Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-11


Her Aunt Lucy met similar
fate, but in Lucy'S case I think
the rebellion was mild enough.
II was just that Lucy never had
cared much for Greenwich Village,
anyhow.
Right away I want TO explain
that Gree, with all the surface
hardness and snnhisticalinn- she
had applied with her daily war
paint, was only Is when the cstas-
,rophe occurred.
AUN- uwo YEARS OLDER
And her IN -ss eXtactly two
vFars older, rnOUg,1 seeming UuCf
more settled because she weighed
lao TO Circe's lie, and wore
Undetermined spectacles instead of
the star-pattern lasheS that made
Circes dark eyes always seem so
enormous.
Six years back those two girls
came from place called Two Dot,
Mont. Gree had inherited and
Immediately sold the ranch her
father had owned. which was way
out and back of beyond.
Aunt Lucy, who was a trained
nurse just out of her hospital
year, had come 10 take care of
Circes dad in his last illness: and
so she came along 10 the city, on
the younger girls invitation.
In the course OF few months
Aunt Lucy had a rich private
patient with mild mental decisions.
and Gree was selling tours and
dispensing information al the long
counter as you enter The RCA
building in Radio City. ~
Another year. and Gree was re-
ceptionist for a swank importing
firm over in the Time and Life
Building, while Lucy had another
cid dodderer to care for-this time
a woman.
Gree was consumed by one am
bition. and that was to be taken
for native New Yorker-or per-
haps, for Partisan who had
designed to dwell in America.
She had inward chills whenever
the subject Of cows of any kind
arose.
NOT RECKLESS
Gree was not re ffy reck-
less. She had been canny enough
about investing her patrimony in
United States bonds which brought
her a net of about 3 per cent.
But even when her employer
boosted her already decent salary
once, twice and finally three
times. she continued TO feed her
inferiority complex, and don the
buds of New Yorker.
In those days if anyone had
looked at her. smiled, and said;
"Oh. you must be from the
Midwest" Gree simply would
have folded UP and died on the
spot.
Circe's firm had turned to the
South American trade. and was
fiourishing as never before. SO
when the first of May came this
year, a bonus of 20 per cent of a
years salary came Unexpectedly
10 all employees, the firm realizing
that surtaxes would take the new
profit if the employees didn't.
SO Gree looked wide-eyed at
her check, then added il to her
moderate bank balance in her
mind. She did some rapid cal
culating.
Tim going to buy a jeep"
she told Lucy. "Then you and
I'll take a long weekend first
chance we get, and tour New
England"
Lucy made a few mild protests
about the upkeep of the little car
but Gree never was one 10 be
stopped by the future.
For a little while then. while
she was getting a license TO drive,
and learning the difference be-
tween an accelerator pedal and a
brake, Gree saved all she could
Of her salary.
When she and Lucy made their
mad dash through New England,
they were going to stop at the
best places. No tourist cabins by
the old oaken bucket for them.
Everywhere they went Gree
played her part of wealthy New
Yorker, amused by new toy, Aunt
Lucy said little, but her blue eyes
sparkled behind the SpectacleS.
BETTER TIME
She may have had a better time
even than Gree. though at the
last she began to urge a return,
So Gree began 10 step on II,
heading south past PittSfield.
Great Darlington and toward
catastrophe.
The accident happened right in
front Of big dairy farm belong
ing 10 the Stannard brothers and
was without eXcuse-cXcept Circe's
ineXperience at the wheel
She let the right wheel meander
from the pavement 20 a soft
shoulder In a split second, going
40, she was tugging with all her
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