Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-11
CHAPTER XIV-Continued

Frank may be dying, and you can
talk about him like that!" Sheila
said, her face ashen white. Her
dress was still dusty and rumpled,
her face dirty, and she had deep
purple bruise on one temple. But
there was flaming beauty-a force
lin her aspect, as she faced the 9TH
er girl, that made Bernadette draw
back.
pretend that you love him, why
don't your" Bernadette said, in a
frightened logged voice.
II don't have to! I thought you
did!"
"Your kind always pretend that
they love everyone" Bernadette
said, in bitter contempt. cts all
love, and how boy isn't understood
at home, and things like that!"
my kind!" Sheila echoed, with a
bewildered look about the stricken
!. circle.
eyes,. your kind! The. kind that
goes to place like Atlantic City
with a rich mans son!"
'Look here" Joe Carscadden
said, suddenly taking a part in the
conversation. "Look here, Miss
What's-your-name. You be careful
what you. call my sister, will you,
or you'll find yourself in trouble!
Sheila isn't responsible to you for
what she does-no, nor the newspa-
pers, either! 80 e
"I'ves-just been talking to her."
Joe continued, warming at the
sound of his. own voice, and she's
been working hard in hotel down
there at Atlantic City, with no more
idea that Frank Nc Cam knew
where she was than"
Ethan the babe itself" Mrs. Cars
cadden supplied, as he paused for
breath, and for a smile.
"Joe, you believe me, don't you?
Sheila stammered, bursting into
tears.
81 believe you," Joe said, angrily,
land I've had enough of these rich
folks that pretend they want to help
a girl, Just because she's honest
enough to return fifty dollars their
daughter didn't even know she'd
lost! I don't care if my father and
yours were friends in Albany"
Joe went on wildly, Il don't want
my sister to have anything more
to do with you'll"
"Joe-Joe-" the judge began sor-.
rowfully, placatingly. joe shook off
the friendly hand.
"I'n bid you all good day!" he
said, heatedly. "Conne on, Ma. Come
on, Sheila!"
They went out, Sheila and her
mother and brother, into the night.
-se-way twas, Mamma" Shei-
la began.
Helping her mother and Joe with
the dishes, she was back in the
home kitchen, back in an old faded
bingham apron, with her bronzed
hair tied up severely in handker-
chief. Sheila had returned from
church, she had enjoyed once again
the delights of a leisure1y home
breakfast with the family, and she
was now retailing to them, for the
hundredth time, some of the lesser
details of her adventures.
Mrs. Carscadden now having fin
ished the dishes, was at the sink,
occasionally hopping it's already
well-mopped surface absently. Joe,
really listening, was pretending to
read the pages of the paper.
Don't tell me how it was, Shei-
Ia" her mother said resignedly, IT
can bear anything but that"
Sheila put her head down on the
table and laughed.
''No one was liver good as you
can make yourself out to be, whin
we've bust up two good engagements,
and thrown family like the Nc
Cams into grief and sorrow!" Mrs.
Carscadden observed.
''It may not be your fault" her
mother continued oracu1arly, "but
there's few cud get Themselves mixed
up in trouble the way you do an
kape such an innocent face on you.
WHATEVER you'd be doin' to get into
one of thin Zeppelins I don't know,
an that you'd come down near New
ark, New Jersey, is no more than
YOU DESERVED! A little befoor that"
Mrs. Carscadden continued, in a
droning, resigned sort of monotone,
sit was disappeared you were, an
no one had spache- or sight of we for
days. An befoor that again, it was
merried in Boston, Massachusetts,,
we were, by justice of the peace,
or was it a district attorney, Joe?"
"It was neither, Ma" Joe said,
and Sheila laughed again. She was
not deeply concerned; she was
thinking of something else this
morning.
She had made up her mind to
something the day before yesterday,
and since the instant of her decision
the world had been singing for, Shei-
la. She was going to call on Frank
Nc Cam.
The terrible day of the plane crash
was now almost two weeks in the
past; Sheila had had no commune
cation since with the Nc Cam fam
lily. The unfortunate pilot of the
plane had been hurled the phvSi-