The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, October 27, 1939, Image 6
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FRIDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1939
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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FIFTH INSTALLMENT
Synopsis
When the wealthy foster parents of
Marjorie Wetherill both die sho finds
a letter telling that she has a twin
sister, that she was adopted when her
own parents couldn’t afford to sup
port both of them and that her real
name is Dorothy Gay. Alone in the
world, but with a fortune of her own,
she considers looking up her own
family whom she has never seen. A
neighbor, Evan Bower, tries to argue
her out of it and tells her he loves
her and asks her to marry him. She
promises to think it over but decides
first to see her family. She goes to
their address, finds that they are des
titute, have no coal, her mother is
sick and her father has no job. Her
sister treats her like an enemy and
resents her offer of help, but finally.
| after many explanations, agrees to
take money to buy coal and food in
[ order to save her mother’s life. Mar
jorie goes out and buys food, coal,
and other supplies which are joyously
! welcomed by her sister. Her father
comes in sick and hungary but hur
ries to the cellar to build a fire and
get the house warm. Her brother
| Ted comes in, is resentful of her be
ing there at first, but when he finds
all that she has done both he and
Betty decide they like their new sis
ter.
jorie’s face.
“Listen, Ted, if I had lived here,
and you had plenty, wouldn’t you
have shared it with me?”
“Of course!” said Ted crossly,
“but that’s different! I’m a fella!”
“Well, that’s all right, ‘fella’ dear,
but it isn’t different. I’m a part of
this family unless you throw me out,
and what’s mine is yours. And now,
come, I’d like to say a word about
what you did to me when you first
came in. You took that cup of tick
ets away and told me they wouldn’t
interest me. But they do interest
me. They interest me very much.
He studied her for an instant and I They’re pawn tickets, aren’t they?
then he said gravely: i V’ e ’ w !], a j? re ^ ve to about
<<T> . ,, ,. « _ « Ttv them, Ted? Are those Mothers
But we cant live off you ft.® things that she’s fond of? Oughtn’t
great of you to help us out a little wp an ,, tv,,,™ •>’>
till we get on our feet,but we can t
keep on letting you feed us. Per
haps I can get a job soon and pay
you back.”
The brightness went out of Mar-
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we go and get them ?
“They’re her things. They’re all
the things she has. And she couldn’t
get new things even if she did want
them. She can’t get these, either,”
he added dejectedly. “I tell you it
costs a lot of money.”
“Yes, but how much, Ted?” per
sisted Marjorie.
“It isn’t your responsibility,” said
Ted doggedly. It’s mine. I pawned
them.”
“Now look here, Ted, you just stop
pushing me out of the family like
that. Now you reach up to that top
[ shelf and take down thaT teacup and
1 we’ll add those tickets up and see
j what it comes to. Please!”
Half shamedly Ted did her bidding.
They got out the tickets and Mar
jorie added them up, a pitifully small
' sum it seemed to the girl, to repre
sent the household goods of a home,
but to the boy it seemed a breath
taking fortune.
“Is that all!” said Marjorie when
he handed her the sum. “Why, I can
give you that right away.”
“But I can’t bring them till after
five,” said Ted. “That will be after
dark, too. The neighbors are so curi
ous. Mother hates that! Having them
all find out just what we’ve got and
what we haven’t. You know we used
to have a nice home over in a sub
urb on the other side of the city. Nice
big house, built of stone. Plenty of
room. We each had a room to our
selves, and there was a garage and
a big garden, and flowers and fruit
trees. It was a swell place. And
Dad had a position with a good sal
ary. That was before the depression,
you know.”
“Oh, my dear!” said Marjorie qi(ite
honestly crying now. “My dear!” I’m
so sorry you’ve been going through
all that!”
“Well, don’t bawl!” said Ted cross
ly, brushing his hand across his own
eyes. “I can’t stand bawling! I just
told ya because I thought you’d wan
ts know. We haven’t always been
down and out this way. We had a
swell home!”
“Well, now, let’s make this one as
cheerful as we can before evening,”
said Marjorie taking a deep breath.
“I’ll get the money!”
She went into the parlor to hex
handbag that she had left on the bare
little high mantel shelf and brought
back a roll of bills that made Ted’s
eyes open wide.
“I put in a little extra,” said his
sister, smiling. “I thought perhaps
you’d think of something we need
that I’ve forgotten.”
“Gosh!” said Ted gazing down at
the roll of bills in his hand. “Don’t
know’s I can trust myself out alone.
I might get held up carrying all this
wealth.”
The boy grinned.
“I can see where you’re going to
spoil us for living again when you’re
gone.”
“Gone!” said Marjorie with dismay
in her voice. “Do you want me to
go?”
“No, not on yer life! But you’re
not going to stick around these dig
gings; not with the home you’ve been
used to! Say!” he added irrelevant
ly, “you look a lot like Betts, and
yet you don’t. I could tell you apart
already! You don’t look quite so
frowsy as Betty, and you’ve got a
cute little quirk in the corners of
your mouth. Maybe Betty would
look like that too if she hadn’t had
to work so hard, and have such a lot
of trouble.”
“You’re sweet!” said Marjorie, and
suddenly reached up with a quick mo
tion and kissed her new brother on his
lean hard cheek.
Then he turned sharply away to
ward the window and she saw him
brush his hand across his eyes, and
swallow hard.
“You’re aw’right,” he said grudg
ingly.
“Thanks awfully!” said Marjorie,
trying to enter into his spirit. “But
who is that coming in the door?”
“That’s Bud,” said Ted, peering
through the crack into the hall. “Hey,
Kid! Hush up there! Dad and Muth’s
asleep!”
A boy about ten came panting into
the room, so out of breath he could
scarcely articulate.
“They—sent me—to tell ya—!” he
panted. “You gotta come right away
an’ get the kids. Bonnie’s got a fever
an’ she—^wouldn’t eat her cereal—
an’ she is crying for Betty—an’ Sun
ny is yellin’ his head off!”
“Okay, you come with me. Kid.
We’ll get ’em,” said Ted. “but I don’t
know what we’ll do with ’em here-
Gosh! Can you beat it?” He cast an
apologetic eye at the new sister.
“Wnat is it?” she asked puzzled.
“Who are they?”
“The kids!” answered the brother
in astonishment. “Didn’t you know
about them ? ”
“No!” said Marjorie. “Oh, I re
member, Betty said something when I
first came about taking the children
somewhere, but I had forgotten about |
it. I didn’t realize there were more ]
of us.”
“Two besides Bud!” said Ted lift
ing his chin maturely and sighing. “I
don’t know how we’re going to make
the grade, with any more sick folks.”
Marjorie gave a little gasp of
amazement and then her soft lips set
firmly.
“We’ll manage!” she said. “I’ll go
with you to get them. I can carry one
of them.”
They walked along almost a block
before Marjorie spoke again and a
great shyness was possesing Ted.
Then they arrived at the neighbor
hood creche and Ted led the way in.
About that tune back at Marjorie's
home in Chicago Evan Brower was
standing at the front door impatient
ly ringing the doorbell.
Since he had left her, Evan Brower
had been vaguely disturbed by Mar
jorie’s attitude, and wished he had
stayed, in spite of her request that he
go and let her think things over. He
should have reasoned with her right
then and there.
He had never considered Marjorie
Wetherill impulsive before, but now
he recalled a certain look in her eyes
as she had spoken of her own people,
that smacked of fanaticism.
Also, she was young and utterly
I without experience in financial af-
| fairs, and here she was suddenly left
with a fairly large fortune, and men
aced by a family of unknown quan- j
tity and quality.
These thoughts had been milling ;
about in his brain all day as he drove i
from one appointment to the other j
and then back to his home city, com- ;
ing straight out to Wetherill’s in- !
stead of going to the office first.
He walked around the house to the
garage where he found the chauffer
out washing the car.
“What is the reason I cannot get I
any answer to my ring?” he asked I
severely. He was the kind of young 1
man who always required perfect ser- j
vice, and usually got it.
The chauffer looked up from his
work deferentially, recognizing a i
friend of the familv.
“Why, sir, they’re all away for the
holidays, Miss Wetherill went last j
night and gave all the servants a
holiday while she is gone. Very kind
of her, sir. She’s always kind.”
“Indeed!” said Evan Brower as if
it were somehow the chauffer’s fault.
“You don’t know where she’s
gone? Haven’t you her address?”
“No, sir, I haven’t.”
Evan Brower frowned. This was
really serious. What a fool he had
been not to make Marjorie sit down
and listen to him the other night!
Evan Brower got into his car and
drove away in much dissatisfaction.
So! She had gone. Headstrong lit
tle girl! Impetuous! He hadn’t
thought she was like that. If he
married her, and he had practically
committed himself to that course,
he would certainly have to train that
out of her.
Marjorie had slipped neatly through
his fingers and gone her own way
in spite of his protests. He would
try the letter carrier and post office
of course, though they were not sup
posed to give such information.
But the post office when consulted
said they were to hold all mail for
further orders. She had left no ad
dress.
Well, somehow he must get in
touch with her.
So he went his way, and made
his plans for going after Marjorie
when the right moment should come,
and that would be the first minute he
knew where to find her.
He went out and bought a delight
ful Christmas gift for her. He even
went so far as to look at engagement
rings.
The more he thought-about it the
more his thoughts became intrigued
with the girl who was so sweet and
unspoiled. How easily she could be
molded to fit the enviroment in
which she would live if she were his
wife.
Then, he reflected, Marjorie had
always been fond of his company,
had been ready to accept his invi
tations, always, although until re
cently he had taken her out very lit
tle. There was no reason thinkable
why she should not want to marry
him. „
And it was quite the appropriate
thing for him to marry her. More
and more as he turned it over in his
mind his common sense as well as
his inclination approved the plan.
And it was comfortable to think of
the girl of his choice as being utterly
unspoiled by contact with the world.
There had been no other man in her
life, he was sure of that. He would
not have to worry about any youth
ful indiscretions. Innocent and love
ly, that was what she was, and very
likely he had been the ideal man In
her eyes.
Not that he had always had one
ideal of womanhood, himself; but of
course men were different. It was
man’s part to choose, and naturally,
he had considered other girls, but
had never been quite satisfied.
He began to think back to his
first consciousness of Marjorie, when
she had come home from college af
ter graduation.
He remembered her as she sat in
church, across the aisle, a row in
front of where he was sitting with
his mother. He had been struck with
her beauty then, and wondered that
he had never seen it before.
He had watched her during the
service, as she gave attention to the
sermon; her sweet seriousness at
tracted him strongly.
This difference they had had the
last time he had talked with her,
about hunting up her owrt people,
had been the first unwise decision he
had ever s een her make.
In the meantime his mind was
making itself up very definitely that
Marjorie was desirable. The more so
as he discovered through an old
friend and confidante of the Wether
ill family that an unusually large
number of shares of a very valuable
stock were a part of the Wetherill
estate which Marjorie had inherited.
Marjorie had a lot of money and
needed the right man to look after it.
And he was convinced that he was
the right man.
That was the day he selected the
great blue diamond engagement ring.
But Marjorie was walking along a
sordid back street holding the thin
cold hand 0 f a little new brother who
was crying.
Marjorie suddenly swooped down
and swept the youngster into her
arms. She had never had much to do
with children before, but she was
quite strong and held him firmly.
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