The Washington times., 1936-11-18

| Aunt Edith's voice rose above the
rest.
II don't give a rap where she
goes" Peter said.
Then Aunt Edith switched the
subject back to the Fentons and
her girls. Alice was taking up
weaving. Not that she'd go into
it commercially, of course, though
some nice girls did.
But not our girls" Ellery said
unctiously.
Then he told them about the
book he was writing. They lis
tened restlessly. He hadn't de-
cided what publisher to let have
it. That's study in itself. If 1
were to send it to the wrong house,
it would give a false impression Of
the book. The average reader as
sociates certain houses with a Ger
tain type of work. Now in my case,
bringing out a first novel, Of Sc
rious import"
Jan moved back and forth from
kitchen to living room, bringing
coffee and crackers and cheese.
1.-THE funereal baked meantS," she
as Ards called the refreshments
that must accompany any Failey
gathering.
After a while, Dorathea, bearing
traces of tears, but lovely as ever
in Chinese brocade lounging
robe Of Evelyn's, came into the
room.
They were all a little embar-
rassed at seeing her.
TOO much like seeing the
corpse walk" Jan told herself,
with a nervous giggle.
Dorathea walked around, greet
ing everyone dutifully, kiss for
Aunt Edith and Alice and Anne, d
handclasp for Uncle Peter and FL
lery.
whats the verdict?" she
asked, smiling little.
Strengthened by her family be-
hind her, Evelyn said severely,
''You know what it is! You're not
going to see him again. Further
more we are going to put them
out-the first thing in the morn
ing. don't know why I rented the
place to them in the first place."
Il told you not to take chill
dren," Peter said.
Evelyn glared at him. "It's hard
enough to get anyone to move into
these old rundown apartments!"
We'll, if you'd done as I said
and not been so greedy for the rent
they wouldn't be here now and
Dorathea wouldn't have got her
self in this mess. I don't want peo-
pie like that in my place. There
are enough good people who are
little hard up and darn glad to get
a place with a good address like
this!"
Uncle Ellery cleared his throat.
you're exactly right, Peter. Now
take us for example. It's not what
we're accustomed to, but we lite
rary fellows-especially those of us
who play the market a bit-can't
be chooSers these days. I was just
wondering, Edith, dear, if you
would not like to consider it. It
would be convenient for the
girls"
"No!" Alice said. "No, Daddy
not unless mother thinks"
But, darlings, do! I think Dad
dy's idea is perfect! And with your
taste for decorating, Anne, and
some of Alice's lovely hand-loomed
things"
Evelyn almost forgot the family
crisis in her worry that the
Lyons might take the flat! For,
of course, they wouldn't pay
they'd Just talk about it-and pre-
tend they were going to-and
Peter would let it go by, not
caring that he was cheating her
out of her income.
II don't think you'd like it,"
Peter said hastily.
"On the contrary, I believe we
would" Ellery replied, looking
around the square little room, II
believe we would"
But the downstairs flat isn't
even as nice as this one! You'd
never be happy in it-never!"
Evelyn cried.
But Edith was walking all
around, looking at the room as II
she'd never seen it before.
"It will do very nicely" she
said.
(TO Be Continued)
Copyright. 1886 by King Featurss
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