Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-09-09

dropped INTO q Cnalr. WIN elbows
propped on her knees, chin in her
palms, she stared at the floor.
In bathrobe and slippers, Sam an
swered the phone. !.
"Can't make it-No. It's not an
other girl, it's family confab. Sam
Reyburn signing off. Good-hy!"
He slammed down the receiver.
"And I know of no reason why
should explain to you what I'm do
ing" he growled under his breath.
eli! Sammy! What's the shower
DANES manner" Lucette called.
Her brother scowled at her.
There's about as much privacy in
this apartment as there is in the
bandstand on the Common"
"Cheerio, darling. You'll have
privacy, and how, if you live with
Brooke. She's going HORSEPOWER in
a big way. If there's to be bath
for every bed, of course there
will be sound proof telephone
booth with every room. What did
you say the girl friends name
was?"
cts none of your business, kiddo,
who calls me-" Hands deep in the
pockets of his hectic bathrobe, Sam
paced the living-room floor.
His mother laughed softly. She
patted the couch.
"Stop walking the floor like a
hungry lion and sit down, Sam. Luz
cette started something just before
the phone rang. She should have
known better than to start anything
in the Reyburn family before it has
been fed, but now that she has,
you'd better finish it,"
"What d'you mean by started,
Mother?"
Brooke perched on the arm of a
chair at the desk. She faced them
all. Most of the time she could tell
quite we'll what they were thinking.
She answered her brothers. ques-
ton before her mother could.
"She means that Lucette an
nounced that she did not intend to
live at Lookout House with me, and
that you"
'Were not going either, SAM" Lu-
cette finished triumphantly.
"Aren't you, Sam?"
"Say listen, Brooke. Don't you
see how it is? I have to be at the
theater early; I'm late when ! get
through; rehearsing all the morn
ing. Twenty miles is long way to
commute"
IT had planned to buy you the
snappiest convertible coupe on the
market"
"Don't make me feel like a brute.
Don't you see"
"Of course I see, Sammy. You
want to be on your own. do under
stand"
Don't worry about his being on
his own, darling" Lucette cut in
bitterly. mo one can be on his own
in this family. The Great Adviser
intends to stay right here to look
after his little sister,"
Brooke's eyes met her brothers.;
he nodded. Lucette famed on:
"And Mothers going to stay to
look after both Of U.S."
"Mother!" Brooke echoed the
word with shocked incredulity. "But
I've planned the most wonderful
things for Mother. Is it true?"
Celia Reyburn's eyes sh on e
through mist as they met her
elder daughters. Her lips curved
in lovely, trembly smile.
when you say Mother, Brooke,
l think it the most beautiful word in
the world But I will not make my
home with you-at present. First,
because Lookout House is yours and
you should assume the responsible
ity and direction of it. You will do
it more easily if l am not there.
Second, l want to stay in the city,
not so much because of the chill
dren, but because now that your
financial future is assured, I shall
feel that may use little of the
money your father left me. I want
Il want to be in the heart of things.
I'll have an experienced maid, I'll
have the right clothes, and-and
I'll 60 places, I'm dying to 60
places"
Her imprisoned voice broke.
perhaps I'm selfish, perhaps you
children think I'm silly old worn-
an"
Sam flung his arm about his moth
Ell. "Hooray for the Spirit of '56!
Sorry, shouldn't have mentioned
your age, Celia Reyburn. Don't
worry that you won't get enough of
your family, Brooke. I'll have to
drag these two giddy girls off to
the country for rest occasionally.
Aren't sore at us, are you, Brooke?
Don't feel that we have let you down
to 60 on alone?"
"Of course I don't, you old dear.
Why shouldn't each one of us do as
we like, now that there is some
money back of us? Because I feel
that must carry out Mrs. Danes
wishes is no reason for dragging
the rest of you into the country.
Let's get busy planning If you are
all sold on staying in the city, we'll
have a bigger apartment. I may
want to spend weekend away
from the sticks myself"
(TO BE CONTINUED