Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-10-21
CHAPTER V-Continued

you're darling, Brooke. I ap-
preciate now the color, and the
sense Of Gods in His Heaven, all's
right with the world you brought
into Mary Amanda Danes life. I
had intended to start boycott
against you and your family here
because you had cut Mark out of his
inheritance, but he asked me to be
nice to you. I adore that boy.
would do anything for him. He
lived in nightmare of humiliation
with wife who came home night
after night barely able to keep her
feet. Why, why can't women real
ize that it's their privilege to keep
up the standards of decency? He
stood by her, though, and held his
head high, and wouldn't allow his
soul to be warped by the expert
ence."
Brooke left her town car in the
garage when she reached Lookout
House. She was thoughtfully draw
ing off her gloves as she approached
the garden door of her house. A
stream of light laid a golden path
on leafess shrubs and graveled
walk. A woman was at the door!
A woman in fox cape. Mrs. Hunt!
Talking with Henri.
Brooke stepped into the purple
shadow of spruce. She could see
and she could hear:
''If you keep a level head we
can't lose, Henri"
The mans murmur was indistinct.
He closed the door softly as the
woman went down the steps. She
flung furtive look at the windows
of the house before she vanished in
the dusk.
"That seems to be that" Brooke
said to herself, before she started
around Mark Trent's house that she
might enter her own front door I'M
observed by a possible watcher in
the garden.
AS she entered the living-room at
Lookout House, she rang for Henri.
The green parrot squa wked,
'Stop!", rufaed his feathers, and
hoped up and down in his cage.
She was standing near the fire, let
ter opener in hand, looking over
the mail she had found on the desk
when the butler entered.
"Did anyone call, Henri"
ION the phone, Miss"
cat the house."
Henri opened the door of the par
rot's cage. Mr.. Micawber hoped
to his shoulder and began tweaking
his ear.
"Never mind about the parrot,
Henri. Answer my question"
"But take him out like this for
walk around three times a day,
Miss; the old madame wanted him
to have a change of scene. Not
person called at this house. We're
you expecting someone?"
eyes, the lady who is to have
charge of selling tickets for the play
phoned that she might come this
sfternoon. Probably she couldn't
make it. That's ALL"
Her eyes followed him as he left
the room with the green bird NUT
tering on his shoulder. Always she
had distrusted the man of whom
Mary Amanda Dane had been so
fond. Why should he have lied to
her about Mrs. Hunts presence at
the garden door of Lookout House?
Because the woman was there to
see him of course. With her
thoughts still on Henri and his eva
sions, she slit one of the envelopes
in her hand and drew out the letter
it contained. All thought of the but
Ter fled as she saw that the letter
head was that of the firm for which
she had been fashion adviser.
Dear Miss Reyburn.-she read
Any chance of your wanting a job?
We are opening dress shop at Palm
Beach under the name of Carston's Inc
Very swank. very expensive. Celeste
will be business manager. We'd like
you to be top mannequin-with a sal.