The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-25
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Nothing of importance.w
 Emily, if you'd consider ." Not rlow," she said with final i ity, mot ever. Good night, Frank" He warned her.
 "IT go out, I'll get stinkin drunk. I'll raise hell"
 "Do SO" she agreed, ''by all means :"
 She smiled at him and went into the house. He swore, stand ing there looking after her. What grill He was crazy about her. He wanted her. He would have her. His mother had never de- nied him anything before. Why this time, why this most important desire of all?
 HE drove home furiously, deter - mined to have it out. But his mother, to his amazement, was amenable. She said, after listen- ing patiently to his initial out burst,
 But there's no reason .s. I've withdrawn my objections, Frank. As you know, your happiness comes first. I told Emily so to- night X.
 His jaw dropped. You told her thatl' "Yes. But she isn't in love with you, my dear, she's quite adamant. She's thinking, she told me, of leaving Cranberry and going to Boston to work" He was as nearly speechless as possible. He'd asked Emily, What did she say to you?" and she'd ans- {, wered, Nothing of importance" So it wasn't of importance that whatever his mothers objections they no longer existed, it wasn't of importance that the head of the house of Edgar was ready to be- stow her blessing His mother was saying, "Sit down Frank, I need your advice want to talk to you about Muriel Dawson"
 'Muriel who?" he asked blankly.
 You remember 2" She went to her desk, produced a long en- velope of snapshots. T told you about Eleanor Dawson. We be- came great friends when I was in England. This is the daughter" Not at all the teeth, feet and tweed type. A small girl, with delectable curves and long fair hair, laughing into the sun
 He heard his mothers voice running on. He was turning over the I snapshots, looking at them. Nice lit- tie thing, cute as bugs ear. He thought further, it would serve Emily right, perhaps it would bring her to time.
 A s she went in the house Emily "A saw the light in the office. It was after hours and she went down | the hall and knocked.
 Emily" she said. May I come in?"
 Sure Jim was sitting at her I fathers old desk. He was chew | ing a pipe and covering page of big paper with his unreadable scrawl.
 Where's everyone?" "Your father and mother went next door for gossip. Nancy's oil l to movie with Dan Graham, I'm trying to write paper and 1t doesn't jell." He pushed it aside. Whats on your mind?"
 ''Timmy {. Mrs. Edgar just told me the government is taking that property. That means the RemanS l will be put out new baby and all. We'll have to find a place for | them''
 "We1l find it." said Jim. 'Tim- my's due home in a couple of weeks. He'll need massage. He'll be almost as good as new in a | year or so Of course if he could be sent to Warm Springs :" He shrugged. Tell you what" he said suddenly, there's old man Garrod."
 Never heard of him." l "New patient Jim explained T went to the university with his son, Albert. AIS in the Engineers now. His mother and dad moved here a year or so ago. They have a place out on Sunset Hill. AIS kept in touch with me, and when he heard I was here he wrote his 1 father to look me up. Couple of months ago Mrs. Garrod had a heart attack and her husband called me-"
 "Golly,' said Emily, "a patient of your own"
 Two of 'em. Garrod has dia- beteS.'
 He went on, after a moment,
 He's retired, but too good a guy to like it. So he's fooling around with real estate. He's taken over some apartments near the Lawson town line and is low ering rents. Says it's his contri- button to the war effort = light, air, space, and bit of yard, six-family apartments, for people who can't afford decency, ordinarily. Five iollars a room. He doesn't expect my return on his investment. I'll see him and perhaps he'll let Mrs. Reman have the ground floor flat in return for janitress work. bet he will. He'll be interested in Tim my. Al had polio when he was a | kid.''
 They sat for a little longer, talked about the Remans, about Timny, and presently the telephone rang. Jim picked it up. spoke into the receiver, listened, said briefly, 'In be right along"
 Rising, seizing his bag, he asked.
 Want to come?" am not the rose, thought Emily but I can substitute. She said, after brief struggle with herself, .All right"
 (To Be Continued)