The Washington times., 1936-11-25

said YEARLY, I'm not the wor
shipper of the family that usec
to be-"
II shouldn't think you would be
OF course, Peter has his soft side
He is letting Edith and that idiot
of a husband Of hers have thai
flat
"And I'm losing the IS per cenj
on the remit"
Caroline smiled. "Well, some
one has to pay when Peters gener
GUS anyway. He thinks he's done
so much for you, and all the
while"
"For ME? All the trouble I've
had with the tenants! And if ]
hadn't had to live in that hole
Dorathea would never have met
Bennie Rogers. I'm terribly upset
over it. She seems happy, but
heavens, how can she be? How
can it last? A girl like Dorathea
and a cheap nobody like"
"You ought to hear Peter rave!
He's told everybody we know how
she's disgraced the family. Just as
if he didn't disgrace us, the way
he's acted. Perhaps you think this
affair of his with the Dunno
woman is something new. It's
been going on for three years that
I know of. AS long as he was care
full about it and didn't take her
to respectable places I pretended
I didn't know, but when he began
taking her out introducing her to
our friends, I gave up"
can then he had the nerve to
criticize me because I went out to
dinner once in while!"
ooh, we'll! Why pay any atten.
ton to him? He's just big bluff.
The whole family's been living on
your fathers reputation, and even
he wasn't the big shot they took
him for!"
"Caroline!"
ooh, don't mind me, Evelyn, I've
kept my opinions to myself for 19
years and now that I'm not in the
family any longer 1 can say what
I think.
lone of the things I think is
that Peter and Francesca-the
two of them-ought to be shot for
letting you and the girls live as you
have. What chance did he ever
give Dorathea? Sending her to
Miss Carver's for one semester.
Just enough to make her disSatis-
fled. And then trying to make a
business woman out of her. 1t was
inevitable that she'd get into some
troubled"
''They seem to be crazy about
each other" Evelyn said weakly.
"Oh, nonsense! You and I know
what that means! JAMS crazy
about the Kramer boy and he's
crazy about her, and that's one
thing you can charge up to luck.
That is, if they're really engaged
they are, aren't they?"
"I-I think so. She's so quiet
never talks the way other girls do,
But they write all the time and
you know he never LOOKED at
another girl and they invited Jan
to every dinner or dance or tea
they ever had over there and the
Senora's so hard-boiled and such
a Snob she wouldn't have done it
if she didn't know that Lowell had
his heart set on it!"
"They're an awfully rich and
important family. People like
that usually have very definite
plans"
81 know. That's what worries
me-" Evelyn admitted uneasily,
"but that's what has surprised me,
too! For it isn't as though Jan
was some pretty little girl that
he'd fall in love with in a minute,
and forget in another minute.
They've always been so SERI-
GUS! Solemn as a couple Of
little owls, from the first"
"Well, I hope everything turns
out all right" Caroline said. I'm
sure it will. I only wish I were as
sure of Ards future. She's a
problem.
"Ardis?" Evelyn began to feel
better.
"Of course. She hasn't had
things much easier than Dora
thea and Jan. That set your faith
er cultivated are all millionaireS
now and they forgot about the
FaileyS as soon as the judge died.
But try and tell Edith and Peter
that!
Ito Be COntinued)
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