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Show PAGE THE TWO. HERALD-JOURNA- BY CHAPTER LOGAN, UTAH,- - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER L, I thsyaar nineteen 'and sixteen, Professor Fsnwlek and hi vita Ann died of tnAuans during the same week In lata Match, tbelr acquaintance thanked a merciful Providence that the three little girls had thoae charming grandparent who Were willing and glad to take them right In and give them a good home. Tbs nuns In the house at tbs time, ne sturdy Gladys Clapp, was the mir parson who faK the least p-prdhsBslon as to the tranquil future ad the Penwlcks daughters: Ann, M yearn aid; Cecily, eight years ! one U; and baby panrold on the third ot last Febru; arr-' The children's grandmother had thrown the two front doora wide the apn aa Gladys oame, carrying wp the steps, with Ann and ' baby yfeeily lagging behind. she had called. In "Welcome," . bar creamy sweet voice. "Welcome. And welcome home, my darlings! ' 1 iplte ot her flesh, and she was i extraordinarily fat, and disregarding the fancy,. lacy, perfumed, thing she was wearing, She had gone right down on her Tmisa to embrace Ann and Cecily, and they had to stoop far over to While she cooed and shed .team their white necks lev that wetly on to their little and made themaquftm pabeeomlngiy. ..Grand the grandfather,' you know entered. He had a round Whits heard, and flowing whit balr and. Just now, tears stood In .his Madly blue ayes, and ha knew It It wan ha who took the baby, mar-- ' win something that sounded to ( to4yf aerlptmnUy unaccustomed , mpns Um. "the yeast of lease." Ha 'ANN ante a tall man. and ha nate a graad Kletvra standing liter with because she knew flustered through the back door rapidly and to atO-- fully nag hlmapd baby-cho-eM that Sever lu thbi world eoulil she to march time. One with a devHam fn hie. arms. formed shoulder, whose name was that. 'turned from It to remember aall ot that like little Possaflume, Eugenia girl ChrlHtlna Cecily, fairly pretty dlgaa f ha two front toots, which had even at eight years old, and soon to stayed for more than a year before Am torgotfon. sail which were on she went away through the front gnats of the rainy Atareb be prettier, pulled at the tassel amwind to sweep Into the halL She tba babys ahoe and said, Father door and on a stretcher to the wont understand. Ha hasnt under- bulance that took her to the charity neks to Rosalie the grandmother. stood Three months later, anything for thr days. It hospital. f(M know whs wa still billowing la the fever's Passaflumes fault. They are afraid Christina Eugenia pink silk and lace about on the Mother may have contracted. it lawyer (if you please!) threatened floor. , "Did the vails gad things get She ducked Her cbm lowbraml suft hgalnst Jonathan Fenwick for blinked her long lashoa up and $180, bIx months unpaid salary due kara all right!" client. Grand sold one ot the f J Them had been nothing amusing, down ever ter gray Graad opaned the door again few remaining lots, on which he la o tor aa Gladys could see, had ikept the taxes paid, and the netted with bar question, taut Rosa- and with bow and gesture bade affair was settled, promptly and lia gargled eom isnghter before Gladys Clapp a benevolent Mind the third. step," qotetlyand out of court. ka sail, "They am aU appaafcfd nothing of this, but aad the darling, dataty llltte things Up called: iTHe third stei'Wk the talk with Rosalia, precipitated am la place la the three little way broken right down Jn the center, at least by Miss Flume's Insolence, i Vv. (The rooms wura.a marked a turning point In Ann's WOMAN named A Josephine tor needed slum hat, they life. She was 16 years-olby this for , the time to he amell and ,acyr, is , working. LqMpin;.,wpa Rosalie' mind they were aamlf And Grand ami 'Rotage ht that umo. time, 'add 'in !her freshman year at Reed where John Fenwick College, When aha had come a year ago to eoy.) "ThreeT" queetloaed Gladys- - "The apply for the position ot general had taught and was well remembered. baby daat going to he put at la a houseworker Jn the Fenwick ManRosalie began, 'Tve ..Darling room by herself, la abef vly fUtme ly ama, ab said, been thinking today such Jolly, Roselle's maoaar grew grave aad Jhasphlae Doehden. When I work little thoughts. They have charmingly Judicial. "Tea think It IfWaik. When, I sleep ,1 steep- - I merry ' do more work with one hand than flown about me 'all day long like 'jmwlmr wee song birds. Biddle birds Graad answered before Gladys most women do .with twq hands. sweet ! "Do you (in a lower register). had a chase to do so. Otr your-s- But want my pay. Im nasealnsm, ay good woman When she quitted the Fenwick know what they have been singing to me? Independence, over and r mgr very good woman." he added Mansion, live months after the day over. , Independence, and chummt-ness- " With a tetttrtag-sails- . "arsrytbteg Gladys had brought the children to (Ann shuddered (lightly but abalt be arranged for the beat com- live with their grandparents, she fort and good t all. fihtawhall be nude much the same speech. "When Rosalie did not notice), and sharIt may not he don today. I work I work," she said. "When ing one anothers burdens, and It may net he done tomorrow. But I sleep I sleep. I am not a dog. urnow.all that aort ot thing, you For Are months I bar worked like pea, very aaoa. it shall ha pHitaed. Convey that message, if a dog. Now I will go and sleep for 7M will he so kind, 'All things shall fir months aad X Will not be rest- A JJN said, Oh? Rosalie sat and . aeon he arranged for the bast good ed. And I want my pay." smiled With her tiny Cupid's A procession ot houseworker fol- bow month, embedded away up i end the haft eossfort ef all, to our lowed, sfter that: women who came above the first ot her three chins, dear son." Tea, air, eald Gladys, frlght- - through tbn front door aad left and nodded her bead with fta crowa erf, fat y ! Mary-France- , Ann-"kbe- - -- t ' Coj-yrign- CLEAVER ot yenow nair turana aiways eaitea It a crown, and she had ever ee much of It, and It was "touched up merely), and said nothing. So Ann was forced to say, "What do you mean?" Rosalie meant that this servant problem was torturing her by day and tormenting her by night: the Ingratitude, the Inefficiency, tba necessity ot having daily contact with it was Rosalies turn to shudthat sort ot der, and Ann noticed person." So It seemed to Rosalie that with three girls la the house (Rosalie, Ann, and Cecily) all lovingly eager to help one another, they should be able to manage, easily and happily, with a charwoman coming In once or twice a week. So charwomen came, though more often they did not come, and three months went along, somehow, and it was Ann who sought Rosalia for the second talk. She began It "Rosalie. didn't forthrightly. Father leave any money at all?" Rosalie leaned back in her chair and held out her white hands little dimples, ami Hitler diamonds, but big amethysts and one gold flower filigree with a seed pearl "Come to Rosalie, dutling nestle here. I want to have a talk with heart talk with my you, a beart-llittle girl. It developed that there had been a small life Insurance, but that John (do wasn't practical. Aren't you glad and happy. Ana dear, that your father was not a wholly practical man?) had, months before be had passed on, borrowed heavily against It to meet well, very urgent obligations, one supposes.) No beautiful memories, high Ideals and um things of that sort were all that John had been able to leave behind him. All and yet everything. "And us gills, ot course," Ann suggested. To carry out bis visions, to fulfill his hopes and Ideals, to um She paused. Ann had Rosalie began sighed, heavily. again: "Was there something, Gear some glftlsh adornment, some little pleasure that you had set .your heart on? Tell me. Tell .me all about it, and perhaps. It It Is wise. Grand and 1 can manage It for 1931. STRAHAN 1931, by Doubleday, Doran and Co CHAPTER IA them understand. "What earthly un?1 asked "It wouldnt change anything. U might worry them, but tt wouldn't help us." Phil say Cecily interrupted. Philip as an oracls had a maddening habit of Ann, angel," she being right said, "don't fall into tba habit of quoting Phil all the time. Haven't wives who you noticed tbat th everlastingly quota their husbands are tie Ter never quoted thaunelves by stne husbands? i'n not a wife, Ann said In a chilh way she had developed re- tJT ttu than that Ann was earning a week aad Cecily tit a Oe-cil- ti week. Grand had retired from the business. Grand owned nothing now except tb family house and the land upon which it stood. These, he stated, ho would sell at the same time that ha sold his wife and hla grandHe made speeches daughters. about it. His son and his son's children had been born there. (They hadnt, at aU; but Grands memory at 74 was falling.) It had ftaad through the years, in stress aad storm, aa over ready haven for him and bio that aort of thing. Roaalla, getting wind of the fact, some way or other, that there were aush things as mortgages, had once suggested during a trying month that they borrow a mortgage or whatever one did with a mortgage oa the home place. Grand, sensing perhaps the inalienable right of mortgages to melodrama, produced quantities of malodrama, and Rosalia wept some, tbroogh her promise never to mention such a thing again. Thera was no pressing need ac fbe time for a mortgage. Part of the $41 a week bad to be put aside for what Coolly called the Educational Fond" (Mother, sometimes for a Joke, had called tba baby Grand and Rosalie bad not approved), but tbe taxes were lower, since the new appraisal, and a slick shoemaker dowu tb street put on half soles and even small patches so that they Grand rarely scarcely showed. borrowed more than a dollar or two at time. It always had 'to be chauge. small change, that he real-esta- cently. Get Uy giggled. Ann did not. "It soundi, explained Cecily, so sort ot well. Immoral, said like tbat. PkU'ji not a husband would sound muck better. "Wsit until you are In love." satd Ann, and engaged, and you won't think it is so funny not being ibis to be married. It was In, possible for Cecily to undtrstand why Ann should wish to mp-rPhil with his conspicuous good looks, his inevitable rightness, his sterling qualities, his mustache, his frerslioes, aud his famishing It was almost impossible for Cecily to like Phil as well aa ala felt he deserved to be liked; so die protested and declared she had, never thought that, uor connected with it, funny at all., (in said, "Yes, hut you have nevr been in love, and made It an aceisation. "fve tried, but it's like Grauda luwntione It won't work. spring I was afraid," said ni, and did not notice that she J said afraid," "that you ware talfng In love with Rodger French. $ might have. If he hadn't said I ias pleasant looking and It be copd have found anything admlr-ababout me besides my ears." Your ears? "Wt yon remember how he was slwws talking about my ears? How they per little and flat and showed pink through the edges In tbe sun like t child's? I loved it the first time, ind kept running about With my had mirror looking for a sunny spot i. tbe bouse. . But after a dozen imes or so It got sour, and wo pared forever,' as Rosalie says, when 1 blew up and told him I liked w flatteries fresh 11 k my vegetahls." Y,ou werent In love with tbe one befoe him, cither, were you? What w his name Mr. bomire, be used to say over the slephonr "Mias JPen wick ? This SsrMr, TAomire "speaking. Dont yoiremember. . : I didt mean him, billy!, meant th oldr,'.)ong stringy on who was tways bringing you photo graphs oliis faftily. , EmmltHerrlek Vtorfarty, B! S. C. E. on )s visRtog cards, and h left a paq every .time be came. II was klndtf nice and Irlsby, even If he waa freak. But. goodness, Ann, you'e remlnlsolng Ilk Rosalie. Vhy the questionnaire? "I ten know," satd Ann. "I was Just Art of thinking tbat you well, didi understand about tovu." "1 dot," said Cecily, "and. I dont wat to ever." (February. 1930, wa the date.) When I im people to are In love aha caught 'Itself np and tucked In poUtely-i'Marand Herbert, for axnmpl- - You and Phil ar differ, ent, of ourae "Test-quiAnn, and sighed. Yes, Iiuppoe Phil and I ar dltorea course. F toe Continued) Very-Fanc- o Very-Fancy- any-thh- g nested. - Ha began his new venture in & bumble way. At any rate, tbe cost of .fitting up hi workshop in one of the spare bedrooms was Just under the amount Ann bad planned to apend on bar winter coat. . Grand was not puttering. Grand was bard at work on bis model for slrplan wings that should fold and unfold a n birds wings fold and unfold. There Is s fortune In It," h said. Implying, however, tbat he held n low opinion ot persons who cared for fortunes. "Ah, yes an unlimited fortune." you. No," Ann said. , "Nothing.' I, No. I guess had thought hoped Ill have to quit school for tbi term, auy way." pesky reason the pulleys that were t manipulate the wings would not work, always, with the required degree ot exactitude. It did not matter greatly, because their perversity gave Grand an opportunity to ge$ to work in, earnest on his collapsible Are escape, and this car- Tied straight on and naturally to r , spmethlng xew in elevators a device which no one, perhaps not even Grand, entirely understood. Sectional doors came next The principle was involved, but tbe point was that two or three Inches ot n door could b opened, while remainder of the door stood tie ' firmly closed. Failure of the doors waa tragedy, for with them Grand wearied of things folding and collapsible, ;and in the spring of the year JJ2J turned his attention to radio development. The electric bills mounted high, and the trifles that Grand needed for his experiments were ruinously priced. It was In May, 1929 odd of Ann to remember tba date that Phil told her for tba first time, flatly aad with no softening diminutive. Abet she was afooL "Vew,".be elaborated, pretend to deapta'70ur grandparents' sentimentality. You are as sentimental way bit both you TjDR and that. It leaked out, was pre4 cisely what Grand and Rosalie had been desiring but disliking to mention. r, i ? if - Ji-On Thursday afternoon Ann went to see Hr. Elm and asked him to, lend her $50, which' Iras the tultfon fee charged by the business college she had selected, ' He krote. the t check, and a prescription tor a tonic, and could not remember what It was all about when, four months later, Ann called at his office to pay him five dollars. ,.,-- 4 ; , "I have a position." she explained. But I get only $10 a week, and I have something to pat with this other fiv. Ill bring five again next week." Dr. Elm detained her. Ho asked questions. Ann answered them all. The Red fern Plumbing and Heating Company: Bhe liked It pretty 'wall. She was feeling .pretty wall. Ym, aha had goo to Reed College, hut aha had (topped for, a 'anmbar of. reason. 'Her , sister, Cecily, .waa going to college., No. Cecily now . waa'lnithowixth grade school.. ,v , i: i.1. (To B Coattnued) ... some plague-take- 1 . space-savin- g 1 , - CECILY and Cecily are." Ann said, Why, Phil Ecrcyd, we are not! And, anyway, Ann said, but more weakly, Cissy and I do have to remember that they have given us a home all these years. Thilip, a handsome, dignified young lawyer by now struggling might be added, except that it seems redundant merely shrugged his shoulders and said, "Ob, yeah?" as it was being suid in 1929. Ann argued, "Rut what ran we do when lie askS fur things? Do? Simply tell tho old gentleman that you cannot afford these things. Refuse to buy any more of them. Get him a stick tq whittle. Put your foot down, - Wouldn't that " be more sensible? Ann said, Ye$, Rear," as it has been said by placatory women since the year one. Though, of course, she did not put her foot down. It was in July, 1929 odd of Cecily to remember tlie date, but Jt was she who went on the first errand that the two elder Fenwick and begirls discovered pawn-shogan to eat, according to Cecily, Mothers and Father's wedding presents. They ate the little chebt that the profeisor of Romance languages had bougth In Genoa; they ate the clear ringing brass bowl tbat Mother's girl friend bad sent from Ceylon. They ate Grandma v Tamasies silver tea service (yes, one of the Tamasies, but she aud Grandpa had both died long before Ann was born), and quantities of flat silver. Cut glass and china proved Inedible. For Thanksgiving they had Father's . trout rod, and hla set of ivory chossmsn want tor jCbrlstmaa. ' liand-carve- hand-painte- band-mad- on a u .in O KAY 9, cpHP.EE day after Christmas Grand took to his bed with a bad attack of quinsy and arose from it early lit February pessimistic as to the future for radios aud deeply Interested in the improvement of kettles used to generate steam in Tbe wedding presents were pawned with no hope of redemption. But gadget things for steam kelLIes were Inexpensive, and the Very Fancy Educational Fund, severely threatened, ; had not been touched. The relief was so great that this time,-wht-e Cecily said to Ann or perhaps It was Ann who said it to Cecily this time Giand and Rosalie dont know they still think they are supporting the famsmiles could be exchanged ily, : about it. i'll remark was made in the upstairs hall, directly otter a con vorsatlon 'with Grand in which he had said that it had occurred to him that his Illness, the holidays, one thing and another, might have been, rather a drain on the girls' pocket money. Rosalie had .Intimated something of tb tort.- - He intended, of course, to repay them. His granddaughters Heaven bless and keep them! should not be out of pocket on his account. . So, if they would, make an itemiied record of their expenditures, he would attend to it, and shortly. No no! No quibbling now. Payment should be arranged, payment in full, and very V; to got-m- soon. As the girls heels clicked down th uncarpeted front stairs (the carpet had been sold to a Junk m for 65 cents three yeeri ago) said, "They must know. Bnt they don't realise u, r toe It, or something. Fkll thinks w hnld mate d pw all of our new - . Here Is Your Opporturity Get the Finest In Furniture, Carpts and Rugs Made at the Lowest. Possible! Prices to YVE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT SUCH FINE, DURABLE TOYS! . I 'V i r "i'i , Sc I V - r 'KTT1'3l& Tt tr i |