Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-11-09

terested her weak husband beyond
anything he had ever known in his
drifting days of bachelorhood. "Aft.
er dinner" she told Eloise, cpl
show you Deps roses. They are
quite marvellous. I think his col.
lection will be beyond anything in
this part of the country"
Delafeld, coming up, said, "They
are Lucy's roses, but she says am
to do the work."
"But why not have a gardener?
Eloise demanded.
"Oh, we have But I should hate
to have our garden a mere mat
ter of-mechanics. Del has some
splendid ideas. We are going to
work for the flower shows. Prizes
and all that"
Delafield purred like a pussy-cat.
II shall name my first rose the
Little Lucy Logan Z"
Edith, locking arms with Jane, a
little later, as they strolled under a
wisteria-hung trellis towards the
fountain, said, ''Lucy's making a
man of him because she loves him.
And I would have laughed at him.
We would have bored each other to
DEATH"
'tThey will never be bored" Jane
decided, with their roses and their
little pigs"
They had reached the fountain. It
was an old-fashioned one, with thin
streams of water spouting up from
the bill of a bronzed crane. There
were goldfish in the pool, and big
green frog leaped from a lily pad.
Beyond the fountain the wisteria
rooted path of pale light. A pea
cock walked slowly towards them,
its long tail sweeping the ground in
FURNISHED beauty.
"Think of this" said Jane, land
Lucy's days at the Office
"And yet," Edith pondered, "she
told me if he had not had a penny
she would have been happy with
him."
81 believe it. With cottage, one
pig, and a rose-bush, they would
find bliss. It is like that with them"
The two women sat down on the
marble coping of the fountain. The
peacock trailed by them, its jewels
all ablaze under the sun.
Adelaide, in her FURNISHED tulle,
tall, slender, graceful as willow,
was swinging along beneath the trel-
lis. The peacock had. turned and
walked beside her. "What a pic
ture Badly could make of that"
Edith said, " The Proud Lady,"
EDO you know" James voice was
also lowered, when I look at her,
I feel that it is she who should
marry your uncle"
Edith was frank. IT should hate
her. And so would he in a month.
She's artificial, and you are so
adorably natural, Jane"
Adelaide had reached the circle
of light that surrounded the foun-
tain. "The men have come and
have gone up to Dress" she said.
"All except your uncle, Edith. He
telephoned that he can't get here
until after dinner. He has an i'm
portant conference"
"He said he might be late. Benny
came, of course?"
eyes, and Eloise is happy. He
had brought her all the town gossip.
That's why left. hate gossip"
Edith knew that pose. No one
could talk more devastatingly than
Adelaide of her neighbours affairs.
But she did it, subtly, with an eff
feet of charity. 81 am very fond of
her," was her way of prefacing
ruthless revelation.
81 thought your brother would be
down." Adelaide looked at Jane,
poised on the rim of the fountain,
like a blue butterfy,-"but he
wasn't with the rest"
"Baldy can't be here until tomor-
row noon. He had to be in the Of
fce."
"What are you going to do with
yourself in the meantime, Edith"
Adelaide was in a mood to make