The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-07
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CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XII
eff | live to be ten thousand,
or hundred thousand or a mil
iion," said Alice Moreland, "Ill
never forget the day you and
Howard came home after he'd
been sick with pneumonia, and
you'd just rot him to bed when
| came dashing over to tell you
that Edgar'd been captured by
the Germans and I was so happy
because he wouldn't have to fight
any more and l could send hin
proper food End things. We stood
there hugging each other anC
laughing with Joy, because youl
husband was threatened with tn,
berculosis and mine was a pris,
oner of war! Ny dear. weren't
we funnyw
"And that" said Amy, eva:
Is years ago"
II don't reahze it until | lool
at the children. Nancy, young
lady, with suitors simply standing
in line, and Howard Second as
tall as his father, and my Vir
ginia almost II and pouting be-
cuse ] won't LET her carry a van,
ity case, and young Ned entering
gramar school next fall. They
make me feel old as the hills"
"You don't look old, Alice. Yo:
don't look much older than Vir,
ginia."
IF l could only thin down q
little! The styles are all SC
slimmy-not that can afford
any new clothes. I'm going to
sew ruffles on all my last sum-
mer dresses and wear them again.
I've got to. I told EDGAR if he
said one more word about bust
mess being bad I'd 90 out and
buy me a whole new outfit, and
he said, all right, it'll look swell
in the poorhouse."
Amy laughed. "The faculty's
about due for another cut, so
won't be getting anything new
either. I'll have to fix up some
thing for the commencement par
ties, though. but I think 7 can
find a piece of lace or chiffon
over in Hopsonville and use my
old blue satin for a slip. Nancy
must have couple of frocks,
too"
"That young-English instruc-
tor-what his name-Carver-
is giving Nancy, a big rush, isn't
he? And Victor Gates. too, the
one the boys call Wee Gates. But
l thought, the other night at the
Berywns' party, that Nancy IA
vored the INSTRUCTOR"
81 don't know, Alice They
come and 90 too fast for me to
keep their ratings straight. Yes
terday Nancy was asking Howard
for his volume of Keats. That
looks like Richard Carver. Then
Victor telephoned and he's COM
ing up to try some new rhumha
steps tonight when the Cubans
are on the radio. So there you
are"
"And the French professor last
year"
"Poor Blanchard-he did have
it bad! I was glad that he didn't
come back this year"
|. "Nancv's just like you. ANY.
Edgar always says you had all
the beaux in Marburg when you
were a girl. She must have in
herited it."
Amy looked at her visitor odd
ly. "You forget" she said;
'Nancy's not my own daughter. y
81 always forget it! She seems
like your own. Well, her mother
must have been a heart-breaker,
too"
With a flash of memory Amy
recalled that none of the Mar
burg young men had ever liked
Jane. They didn't 20 to see her
nor take her about. But she could
not tell that to Alice for Alice
did not know whose child Nancy
was. The secret had been well
kept.
Nancy herself had asked, once,
and ANY had said that all she
could tell her was that her real
mother was a beautiful and clever
woman, w hose circumstances
wouldn't permit her to keep her
child Amy had wondered since
if Nancy thought about it, or
brooded over it privately, but she
could never see a sign of it.
There was nothing brooding or
morbid about the spirited, active
Nancy. ,4
For a moment Amy wished that
she had not brought UP the sub
iect with Alice. She was very