The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-13

thing will be all right. Leave j
Presently, sitting in the warm
breakfast nook, drinking coffee,
refusing warmedover biscuits,
and then changing her mind and
eating three with lots Of butter
and homemade grape jelly, she
almost thought that it would.
This IS the first REAL coffee
we've had" Eddie said flatter'
ingly. "You can't count what we
had on the train"
"On the train? But you-you
DROVE"
IT drove down. Nom, with two
fellows in that little roadster.
The three of us packed in like
mackerel in a can. We couldn't
put Marie in, there wasn't room.
So she and I came back on the
train"
Mrs. Wilson tried to grasp the
full significance of this Did you
have the money!" she asked in a
low voice.
"Oh, Marie's step-father, a re-
tired business man, put up for
that. He wanted to. He made
Marie quite a nice cash wedding
present, too"
WELL" Mrs. Wilson said. Her
face frightened a little. Not that
she approved, but If the girl had
money and could really help Ed
die.
CHAPTER XIII
my mother gave me this" Ma
RE touched the diamond clip at
her neck, and as her new mother.
1n-law looked polite, but unim-
pressed, she added: cts all real
stones, and platinum. Mother had
it made into a clip a couple of
years ago."
"Her mother-she was an
actress, you know, had the stones"
put in Eddie.
WELL" Mrs. Wilson said again.
She offered more biscuits, which
Marie refused, but Eddie ate.
1t was too bad that Eddie had
done this thing. He must have
been crazy, but it was plain that
he might have done worse. She
thought of Mrs. Woster's Fred,
who went to the Russian River
for two weeks and came back
married to a divorce with three
little children-and Fred barely
al!
I'VE haven't a guest room," she
told Marie shyly. I'VE used to.
The front room that Bees got
now, used to be. We used to
have quite lot of guests, mostly
my folks from Davenport, Iowa,
but we never got around to visit
ing them back, and finally they
stopped coming.
1T was an expensive trip for all
but my brother.in-law and my sis
ter-he works for the railroad,
and now they've settled out here
in East Oakland what was I
saying? Oh, yes. about the guest
room.
so, anyway, the children were
growing UP and the rain used to
beat in on that old sleeping porch
so bad-it's on the west Side-that
it wasn't much good. was always
having to dry out the bedding, so
we had it glaSSed in and I gave it
TO Eddie and put Bee in the front
room that used to be the guest
room, and So"
She stopped in confusion. She
was going to say, Il suppose you'll
have to be in the sleeping porch
with Eddie" but she couldn't
quite bring herself to face it. Eddie
and that girl. She didn't see how
she could stand it.
Blushing furiously, she got UP
and started for the stairway. Over
her shoulder she called, You can
come UP if you want to-"
Eddie picked up the bags.
81 suppose my trunk will come
later" Marie said. Again she was
close to tears. She walked so close
to Eddie that the big brown suit
case bumped her. at every step.
Edward set the suitcases down
on the painted floor of his room
the room that used to be a sleep
ing porch.
Marie closed the door behind
them, and then stood, clasping and
unclasping her cold hands. watch.
ing him anxiouSly.
Take off your hat and stay a
while2"
She took it off, held it.
Honey - for heavens sake!
Cheer up! My mother isn't so
terrifying as all that, is she? I
thought she warmed up pretty
well. You've got to remember this