Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-05-23
oopyrisht: 1871 By News Syndicate Co. Inc
IN TWO PARTS-PART TWO

Oopyrisht: 1871 By News Syndicate Co.. Inc
IN TWO PARTS-PART TWO
She invited Susan and the babies to
spend four months with her. Or five.
She had been worried over Rudd's
babies in a city.
Lake Lilas was 80 miles from the
northern end Of New York City. Rudd
could come out over week-ends with
ease.
Rudd's long-drawn "Oh" on receipt
OF this invitation was eloquent. Susan
wanted TO cry and kiss him. Her own
heart had leaped like young grass
hopper for a green leaf in a dry road.
Milk and grass for Bobsy and Binky.
Sweet summer air by day and by night.
Fresh trout. Flowers and birds. Golf
and luncheons at Cousin Grace's coun-
try club. Swimming, tennis, music. And
everything free!
She said rapturously, "Rudd. we'll
all be so chuck full Of rehabilitation by
September that We won't quarrel ever
again. And the janitor knows a wom-
an who'd like to subrent this apart
ment. with one room reserved for you,
darling"
Susan, love you SOL
My bathing suit is all right. Yours
is moth-eaten. The kids will have to
have suits. And linen hats. Rudd, have
you any left?"
Money, she meant. All, she had not
dared before to ask that awful ques-
ton. Now. it had slipped from her
tongue as gaily as fish from skillet.
Enough for bathing suits. And"
I've two really good organdy dress
eS, Rudd. You need shorts"
At the first Wednesday night dance,
Susan regained youth and laughter.
New men liked her, pleaded with her
tn coma outside the cluh house where
the night air was scented and cooler
and there was more privacy. Generous
ly she hoped that on Saturday night
Rudd would contact seven or eight
pretty girls who would perk him up,
too.
Lovely TO know that Bobsy and Binky
were asleep and guarded by Cousin
Grace, who did not care to dance and
preferred TO spend an evening with
good murder.
Rudd came for the weekend. And was
properly perked up. his wife saw ana
rejoiced. Later, like newlyweds, they
raided Cousin Grace'S icebox ana
chewed chicken wings and fig bars TO
Susan, I sold four electric iceboxes
in three days. I'm saving every cent;
In the fall, we'n get along fairly well.
His voice was alive. His eyes were
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ence.
susan hoped that next Saturday
there'd be really stunning girl wnod
eve him and desire him and take him
for a boat ride and tell him he was
wonderful. So that his poor ego, de-
flated like her own SO sadly IN lew
sad years, might swell like PINK para
chute and float him to new green fields.
He asked anxiouSly, "Dad BllKy nave
chicken for Supper2
Gee, Susan, you're mean. 1t wouldn't
He rumpled her red-brown hair and
danced her to their bedroom. Rudd had
lost his perpetual crouch.
The next weekend was was even bet
Cousin Grace told Susan at breakfast
on Saturday: .,,..
well. dear, the summers fireworks
start. Mrs. McHenry told me that her
niece Rosalind arrives today LOT SIX
weeks of free board o,
Doesn't she like this nleceP
NO. Nor do l. She is--predatory. l
wouldn't" said Cousin Grace, oaFkiy,
put it past Rosalind Burney 10 Kill
her aunt for that life insurance.
Ill llldU SsioS,
aunt would not house her.
"Oh, I'm a born eXaggerator, ADMIT
ted Cousin Grace. But Ole Holstead
shot himself as much because RoSailnd
divorced him as because he Crashed Ill
the stock market" .,,
Ole Halstead. The Wall Street Dull.
Susan remembered the news wrlte-upS'
which had been lurid. Three months pc,
fore his suicide he had oeen oiVorGeu
uhn had hppn his
secretary and formerly, the "lle VI oi'e
of his younger clerks; ,,
She had been awarded large allrnoIly,
cash settlement and monthly tnou
sands. Suicide and financial crash hao
yoided alimony.
she must have been annoyed muir
INJURED Susan lightly.
'She was Wild" said COUSIN Grace,
helping herself to more white cherries
and cream. susan, l a0nL Detie'e
few cherries would hurt Bnky.
Shed have abdominal pains Just as
Rudd and l dressed for the club dance,
Susan declared.
81 don't want the child to suffer;
7 suppose Rosalind is looking around
for a new man. She won't nave Dig
nickines here. Not millionaire IN
sight"
That night, Susan saw Rosalind and
thought that the slim. quiet, blue-eyed
girl might have been maligned; Rosa
lind wore little white dress OF crepe.
susan saw that the lines were perfect.
Still, Rosalind was too colorlesS to wear
dead white Or-waS she?
Rudd danced with her, Other men
sidled toward her. Presently Susan got
It. The seductiveness of the small, quiet
face, the invitational lure OF the kltteny
blue eyes.
Susan smiled to herself. Go ahead,
Rudd! Have a quiet Irritation WIN
vo1, can think well Of yourself. You can
perhaps forget the way you've despised
Yourself for two years because you
couldn't properly feed your vile ana
children!
Dear Rudd, caught in current whose
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