The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, November 24, 1939, Image 6
PACK SIX
THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24» 1939
EIGHTH INSTALLMENT
Synopsis (
When the wealthy foster parents
of Marjorie Wetherill both die she
finds a letter telling that she has a
twin sister, that she was adopted
when her own parents couldn’t afford
to support 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 Brower, 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 destitute and gradually
persuades them to accept things they
need. When the doctor calls to see
her mother she notices that he seems
particularly interested in her sister.
Marjorie goes to church in Brent
wood, where her family used to live,
and becomes very much interested in
the young minister there. She then
sees the nice home there that her
family had owned and determines to
buy it back for them. She confides her
plan in her brother and goes to see
a real estate man about making the
deal.
So she was soon in his car speed
ing toward Brentwood rapidly.
After she had gone over the house
without comment, allowing the man
to continue his sales parley without
interruption, she said as they were
about to leave:
“Well, now I may as well tell you,
I am Mr. Gay’s daughter. I was
away several years during the time
my father lived here and I had never
seen the house. I know all the cir
cumstances of my father’s having to
give up the house of course, and I
know how they hated to lose it. I
have been wondering if there is any
way in which my father can recover
the house. Can you tell me the low
est terms on which he could recover
it?”
The man’s face fell.
“Oh, in that case you had better
see Mr. Horgan. He has charge of
all those cases. But I am quite sure
that mortgage was foreclosed.”
“I was not speaking of putting a
mortgage on the place. I was speak
ing of paying cash. As I understand
it my father had only lapsed in his
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ready now to pay up all obligations,
and whatever other expenses you
had been obliged to meet, isn’t there
some way that the matter could be
settled and the property be taken off
your hands?”
“Why, my dear young lady,” said
the rnan patronizingly, “what reason
do you have to suppose that your
father could pay his obligations now
any better than six»months ago when
he finally surrendered the property?”
“When you finally took the prop
erty from him, you mean,” said Mar
jorie coolly. “I understand you gave
him no chance to refinance the mort
gage and that you were very hard
on him indeed. However, that has
nothing to do with my question. I
have some money myself and I would
like to clear my father’s home
and put the deed in his hands for a
Christmas gift if I find that your de
mands are within reason. I shall call
up my Chicago lawyer, of course, and
have the whole affair looked into be
fore I pay the cash, but if I do this
I shall want to do whatever I do
quickly.”
There was something about Mar
jorie’s air of assurance that impress
ed the real estate man, who had
been having a hard time himself
just now. He looked at her a min
ute questioningly and then he said:
“Well, we’ll go aid see Mr. Horgan.”
Mr. Horgan was an elderly man
with gray hair parted meticulously
in the exact middle and thin lips
that seemed never to give an advan
tage to anyone. He had small steel-
colored eyes that looked coldly
through her, and tried to put her
through a questionaire about her
family.
“Excuse me, Mr. Horgan,’ she
said, “I have no time to answer ques
tions. I want to know if there is
any way in whick my father can
now meet the obligations. Perhaps
I had better get my Chicago lawyer
to attend to the matter, since you
do not seem to be willing to name
any sum that would satisfy the de
mands.”
“Oh, not at all,” said Mr. Hogan
rising in protest, “I was merely in
terested to know just how sure a
thing this would be.
“If I decide to do this thifig,” said
Marjorie, drawing herself to her
full height and trying to act as
grown up as possible—though in
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“I will see that you have a certified
check for the full amount within the
week.”
Marjorie knew about certified
checks. She knew their power.
Mr, Horgan became suave at once.
“I would have to talk this matter
over with my partner, of course, for
usually you know, we do not do
things in just this way,” went on
Mr. Horgan. “It would be, however
you understand, at least—” and
he named a sum so much smaller
than Marjorie had dreamed that she
was almost afraid she showed Wow
surprised she was.
“Very well,” said Marjorie taking
a deep breath and hoping the man
couldn’t see how excited she was,
“I will get my lawyer on the tele
phone and consult with him about
this. He will know what I should
do about it and I shall either return
sometime this afternoon for your
answer, or send a representative of
my Chicago lawyer to talk with you.”
Marjorie still holding her head
high, sailed out of he office coolly,
with only an icy little smile for the
impressed agent. He bowed her out
ostentatiously, almost afraid to have
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that perhaps never would return.
Marjorie out on .the pavement,
summoning a taxi, found herself, so
excited that she could scarcely give
a direction to the driver.
She had gotten from Betty a list
of some of the best department
stores, and she went straight to one
and hunted up a telephone booth,
calling the Wetherill lawyer on long
distance.
“Well, I certainly am glad to hear
your voice, young lady.” said Mr.
Melbourne, “I was beginning to
think you had eloped or been kid
naped or something. A certain gen
tleman in Chicago has beseiged me
night and day to discover your ad
dress. Nothing the matter, is there,
that you take such an expensive way
of communication?”
“No, nothing the matter,” said
Marorie. “I’m quite all right, thank
you. But I telephoned this morning
instead of waiting to write because
I want your help. I’ve found the
house that used to belong to my own
parents and I want to buy it. I want
very much to get possession of it be
fore Christmas if I can. I shall
need several thousand dollars at once
and I would like to have you put
it into some bank ir. this city where
I could draw on it within a couple of
days. Would that be possible?”
“I suppose it would,” said the law
yer. “I could Wire it to them today.
But are you quite sure this house is
a wise buy? It’s my business, you
know, to advise you in such matters.”
“I know,” she said, “But I’m quite
sure about this. And even if it were
not a wise buy I should want it. But,
Mr. Melbourne, of course, I know
I’m not very experienced in buying
real estate, and I was wondering if
there isn’t some lawyer in this city
to whom you could recommend me,
who would take charge of this trans
action for me? I think perhaps these
people who have the house are a lit
tle tricky.”
“Yes?” said Mr. Melbourne. “Well,
you certainly should have someone
whom you can trust to look after the
affair. Let me think. Yes, there’s Wil
liam Bryant. He’s in the Federal
Trust Company Building. I’ll call him
up right away and' ask him to look
after you. Could you go to his office
at once? All right. I’ll phone him
about you.”
“Oh, thank you, Mr. Melbourne!”
said Marjorie in a relieved voice.
“And by the way, Marjorie,” said
Mr. Melbourne, “I don’t suppose you
have any idea of selling your Chica
go property, have you? Because I
had a very good offer for it last
week.”
“Oh!” said Marjorie a little breath
less. “I hadn’t got that far yet. I—
don’t—quite know what I am going
to do.”
“Of course,” said the lawyer,
thinking he knew pretty well that
she would like to be married before
long, and wofcld have to consult a
certain young man before she made
any decisions, but he did not voice
any such idea. “I just thought I’d
mention it.”
“Thank you, Mr. Melbourne. And
—please, Mr. Melbourne, you won’t
let anybody, not anybody, I mean,
know about this matter of my buy
ing this house. I don’t see that it’s
anyone’s affair but my own.”
“Certainly not, my child. You can
trust me for that.”
“And, Mr. Melbourne, there’s just
one more thing. Would you have
any connection in this city that
would give you influence to get an
opening for my father somewhere
here? He’s very much discouraged.
He had a very fine position and lost
it. He is an expert accountant!”
“Indeed? What was the name of
the firm, do you know?”
“Hamilton, Mclvor and Company,”
said Marjorie glad that she had re
membered to ask Ted that yesterday.
“You don’t say!” said Mr. Mel
bourne. “They had a fine standing.
I should say there ought to be some
thing pretty good somewhere for a
man whom they employed. I’ll see
what wires I can pull.”
Five minutes later Marjorie turned
from her expensive telephone call
well satisfied. Mr. Melbourne had
been just as kind and helpful as she
had known he would be.
She took another taxi to the Fed
eral Trust Company Building and
found to her joy that Mr. Bryant
was in and had just been talking
with the Chicago lawyer, so her way
was smoothed for her at once.
Marjorie was delighted with the
kind interest he took in the matter
and promised to return to his office
at three o’clock to learn the result
of his interview with the real estate
company.
She went on her way with a
lighter heart now, summoning her
wits to remember all the things she
wanted to buy.
First of all she had it in mind to
get a warm lovely negligee for her
mother, and comfortable pretty slip
pers to go with it. Then she hurried
up to the credit department, opened
a charge account, giving her Chicago
references and also Mr. Bryant,
then went and found a squirrel coat
for Betty that was almost an exact
duplicate of her own.
Passing the millinery department
she found a little soft gray felt hat
with a bright dash of pheasant’s
feather cocked aslant in the crown.
She was sure it would be becoming
to Betty.
After that it didn’t take much
time to select warm house coat of
brown for her father, a nice leather
boat for Ted, and a thick, warm
sweater for Budd with a bright Ro
man band of colors in the roll of the
turtle collar. Then she was off
breathless with anxiety to meet the
lawyer.
She found a better report than she
had hoped for. Mr. Bryant had
looked up the records of the trans
actions at the time Mr. Gay had sur
rendered his property, and found
more than one questianable trick
that the perpetrators would not care
to have brought to light by such a
lawyer as William Bryant, so he had
succeeded in bringing them to ac
cept a reasonable sum for bank pay
ment with interest, and the transfer
of the property was not going to
cost quite as much as Marjorie had
been told at first.
She could hardly wait for her pur
chases to come home. They would
probably wait for two or three days
before sending them until they had
looked up her refreences, but they
had promised postively that the
things would postively all be there
before Christmas.
She stopped on the way out of the
store to get a five pound box of
candy and another of salted nuts.
Those would be things she couldn’t
well purchase at the little grocery
store near Aster Street.
She realized as the taxi drove up
to the door that the house had be
come home to her, so dfferent from
what it had seemed the day she ar
rived, only a few brief days before!
Home, because they were dear ones
there, and already her interests were
tied up with theirs.
Betty came wearily from the kitch
en peering out into the hall at her
with a relieved look:
“Oh, I’m glad you’ve come! I
thought something dreadful had hap
pened to you in the strange city,—
or else—!” She stopped suddenly.
“Or else what?” Marjorie looked
at her with a sharp note in her voice
as if her answer meant agreat deal.
“Or else, maybe you had got tired
of us and gone back to Chicago,” she
said with her eyes half averted.
“Oh, and would you have cared?”
asked Marjorie breathlessly. “Would
not you have been rather glad to get
rid of me?”
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