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CHAPTER IV
SYNOPSIS
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Peggy Horton meets Harry
Wilson. She is worried because
vher school room -mate Nancy is
Vorming to visit her and he has
• pretended to Nancy that she is
engaged. Peggy's older sister is
a successful screen star, Maxine
Trueheart. But Peggy, brought
up by her grandmother at Rose-
wood, has never known any boys.
Harry insists that she wear for
a week the engagement sing his
fiancee has just returned to him.
She goes to meet Nancy in a pony
cart -automobiles are not allow-
ed at Rosewood ---and stops at a
jeweler's to see if he can straight-
en the ring, which has been acci-
dentally -bent. When she meets
Nancy, her sister Maxine also
gets eff the same train.
Nancy glanced at Maxine's hands
as the station agent took her check
promising to send her trunk up later.
Her nails, Nancy saw, were beautiful-
ly buffed, but there was no rich liquid
polish on them. She remembered
thankfully that she was still wearing
her gloves and that she had a bottle
of nail polish remover in her bag.
Then she glanced at Peggy's hands.
"Peggy!" she cried. "Your ring!"
In the, excitement Peggy- had for-
gotten the ring. For a moment she
stared uncomprehendingly at Nancy,
then. down at her hand, at which the
other girl was looking so intently.
Makine, too, was staring in surprise
at the ring. She picked up her Os-
ter's hand that was hanging foolish-
ly at her side.
"Peggy!" she cried. "You engag-
ed? I had no idea. Why hadn't you
written me?" ' •
Over and over to herself Peggy was
saying, "Why, oh why did I ever do
anything so silly? Maxine will be ut-
terly disgusted with me when I ex-
plain." She knew she would explain
everything at the earliest opportun-
'ty. She could not let Maxine believe
something that was not true. Aloud
she said:,
"It's quite recent. No one knoWs.
You know how Gran is. Don't men-
tion it to her. I'd better take it off
now before I forget it. Gran doesn't
know anything about it, you see."
•She Wanted to get the ring out af
s111to forget about the whole thing.
Openi'b.g her purse, she dropped the
'ing inside, then closed the bag firm;
y.
Maxine was watching her anxious -
y. "Is he nice?" she asked serious -
y. "Someone we will all like?"
"Oh, yes," Peggy assured her. "I'll
tell you all about it later. Come on,
let's hurry. Gran will be so excited
about your coming." •
She had not noticed Nancy's unus-
ual sllence.
Maxine waved to old friends as they
drove through Marshville, who, stop -
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!house when he
wheels,. and sta
lievingly.
"De Lord be 'p
ing forward to
ground.
Mrs. Horton had come tothe open
door to greet Peggy's friend but she
could see only Maxine. She opened
her arms wide and the girl rushed in
to them, literally picking the fragile
old lady up in her arms.
"Gran, Gran!" she cried.
(Mrs. Horton's eyes were wet with
tears as she eagerly drank in every
detail of her granddaughter's appear-
ance. She held her off from her for
an instant to study her again, then.
smiling she reached up. and patted.
Maxine's cheek before tucking her
eldest granddaughter's hand beneath
her arm. It was not until she reach-
ed out her tither hand for Peggy, who,
with. Nancy, had been standing near
by, that she seemed conscious of the
presence of an outsider. .A. shadow
crossed her face. • But it was only a
shadow.
"Forgive dme," she exclaimed, ex-
tending her hand and smiling grac-
iously. "I am delighted to have you
with us?!
Maxine was taken to her old room
after she had been to the kitchen to
see Aunt Jenny, formerly her nurse,
and the ther servants who had gath-
ered there, to welcome her. Peggy
took Nancy upstairs with her.
"Come one," she said as they en-
tered' Nancy's reena. "I'll help, you
unpack before we go down for tea."
"Tea?" Nancy asked in surprise.
"Yes," Peggy replied simply. She
was bending over a suitcase and did
not see the wry face her guest made.
"Let me see your ring again, Peg-
gy. I didn't get a very good look at
it at the station."
Peggy gritted her teeth at • the
thought of the ring, but answered
hastily: "Oh, not now. Gran might
come in, or something. I'll show it
to you later. But where is yours?"
she asked suddenly turning to Nan-
cy. It had just occurred to her that
she had not noticed a ring on Nan-
cy's ,finger.
With a toss of her head the other
girl explained: "I gave it back to
Pidge."
"You mean you aren't engaged any
more?" Peggy dropped on the side of
the bed. Why hadn't she had sense
enough to say that.
"No, I'm not," Nancy answered.
crossly. "Although I know he is still
in love with me. You haven't 'told
me the name of the 'man you are ,go-
ing to marry," she contitaled,
Peggy *wondered desperately if she
could manage a faint, or a fit. -Any-
thing to get Nancf away from the.
subject of her' ring and her engage-
ment. And she would have to keep
this up for a week. Each day would
call for more'llietails, probably. If
she could only go back to this morn-
ing when she had had no ring!
heard the sound of
red at Maxine unbe-
raised," he cried rush -
assist her to the
She wanted to get the ring out of sight to forget about the whole
thing. Maxine was watching her anxiously'.
ping to stare a moment in surprise,
waved back in excitement.
"Tell me about Gran," she demand-
ed, settling herself beside Peggy.
"She is still the sweetest thing on,
earth and I don't believe you will no-
tice an difference in her at all.' She
continues to run the house -and me."
Both girls laughed. "Does she still
get her express packages every
week?" Maxine asked.
"Every Monday. Rain or shine."
"And you have never found out
what is in, them?"
Peggy shook her head. "I never ex-
pect to. I have even given up won-
dering about them. That package
just comes every Monday and, William
takes it to Gran's room and. that's
that."
"Bless her heart!" Maxine cried.
"If s'h'e wants a secret -when was it
she started getting those express
packages? About the time of her sev-
entieth birthday, wasn't it? Well, If
she wants a secret from the time she
was .seventy Until she is a hundred,.I
•guess s'11.;, can have it without our
prying into it."
"It's grand t� be home," she ton -
tinned as they turned in at the gates
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"Well, I can't tell you his
yet," she answered aloud,
"Won't I meet him while I'm here?"
Nancy wanted to know, watching her
closely.
"No, you see he doesn't live here.
That's why. He's away, and I don't
know just when he is coming. I'm
awfully sorry but you see that is the
way it is. He doesn't live here, and
he is coming, but I don't know when,
and there are several complications."
That seemed a good line, Peggy told
herself, and she had better learn, it
well. "Come on, let's go down," she
added.
"There seem to" be complications',"
Nancy muttered as they left her
doom. They stopped by Peggy's room
while she put away her hat, gloves
and •bag, then went downstairs to
join the others on the back terrace
for tea.
-Maxine, of course, was the center
of everything during the rest of the
afternoon and evelking, 'Nancy seem-
ed morose„ but she always was when
she was not the center Of things,
Peggy' 'thought unhappily. Only once
did she enter the converse:dm
• "I've often been told," Nancy said,
pitting her blonde hair, "that I am a,
leriIilte'darole'Lantliti, Do yen WO
name
a
1 am? I've sometimes thought I
might go into pictures. You remem-
ber, Peggy, at school I was always In
all the dramatics Of course, I don't
know just how to get in, but you
could probably help me there," she
said to Maxine.
"Well, I'm afraid not," Maxine an-
swered slowLy. "You see there are
50 many _pretty girls who want to • get
in, and they have such bitter disap-
pointments. I just happened to fa a
part they needed someone for, and
some studio executive saw me, -when
we were going through a studio, and
asked me to come back for a screen
test. It was just a break,' but of
course, that doesn't happen ()Ken."
"Have you no other friends in: Cali-
fwia, Maxine, except these people of
the stage with whom you work?' her
grandmother asked...
•I`Oh, yes, of course. But, Gran,
dear, you must realize that many of
the people connected with the studiee,_
are delightful. _The directors and
people like that. I wish you knew
some of them."
Mrs. Horton shook her head. "No,
they ,do not seem to have hurt you,
but I am afraid they do not apPeal
to me. I have no desire to meet
anyone connected with pictures."
Peggy was silent for the most part.
Content to listen, and eagerly await-
ing an opportunity to hays,' a talk with
her sister.
In the triangle between the service
wing which made an ell on the oppos-
ite side of the house corresponding
to the office, and the terrace, Gran
had her herb garden. In the late af-
ternoon the clean spicy odors. of
sweet .marjoram, tansy, thyme, laven-
der, heliotrope and others that Peggy
could never remem(ber, mingled, and
sire inhaled the fragrance contented-
ly.
"Funny about the way things
smell," she thought to herself, not lis-
tening much to ,the others, lust en-
joyin.g the fact that Gran and Max-
ine and she were _together again.
"The linens at boarding school were
soapily clean, and you knew you
would get up and go to bed and eat
by a bell. • Here they all smell oflav-
ender and heliotrope; and you know
the Coffee will be hot and served in
daitity• cups, and that either the sun
Wilis.be shining or that fires will be
burning in the early morning."
Each room at Rosewood had its own,
fireplace, and in the wintera fire was
always lighted in the bedroom before
its occupant was up. At night, ex-
cept in summer, Peggy had sleepily
watched the firelight dancing on the
walls. of her large room ever since
she could. remember.
• After supper, as they were leaving
the dialing roam, Nancy held Peggy
back a little after Mrs. Horton and
Maxine had left the room.
"What are we doing tonight?" she
asked. "I am always so curious when
I•tri on a blind date."
"But we aren't doing anything,"
Peggy told her in confusion.
"You mean we haven't any dates?"
Nancy asked, drawing back in shock-
ed surprise.' "Can't we call up some-
body to come over and take us some
place or dance here or do something?
Why I never spend an evening alone."
• Peggy was close to tears. Every-
thing was wrong. She did not mind
spending evenings at home although
she did want to go out some, but it
bad not dawned on her that she
should „have something planned for
every minute of Nancy's' visit. How
could she?
"You see it's on account of my en-
gagement. He is frightfully jealous.
Perhaps with Maxine here, we may be
able to fix up something. I'm sorry."
Nancy pouted in silence the rest of
the evening. At quarter to ten Mrs.
Horton suggested that it was time
for bed, since both guests must be
tired. Maxine caught Peggy's eye and
smiled. A smile of remembrance.
This was the hour when' Mrs. Hor-
ton always suggested it was time for
bed. But the light always burned in
her own room long after the other
lights were out. Both girls had, often
wondered why Gran always insisted
on going up to bed so early, and then
remained awake so late. But no one
ever questioned Gran's decisions.
Nancy and Peggy talked as they
walked back and forth between their
rooms while they undressed. At least
Peggy talked. She kept up a rapid
fire, asking of this girl from boarding
school and telling what she knew of
another. She remembered Nancy's
disposition of old. She must fix up.
something for them to do.
The: Ottawa Journal said a foOlieh
thing on, its editorial page a few 404a
ago.
This is rather unusual, It it Were
a normal habit it would not be 'worth
recarcling, The Journal is not natur-
ally a foolish paper. Many times it
gives utterance to words of wisrom.
Great editors are measured too oy
the intelligence which they exercise
in the use of their scis,sors. What a
man clips out of another paper and
publishes in his own, giving due cred-
it to the original owner, is an iudica-
tion of his own common sense or lack
of it. la this too the Journal is 'vise.
Here, however, is a horse of a differ-
ent color -it appeared in. the issue of
October and:
"On our list Of pests are those
who smite 'heavily or broadcast
pontifically about the problems of
reconstruction after the . war. It
is an anaesthetic for people who
refuae to face facts, who fail to
see that a world uncontrolled by
e Hitler is still a long way off,
may never be fully achieved..
Counting chickens before they are
hatched was always a silly busi-
ness."
The first sentence •is quite correct.
Anyone who writes -heavily or broad-
casts pontifically should be sent to
the' rock pile for at least ninety days,
even if he isn't discussing the war or
reconstruction after the war.
But why, in the midst of war -
which has. taught us clearly, if it has
taught us anything, that battles can
not be won without preparation -
should people be denounced for count-
ing their chickens before- they are
hatched? There must be a good deal
of preparation in that business. Why
go ,on with it if you haven't a pretty
fair idea of the number likely to ar-
rive?
Science has given, us many inter-
esting things and among them is to
be counted a very efficient incubator.
We know more now than we ever
knew before about scientific breeding
and feeding for the production of fer-
tile eggs. We have gone so far along
this line that a poultry expert can
pick up a three weeks' old chicken
and guess the name of its grand-
father! Ask for eggs -he can eat a
fresh one and tell you exactly the
brand of mash on which the mother
of the eggs had been fed. Chicken
raising is a coldly scientific business.
The ones who count their chickens
before they are hatched are the men
(Conainued Next Week)
Ginger Pears
4 pounds 'pears
4 pounds sugar
Va cup water
2 lemons
2 ounces preServed ginger.
Select firth pears; wipe, quarter,
cote and peel; cut In pieces. Add
water. sugar arid •grated rind of one
lemon. Simmer until pears are am-
ber in editor and T111) Is thirek; add
lernon Alice aild,,ginger cut in small
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with alroost fUltect.: -
01Ce betting tatl'IP`'..41414.14g;-#90
will 0 to body at 04'4* #04r, P4f.t
appear in the streets00,, salla 4a
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tin%11. chTellItisatif4icaPall;gir:/de4.b"if i out
of date. Start with a good flock et
hens. Feed them entrreal* Take
care of the eggs when they are laid.,
Count your chickens as s000 is you
have the eggs in the in.eubator. You
will come pretty close to your esti-
mate. The margin of error will be
less than 5 per cent. It is no more
risky than marriage or bettin,g on Joe
Louis. Go ahead with The mar-.
ket is good _both for chickens and
eggs. ,
Why •shouldn't we figure on what
we intend to do when we win the
war? Hitler is doing it -giving can.
aidetable time to the paoblem-and
he is not going 'to, win. We must
plan. en what we are' going to have
after the war or we will, not have
what we want. Life consists .of
counting chickens before they are
hatched and this must be done if we
are going to have the kind of world
we want after the war -a world in
which- an honest chicken can get a
run for its, money. We have had ex-
perience in this thing. We fought a
war before. We made some promis-
es. Lloyd George told •Of a land fit
for heroes to live •in." There were
plenty of heroes in England but too
many of •them were unemployed.
We censure ourselves for our own
folly in failing to prepare for war. ls
it wise then to condemn those who
desire' to prepare for peace? We
might go into A war without prepara-
tion and make good, but God help us
if Joe try to do the same when peace
comes. •
In the issue which protests about
the counting of chickens before they,
are hatched, there is a story of the
work done by our National Research
Council. We hre in the midst of war
and of course most of the work deals
with matters directly related to the
war; but they are going ahead With
things which will be a distinct bene-
fit to the nation in _the day when
peace returns.
Let us not be hesitant in these
things. I recall a story told! me by
an old friend who was in England at
the time of the last war. The battle
of the Somme was on and the House
, •••,-
or 'Coliimens was dlaiatlatilll.g;
detail, 'an edlicatlVllal
wOuld PrObalbIT ackt
effect before the end of thaaW#a
England was PrePari* te
needs of the wen. When,*ey.
ed and this is what we must 0;j
must plan for today and itotaor.
with vision ands insight. If We la,
do so, we will face them, pohea6
great as those which we ficedWiOa
we entered this war-eatterd VI1
the least preliminary in"eaarititiPiia or
any nation which ever enteacata*Pa-
a
war.•
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Utopia. •
Stranger: "For such a large qty
you seem to have solved your traffic •
problem. Why, I've been able to -p$118
my car anywhere." •
Cop: "That's easily exclaimed, sir.'
The city 'passed a law which persalts
only cars fully paid for to be left
standing on the streets." •
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CIANADA'S telephone traffic is climbing to new peaks! Engaged in
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