Show MISS SS A ALADDIN By Christine Whiting Parmenter W VU Swie II SYNOPSIS Ruined James Jamel Nelson Nellon Boston olton merchant breaks break the news new to hit his household Nance Nanc his hla daughter nineteen I la I. on the tb verge of her hr In tn Introduction In- In to society A short time before an en cousin of Nelson Columbine Columbia ba had suggested that Nance Nanee come to her ber at 1 Tine In Ridge Colo a as a. a apal pal paid companion Jack Nance broth er r 1 seventeen year yean ar ol old ur urges urge her hlf to accept Cousin Columbines Columbine proposition thus thu relieving their father of a olal burden and offering to 10 no IrO with her no so that she ahe will not reel feel too lone Ions I Ir I The girl agrees afro that Jack write to Cousin Columbine and they will await tier her 1 answer Columbine wires welcome to both bolh of or them an and It I II arranged that thit the two shall so go Welcomed b br by Cousin Columbine the they ther are somewhat what dismayed by her unconventional attire and anoS mannerisms but e she h has hu character The driver of or their car ear Is II a ayoung ayoung young men man Mark Adam son on of a close clo friend of or the old lady lad CHAPTER III III-Continued III Continued 4 This brought a laugh and Mark said dryly I didn't know wed we'd ever lead a i christening In Tine Pine Ridge Miss Mills Columbine Too bad d that party arty was Interrupted by a war warl I It wasn't retorted the old lady I 1 called buck Keep still lUll Aurora This In Is the first tub bath Ive I've had Ince my mother washed me In a tin dish pan with only a covered wagon for Cor privacy and I wouldn't cut It abort hort If It the whole German army was wason wason on the lawn I could l tell she was lOad fund by the way she thumped downstairs down down- stairs but she ahe got over It before I 1 put on my clothes Hero lIero comes conies Matthew Motthew now flOW Slow v down Im I'm going to stop Iii Mm in She l signaled d wildly and ond a truck drew up beside them though It seemed to 0 Nancy that both vehicle and the driver did so with reluctance The Tho latter started to remove his hat tint found lie had none lOne on and blushed furiously The rho truck emitted a a sort of ot groan It If you reach home borne first Matthew Just sit BIt and Walt wait till we get et there re ordered ordered or or- dered derEll Miss bliss Columbine You can tell Aurora I said to give you a slice o of ot t chocolate cake calm And this Is IB as good a alima alime time lime as any to make you acquainted with my cousins Nancy and Jack Nel- Nel ron eon Dont Don't drive recklessly up the puss pass and lose lase those trunks over oer over th the e edge will w you I dare My they're valuable and I dont don't trust your our driving ing lag OR liP I 1 do Marks responded Matthew new nerv Pleated to meet you Ill I'll b be careful Miss Columbine lie He reached for his hat again found t I It still missing blushed redder and d started the truck with such a II jolt that empty milk cans careened drunken drunkenly y In n the rear Such confusion contusion amuse amused d Ms tits brother and a n quiet laugh escape escaped d from Nancy She suld said lies Hes really y bashful Isn't he tiel horn Born that way responded Cousin Coust Columbine And so BO good looking I observed l Nance They Chey had stopped at a traffic signal and their driver turned his hta head n a I little to say over his shoulder The Tho Family Campy beauty Nance Nancy couldn't restrain r n a giggle an and I Jack lack laughed outright but Cousin Columbine remarked severely I If It you expect me mime or anybody In Pine ua JUdge to contradict you young ma man you'll Joul be bo disappointed In my day dllY l It t wasn't considered modest to tI fish b fo for r compliments lh The green lights light's o oboy on toy Joy Why dont don't you get along Too crushed to tt move moe lie he told her tier and proceeded to start the engine n ns liS s quietly as Its age allowed Ill par park k l corner ome hero here on a side street Miss Iss s Columbine Theres There's no space Simco In front fron t of the Cash and Carry but Ill I'll walk wall OWl over and get your box Its It's only half lint halfa C Ca a block I linger Eager ager to stretch his legs Jack offered of ot- o f- f 1 assistance and as the boys buy s off orr the tho old lady remarked crl critically crit t leafy Jacks thin Isn't he het Grown Crow too tOD fast most likely and been blen coop cooped cooed Li up In school A eur In the open oen wl will 11 to do 0 wonders for him Nance thought with sudden cond con con- d A year earl I Does she e expert ex a pert pact us to stay that long but man mar age gM gal to answer why I Moth Mother lot her er let Jet him Mm come The doctor said MId h he needed outdoor life Ufa more mare than a II diploma Sensible man I All this education duc n business Is stuff and nonsense unless wiles s It fits a II boy to earn hU Isle living which h nine times out of ten It doesn't di do Look at Matthew Adam Ills poop people le scrimped scrImp and saved sued to send him to co col I lege Ige 1 dont don't say he got nothing o out ut of ot It but here he Is back In no running n It dairy ranch I 1 Tell m me ml e child has hns your father really lost hi his s money l Most of It Im I'm afraid Were We're ren rentIng rent rent- t In log Ing the city cly house and the family w will I Ilive 11 live at re for the present Wheres About twenty five miles mills from town tows Its It's Mothers Mother's old home dome but Aunt Jud Judy y owns towns It lt She wont won't let Dad pay a cos cent it rot lot rent r Aunt Judy I forgot you didn't know all about abet t us replied the Aunt Judy Is la mothers mother's younger I sister r She's lived live d with us for tor years and took tonk care of ot us children when we were little And Louise Loulee AU your fathers father's sister s r gives ves with you too tOI tool Yes She teaches In a very high high- hat girls girls' school hat High echoed Cousin Columbine Columbine Colum Colum- bine plainly mystified Nancy laughed and explained only slang Perhaps 1 Its It's an eastern variety that hasn't reached vine Pine Ridge It means swell Cousin Columbine awfully awfully stylish you know Aunt Louise Is clever She's She earned a good rood salary for tor years Well we live to learn learn admitted the old lady briskly High hat I l It Its It's really expressive when you come to analyze It So youre you're three families under the S same me roof root I should think you'd roud fight like cats and dogs The girl laughed again We dont don't honestly though Aunt Louise thinks Aunt Judy spoils us and sometimes they scrap about It that It-that that Is II as IS much as liS anyone can scrap with Aunt Judy Its U plain to see which Is the orUe aunt my dear l I Hut you mustn't think we dont don't apprecIate appreciate ap ap- predate Aunt Louise spoke up Nance quickly a dent dear but Aunt Judy understands us better and takes tak our side It If Aunt Louise had had bad her herway herway herway way wed we'd never nevor In this world orld have seen Pikes Pike Peak t I Her tier eyes eres crept upward to the snowcapped snow capped mountain and the old lady asked Was It worth the Journey Its wonderful I From the train i It t was Wll the least bit disappointing perhaps per haps Naps because le we were so far tar away but here Its It's marvelous and and and-and so near only the atmosphere Will you believe bellevo It tourists hero bere In n Colorado Colorado Col Col- orado Springs have been known to start out before breakfast thinking they y could walk to the base And get back In an hour I everything looks nearer than It Is Is even even the stars But lint ButI I like tike the Peak Ilok better from our side my dear and I think you think you will Where are those boys bos They're taking their time So your Aunt Louise opposed your our coming Will W you rou explain why Nance colored a little something which did dh not escape the shrewd old eyes e She She well well she said Jack Jock was vas too Impressionable I guess she thought work on a ranch ranch going going round all day dRY with rough men and boys would would- would spoil tit his manners Cousin Columbine stiffened Did Old she Indeed And what about yourself These frank frnnk questions cross were were disconcerting but the tho girl said honestly honestly hon hen estly She Bile thought Id I'd be homesick lr and I dare say she's right but as ns Mother pointed out things wouldn't be bevery Vf very ry thrilling at nt You see Sll Ive I've always spent winters In the tho city and this year yar Well eln prodded the old lady lally as ns she paused I only mean mean Nance hesitated thinking It might sound foolish fool to an Inhabitant of ot Pine Ridge Oe Colorado that If It Dad hadn't lost his money momy Id I'd have made my debut this winter Well his losses saved sa you from that anyway was the brusque reply Here come conic the boys at last Mark Adam did you can cnn those peaches yourself yourself your your- self Youve You've been gone long enough Not only canned but picked em Im he ho retorted Why didn't you let Matt cart this stuff Miss Ills Columbine Ill I'll have to tie It t on the running board 1 do no such thing I 1 Put It right In here and nail Ill I'll set my feet on onIt It There I 1 Im I'm comfortable as can cun be Truth Is I Intend Intended Ill I'll asking Matthew Mat Int thew to get this bo box but It slipped m my mt L mind when I saw he was In such a II hurry to get vet away awny from us L Did ld you boys bos have bave a n soda at drug store You must have ha been somewhere this twenty minutes It was only polite polito for me to give your company a treat Miss Columbine Colum Column bins bine explained Murk Mark as u he ho started the engine What next Do Du we head fiend for home homey 1 At t fit once and nail dont don't attempt to Ica leave Icae e everybody olly else behind even If you are the best driver In Pine fine I un you ou told JuanIta Tubbs that you could drive up Ute tile pass with one hand Iland and blindfolded Into tutu the bargain I was surprised Mark Adam to flail find you'd added boasting to your other sins Mark dark laughed and answered You Too know v me better Miss 1191 Columbine That was only for JuanItas JuanIta's benefit Since her cousin from Denver the won motorcycle motorcycle mo mo- race up the Peak last fall fuU that girl has tins put on airs sirs Shell be putting on black most IlL likely ely If It t he attempts to win another souther year car Miss 1185 Columbine Such races ought to be prohibited by law Were We're headed right Into the mountains now Nancy This part of ot town was settled before the Springs and the territorial legislature met here In 10 1862 with nothing but a II log room for their house of ot representatives Was as there any hotel for the mento mento men mento to stay at questioned Jack for tor whom the dr ls Is of ot United States history held a lure Only a tavern made of ot logs not nearly big enough to accommodate accommodated them Some had to sleep on the floor of ot the assembly room and one member mem memo her ber brought his family and set up housekeeping In Iri a n tent lint But surely you dont don't remember those days dars Cousin Columbine said Bald Nancy I Well hardly I chuckled the old lady But ut many manya the time Ive I've h heard ard my father tell about It One day be he became became came down to get a n look at the great reat men and found a chief justice squatting squatting squat squat- tin ting before the fireplace frying CryIng bacon 1 t Howd they get here If tt they came from a distance put In to Jack On h horseback Most of ot them but they came In n wagons too or In old-fashioned old overland overland over over- I land stage coaches drawn by mules One member tramped over a hundred miles through the mountains and arrived arrived ar rived with a boot on one foot a brogan brogan bro bro- gan gap on the other and wearing an old slouch Blouch hat hed he'd slept In with the brim half halt gone What was he supposed to represent represent s sent ent Mark Adam asked over his bis shoulder A rummage sale It doesn't matter replied Miss hiss Columbine briskly because he be was elected speaker of ot the house and those who heard that speech never forgot forgot for for- got It A fine One orator was George Crocker and he came from Massachusetts I believe There was something thrilling about the struggle of ot those old days darB which you young never realize See those tall red cliffs over to the right Jack That's the entrance to the Garden of ot the Gods It Is I In his excitement the boy would have stood up for u a better view better vIew but Nancys Nancy's bag across hIs bis knees prevented him I remember my father fattier bringing me down on horseback when I was a tiny girl said Cousin Columbine I tl r k n y t tj I I at Il f i v ate II z i ZIS s Pine sat astride In front of ot him and we rode all through the Garden looking for cattle It was vacant land then and Father was WIlS so 80 Impressed with the rock formation that he considered preempting preempting preempting pre pre- empting It It and then gave gare up the Idea thinking the land worthless Imagine owning the Garden of ot the Gods Cods l I gasped Jack Has lIas It t always gone by that name I wonder It has hns as long as I remember but the early parly settlers called the place ned fled tocks Hocks No need to encourage a std stiff neck Jack by trying to see out of the back of ot your head Well We'll all drive down some day and explore the Gar tier den If It the West had seemed wonderful from a R car window It was thrice wonderful wonderful won won- from Mark Adams Adam's dilapidated dilapidate dl flivver The young Nelsons were never neve r to forget that ride As they wound a athe up P the old Indian pass a good road d Pd now though narrow enough In spots spot s to cause a shiver er to run down do Nancys Nancy's s eastern bred spine It would have been Impossible to express Just what wha t they felt Such spectacular beauty was new to both of ot them Glimpses of ot rushing water tar far below the below the rocky cliffs and hillsides h far tar above above sharp sharp curves appearing with alarming frequency frequency frequency fre fre- quency and aud over everything a sky of deep deep azure such as they had not Imagined was as Nance Nanco wrote the family later too wonderful for any words of ot hers There I exclaimed Cousin Columbine Columbine Colum Colum- bine when those Impressive cliffs were left behind over safely Time was Will when that pass pus was really dan dan- Its It's a boulevard now compared compared compared com com- pared with those days dais Thanks for blowing the horn born so often Mark I know you did It for my benefit though my worst enemy never called me nervous Theres There's Matthew drawn up beside the road Do you suppose hes he's had bad a breakdown That truck of yours Is Ia getting pretty ancient Theres plenty o 0 life In that old truck yet defended Mark Marie All 1 my bashful brother wants most likely Is for tor us to get home bome first so he be wont won't have hare to describe these these new er new com newcomers com ers era to Aurora Tubbs Matt says Aurora Aurora Au Au- rora takes away his power of ot speech 8 when she slings questions at him lie He says Its It's no lie wonder Victor Vietor Tubbs went tnt Into a decline HI Ill there Matt Iatt 1 I Want us to tow you home bome The older Adam smiled a negative neathe as they passed and nail Nancy Nany said your brother ever eer wear a hat haU Sot Not ot sos so's you'd notice It Dad says that's all Matt Iatt learned In tn college college- going bare Mark blank turned to throw a smile at Nancy and sail barely escaped colliding with a rock Mind lInd your Jour driving ordered Miss Columbine Yes maam ma'am replied the youth with meekness and turned his hla head again this time to wink The winters winter's day had seemed almost balmy to the New Englanders but as they reached more open 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