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Show v j . - - 5 i v v.-: ..V ' ? U 1 ! if PAGE SIX A PROVO (UTAH) E V,E N I KG H ERA. LP, TXTE SDfAY, TA N UAH Ya5, 1 9 3 2 : iu K m JFPHRIEE; sti S j ' SI I CHAPTER I YjrrHEN, In the year nineteen hun-dred hun-dred and sixteen, Professor fenwick and bis wife Ann died of Influenza during the same week In "fate March, their acquaintances thanked a merciful 'rovidence that the three little girls had those per fectly charming grandparents who were willing an, glad to take them right in nnd gve them a good home. The nurse in the house at the time, one sturdy Gladys Clapp, was the only person who felt the least -apprehension as to the tranquil future of the Fen wicks daughters: Ann, M years old: Cecfly, eight years old; and baby Mary-Frances, one year old on the third of last February. Febru-ary. The children's grandmother had thrown the two front doors wide open as Gladys came, carrying the bafry up the steps; With Ann and Cecily lagging behind. "Welcome." she had called, in her creamy sweet voice. "Welcome, welcome home, my darlings!" And in spite of her neshrand she was extraordinarily fat, and disregard Jng the, fancy, lacy, perfumed, rose- colored silk thing she was wearing, she had gone right down on her knees to embrace Ann and Cecily, ' - and they bad to stoop far over to her while she cooed and shed tears! into their white necks tears that trickled wetly on to their little stomachs and made them squirm - .unbecomingly. Grandtbe" grandfather, you know entered. He had a round ; white beard, and flowing white half and. Just now, tears stood in .his kindly blue eyes, and he knewit. It was he who took the baby, murmuring mur-muring something that sounded to Gladys scrlpturally unaccustomed ears like, "the yeast of tease. He . was a tall ' man.; andhe made a grand picture standing, there with that blessed baby shocked to momentary mo-mentary -Hence In his arms. Reluctantly Re-luctantly Gladys urhed from it to close the two front doors, which had " been forgotten, and which were allowing al-lowing gusts of the rainy March -. wind to sweep Into the hall. She spoke to Rosilie the grandmother, you know who was still Wllowing . pink silk and lace about on the ; floor. "Did the valises and things get here all right?" C' IH There .had been nothing amusing, V In so far as Gladys could see, connected con-nected with her question, but Rosa-f.lie Rosa-f.lie gurgled some, laughter before she said, "They are all unpacked, and the darling, dainty little things " are injrface In the three little coxy rooms." (The rooms -were enor- , mbus; but, since they needed for the time to be smalj and cozy, In Rosalie's mind they were small and cozy.) 2 yThree?rig.uestlonedGladys. "The baby Isn't going ta be trot off in a room by herself, Is she?" Rosalie's manner grew grave and charmingly judicial. "Too think it : unwise? ; Grand answered before Gladys j had a chance to do so. "Give your-i your-i self no uneasiness, my good woman I my very good woman," he added " "with a flattering smile. "Everything ,; shall be arranged for the best com-- com-- fort and good of alL This shall be .,v'done. It may not De done today. "It may not be done tomorrow. But Boon, very soon, it shall be accomplished. accom-plished. Convey that .message, if cyou will be so kind, 'All things shall ' soon be arranged for the best good y. and the best comfort of all,' to our dear son. Tev sir," said Gladys, trlgnt-J w rw'' V" -? ' " A' i i OV.v.ViV.'.'.f . 5S X1 J- -vs-.i-Jv. i-.-x- ; : .vJ' O.V.V.V.V.-.U.T i ' , - - ': ' "VW-.J .".-5; -". U -v --..'V w. fc,?,, 'V " t Ill ANN fully flustered because she knew that never In this world could she remember all of that-like that. Cecily, a fairly pretty little girl even at eight years old, and soon to be prettier, pulled at the tassel on ths baby's shoe and said, "Father won't understand. He hasn't understood under-stood anything for three days. It Is the fever's fault. They are afraid Mother may have contracted-fjtrT 1 She ducked her: chin lower and blinked her long lashes up and down over her gray eyes. . Grand opened the doors i again and with bow and gesture bade Gladys Clapp a benevolent good-alteTnooTjMlnd good-alteTnooTjMlnd the third step," he called The third step was broken right down in the center. named Josephine was working for A WOMAN Loehden Grand and Rosalie ' at that time When she had come a year ago to apply for the position of general houseworker-in the Fenwick Mansion, Man-sion, she had sSId, "My name is Josephine Loehden. When I work I work. When I sleep I sleep. I do more W6rk with one hand-than most women do with two hands. But I want my pay. : When she . quitted the Fenwjck Mansion, Ave months after the day Gladys had brought the children to live with their, grandparents, she made much the same speech. "When I work I work, she said. "When I sleep I sleep. I am not a dog. For five months I have worked like a dog. Now I will go and sleep for five months and I will not be rested. rest-ed. And I want my pay.' A procession of houseworkers followed, fol-lowed, after that: women who came through the front door and left through the back 'door rapidly and to march time. One with a deformed de-formed shoulder, Whose name was Christina Eugenia Passafiume, stayed for more than a year before she .went away through the front door? and on a stretcher to the am bulance that took her to the charity hospital. Three , months later, Christina . Eugenia . Passaflume's awyer:(if yoa please!) threatened suit against Jonathan Fenwick for $180, six months' unpaid salary due to his client. Grand spid on of the few remalnfhg Jots, ? on 'which he had kept the taxes paid, and the affair was settled, promptly and quietly and out of court Ann knew nothing of this, but the talk with Rosalie, precipitated at least by Miss Flume's Insolence, marked a turning point In Ann's life. She was 16 years old, by this time, and in her freshman year at Reed College, where John Fenwick had taught and .was well remembered. remem-bered. ., . "Darling." Rosalie began, "I've heen Jhinklng today such . Jolly, merry little thoughts. They hare flown about me all day long like 8weefwee song birds. Biddie birds' (In a lower register). "Do you know what they have been singing to me? Independence, over and oyer. Independence, and chummi? ness" (Ann shuddered slightly but Rosalie did not notice), "and sharing shar-ing one another's burdens, and urn all that sort of thing, you know." r ANN said, "Oh?" Rosalie sat aid smiled with her tiny Cupld'f; bow mouth, embedded away up above the first of her three chins, .and nodded her head with Its crown of yellow hair (Grand alwiys'callea it.a crown, and. she hid ever a much of It, and it was "touched up merely), and said nothing.' So Ann was" forced to sayi "What dev(y4 mean?" '.' ; Rosalie meaot!that' thts "servant problem was torturing hir by day and tormenting her by sight: the ingratitude, the Inefficiency, ; the necessity of having dally contact with it was Rosalie's turn to shudder, shud-der, and Ann noticed "that sort tot person." Sb It seemed to Rosalie that with three gTrls in the house (Rosalie, Ann, and Cecily) all lovingly lov-ingly eager to help one another, they should be able, to manage, easily and happily, with a charwoman charwo-man 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 Rosalie for the second . talk. She began 't forthrightly, "Rosalie. didn'l Father leave any money at. ail?" Rosalie leaned back In her chair and held out'-her white hands-little hands-little dimples, and littler diamonds, but big, amethysts and one gold flower filigree with .a seed pearl "Come to Rosalie, darling -.nestle here. I want to have a ta'k you, a heart-to-heart talk with my little girl." , ' It developed that there had been a small life insurance, but that . John ("He wasn't practical. Aren't you glad and happy, Ann dear, that your father was not a wholly pract I Cal man?") had. months before ht had. passed on, borrowed ; heart) against, it to meet-rwelij, vry urgent obligations.,, one supposes. ' No-beautlful memories. high Jdjealf ,lnd um things of that sort were all that, John had been able to leave behind him. All ana yetevery thing. "And us girls, of-course," Ann suggested. "To '.arry out his visions, to til fill his hopes and ideals, to um " She paused. Ann had sighed, heavily. Rosalie began again: "Was there something, deai some girlish adornment, some lit tie ' pleasure that you bad set yopr-heart yopr-heart on?' Tell me. Tell me aEi. about it, and perhaps, If Jt is Vise Grahd and I can .manage It tdi ybu.".; ; . -v ,.f "No,, Ann paid! ' "Nqthing.- 1 had thought hoped No. I guess I'll , have to quit school ,f'or , this term, anyway," 1, that,' It leaked oit, was pre ciely ;,1ftGraiid and Rosalie had been desiring but disliking to mention. - On Thursday afternoon Ann went to see Dr. Sim and; asked him to lend her 150, which was the" tuition fee charged by the business college she had selected. He wrote the check, and a prescription for 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. "I have a position," she explained. "But I get only $10 a week, and I haye something to pay with this Other five. I'll bring five again next week. pr. Elm detained her. He asked questions. Ann answered them'all. I The Redfern Plumbing and Heating company. EAe nted it pretty well. She was feeling pretty welL Yes, she: had gone to Reed College, bttt she had stopped for . number , of reasons. Her sister, 'Cecily,was "' going to college. No, .Cecily now was in the sixth grade at grammar schooL . . (To Be Continued) CHAPTER 1 A BY the time that Ann was earning ..$25. a week and Cecily $16 a week, Grand Tiad retired from the real-estate, business. Grand owned nothing now except the family house and the land upon which It stood. These, he stated, he would sell at the same time that he sold his 'wife and his grand daughters. He made speeches about it. His son and his son's children bad been born there. (They hadn't, at all : but Grand's memory at 74 was failing.) It had stood through the -years, in stress and storm, an ever ready haven for him : and his that sort of thing Rosalie, getting wind of the fact: isome way or other, that there were such things as mortgages, had once suggested during a trying month that they borrow a mortgage or whatever one did with a mortgage 7on the home place. Grand, sensing sens-ing perhaps the Inalienable right of mortgages to melodrama, produced quantities of melodrama, and Rosalie Rosa-lie wept some, through her promise never to mention such a thing again. . There was no pressing need ai the time for a mortgage. . Part of the $41 a week had to be put aside Tor what Cecily called the "Very-Fancy "Very-Fancy Educational Fund" (Mother, sometimes for a Joke, had called ihe baby "Very-Fancy"; Grand and Rosalie had .not approved), but the taxes were lower, since the new appraisal, and a slick, shoemaker down the street put on halt soles and even small patches so that they scarcely .showed. Grand rarely borrowed more than a dollar or two at a time. It always had to be change, small change, that he needed. He began bis new venture In a humble way. At any rate, the cost of fitting up bis workshop in one of the. spare bedrooms was just - under the amount Ann bad planned to Bpend on her winter coat. Grand was not puttering. Grand was hard at, work on his model for airplane wjngs that should fold and - unfold as a bird's wings fold and unfold. "There is a fortune In it," he said. Implying,' however, that he held a low opinion of persons who cared for fortunes. "Ah, yes an .unlimited fortune." - . FOR some pesky reason the to manipulate the wings would not work, always, with the required degree of exactitude. It did not matter greatly,, because their perversity per-versity gave Grand an opportunity to get to work in earnest on his collapsible fire escape, and this car-Tried car-Tried straight on and naturally to something hew in elevators a space-saving device which no one, perhaps not even Grand, entirely understood. Sectional doors came next,. The principle was . Involved, but the point was that two or three inches of a door could be opened, while the remainder of .the door stood firmly closed. Failure of the doors was tragedy, for with them Grand weariedot things folding and col-lapsIbleT col-lapsIbleT and In the spring of the year, 1929 . turned his attention to radio development. The electric ' hills mounted high and the trifles , that "Grand needed for. his experiments experi-ments were ruinously priced. ij It was In May, 1929 odd of Ann to : remember the date that Phil told her fbr...the first time, flatly S' d with' no softening diminutive, . it she wag k fooL . despise your grandparents senti mentality. You are as sentimental as they are. .every; .Wt hoth you v i : , " -. - ' -f ; toe ggXr; lT" J? $ s -' . 7- - i ' ""CI iiM CECILY and Cecity are. Ann said, "Why, Phil Ecroyd, 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." Philip, a handsome, dignified young lawyer by now struggling might be added, except that it seems redundant merely shrugged his shoulders and said, "Oh, yeah?" as it was being said in 1929. Ann argued, "But what can we do when he asks for things?" "Do? Simply tell the old gentleman gentle-man that you cannot afford these things. Refuse to buy any more of them. Get him a stick to whittle. Put your foot down. Wouldn't that be more sensible?" Ann said, "Yes, dear," 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 Ce-cily to remember the date, but It was she who went on the first errandthat er-randthat the two elder Fenwick girls discovered pawn-shops and began be-gan to eat, according to Cecily, Mother's and Father's wedding presents. pres-ents. They ate the little hand-carved chest that the professor of Romance languages . had bougth in Genoa; they ate the clear ringing brass bowl that Mother's girl friend had sent from Ceylon. They ate Grand ma Tamasle's 6ilver tea service (yes, one of the Tamasies, but she and Grandpa had both died long before Ann was born), and quantities quanti-ties of flat silver. Cut glass and hand-painted china proved inedible. For Thanksgiving they had Father's hand-made trout rod, and his set of livorychessmen .went for Christmas. npHREE days after Christmas Grand took to his bed with a bad attack of quinsy and arose from it early in February pessimistic pessi-mistic as to the future for radios and deeply Interested in the improvement im-provement of kettles used to gen erate steam in sick-rooms. The . wedding presents were pawned with no hope of redemption. redemp-tion. But gadget things forrsteam kettles were inexpensive, and the Very-Fancy Educational Fund, severely se-verely threatened, had not been touched. The relief was so great that this time, when Cecily saidltoi Ann or perhaps it was Aan who said it to Cecily this time "Grand and Rosalie don't know they still think they are supporting the family," fam-ily," smiles could be exchanged about it. The remark was made In the upstairs up-stairs hall, directly after a con versation 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 the sort. He intended, of course, to repay them. His granddaughters grand-daughters Heaven bless and keep them! should not be out of pocket on his account. So, if they would make an Itemized record of-their expenditures, he would attend, to It, and shortly. No no! No quib bling now. Payment should be ar ranged, payment In full, and very soon. As the girls' he clicked down the uncarpeted front stairs (the carpet had been sold to a junk man for 65 cents three years ago) Ann said, "They must know. But they don't realize it, or face it, or some thing. Phil thinks we should make them understand." "What earthly user asked Cecily. Ce-cily. "It wouldn't change anything. It might worry them, but it wouldn't help us." "Phil says" Cecily Interrupted. Philip as an oracle had a maddening habit of being right, "Ann, angel.", she said, "don't fall into the habit of quoting Phil all the time. Haven't you noticed that the wives - who everlastingly quote their husbands are never never quoted themselves by same husbands?" "I'm not a wife," Ann said fn a chilly way she had developed recently. re-cently. Cecily giggled. Annelid not. lt sounds," explained Cecily, "so-sort of well, immoral, said like that. Phil's not a husband would sound much better." "Wait until you are tu love," said Ann, "and engaged, .and you won't think it is so funny not being be-ing able to be married." It was Impossible for Cecily to understand why Ann should wish to marry Phil with his conspicuous good looks, his Inevitable Tightness, his sterling qualities, his mustache, his overshoes, and his famishing self-conceit. It was almost impossible, impos-sible, for Cecily to like Phil as well as 8be felt he deserved to he liked: so she protested and declared she had never thought that, nor any: thing connected with it. funny at all. Ann said. "Yes. but you have never been in love," and made it an accusation. I've tried, but it's like Grand s inventions it won't work." Last spring I was afrald."JsiId Ann, and did not notice that she had said "afraid," "that you wtrs falling in love with Rodger French." "I might have, if he hadn't said I was 'pleasant looking' and tt he could have found anything admirable admir-able about me besides my ears." "Your ears?" "Don't you remember how he was always talking about my. ears? How " they were little and flat and showed pink through the edges In the sun like a child's? I loved it the. first time, and kept running about with my hand mirror looking for a sunny spot In the honse. But after a dozen times or so it got sour, and we 'parted forever,' as Rosalie says, when I . blew up and told him . I liked my flatteries fresh like my vegetables." , . wern' In lqver wh, tt one before him, either, were you? What was his name " "Mr. Toomlr'e, he used to say over the telephone. 'Miss Fenwick? This is Mr. Toomire speaking. Don't you remember." "I didn't. mean him. silly! 1 meant the older, long stringy one who was always bringing you photographs photo-graphs of his family. "Emmit Herrick Morlarty. B.S C. E. on his visiting cards, and ht left a pack every time he came. He was kind of nice and Irishy. even If he was a freak. But,' goodness. Ann, you've got me reminiscing like Rosalie. Why the questionnaire?" "I don't know," said Ann. "I was just sort of thinking that you well, didn't understand about love." "I don't," said Cecily, "and .1 don't want to ever." (February. 1930. was the date.) "When I see people who are in love ", she caught herself up and fucked' la politely "Marta and , Herbert, for example You and Phil are different, differ-ent, of course." "Yes," said Ann, and sighed. "Yes, I suppose Phil and I- different, of course." (To Be Continued) .ir . - I'JI 1 - - - .?; ' , i " v. She deserves a better brealtf At LEAST ONCE A WEEK! ,,., SPECIAL.-,.,.,, ,1., . . v v A . . - ..,... ,v. 1 f - SUNDAY DINNER .: ; .v v .': ; V 4 - ' special eveniKg;meai- Full Course . . . . ; . . . . . . : . v. v & A Good Place To Eat OLIVER KESTER PASSB AWAY PAYSON Oliver W. Kester, a readent of Santaquin for the'jiast 32 .years died" at the family home earjy Sunday morning after a short illness. He hasworked quite extensively ex-tensively as an .''excavating contractor con-tractor in Salt vake City. ,Mr. Kester was bom July 5, 1871 ni Germany, Surviving are his wlow, Eiizaheth Kester and the following children, all of Santaquin: Santa-quin: R. ? J.( O. D., A. S., Clemet, Everett,,. Bessie, Edna and Lola kestef,, Surviving also are three sisters, Mrs.lda Hodge of Washington, Wash-ington, Mrs. Annie Mclntyre of Butte, Mont. Mrs. Katie Tarch of Pendleton. Oregon The.l body -; was brought to the Claudln. Funeral home In Payson and funeral services will be held bn Wednesday in Santaquin. J FIFTH WARD M. X A. : ' W.- I. A. activities will be resumed re-sumed in the Fifth ward -Tuesday evening with exceptional programs In all departments, . accordlng lo announcement of .officers. '. Morris - ,vCllngrVvyriH read a three-act play "Journey's End,", before be-fore the adult class. Prof. A. C. Lambert,.,.; . assisted by . Dorothy Mensel, ; will have , charge of - the public speaking department and Helen Rowe will be In charge of the retold story, group: Mrs. Alonzo MOrley will continue, with the dancing danc-ing section, and' Mrs. H. D. Chris-tertsen Chris-tertsen will conduct - .the : ; music. Marva Hodson will- conduct - dra-rnatics,4A'i''. dra-rnatics,4A'i''. .viT.o J-8 6yi" . j TfaXAlenAnd. Gleaner-slrls will meet jointly for a splendid opening: program. - . -. Greetings Fr6ri Scandinavian Group We have enjoyed, ypur loyal support sup-port during J the past year and the spirit.of service and 'g'obd will manifest mani-fest in behalf of our, organization. Through your efforts it, has grown. We want to continue to grow and will look to yourheirty cooperation. coopera-tion. We have been blessed: and ask the Lord to continue itq . bless you all. , : ;r;'.fr4v Your brethren in e" gospel, T. A. MADSEN H. BOOKED A. B. FOTlJANtrs? presidency. J. LASSEN; secretary. HOOVER WANTS ACTION . .WASHINGTON, Jan 4.,irE President Hoover in a special message mes-sage to congress today .urged Immediate Imme-diate actioienhfs1 "inanclal rehabilitation re-habilitation program. 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