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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1938-11-17, Page 2�l dal' al Gotrrnan ak.c,161 a CHAPTER T The sunshine of a February morning filtered through the dot- ted swiss curtains of Katha's bed- room. It was a large room fur- nished with old mahogany pieces which Katha had inherited from her grandmother who had come to this New Hampshire house as a bride. The scattered hooked rugs showed years of wear. A fire burned brightly in the grate. Three valises, two old and one new, almost covered the white spread on the fourposter bed. The closet door was open and Katha took the last three dresses from hangers, folded them carefully, and packed them. Breathing an audible sigh of re- lief, she walked to the dresser and opened the top drawer. Then she stood quite still and looked at herself in the mirror, seeing the reflection of a slim, black -haired girl in a tailored black wool dress, a girl with smoky -gray eyes. Did she look all right? Would the noise and confusion of New York terrify her as they had on her last visit when she was ten? Did they really want her? She thought, 'I've been thrilled about going a;id now I'm a little scared." s The Girl From Next Door She was opening the dresser drawer and taking out handker- chiefs when the door opened and Janet, the girl from next door, small Janet with big eyes and a loud voice and an insatiable curios- ity, came in. She wore her fam- iliar old plaid coat and her short dark hair was in wild disorder from the wind. Janet was breathless. "I just heard about your going to New York today, Katha! How'd you keep it? Aren't you excited? Oh, I wish I were going! I don't sup- pose I'll ever get there. Oh, new dresses.... She went to the bed and peered into the three valises. "And new underwear with lace! Are you going to get a job or , .." You had to tell Janet, Katha thought with annoyance and amusement. There was no other way to get rid of her. "I'm going to New York to visit my relatives!' "You mean the people who came in the big car last sum - vier... " "Thai. ..as my uncle Richard, my mother's brother, Richard Carru'tl( I'm going to visit him and his wife, my aunt Evelyn, and my two cousins Millicent and Lois." "Are they rich?" Katha nodded. "They're very rich. They Iive in a penthouse." That, she, thought should deplete Janet and send her on her way. "And you'll go to night clubs and theatres and parties and meet lots of men. . . ." "I suppose I will" I sound so calla and collected, she thought. But my heart is beginning to pound. Do they really want me? Will Aunt Evelyn and Millicent snub me? Uncle Richard and Lois won't. . . Janet said, "Oh!" and then breathlessly, "I'll have to tell Aunt Sue." You mean, Katha thought, that you'll have to tell the whole town! When Janet left (Katha heard her flat wooden heels hurrying. down the steps) Katha sat in the chair by the window. The packing was done. Soon her mother would come up. Soon her father would conte home to drive her to the station. To Stay With Uncle Richard She had nd`t told anyone she was going and her mother had cautioned the twelve -year-old twins not to say at school, "Our big sister Katha is going to New York to visit our rich relatives," because they had had no word from Richard Carruth since last summer when he had said, "Katha come and stay the month of Feb- ruary with us: That is the one month of the year when we are usually all together," until his telegram had come last week, re- minding her that she had promised to come. And though Katha had said repeatedly that no doubt Uncle Richard had forgotten his invitation, her mother had insisted Uncle Richard never forgot any- thing and had gone ahead with preparations for Katha's visit. All her life Katha had known that her Uncle Richard was a very wealthy man. She remembered her grandmother rocking in her chair and saying as she knitted furiously, "Richard went to New York when he was eighteen with twenty-five dollars in his pocket. He was a good boy and he worked hard. Now he has millions. But Evelyn...." (Gran had not liked Evelyn, Richard's wife.) "Thinks about nothing but clothes and pleasures. Never sees the inside of a church. She'll ruin him!" After Gran's death (Evelyn had been in London at the tilde) Rieh- ard Carruth had continued to spend a few days each summer in the house iit which he was born, But Evelyn never came, always being abroad in the summer, and Millicent Hewer (ante, always be- ing at various fashionable summer colonies. But last summer Lois, the adopted daughter, child of a man who had been killed in one of Richard's plants, had come with Richard. And Katha had liked the dark-haired, brown -eyed eighteen - year -old Lois enormously. "You're Too Particular" Janet had said, "And meet lots of men. . ." Katha knew boys with whom she'd gone to s.hool, with whom she went to the movies and dances in the winter, with whom she went swimming and picnicking in the summer. But she had never felt anything beyond a mild devotion. She liked to dance with Larry. She liked to hear Hugh laugh. She admired Tom's big shoulders. She liked to talk to Paul about books. But love.... Her mother said, "You're too par- ticular, Katha." But more than once Katha had drawn her fine dark brows together and had said, "No, it's not that. I want to feel something deeply. I want to be in love, terribly in love." She could- n't explain it. "And I want all the qualities I find in half a dozen boys in one man." Her mother, a slim energetic little woman with short black hair and bright dark eyes, came in. She had changed from her house to a poor struggling boy than to a rich one because I'd hate to see money do to you what it has .done to Evelyn. Your father . never made very much money but we've been happy, Katha. We've been close. I wouldn't trade plates with Evelyn and all she has, You just have to look at her to see that she's miserable inside. The strain of trying to keep young and thin, the strain of night life, the strain of keeping up with everything modern and smart. And she's nev- er horde. She hasn't been a wife to Richard. She's been an expen- sive decoration. Richard is a lone- ly man sitting among his riches." Good Common Sense Katha said, "When he was ill with flu two years ago, you had to go to New York to see after him. Aunt Evelyn was away then. Don't worry about me. The glit- ter won't blind ane. You'd be sur- prised at all the good common sense Gran put in my head. She had a way of getting at the root of things and she could see straight through people," Her father came in downstairs and shouted up the steps, "Ready, Katha?" She put on a small black hat and tailored black coat. As she closed the door she look- ed back into the bedroom, think- ing, "No matter what happens, I'll have a lot to think about when I get back and nothing to regret, I hope." At the station her father press- ed an envelope into her Band, kissed her smooth, cold cheek and said, "Thought you might want to To -Day's Popular Design By Carol .Aimes Bows On a Beret and Matching Bag DESIGN NO. 642 This is a new, fall 1938 model, fresh from our designer's pen and our pattern maker's model. It has all the new lines, it sits atop your head and tilts over one eye. If you are the little -girl type, it slips back off your forehead and boasts a youthful bow. You sew up a few simple seams—and you are the proud possessor of a hat and bag that dosts practically nothing and looks like a million dollars. Includes cutting patterns for beret in small, medium and large, pattern for the bag, all making and finishing instructions and material requirements. Send 15c, coins preferred, to Carol Alines, Pattern Dept., Room 421, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. dress into a brown afternoon dress. "All packed, dear?" What a fuss we're making about your go- ing away! I expect your father any minute." She sat on the bed. "Give Richard my love and thank him for the generous check at Christmas." • Katba smiled impishly. "Shall I give Aunt Evelyn your love?" Her mother chuckled. "Of course, and don't let her airs bother you. She was nothing when Richard married her. I wonder what color her hair is now. It was a sort of orange color the last time I saw her. And it was just plain brown when she was a girl. You'll probably do beautifully if —if you don't take any of Mill- icent's beaux away from her. ,She was just a child when I saw her last, a selfish little brat if ever I saw one. Just like her mother. Richard and Lois will be sweet to you. Those two are very close, I think. His adopted (laughter is closer to hint than his own child. And remember that this is only a visit. ." Katha smiled. "And that I'm a poor relation. What would you think if I fell in love with one of Millicent% beaux? Beau is such an old-fashioned word, mother." Suddenly her mother's eyes were sober. "I'd hate to see you fall in love with one of those— what do you call them? — play- boys. I'd rather see you married Learn to Type at Home Typing is a valuable $1 Weekly asset. Only $1 weekly Buys a buys a new Corona, CORONA �world's most popular portable tylsewriter, !n- ,,,,.„ eluding Carrying Case and Toueli Typing Instructor. Write for 21111 details. I, Q Smith & K.torosin Typewrftere et Canada TAIL, 37 Front St. 17.. Toronto buy a new dress in New York." Her mother held her tightly, cried a little and said, "It's the first time you've ever been away from home so long, dear." As Katha ran for the train, she glanced back briefly, waved, smiled, threw a kiss. They were so good to her. . , (TO BE CONTINUED) Sleepless 22 Years M. 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