The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-09
MARSHALL'S DAUGHTER
CHAPTER VIII

It was the morning after the spring opening of the Country Club
 Ann and Sally sat eating a late breakfast.
 Tt was too exciting, Sally Ann was bubbling as she sat drinking her coffee, looking much like Q little girl in her crisp blue house dress, a blue ribbon around her head.
 "Exciting! I'd say" Sally ex- claimed with eager eyes. Give me the details"
 well, those people came in I don't know who they were of course, and when we went into the ballroom, this man rushed toward me as we stood in the doorway. He is terribly good- looking. I can hardly wait for him to get here. He's handsome, with some gray in his hair, just like used to dream my father would look, and he dashed over to me, calling me Jean. You know that was my mothers name, so they said at the home, and the note that she left was signed that way. And there he was. telling me I was her image, asking Ken if he were crazy, seeing a ghost.
 T told him I was Jean Ann Marshall so what, and he says he's my father.
 Was everybody impressed? The Marshalls, it seems have everything and always have had, and I gather cd from the conversation that Father doesn't that sound nice was a sort of black sheep, went to New York and fell violently in love with my mother, who was chorus girl. He married her, and when he brought her down here, his family were so snooty that she ran away. His mother must have been like Ken's mother, I guess" Ann's words tuInbled out, as she hurried through her, story.
 Mother was going to have me, but didn't tell them, she hated them so, and her husband, too for not making them take her in, or something, and when I was born, she didn't tell them until long afterward. She wrote Father a letter telling him that he had a daughter whom she had named t<n Ann Marshall, but that he wo never find her.
 He never saw my mother again aYnd Ia bod y,n Ht,ou of fro,i,,u fl,a child, so she had a complete re- venge for everything. He mar ried again, later, and has two sons. The second wife is dead now.
 You ought to marry him, Sal ly. Wouldn't that be nice? You could be my stepmother, and you wouldn't have to work any more. I'll see what l can do. And he's coming. There's the bell now.
 She was on her feet, hurrying out, returning in a moment accom- panied by stranger
 You're as beautiful in the day. light as you are at night" John Marshall said as he walked beside her. My dear, I can't believe it is all true, but there isn't any question in my mind"
 Tt doesn't seem possible" an- swered Ann, he voice shaking little. Yes, she would like this man for a father, or for friend. You don't know what 1t means to always want family and never have one. It's just too wonderful.
 And this is Sally. She's pre- tending to be my aunt, though she isn't, and you mustn't ever tell anybody the difference. Sally will have to be on my mothers side. I've been most indefinite up to now, but now that the family tree has branches on one side, I'll have to begin to grow them OH the other. But Sally is 8 piece of background I never had and the finest person in the world Sally, this is MT John Marshall my father. hope 1t Is true that I can say that"