Show DINSMORES DINSMORE'S l 2 s 's FOLLY DOLLY i l v ci 1 By Bv Crittenden Vr ma Marriott on i by Irwin Myers 2 Copyright Service SYNOPSIS That her grandfather left hex het the architectural monstrosity known as lo Folly Je Is for tor esthetic reasons by no meant means pleasing to Ethel DInsmore mod t. t ern flapper She would refus T to the bequest but bUI her father tather mil head of ot Consolidated Trust will not allow i It CHAPTER I-Conti I I Continued I-Continued need 2 2 That wa was how I 1 came eunie to overhear tile the conversation con between him and nud Mr Paul Panl It Ir didn't make muke much Impression on me then but It was re really llly er very Ira im important and ond so Ive I've dug It out our of my mj memory to put down here bere Dad must have looked up up as os Mr Paul came In for I beard heard him call Hello Paull What brings you OU down in Then Mr lr Paul answered panting like Richards has hns sold us out Father didn't answer by which 1 I knew that the news was very Important important Im or very unimportant Dad Dar never raises the roof except for or things of medium Importance Mr Paul went on un Ills stuck stock added to that of the X Y l' Z 2 crowd crO brings them within fifty votes of us I If they can get fifty one more they'll throw us out of the A ABC B C management manage manage- management ment neck and crop I understood this The fhe A ABC B C was fathers father's pet railroad The X S Y Z railroad rail roll road had been trying for Cor years to take it away from frum him and add It to their system But nut Father had always nh beaten heuten them oft off Now It seemed that one of dads dad's friends friend had hud gone bone over o to the enemy After a lJ while Dad spul spoke e. e They y cant can't can i get one tifty-one more he said sold They cant can't get one more more unless unless they find the owner of those missing thousand thousand thou thou- sand shares Mr Ir Paul aul did not Sl seem m to understand under stand and Father explained The husks s show that an un even thousand are ure held by a Mr Concord who went West ten years ago he be said I Neither elther he nor his stock has been heard Iward of since I never ne tried very hard hardI I r to find him for Richards' Richards stock gave e me mea a 1 majority But If It Richards has hns gone un over r to rn the enemy well we'll have ha to find Coia or or his heirs Concord was sin nn old Ulan titan years ago ogo and he may he be her ber r dead Better neUer go to the office Paul i and get ger what Information you yon can cnn an and 1 tr try to run him down Very ery good Mr Ir Paul taul gut got up Ill III t t b nut out this way be said And before 1 J could move he had hud come out of or the French window at my back Then of or course he be pretended to tos s see e me the and to be surprised d Oh good tood morning n Miss lIss Dinsmore be ex et claimed I didn't see you I Jumped up quickly Why I Good morning Mr Ir Paul I said I 1 hoped Id I'd see you before you rou went went This was a u tilt till of course but I couldn't i hurt burt his feelings s. s But Im I'm afraid Im I'm Im I'm not Dot going to tt see you long I was Just going riding with Mr James I had caught a glimpse of Fred coming up the walk and had caught at the chance to escape Mr Paul aul looked toward the gate and his face darkened Mr lr James I eh ehi I he said questIoningly J 1 dont don't think I know him lies Hes Jes Je's a reporter on the Gazette I explained I believe helle hes he's covering co the city hall and ond the district attorneys attorney's attorneys attorney's ney's Deys om e. e and all nil that you know Perhaps you'll meet him some day Mr Ir Paul Hushed flushed up I noticed It It hut but I couldn't understand It So I E set f It down to jealousy Oh yes res I Pm rm c. c conceited minx I know ties Hes having ln a U vacation now and und Is spending It down here with his meth er I went ent on Fancy anyone spending spend Ing a n vacation here But hes he's the only IDly thing in mens men's wear wear except except jOUl- jOUl yourself of course who's course who's been heen down for a Ii week of Sundays Hes He's a per oer feet life san saver r. r But nut I must go and You'll excuse mo me I bowed nod and started away Hut But I 1 was aas not to 10 escape so Su easily Mr lr Pauls Paul's face darkened ti tiu It If was always darkening lie pot got lIr In front of me Dint Poni go ho lip Ito l I 1 never get gel to 0 really reilly see you inu anand mJ- mJ and aDd I cant enn tt stand bland It tiny any longer I II I cant can't work I cant can't sleep sloop I rant ran do anything for thinking ot hI you Im I'm mad about you jou quite mad You muss mils know it Ir It He Efe said It Just like that It took my uty breath away A As I have hu already L' L u bald i KNOW knew HINT that ne lie u II s of HI III HIter ter inc ine But tut I hadn't n rt really U II realized II 11 It Ul I And I never ne dreamed rhal he felt tel 60 su strongly as Its oil nil that Mr Ir Forty lIrty rea years rs old a D friend of dads dad's ranting like e u a boy bay Just out Jut ot of college And lI over lIr r me roe IlIe Hll rne nineteen years yena's old a H mere baby hally It was us too inn pren'S I stared ut at him In blank amazement Then I did the worst pus pOSt tiling I could have hu done I gig pig tied sled Of course e I didn't to Insult blur Ini or hurt hurl him butt I wouldn't r. have e hurt im the tile tour poor old alit thing tilIng tar fur a 8 fortune SI 1 was U the thc l ull of a 0 purely pure- pure ly ph physical contortion of the muscle dUe to surprise and nervousness nervousness- ahem I 1 I should have hu apologized of l' l urge ure us soon Bunn as os I pot gut r rhy rity breath I Nut hut Mr tr Paul aul gave e me no time Ills His ta face toce darkened some Slime more mure Uis Gis eye eft- Ms tits contracted till they were positive positive- J ly cavernous Co and his eyes eres glared from frometa I th them eta to a Y You you u you 1 he tie fi fesl fes J Ue tie did rid hiss really I kno Its It's hard hord to hiss you hut but beann be he heto ann to do It all ull the same You Q l at ai me By Dy O d O-d dl I 1 My proud lI auty t I Ill I'll 1 Ill I'll Ill I'll 1 That's what he called coiled me N M lei proud beauty I 1 I Honest be he did Josephine Jose Jose- phine suJ says s 8 I 1 oughtn't t to the put this In n story She says It 11 will make pe pen peo pie think that I am making Waking up Instead of telling an on absolutely truth I fill rul tale Bui But he real really did y say t Jean MI f he e he h had 11 been reading Lau a Libby at and Id maybe he Just u went hark hack to el hut but say suy It he did In fact I think It was sn saying Ing It that brought him to hl his senses for h he hl hi s his words off uR if short and gulped once onre Of or twice Then Then- I beg heg your portion pardon I r he said humbly I 1 forgot myself for a mo ment meat I 1 was horribly disappointed and and and You run will forgive me will you rou not Miss Dinsmore- Dinsmore Of course I 1 said that I would a and 1 I Ie genre be begged e ed his pardon for tor laughing I tried to explain about the Involuntary T contraction n of the facial muscles su au 1 w r t 4 S. S R 1 r 1 s c a Y N W IN INY Y s What I Mean Is Is Has a Poor Man Mana a Right to Ask a Rich Girl to Marry Mar Mar- ry Him by etc but he didn't seem seen much Interested As soon as I had stuttered to an nn end he be said It was all right that he be quite understood that no doubt he hind bad been lIeen abrupt but hut now now that he had spoken would spoken would 1 t Ido do him the great greot favor or of trying to familiarize myself with the Idea and ond would I remember that I 1 would always al nl always wa ways s 's find him waiting and ond so o on Really Heally It was a 0 very ery n neat at little speech earnest and ond well t delivered Y u But nUl i J r couldn t target nou nott ne he nm Find looked and acted a moment before Perkins erkins came come around the corner ot of the building with the horses Just lust as ashe ashe ashe he finished and Mr lr Paul bowed and went vent away before I could really say sn anything worth setting down he here c I was about to call to Fred when hn I happened to look at nr Perkins mid Anti then I 1 kept on looking fie Oe was staring staling after oCter Mr Ir Paul with the blackest face I had ever seen on ona ona ona a living 11 man mun Ue lie had hod thrust his head forward like a snake about to strike almost he be seemed to have ho flattened his forehead Perkins 1 I I 1 screamed What are you doln doing Perkins Jumped Then rhen he drew t back his head hend and straightened up Ing 1 I he grumbled Can Canna anna nn an na nn a n man look Ionic out ont of his een gin In he tie likes Perkins was apt opt to revert to his ancestral Scotch when he was moved mo But you were glaring at ur Mr Ir Paul 1 protested too tuo amazed to resent the theold theold theold old mans man's rudeness What he ever done to you you T TI I havena hn said hes he's dune done returned Perkins more wore calmly No Nu but hut you ou looked as os If It tie he had bud Why Perkins 1 I You looked trl frightful And at Mr Ir Paul too Why I He lie couldn't have hn done an anything to you hate hare him Hes He's one of the rhe nicest men mert I know Im Pm no hating haul miss I Ier Pcr- lerkins kins hind had recovered himself almost holl wholly Its a u brow braw callant he I is IF and most people are ore liking him par pur the rhe lassies particularly particularly the hi lassies hassles Its It's fair against reason that i should he be hating tinting aim miss Just then Fred came canoe up he lie hUll him been heen waiting In u a summer hourt- hourt built in mutation imitation of the Parthenon 11 arid and rill I turned to to JIm him for fur an un Instant When I looked hack back Perkins had hitched the rhe a. a H 11 LUC l j horses horse to tu the rack and und w was away So 1 l perforce pushed b by curl Into the back of ot my ray mind on ran Into the house to get Into rid rid- Ing ng clothes my Just lust Inside the library window I ran Into Dad I bad clean for forgotten otten that flint he was there He lie looked at nt me nor not angrily nor Jor sadly but hut wonderingly So So o my little girls girl's really grown up I he Bald eald and he kissed eli me on the fore head bead It took rook me several severa seconds to r reull realize that ll Da Oad ad d thought I had grown u up p be cause I hurl hud had hl td u a proposal ergo bEthought he bE thought that Mr Pauls Paul's was m tny my y first proposal al Good heavens hea J If t he knew knew- Yes Father Futher J I said dutifully Then D Dud Dad zed straightened up sari ami sighed Ill have ha to take you Into Wh my lay calculations hereafter Edith he said But there I Run Hun along s an and d de liar have e your ride He Ile kl kissed ed me again and turned turner away CHAPTER II It never ne rains but It pours J I I al 01 always always ways used to think titan that thI this was a 8 fool proverb pro but hut I began begun to change f my ray mind about It very soon after Mr Pauls Paul's proposal for fur that was os the beginnIng beginning be be- beginning ginning of the chain of events e that thol shook our household and that stirred a good big part purt of New York I dont don't mean that It was the cause of them though through perhaps It was to some ex es extent tent But It certainly led up to them The second episode f followed Imme lime after the first When Father told me to run along 1 hesitated for a moment I wanted to o ask ark k him what be he meant by saying he be must take toke me rue into his calculations but In the end I went wen without speak speak- ing I went for or several reasons renson Fh's First Fred was waiting second I Iwas Iwas was a good deal excited over Mr Paul and arid a little excited over Perkins Pet Per kins and ond I 1 wasn't at nt all certain what whar I 1 was at a as the darkey said and third I was pretty sure that Father wouldn't e explain Father had bad a WD of or saying things that seemed In Inscrutable for the moment but that ai at- wn ways s 's turned out In the end to be simple he never explained them lea leaving lean leav v. v ing lag It to time to do rho that and I sometime sometime sometime some some- time suspected that they were like the tire sayings of the Delphic oracle framed oracle framed so as to be correct whatever hap I dont don't know though Father was a wise old bird he could fores foresee the future as accurately as any ony member member mem memo ber of the Prophets Prophet's union that ever lived more lived more accurately In fact for he was seldom content with prophesying prophesy prophesy- ing H tic went ahead and helped to tomake tomake make e his prophecies come true I really believe that In the ten minutes minutest I t that hut elapsed between Mr Pauls Paul's stepping step steppIng stepping ping out on the tare porch and ond my meeting meetIng meet meet- Ing Father Father It It could not have been more than thun ten minutes minutes minutes-he he had seen what was coming and had hod mapped out outa a o plan for a 0 campaign to meet It ow I I did nn n n k H t iii i t ever ti i not uv i stop au t iu LU o n o u vi that then I Iron ran along to my room and put on my riding togs slowly I 1 half a n mind not to go riding at all ull But UI I 1 went at ot lost last chiefly l 1 laugh now when I 1 think of it It chiefly chiefly because I 1 did not riot want wont to disappoint Fred who hind bad been heen very ery Insistent In asking me rne for fur this ride Josephine had hod usually June gone riding wIth Ith us but on this particular day she stu stayed ed at home on plea of a 0 headache It was not until long after otter that I 1 learned that Fred bad had not asked herto herto her herto to go and that even en my conscientious sister could have bave a headache to order when she thought It advisable ad So Fred and ond I J went alone DIone From the first all four of ot us were skittish The two horses borses were dancing dancing ing all nil over the place 1 I was troubled over o Mr Paul and Fred was nervous nervous- as u cut probably preparing to lead heat up to tine tilt subject he bud had in mind Im I'm Im I'm hound bound to say however that he ht I went up to tu It like Ilke a n little man as os soon SOUD us as he be got the chance which witch wn was jU just Jui justas 1 as soon as os Gypsy quieted down enough to 10 let him range alongside Miss Edith he began 1 want to ask usk you yn something lie He seemed rather ruther breathless but I took no ape aile special cial notice of 01 It Anyone sitting on 01 Ranger had n a right to be he breathless Ask sk away I Inu laughed hed Speech i Is I- free tree Fred chuckled but hur he tie didn't seem to be lw beery very cry mirthful Just the th point he declared Is speech free It 1 I didn't know what he wa wn nt at n-d n let ler him set gel the pure puce Sometimes mea It isn't It Isn't free around the district office If it was I could pull off of the bigger ge 1 scoop Ive I've ever hud grid But I 1 dont don't steal mum anything like that thul What I mean menn I Is tins has n a p fill man mun a rl right ht to ask a u rich I girl to ro mum 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