Show I 1 ezme iff I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 ft ad I 1 S ome ain amm 1 1 t I 1 F EUM I 1 by MARGARET TURNBULL t I 1 1 j A I 1 T illustrations IRWIN MYERS YA r i 1 1 by x 4 ia 1 3 copyright by margaret marearet turnbull THE STORY returning to london practically penniless after an unsuccessful business trip sir george georg sandison Sand lson takes dinner with hl hla widowed stepmother his old nurse nuree aggy he ha did not approve of her marriage to his la fa father but her explanation satisfies him little Is left of the estate and lady sandison Sand lson proposes that they go to the u united S states to v visit ls it h her er brother R robert ob rt macbeth e th w wealthy contractor sir george agrees macbeth lives live s on an island estate with h his Is da daughter ug h ter roberta who longs tor for city life 11 I 1 i II 11 continued 4 he heard the alfen n although etwas one of the most beautiful spots in famous county that it robertas opinion a dead end her opinion of her fathers financial shrewdness and ability seemed to have suffered a blow since he had sunk so BO much of his mone yIn tile the island he looked about hiu him ills his island was a mile ion long g and from a quarter to half a mile wide it held all a man might want a long stretch of garden a farm and woodland a beach and fishing rights it rose to a considerable sider height above the water level lovely green and fair with the remodeled old pennsylvania farmhouse standing on the southwestern end there was a long terraced sweep down to a little beach where lils boats were moored and a tiny suspension bridge connected with the mainland he had first seen this island some years ago and had longed to share it with roberta then but there were difficulties in the way of acquiring it and he had decided if he could buy it alti it would be i a delightful surprise to bring her there when she left school this was his reward I 1 with a tremendous effort liob robert rt macbeth had controlled his temper he had kept back the propane profane words that rose to his lips and said decidedly 1 I know you Yul smoked at that rate and I 1 dont like lt it clear out now and let me think ill tell you this much I 1 have wanted this island for a long time and now that ive got g ot it I 1 im going to keep it you wont keep me here long roberta declared surprised and an gry 1 I give you fair warning that I 1 cant stand the place and I 1 dont intend to it bores me does it so her father said without looka looking ug at her then maybe get from between me and my view of the delaware im an ill alliman man and I 1 need the air and a little peace then he lia had d done the most effective thing he could do though it will never be known whether lie he did it vy b y design or accident 1 he leam leanse 1 I back in ills his chair and closed his eyes well im oft off where the companas comp anys more congenial roberta announced and abruptly she had left bimal hi him mal although that meant leaving cussed and unsettled nil all those domestic pro ji lems about which she had bad come 10 to lo consult with him life roberta felt at that moment was an ext extremely emely turbulent and biffl difficult thing at eighteen plus despite the fact that ones elders and the poets constantly acclaim it the only perfect time the springtide of youth there was so much to be met for the first time however sophisticated one might strive to appear other people especially older people were so difficult to understand and failed so signally to understand one they insisted on begin reckoned with on thrusting their standards and wishes upon youth instead of stepping gracefully and quietly into the background and acting as greek chorus only when needed As soon ns as roberta Rober had taken her departure the immediate domestic problems two robust black women without consulting the owner of the island left also and in the station car with the alie coffee colored chauffeur they giggled a great deal when the island and mr macbeth we were re a safe distance behind them I 1 at hilgh flynn miss robertas gonna git quite some quite some som e the cook told the waitress wen it at baby comes back and see no one round hepting theol the ol 01 min man setting re in hs his chair she saying baying nen inen they laughed gaily ma weeks up today and I 1 hears hea rs her telling e ol 01 man slie gettIng rid of us for some white vass cussons ons today or tomorrow I 1 makes it today the tha waitress added aam leavin this heah station call cah at le e station the chauffeur assured them at redheaded red headed baby used terms to me this maw dawning ning terms I 1 they laughed all the ivay way to the next roadside refreshment stand where they all alighted to fortify themselves with sausages and rolls and ice cream in cones while they ate roberta slackened tha ihs speed ot of her car and knowing nothing of their departure departs re looked back from the highway at her fathers wand island what a place I 1 lovely enough tile 1 e hadbo admit lying long and green biej above river its tree tops alho bowing aing a little below the road that arell above boti both canal wid river ran 1 I 1 I 1 along the foot of a rocky slope that walled it win in anthe land S side ide it was a charming ng road and everywhere roberta stopped to loo look k at it seemed to grew grow more beautiful at one side of the road rh rhododendron 0 do dendron lau laurel reland and tall trees climbed high above on the rocky slope on tahe 0 other side th the white ewhite painted posts marking tile the highway protected one from ja a sheer drop of thirty or forty feet to ao the canal between alie canal and river was a broad flat la t spade space green graen I 1 and sunny and then the DelaW delaware rushing swiftly along broad and shallow 1 where the island stood in its way the river separated into two smaller smalle r deeper aril and more turbulent streams on the island gleaming white and grays gray agal against fist the grean green and blue w was as the lovel lovely old house her ber father had r remodeled i e and without doubt thought roberta angrily paid a great dilton deal too much for I 1 if she had only been able to stop him and divert the golden stream it might have paid for nn an apart apartment mentin in new york fork on park avenue with a I 1 summer place at bar harbor or even watch hill where she sh e knew i newsome some of the younger crowd that represented robertas idea of a fit and worthy establishment and background for herself if her father staying in these united states I 1 all her school se hoof dreams of monte carlo the riviera the lido floated through lier her careless little red head why had bad father been so stupid as to select this place I 1 ye godal nothing but a lot of artists and ad writers who did not apparently know or care what life looked like outside their hedges what was the use of having mohe money alf if that was the way her ber fat father lier meant to spend it and to tie her down her car swerved and she heard a n sharp cry in an agitated foreign volca she pulled at her emergency brake for the road was narrow here I 1 i it ion looked I 1 ce d for a moment as though she could not avoid a collision between her c car ft rand and the heavy limousine that joe L I 1 the station hackman was driving before she phe shut off her engine roberta quick calm and cool ais as bi her athers fathers daughter daug liter would be in a crisis swerved her car a little toward the land side of the road the impact when wbk it came was slights she saw one of joes fenders crum crumple pa and she heard a gasp gas pot relief from them the excitable joe as he be called ili hey leea why wha you i not looka where you going eh ch you wanta keel me with thesa people 11 I 1 breenan to your hou house se eh yo you 3 bleaka my car in two at the same a time I 1 11 Y I 1 sorry joe roberta called hii in ithe the honeyed voice that made men I 1 forgive her anything she lit ht a cigarette with trembling fingers senetha Send tha bill to father it if ive hurt your houi old m machine any and for heavens sake look where youre going next time me looka I 1 that a gooda jou joke joe said laughing on the rear seat eat of joes car roberta sawa saw a dumpy little woman and a tall man she could cofeild notsie not see the mans face plainly because the woman wom an was leaning forward and looking at her Int intently eMly there waa something oddly faril familiar lilla r about this wom ans face and yet roberta did not believe sha k knew n ew her the homans womans clothes and the quaint british look of the travel traveling ang bag she clutched made roberta berta instantly revert etotle to the begin ning ot of tier her quarrel with her father fataei this morning the servant question oil oh she exclaimed the new cook housekeeper and the butler I 1 I 1 expected you tomorrow well I 1 beant cant go back just now take them to tile the ils island land joe my fa there at bo home ifie 11 site she smiled impishly as she thought i of her fa fathers annoyance when aben actually confronted with the domestic problems lie he had so lightly disregarded this morning tile the woman noman roberta had bad seen put a hand out quickly and touch touched d the jhb sleeve of the man beside her to prevent his speaking aye she said that will be best on way nay my man I 1 I 1 there was something so authoritative la in that voice that joe stopped smiling at miss bliss macbeth whom hei he I h u S V tf A I 1 t 1 W Y K R U admired I 1 inordinately started ills car can 1 f i 1 1 1 i roberta shot another i quick glaire fit at then the next moment amazement anjier r face he had turned it about b out and was gazing after the i rapidly disappearing car well 1 handsome la Is as an band handsome some does slie she told lier herself self but think of having that for a butler 1 1 I wonder if the heas ame Is lili his mother or tits his wife afe slie she looked balk aga again inand and hesitated but Joes car vas well on its way toward tile island aslani I 1 scuttles Scott los les bohli I 1 roberta thought bibi terly just my luck I 1 now dad wilt will fraternize with them and ill be lucky if she can rook cook anything but oatmeal she increased speed slie must hurij cuiry if she wall ao to meet the I 1 young man f fioriti philadelphia whose coming was the cause of robertas discontent andi and though she did not linow know it if her fathers towering rage lady Sand lson turned and regarded her stepson damsels as lady sandl son had bad been pleased to note had fallen down and worshiped ea his beauty to an extent eliat that roust must gratify the most exacting of f stepmothers yet he remained unmoved and now this this rude redheaded red iid headed lass lags was the won wonderful niece 0 whose pami praises 8 es she had sung discreetly Y slie she glanced again I 1 a at t her stepson aware of it he ha slowly turned to her well asked aggy well sir george returned smil ing this Is a lovely spot but ahad I 1 had hoped wed find aqui your brother in N new ew york ar chicago by prefer preference einie it I 1 must say all ive read or heard of I 1 chicago decidedly intrigues me I 1 rane an e of those western to tomps ps aggy where alie they Y shoot it at the drop of the hat this Is delightful country aggy but jm shot it if it looks any more exciting 1 than sa raa 11 youngvee you never don can tell aggy hastened to jo assure stife jilin it its sll maybe no aist ilk like chicago where you were wanting g to fo go but walland wait wal tand and see judging from llian thon lassie laisle of robs lits its nahe none too peaceful oh girls ill sir Geor georges gels voice war w weary ari im jj sick of girls ill 1 tt ti CHAPTER III j 4 f I 1 11 p 1 I 1 robert macbeth had finally made up his mind he would put ahtie matters ra plainly t to roberta on her return and then if t she abe would not do as he wished he corrected himself it if she would nottage not take the sensible cour pointed out tp her and re remain m a in conte contentedly n gedly on the island for a year then she should feel the heavy land hand of authority I 1 xe et somehow that did not quite oft satisfy him either tits his con cons conscience clence I 1 or ihla arthritis gave him 4 a twinge not being byi any means the back ni number umber roberta joberia tl thought ought highe him he knew that the heavy hand band of authority was considerably out of date ha must be very careful not to make him self ridiculous once put himself la in the heavy father position with roberta and he lostell lost all chance of influencing fluen cing her or gaining his point he thought regretfully of the good days of his own youth when a parents parent word was law 11 then he smiled tor for he remembered how little heed he had paid to that la law w the moment he was eighteen and knew his trade he had bad fled from the overcrowded macbeth household and struck out for himself I 1 while he had been at home he hail had bowed down perforce to its his father I 1 and a fine tyrannical old blackguard I 1 I 1 and humbug that parent had been robert never wanted his daughter to think of him in just that way yet how was lie he to make her see the err error 9 r i of her ways was macbeth knew that I 1 girls of eighteen however intelligent and sophisticated were scarcely to be ba 1 I 1 trusted to navigate their own little I 1 boats on lifes crowded river liver he had seen afew a few shipwrecked in hla time and he meant t to pilot bilot his girl I 1 he look looked up and saw joe LI gorla I 1 car coming down the road toward the island he rang with impatience and also so rapped loudly I 1 with his stick on tbd abd floor of the terrace then he remembered seeing the ahe chauffeur and thi the maids leave the island it dawned brahim that he lasquite was quite alone TO BE CONTINUED it t |