Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 244, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1934 — Page 2

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f CLASSIFIED I ADVERTISEMENTS, BUSINESS CARDS, AND NOTICES FOR SALE FOR SALE —One 2 year I<l coming mare olt, a goo I one. One 5 y«r old 'Guernsey cow, coming fresh. 3 sows with large pigs by their side. A. F. Thieme, phone S4SC. 244g3t FOR SALE —Rabbit hounds, broke, cheap Richard Stevens. 11. 8 Decatur. 243-ttx FOR SALE — Ford 1-ton truck, equipped to haul sugar beets. Or will trade for trailer. W. M. Kitson . route 4. 242-a3tx FOR SAIJC —New Shipment Loung Ing < hair, with Attoavan $14.90. Stuckey and Co. Monroe Indiana. 2433 t •FOR SALE- Apples, 25c to 41 per bushel; applebutter, 70c gallon. Fred W. Peters. Its mile north and 1 mile west ot Magley. Craigville phone. -243-3tx FOR SALE)—New and used pianos. New player pianos. $l5O. Used upright plant s. A-l jhape 335. Sprague Furniture company. Phone 193. 243-g3t FtMl SALE —New shipment living room suites, 3 piece suite. $50.04 Bed room suite, 4 piece, $35.00 Mattresses $5.50. ’oil bed spring. $5.00 Ranges, SIB.OO and np. Heating stoves at very low prices. Cone -ind look over our stock. We save y ti m ney. Stucky and company, Monroe, tjniiiana. 243-g3t.x FOR SALE-Two used living room suite*. special. Stocky and company, Monroe. Indiana. 243-gSlx FOR SALE — Kalamazoo stoves, ranges and furnaces. Factory prices. • 1 ywr to pay. We save you 1-3 to 1-2. Why pay more? Sprague Furniture company, phone 199. 243-g3t Fl>R SALE - Large stock of usel furniture that was taken in on new. To be s Id at very low prices. Sprague Furniture com; any. phone 199. i 243-g FOR SALE Heating stovy, used one season. See Har Id Martin, miles south of County Infirmary. 244-a3tx FOR SALE —One two roll Rceent-cl corn htusker. Chester Shoaf. Delator route 2. 242-k3tx WANTED WANTED—Bean acreage to com- • bine. See Reuben Smith, 11 2 mile south of Peterson. Route 2, Decatur. 236G10tx MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS — Vilins, accordeons, clarinets, guitars. trumpets, saxaphones. trombones, Used Pianos 15 'r discount Saturday October 13. Sprunger Musi- Store. Berne Ind. 243-3 t HOT WATER HEATERS $4.95 Thermostats for all makes of cars. . ENGLAND’S AUTO PARTS Ist Door So. of Court House Phcfie 282 IW H Y ? Ride on old tires when you can rent a Gillette tire for as low as 2Uc per week — after 25 weeks the tire is yours. Porter Tire Co. 341 Winchester St. Phone 1289. Fined For Killing Turkeys Albany, Ore.—(Ußl-Ed Pedersou was fined $25 for killing two turkeys. Police said the turkeys didn't belong to him. —o — MtEHII-i’ Ml.|; tl> < Im* l<laM>n I'lrreM « onrt, Mnt<- of Indiana. I'niiae \u*b*r 14,77.-. First Joint fOwk Land Bank of I'U’t Wjiyue vs. Sheiby K Vaa<->-Lulu Vanin, his wife. By virtue of Jtn order of sale to me dlre'-tep him! Unlivoirri from th* •jerk ' f 'the Adams Circuit Court in “ titre above outitlM tea*. I have liv- ’ i ".'* xpen an 'l will expose to sale by Public Awtlon the Court House door, ear t entrance. first floor In —esp! cuuii’y, between th- hours of 10:0’1 o'eiovk A. M. ami I no o‘, io» k "" Saturda.. the tilth tins of Novmnber A. U. 1134, tile rents ami nrofi.ts for a term not exceeding wren years .if, the following Real Estate (o-wit: The North West quarter of the Roftth Wax' quarter of Section t.» Township ;>C North. Itnnge I.', East. — containing forty <4n> acres, more >,r less, in Adams County. Indiana. And on failure to realise therefr u» the full amount of the judgment and Interest thereon and costs. I will at the same time and in the manner aforesaid offer for sale the fee simple of the above described real estate.. Taken as the property of Shel•'•by ,L. Vance. Lulu Vance, bis wife at the suit of First Joint Stock Land Bank of Fort Wayne ■'Slid sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. Burl Jukt>,«xa. bherilt Adams County C. U Watters. Attorney Oct 13-39-27

MARKETREPORTS DAILY REPORT OF LOCAL AND FOREIGN MARKETS LOCAL MARKET Decitur Bern® Craigville Hoagland Corrected October 13 No commission and no yardage* Veala received Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday. Saturday. 256 to 300 Tbs $5.70 200 to 250 Tbs $5.60 300 to 350 lbs $5.35 160 to 200 lbs .. $5.35 140 to HO Tbs $5 30 12u to 14V tbs. $3.10 M to 12p Ba 9999 Roughs $4.25 down Stage $2.00 down Vealers $7.50 Ewe auu wether lamb* $5.75 Buck lambs $4.75 FORT WAYNE LIVESTOCK Tort Wayne livestock Oct. 13 — (VP) —Hogs, 2$ to 35 eents higher 250 to 300 lbs.. 6.20. 200 to 250 lbs. 6.05. ISO to 200 lbs. 5.95. 160 to 18«» lbs.. 5.50. 300 to 350 lbs. $5.05. 150 to. 160 lbs. s*lo. 140 to 150 lbs. 4.85. 130 to 140 Ibv. 4.35. 120 to 130 lbs 3.60. lOt to 120 Mm. $2.75. Roughs, 4.50. Stags, 2.50. Calves 8.00 Lambs •.25. EAST BUFFALO LIVESTOCK 04. 13 — (UP)-‘Hogs 406. Market steady with average. Mediums, 6.30 to 6.40. Other* nominally unchanged. Cattle. 100. All grades 25 t 40 cents lower during w?ek. Steers. 8.25 to $.25. Vealers, 0.00. Sheep. 50. Market 25 to 40 cents i lower during week. Lambs 6.7-5 to 7.00. — LOCAL GRAIN MARKET Corrected October 13 No. 1 New Wheat, 60 lbs. or better 90‘ No. 2 New Wheat (58 lb«s 89c Oats, 32 lbs. test -50 c Oats, 30 lbs. test 49c Soy Beans, bushel 68c-75c White or mixed corn 97c First Class Yellow Corn $1.05 o Drought Cattle Returned Barron, Wis.--(U.R'.—Barron county drought cattle are returning home after a summer vacation in northern counties. Recent rains have revived pasture lands to the extent that the immigration was ordered. o—' — HIIEKIFP *II.E In Circuit < aurt. Slate of liHiiaaa. ( Mane \uMibrr The Union Central Life Insurarvcer Company, an Ohio Corporation vs William Lammert, Elizabeth Lam-1 mert, Rhoda S. Lammert, Addie M C»a*. The First State Bank a corporation, The Peoples Loan and Trust] Company, a corporation. 1 he Depart-1 ment of Financial institutions of the | Stale of Indiana. By virtue of an order of sale to] me directed and delivered from the Clerk of the Adams Circuit Court in the above entitled cause, I have levied upon and will expose to salr| by Public Auction at th»- Court i House door, east entrance, first floor I in said county, between the hours of I !U:00 o’clock A. M. and 4:OU o’clock | P. M. on Saturday, the 10th day of November A. IX. 1!*34, the rents and I profits for a tvrm not exceeding sev-l | en years of Che following ileal Kst-I The south half southwest > and the south half ( Vs > of the north half < )of the southwest quarter of section thirteen j (13) in township twenty-eight (3s) [north, of range fourteen <l4> east, I containing one hundred and twenty , (120> ai.-res. more or in Adams ; County. State of Indiana. And on failure to realise therefrom the full amount of the jusig-| ment and interest thereon and costs. | I will at the same time and in the manner aforesaid offer for sale the] fee simple of the above described real estate. Taken as the property of William Lammert, Elisabeth Lammert. Rhoda S. LammerL Addie M Gass. ‘The b'irst State Bank, a corporation. Th® Peoples Loan and Trust Co., a corporation. The Department of Ktnani ial Institutions of the State of Indiana, at the ’suit of The Union Central Life Insurance Company an Ohio corporation. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. Burl Johnson, Sheriff Adams «\»unty Z/rnliart. Heller and Srhurarr, Itlys, Oct 13-20-27 -■.<> NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Notice is Irereby given that Monday, November 5, 1H34 will be the last day to pay y>ur Fall instalL meat of taxes. The county treasurer’s office will be open from X A. M. to 4 p. ni. during the tax paying season. All taxes not paid by that time will Income delinquent and a 3% penalty will be added. Also Interest at the rale of M% will be charged from the date of delinquency until paid. Those who have bought or sold property and wish a divieion of taxes are asked to come in at once. Call on the Auditor for errors anti any reductions. The Treasurer can make no < orre< tions. The Treasurer will not be responsible for the penalty of delinquent taxes resulting from the ommission of tax-payers to state definitely on what property, they desire to pay, in whose name it may be found, in what township or corporation it is situated. Penens owing delinquent taxes should pay them at once, the lav is such that there is no option left for the Trea'*urer but enforce the c (lection of deMftquent taxes. The annual sale of dr ic.uent lands and lots will take pla f/n tn® second Monday in February 1935 at 10:00 A. M. County orders will »ot be paid to anyone owing delinquent taxes. All persons are warned against them. No receipts or checks will be held after expiration of time, ay the new depository law requires the Treasurer to make daily deposit. Particular attention. If you pay taxes In more than one township mention the fact to the Treasurer, also see that your receipts call for all your real estate and personal property. In making inquiries of the Treasurer regarding taxes to insure reply do net fail to include return postAge. JOHN WECHTER Treasurer Adams County, Indiana Oct 11 to Nov. 5

* Test Your Knowledge Can you answer seven of these ten quoe‘‘ons 7 Turn to page Four for the answers. 1. Who was Ben Greet? I 2. Who wrote the poem. "Twas the Night Before Christmas"? 3. When is All-Souls Day? 4. Who was Francis Mari tat, 5. What Is polyandry? 6. Which heavyweight baling champ! n hel.i the title longest? Who was known as the ©rent

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SYNOPSIS Susan Broderick, young and pretty member of a poor but aristocratic family, is engaged to Wallace Steffen, promising young banker. Susan is exceptionally fond of Wallace but is not sure that she loves him. Although she doesn't realize it, Susan is more attracted by Allen Sholes, the new roomer, whom her snobbish relatives ignore. Uncle Worthy, his wife £dna and Aunt Lutie, still consider themselves the cream of society and will not tolerate anyone they regard beneath them. That is why they discourage Susan’s and John's (her brother) friendship for Uncle Arthur Cullen and his family, their late mother's relatives. A few days before Christmas, John, tired of his relatives' superior attitude, upbraids them for being snobbish. He stalks out of the room, asking Susan to go with him to the Cullens. who were always ready for i company. Fearing family disapproval, Susan refuses. Just then Allen appears and John invites him to go to a place where there's “real" people. Wallace calls but Susan cannot warm to his caresses. He speaks of the Country Club house he is interested in for their future home, but Su«n is not enthusiastic for ths reason that the present owners are forced to give it up because of financial reverses. Christmas morning, Morris Broderick, Susan’s father, stuns the family with the news that he is to marry Mrs. Hopper, a widow. John takes Allen to the Cullens’ for dinner. leaving Susan to help entertain her aunts’ and uncle’s guests. That afternoon. Sara Cuilen phones asking Susan to leave the old folks and join them. While dressing, Susan keeps thinking of Allen, hoping something will make him look at her the way men do her cousin, Mary. CHAPTER XV When Susan came running downstairs in her hat and eoat Mr. HuL me, one of Uncle Worthy’s cronies, was at the piano singing “Rose In The Bud” and playing his own accompaniment in a loud wooden fashion, as if all of his fingers were the same length. She stood in the ball doorway, trying to catch Aunt Edna’s eye across the crowded room but Aunt Edna was beaming at everybody as she turned Mr. Huhne’s music for him and she had no eyes for Susan. ! This was the big day of Aunt Edna’s vear —the day when the town’s “best people” came back to Center Street and made her feel that the Brodericks were “somebody” in spite of their falling fortunes. “Rose in the bud,” sang Mr. Hulme. “The Jcwn air’s wahm and tendah—” Susan waited for him to finish, and as she waited her courage left her. “I’ll just say that I’m going over to Cullens, and then go, she had kept telling herself. But she knew that it wouldn’t be so easy as all that. It wouldn’t be at all easy to get away. It was going to be very hard. Aunt Edna would have what Lutie called a “conniption fit” if she announced that she was leaving the house, and she would probably stop her just as she had often stopped her from doing things ' in the past. “Why. we’re announcing your engagement to everyone,” she would say. “You can’t leave, Susan—” Mr. Hulme’s rich tenor voice followed Susan as she went down the rear hall to the side door and out into the soft gray Christmas twilight: “ ‘Life Is so shawt, “And love is all. I’m thinking— ’ ” At the corner of Mills Road and Center Street three figures that she knew eame looming up out of the dusk that made everything look large and indistinct: John and Mr. Sholes and Mary Cullen. Mary was between the two men, holding Mr. Sholes by one arm and saying something that made him laugh. “She probably knows him better right now than I ever shall,” thought Susan as they came up to her. The Cullen house was lighted from top to bottom, the Christmas wreaths in the downstairs windows casting their shadows on the snow outside, and in the living room a wood fire rippled in reflection on the ceiling. The ehairs were set in a comfortable half circle around the fire, the red candles en the mantel

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shelf had been lighted, and the holi--3 day spirit seemed to reign over the - whole room. - In the kitchen Sara was getting t supper ready with the help of two / young men who had aprons tied e around their waists. They got up e from the table where they were e slicing eold turkey and rye bread r and stood in attitude of easy expec- . tation as the others entered the s room. 1 “Susan, you know these people,” f Sara said, waving a wire spoon in . their direction, and Susan shook !. hands with them. They were part . of the Cullens’ “crowd,” young peo- ) pie who were constantly dropping . in to stay for a meal or to ass the e girls to go with them to the movies s or a hockey game or a dance. Jim f Allbright, a quiet dark young man

■ EiWBSHE / 7 jF-i ' ') M i i I 11 i “Susie Broderick, is this any way for an engaged girl to act?” came Mary’s gay voice from the doorway.

who laughed at the things the ! others said but talked very little 1 himself, was one of Mary’s admirers—her squires, she called them. ■ George Shumaker, stocky and ruddy and slightly bald, had been devoted to Sara for a year or two. He was the pep-of-the-party type, ■ full of jokes and puns and loud • cheerful talk. Mary took a clean apron out of ■ the kitchen cabinet drawer and ' brought it to Susan. “Thanks for 1 your hot tip about this Sholes man, ' the other day,” she said in an un- ' dertone as sne tied it around her ' waist. “As soon as you’d gone I 1 called John up and made him prorn- > ise to bring him here so I could look I him over—and, while he’d never win I first prize at mu beauty show, he’s ’ a wow all right. ; Susan turned her head and looked at her over her shoulder. > “You mean to say ynu don't think he's simply wonderful looking?” she ■ asked incredulously. > Mary nodded. “Os course, he's : good looking, Susie, but wonderful • —well, that's something else. I’ve seen at least a dozen men in my life who were better looking than he.” , She laughed. “What ails you is that you have a crush on him—on I his looks, at any rate.” She gave • Susan a little push toward the pantry. “Don’t argue with me about > it, either, because I know what I’m • talking about. Everything's ready . for the salad in there. Mix it and ■ take it into the dining room, will • you? The plates are on the shelf.” In the tall white ice box that > stood just inside the pantry were > the salad things. Lettuce shredded in a big while bowl, another bowl 1 filled with sliced tomatoes and cui cumbers and little green onions, a i third one containing French dress- ' ing and a fourth filled with mayont naise. i As Susan began to take them out, i one by one. and set them on the . wide white shelf that ran along one I side of the tiny room she had a

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sudden feeling that someone was looking at her. She turned her head. Allen Sholes was standing just behind her in the doorway, a silver pitcher in his hands. “They sent me in to get the water," he said. He was so close to her that she could see that his eyelashes were thick and straight, as a man’s lashes ought to be. and that he was a full head taller than ; she. He smiled down at her with I that look of lightness and humor that is lacking in so many handsome faces. “Let me help you with these things.” He lifted the two bowls of salad dressing out of the refrigerator for her and bent over to get the water bottles from the bottom shelf. Under the blue serge of his coat his muscles rippled a little as ,

he moved and Susan noticed aov. j smooth and firm the column of his neck was above his collar AR at once she had a strong impulse U run her hand across it, an impulse to lay her cheek against the big shoulder that was so close to her. It was a feeling entirely new in her experience. Never before in her life had she had the slightest desire to touch any human being. She turned her back upon him ; and began to put the salad vegetables together in the large green glass bowl that stood beside the pile of plates. She heard the gurgle and splash of.the water as he emptied it into the silver pitcher. Then he went out of the room. In a moment he was back. "1 suppose I’d better refill these bottles,” he said, picking the two water i bottles up from the shelf where he had set them. But he made no move to carry them out to the sink in the kitchen. He stood close to her watching her pile the plates with salad. “I'll carry those in when they’re ready.” he said. “Thanks,” answered Susan, ano could think of nothing else to say to him. For days she had been trying to find an opportunity to talk to him, to find out all sorts of things about him, to listen to his voice, to watch his face. And now that she had the opportunity she could do nothing with it but stand, tonguetied. with her head bent over the salad so that all he could see of her was the sweep of her hair and the shadow of her eyelashes on her cheek. “Susie Broderick, is this any way for an engaged girl to act?” came Mary’s tjay voice from the doorway. “Cornering a perfectly nice man whom I’ve picked to be my own particular partner for the evening!— I asked Jim Allbright for you tonight. Be nice to him, will you. and let what’s mine alone!" (To Be Continued) Coexrtrtt. 1(13. W Klm rwlurw STadlcU. Im.

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SYNOPSIS Susan Broderick, young and pretty member of a poor but aris- | tocratic family, is engaged to Wallace Steffen, promising young i banker. Susan is exceptionally fond of Wallace but is not sure that she loves him. Although she doesn't realize it, Susan is more attracted by Allen Sholes,. the new roomer, whom her snobbish rela tives ignore. Uncle Worthy, his wife Edna and Aunt Lutie, still consider themselves the cream of society and will not tolerate anyone they regard b-rneath them. That is why they discourage Susan's and John's (her brother) friendship for Uncle Arthur Cullen and his family, their late mother's relatives. A few days before Christmas. John, tired of his relatives' superior attitude, upbraids them for being snobbish. He staiks out es the room, asking Susan to go with him to the Cullens, who were always ready for company. Fearing family disapproval, Susan refuses. Just then Allen appears and John invites him to go to a place where there’s “real” people. Christmas morning, Morris Broderick, Susan's father, stuns the family with the news that he is to marry Mrs. Hopper, a widow. John takes Allen to the Cullens' for dinner, leaving Susan to help entertain her aunts' and uncle's guests. That afternoon, Sara Cullen phones asking Susan to leave the old folks and join them. While dressing, Susan keeps thinking of Allen, hoping something will make him look at her the way men do her cousin, Mary. The party at the Cullens' is a gay, informal affair. Susan, preparing , a salad in the pantry, feels someone gazing at her and looks up to see Allen standing there. Finding them there, Mary asks: "Susie Broderick, is this any way for an engaged girl to act? Cornering a 1 perfectly nice man whom I've 1 picked to be my own particular ■ partner for the evening I” CHAPTER XVI She wont away, leaving behind her. in the cold air of the pantry, the sweet odor of her mimosa perfume that was the only kind she ever used and that was part of her charm, her allure. Susan waited for Mr. Sholes to walk out after her. Rut he stood where he was, and i after a long silence he spoke. “Are you really engaged?” he | asked. “Just since last week.” Susan raised her head and looked at him, and in that second the whole face of the world changed for her. She knew at last why she had been lin- ' gering in the halls and on the stairi case of the Center Street house for i the last week when it was time for him to leave or enter the place. She i knew why she had tried to keep j Lutie from prying into his few possessions. why she had had that feeling of mingled tenderness and pity at the sight of his bundle of laundry. and why she had been so irritated with Mary when she came ; down Mills Road clinging to his arm. a few minutes before. Mary had told her that she was tn love with his looks. But the thing i was worse than that. She was in love with the man himself. In love i for the first time in her life! She recognized this feeling as something totally different from her addiction aud liking for Wallace—ae different as the sun coming up over a mountain top is different from an electric light bulb flashing on. While she stood there, looking up at him, he turned and walked out of the pantry. A minutes afterward she heard Mary calling him: “You’re to sit here beside me. Allen!” Supper, enlivened by many threats from George Shumaker to “dunk” his doughnuts in his coffee, was a cheerful meal for everyone but Susan and Jim Allbright. apparently. Jim never took hts eyes from Mary and /dlca Shales who talked and laughed together like old old friends, and Susan watched them too with z s-_k and jealous feeling in her heart. At the end of the -.teal Mary filled a tray with plates cf tood and took it up to the Catch-All to her father and mother and Howard who had taken refuse L re far uw evening. Allen earned up a fading table and the coffee pct f n r liar, and the two of them stsyed there talking. As Susan carried ccr the dishes she could hear Hawar! tailing Allen about his new well eyreisar. and every now and then Mary s voice chirred in with his. Presently John went upstairs too, and a second afterward the telephone on the landing rang. “Susie. It’s a call for you!” Mary's voice came floating down the stairway. “It’s your aunt.”

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Aunt Edna’s voice was full of in- ’ dignation when she spoke to Susan I "Why didn’t you let me know ynu i were going over there?” she wanted 1 to know. Susan, I don’t understand . your behavior sometimes! Wallace i is trying to get you over long dis- t tance and I’ve just told the opera- ; tor that you’ll be here in a half hour i if she’ll call again. So you’d better come right along!” The wire made a loud clicking sound as she slammed the receiver on its hook at her end. Susan went on up the stairs to the , Catch-All. "I’m sorry, but I have to go - home,” she said to her aunt who was stretched out on the old couch under - the windows reading a book. “Wai- i lace has been trying to reach me by long distance and he's going to call again in a half hour." “Well, you don't have to go home to take the call,” John spoke up. I “You can have the operator switch 1 it to the telephone here.” Susan shook her head firmly. “Oh, no, 1 cant do that Aunt 1 Edna's told the operator that I’ll be home in a half hour, and she’ll ex- < pect me to be there. She’s per- i fectly furious now because I sneaked away from the party this afternoon without saying anything ' to her—and I don’t want to upset ; her any more." John gave a grunt of disgust. “Well, what did you ’sneak’ out for?” he asked. “Why didn’t you just walk out like a self-respecting human being instead of a scared rabbit? Why don’t you have this - call switched to this 'phone now, as any sensible person would do, in- | stead of rushing home to take it i there ? You'll have to grow up some time or other, Susan, and learn how > to manage things in your own way < instead of letting the family do all your thinking for you . . . Gosh!” “Well, please talk to me about it some other time when we’re by our- I selves." Susan’s face was scarlet < and her voice was sharp with irri- ■ tation. But she knew that John was right in what he said. She i ought not to have scurried out of the house that afternoon, without I letting anyone know that she was leaving. It had been an undignified ’ childish thing to do. “I think I’ll take your advice and ' have the call transferred to this telephone, however,” she said to : John, and went back to the landing i to do it. 1 The members of the supper party were all at work on aa enormous ’ jigsaw puzzle when the caH eame i through at nine o’clock. Wallace’s voice, close against her ear, was as ’ clear as if he had been telephoning from a room in the house. “Hello, sweetheart.” She could ; almost see his dark pleasant face I and smell the after-shaving lotion I on his cheeks. "Are you missing ■ me?” ' “Os course I am, Wallace?" What ' else could she say to him ?” “Sure.?” Across all the dark ' starry miles between the Cullens’ ; house and his faraway hotel, he ' seemed to sense the change in her, the doubt and confusion in her mind. 1 "Os course. Wallace.” “I’m going to be here another i week or two," his voice went on. I “My dad’s pretty sick. He’s been in bed ever since we got here. I’ll call ' you tomorrow night, sweetheart. Take care of your lovely self.” 1 From where she stood on the landing, Susan could see Aunt Nell. 1 She was in the hall above, looking through a stack of Christinas cards 1 on an old low-boy that was an heir- ' loom in the Cullen family. 1 Susan went up to her, her gray 1 eyes filled with a puzzled frown and 1 her fingers clasping and unclasping ■ themselves on the frills that edged I the bodice of her dress. 1 “I want to ask you something,” ’ she said. “How could 1 think I was in love with Wallace Steffen for I ilueh a long time—tell him I’d marry i him—and then, by jinks, find out that I don’t really care much about him at all ?... You’d think I’d have known my own mind about him after seeing so much of him for a ; year and a half, wouldn’t you * But I didn't He’s gone away, and he’s going to be gone for a long time. And I don’t care if I never see him again." I Aunt Nell laid down the bright . green and gold card she had been i holding and took bath of her slim ! hands in her plump wrinkled ones. “If I never were going to see him ‘ again it wouldn't be so bad,” Susan i continued. "But he’ll come hack, I and what on earth will I do! What : will I say to him?” i Her aunt studied her for a long ■ time with her bright clear eyes. ■ “Well, Susan, you may not feel like this about him very long," she said ’ finally. “When you see him again i you may find that you care for him just as much as you thought you did

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