The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-03
CAST OF CHARACTERS

BARRY WENTWORTH. Jill,
stepbrother.
JACK WENTWORTH. Jill,
brother.
SYLVIA SUTTON. oil heiress
Yesterday: Ardath asks Alan &c
permit her to pose for him some
day. Later. Jill decides to invite
Alan to her party.
CHAPTER NH
That evening after dinner. Jill
asked her father: What would
you think if l told you | was plan
ming to spend some of your hard
earned money on n big and very
unnecessary party
I'D say Fine
You're sure, dad IL isn't a
luncheon OF cocktail party or re-
ception for a few score guests,
but one of those great, gilded
balls which swish with silk and
swish louder with champagne"
"Go a. far rs YOU like with the
SwiShing You haven't had big
shindig for a long time. People
will be- saying: What's happened
70 the WcntworthS? They've for
gotten how TO entertain. Maybe
they're not feeling so prosperous.
You can see for yourself. Jill,
that would be poor advertising.
These days we can't afford to
have gloomy reports spread"
Jill was 20 remember what her
stcpfather had said later. But at
the time the remark did not seem
significant 70 her. IL was typical
Of her father. who had always
been generous with all of his
family Even with Barry, the
waSter OF the family. though
Barry would never admit that he
wasted more, than most boys in
his crowd Spent-boyS who were
experimenting money their par
ents gave them with salaries of
their own.
ill didn't agree with her ia
Tiers philosophy that spending
was good advertising. 1t was the
philosophy she heard on all sides,
however. But at any event, the
party was 10 be. She would send
Alan the invitation. 4 miracle
might happen and he would come.
A miracle MUST happen.
In an excitement of planning.
Mrs. Wentworth came nearer TO
cOmpanionableneSs with Jill than
she had since her debut. She aD-
praised everything expertly. II
there was one thing in which she
was really Interested, 1t was
clothes.
For the time she had pushed in
20 the background the bitter fact
that her plans had miscarricd
about Barry and Sylvia. Some
day she wOUld remember again
that Sylvia was engrossed in
trousSeau shopping, carrying the
image of Jack in her heart, in
stead of Barry. as she purchased
her lovely things: and that with
Barry and his father at odds, Jill
and Jack walked through the
world secure in his favor, with
high hearts and high heads.
Temporary balm was being laid
on her wounds by the flattcring
attention of sales people, as AFRO
CANT in their special inches as
their customers were IN their
own. NO, Miss Davis, don't call
Miss Walton. Madame Louise al
ways waits on Mrs. Wentworth,
herself"
She Found Jill surprisingly
eager % shop cndleSSly for one
dress: Jill. who always loathed
the bother Of shopping, and who
had accepted substitutes time and
again i'm order 90 escape the rOu-
tine OF looking.
II must be that Jill was thinking
with favor Of Milo Montanne. 1t
was almost too much 70 hOrc for.
Jill married 10 man of immense
wealth. All Of her responsibility
would be- ended,
She threw herself into selection
OF the dress with Il fevoyr and
warmth that surprised ill. FOR
the time they were just two NO.
men drawn together through an
immemorial urge.
For a short while, Mrs. Went
worth felt almost mOthCrly to-
ward Jill. IL was much the sort Of
feeling of the bird mother, as she
pushes her young over the side of
the nest. warnin gthem TO fly or
fall.
Mrs. Wentworth wanted the
party az one of the leading no.
tells any home affair lacked
the briliiance that q swank down
town setting could give il.
People knew what the initial
outlay was in the former. what
you had paid for the ballroom
and hotel service. But no matter
how your own home swarmed
with caterers and servants, a
party there didn't make quite the
same impression.
And then. immense as the ball
room was at the Wentworths'
home, there was always more
room to spread oyer-Or into-at
a hotel.
But, % her amazemcnt. her
husband vetoed the suggestion.
mo use in throwing money away
in large chunks, when we have
every facility for entertaining at
home" he said.
They were at the dinner table.
Jill, looking at her father, had
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