Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 30, DeMotte, Jasper County, 13 June 1940 — THE STORY THUS FAR [ARTICLE]

THE STORY THUS FAR

Sheila Carscadden. blue-eyed, reddish-haired and 21. loses her job in New York by offering useful but unwelcome suggestions to her boss. Typically feminine, she chooses that time to show her “new” purse—which she bought at a second-hand store, to her cousin, Cecilia Moore. The purse revives memories of a boy she had met the previous summer—a boy whose first name, all she remembered, was Peter. At home that evening, waiting for her. are her mother; Joe. her brother, and Angela, her crippled sister. Joe. too. has lost his job. During the not-so-happy evening Angela finds fifty dollars In a secret pocket In Sheila's purse. They are both happy at the discovery, only to be disheartened when Mrs. Carscadden tells Sheila the money must be returned to the person whose initials and street number are on the purse. Sheila is going to return the money dressed in an ancient outfit. Then, she feels, the owner will reward her liberally. She looks upon the escapade as a lark. She feels different when she enters the magnificent home, for the occupants prove to be the Me Cann family, old friends, now wealthy, of Sheila’s father. And there she sees Peter, her acquaintance of the previous summer! Sheila finds that Peter is Judge Me Cann's son. Both Peter, and his brother Frank, are soon to be married. Frank offers to take her home, and Peter, secretly, places a slip of paper in her hand. The paper is a message, asking her to meet Peter at the library the next day.