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would question, lnSlSC on knowing
whence the windfall came.
Grandmother didn't ask. She
wouldn't ask, even when Evelyn
couldn't resist dragging David's
name into it.
David doesn't think I look
any different-imagine! After Is
years.
"David's so bossy-wants to
manage all my affairs for me!
David thinks we ought to
have a place of our own. Maybe
I'll look around little, tomor-
row"
Even then grandmothe r
wouldn't say anything. When
she'd fixed the asparagus and
showed Jan the way her mother
used to like strawberries, with
the hulls on and little bowl of
powdered sugar to DIP them in,
she said her headache was get
ting worse, and went off to bed.
ut must be awful to live to be
so old" Dorathea said. II hope
1 don't live to be over 80 at most.
But grandmother seems aw-
fully young sometimes!" Jan pro-
tested, for she'd got over her
first disappointment in not find
ing Grandmother Failey an i'm
posing dowager decked out in a
pompadour and diamond dog
clolar.
"Oh, yes, but that's just a
phase that will soon pass" Dora
thea returned, Importantly. "SuS-
pended animation"
suspended what?" Evelyn gig
gled. Then she would have
changed the subject, because
Dorathea had a way of demand
ing all the why's and WhereforeS,
and it had always been Tom who
explained.
well! Like a rose that stays
perfect for a long time, and then
-poof!-it falls to pieces. So in
the end it's the same thing, and
I'm glad I'm not Old"
you will be some day, and
you're a heartless girl to say such
things about your own grand
mother" Evelyn said lightly, for
she'd already forgotten why she
was momentarily upset, and was
mentally planning her campaign
for tomorrow.
CHAPTER VIII
David was to take them over to
Mill Valley, and they'd visit the
old house, and then drive out
through the flowery country.
Caroline has asked us all to
teaT Grandmother objected when
it was mentioned next morning.
ooh, Caroline!!" Evelyn grunt-
ed. Even when David teleQhoned
that he couldn't possibly take the
day off, she was determined not
to postpone it.
"You go to Caroline's," she told
grandmother, airily. The thought
of Caroline'S thWarted plan that
she'd made so Mechanically with
out consulting anyone, was pleas
ant enough almost to make up for
the disappointment of David's not
driving them.
So they started off, jauntily, on
a perfect April day.
The ferry ride across the bay
was perfect. They sat out in the
sun an the upper deck and threw
crackers, that Evelyn bought, to
the circling screeching gulls.
"We always brought bread
from home for them when We were
children" she said, remembering
the old days, knowing that she
was going to visit the beloved old
house again.
That's Angel Island - and
that's Alcatraz, where they have
tine prisoners the 'Farallones
are out there, though you can't
see them-and over there's Goat
Island"
There wasn't a question she
couldn't answer. She was in high
spirits. She even knew which of
the waiting electric trains to take,
to bring them to the Mill Valley
house.
"This way!" she led off in
rush of enthusiasm, through the
little town, up a lane that was
lined with hawthorne trees, heavy
with white and pink bloom.
Even when they left the shade
trees, and turned up a steep, hot
shortcut" to the upper road, no.
body minded much, though Dora
thea did wi"N she'd worn flat heels
like JAMS.
1t was longer than Evelyn re-
membered. Hot for April, too.
But never mind, they were going
to the old Failey house.
Ito Be COntinued)
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