of her first season.
which he had come back to New
York to give her, she had felt mora
alone than ever and during the past
three years she had come to realize
that # he had lived things would
have been different for her.
As it was, her Aunt Julie had
Immediately stepped, in and start
ed to arrange her life for her. The
result had been anything but sat-
isfying to Stanley.
And now she was back in New
York, sitting in Alta lawson.
charming drawing room and ouite
free to do exactly Is she pleased.
And thst night she pleased to %
dancing with Perry in q dahlis-
colored gown. Beyond that she was.
still not sure Of anything. She felt
somehow that beyond that NOTHING
mattered very much, or il it did +
would quite likely take care Of Il.
self.
Perry came for her at eight
o'clock - bringing her eardenias.
A lovely. waxen cluster Of them
They trembled against her Shout.
der. gave Perry . nice sense ~
possession. He always felt ! pleas.
ant little proprietary right in eirI.
who wore his flowers - temnor.rv
but consoling.
They dined It = club in the F;f
ties where the liquor was good ana
the music superb. Stanley danr.-.
beautifully, abandoning herself :.
the music, never talking. She look.
ed = bit disappointed when he s,,s
gested that they 60 on to Nice,
Stern's studio.
mot but that I'd rather laen
You quite to myself and ali th.t
but you asked to be amused and :
promised to do It. Besides. / to,d
Nigel we'd drop in" 80
(To Be continued)
Ccpyrisht. 1881, ~ Ailene corl;..
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