The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-02
SYNOPSIS

tocratic family. i engaged 10 Wal
banker. Susan u Exceptionally
fond Of Wallace but . not sure
that she loves him. ALTHOUGH che
dossn't realise L, SuDan 10 more
attracted By Allen Sholes, The new
roomer, whom her suobblsh Iola.
lives ignore. Unels Worthy, his
wife Edna and Aunt Lutte, seill
consider themselves the cream Of
society and will not tolerato
anyone they regard beneath them.
That 10 Why they discourage Su.
sans and Johns (her brother)
Friendship for Uncle Arthur CuI.
len and his family, their late
mothsr's relatives. John, tired Of
his relatives supsrior. attitude.
upbraids them for being enobbiah.
Christmas morning, Norris Brod-
erick, Susan's father, stuns the
family with the nsWo that b. q 70
marry Mrs. Hopper, 1 widow.
John takes Alleu % the Culleus'
Tor dinnsr, leaving Susan to help
entoftain hoe aunt1' and uneloiS
guests. That aftefnoon, Sara Cul.
len phones asking Susan 20 leave
the old folks and Join them. While
dressing, Susan keeps thinning Of
Allen, hoping something win make
him look &C her the way men Do
her cousin, Mary. The party at
Cullsns' d Z gay, informal AFFAIR.
Susan, preparing . salad u The
pantry, feels someone casing &C
her and looks mp to see Allen
standing there. Finding thsm
there, Mary asks: Susie Brodss.
ick, ID this any way for IN engaged
girl @ act1 cornefing . pef9setly
nice man whom I've pieeed % BE-
my own particular partner for tn
evsningl" Allen asks Susan e che
10 really gagged. A. che looks mp
Allen and not Wallace che loves.
Susan con6dss - her annk Nell
Cullsn, who advises her not 60 an
nounco her engagomeut. Two
days later, hoWever, Susan 10
stunned to zee her picture and the
announcement Ia the paper. Aunt
Edna had given L % the society
reporter.
CHAPTER xVu
ally" ssid Lutie. we told : few
people, and later on your father
came home from Mr.. Hopper's, and
10 and your Uncle Worthy e
everybody no. about Il"
"Thsy were drinking your health
and Wallaee's al over the house.
ehimed IN Aunt Edna. II think
they had quite = bit TO much
ChTistm q. s shssr IN The ser nos.
"You Just imagine II, " said Unele
Aunt Edna suited. wen, yoa
put enough into Il % make you
dance around al afternoon after
Jessie Bunts, like . clown!" she
said. II noticed her goggling at you.
too" In Aunt Edne's eyes Uncle
Worthy was . crest lower. tzrestsd.
bio . Ill women.
That afternoon . delivery truck
from Hart's store stopped n the
snowy street outside tho house and
the boy came running up % the
door With . package Tor Susan.
Inside the cover Of the PASTE
board box that the green paper
wrappinss revealed lay Connie
SayfeS visitine card With sLove
from Connie" written acroes Il. and
under the layers Of white tissue Pm
per Was Q wadded silk breakfast
coat Of . dim and subtle pink.
Its N engagemene present, .
Lutie cried In rapture. SOh, but
won't 6 Is lust the thing % WEAR
when you and wallace have break
fast 81 your own hotel room on your
honeymoou /. It's perfect I've
BEEN Wishing ] could ct you one,
but I Just don't ssem 70 havs the
money right now
susan lifted the eoat from the
box. III I'd gone % business school
"a rot . position somewhere % !
OUGHT 20 have done two or three
years 40. I could buy my own
things now, Lutte.
"0h, we'll get . trousseau e.
xether for You. somehow Or other.
said Aunt Edna. I'VE have almost
six months before June. and we'rl
going 70 start cutting down oul
household expenses right away
Your uncle and I had . long tall
about Il yesterday. We've decided
to let Anna 50 after all"
Susan's eyes dew open. lie,
Anna go?"
Two weeks before Aunt Ednl
bad said that under DO circum