Show N N P 01 U E SUN larrimor SYNOPSIS tim jim fielding one of the tha lost generation atlon who had bad lett left college in the tha depression and is unable to find and a job arrives at glendale to visit his friends the mae mac Pher abersons sons mae mac had formerly been gardener at his late jato uncles estate and now works or T H vaughn ot of meadow brook jilts jim ta tired ot of being supported by his married sis sister kay while he still can marry lenore an attractive divorcee chois who Is in love with him and have an easy lira life because of 0 her wealth his mind rebels stopping at the village drug store foral tor a sandwich bemoets he be meets dolly a pretty soda fountain girl when he inquires about the vaughns she asks it he Is a friend of Ce cecilya Cec ilys ellys she also entrusts a message to tommy young son ot of the family and tells him how to reach the vaughns estate approaching th the house ehouse jim encounters a tomboyish little girl fishing she is startled fallain falls in the brook relearns he learns that she Is susan vaughn he discovers cecily Is her older sister he sees tommy a youth of eighteen who imagines he is in love with dolly the ons tell jim that mr vaughn Is recovering irom from a nervo nervous u s breakdown mrs macpherson suggests ests that mac give JIma jim a job as handyman jim goes for a walk to think it over and picks up a horse shoe cecily blovely young i girl appears riding a limping horse horie jim scolds her when he ha sees the animal t has thrown a shoe ther fliers ls Is an angry s scene ene jims ire cools a and ind he is intrigued as he thinks about her he tells the ons he wants to stay and assumes his bis duties as handyman he sees dolly again she explains that she has been seeing tommy but regards him with amusement when cecily returns from a house party she asks him airily 1 I wonder how long stay jim acts as mr vaughns part time secretary he opens a letter for vaughn by mistake and learns it is a love message to cecily from jeremy clyde a young actor at a neighboring summer theater ot of who whom her father disapproves cecily accuses jim of being hired to spy on her jim comes upon sue sobbing rebelliously after an encounter with cecily everybody is helpless to quell her jim soothes her and suggests clothes that will make her more feminine and attractive jim writes lenore seeking to avoid attending ling a house party to which she has invited him I 1 charter CHAPTER V continued 8 hey wait a minu tel tommy detached himself from the fence rail he walked over to the coupe you going to the village he asked jim nodded will you tommy hesitated can caa I 1 trust you he be asked solemnly his expression strained and anxious under a drooping lock of hair of course jim assure assured d him 1 I mean its pretty private the boy continued 1 I mean I 1 want it to get around if you know what I 1 mean you can rely on my discretion old man well tommy gulped and went on you know the girl that works in the drugstore drug store dolly well will you take her a letter atom me tommy drew from under his jersey a somewhat crumpled envelope 1 I was just trying to decide whether to put it in the ma mailbox mail 11 box or not he continued 1 I should think a fellow would have a right to ask for his letters back but B U go gosh sh I 1 dont know what shell do jim drew his eyebrows down over his bis twinkling eyes the matter he asked have you and dolly quarreled tommy worried a loose bit of gravel with the toe 1 of his oaf oxford ord well dad let me use th the e pierce after he got better id taken take n her out in it lots of times before and I 1 guess she sort of goethe imvris impression that it bi belonged longed to me I 1 had any money to take her out with for about three thre e e weeks why I 1 thought in maybe abbe id better get my letters back but what could she do jim asked controlling his amusement with difficulty she could do plenty tommy hinted darkly she knows dads gozjack got jot jack jaik but tommy jim protested it happened ened to a fellow at school tommy went on his father had plenty of jack and the girl who worked in the drugstore drug store in the town where the school Is sued i him foi fw breach of promise and it got in the papers pa pers and cost his dad a lot of money but the fellow of whom youre speaking was well older bider than you are wasai he 6 11 1 I dont know what difference that makes tommys tommas voice was was i a little aggrieved anyway 1 it wis was 1 the aness mess pete Van vanhorn librn got into that got dad allcot all hot and bothered over fay and me Fay airn Jim inquired tommy for a moment forgot his a anxiety in the tha pleasure of flaunting his I 1 previous conquests fays an actress he said it was on ac count of her that I 1 got fired from the school before this last one I 1 used to skip classes on wednesdays and andge go to the matinee matinees mati nees s he added C unaware thattie that he fie w was its informing jim of the juvenile nature nature of the entanglement she sha sent me ma her photograph with something written on it and the tha headmaster found it and told dad maybo youve seen her it dolly does make a fuss he continued swallowing nervously bi be e all up with me dad said if I 1 ever got into another scrape hed do something drastic leave ma here to work on the f farm a r r or se send nd me me to a military school I 1 cant help it it women like me tommy continued plaintively 1 I liean mean I 1 cant help it if they get ideas and start allesi a fuss 11 1 I suppose that is difficult to avold avoid jim said its fierce 1 im different from most fellows I 1 guess im sort of am pathetic now dolly gosh jim if dd dad should find out maybe you could talk to her he suggested hop hopefully kully youve been to college maybe you could 11 1 I doret dont know about that jim replied doubtfully you know how it is she probably like me to 0 iter interfere fere you could try anyway you I 1 mean im pretty desperate jim it if dad should find out ill run away ill join the navy and go to china or somewhere the boy was in earnest there was bravado in the threat but t there here was determination too jim became beame c a little alarmed dont go yet he advised id wait it if I 1 were you tommy looked up eagerly you mean talk to her he asked ill try give me the letter the envelope changed hands swell of you jim tommy said the weight of anxiety lifting gee I 1 dont know how to thank you better wait I 1 may not succeed Torn tommas tommys mys lifting spirits drooped again so he said he sighed sentimentally she was fond of me I 1 guess poor little girl I 1 certainly feel like a cad well cheerio biml he attempted a jaunty salute it did not quite come off jim perceived that the boy was really frightened Chee cheerio riol he returned the salute the car moved slowly forward tommy wandered into the the shadows at the side ot of the drive his shoulders hunched his attitude dispirited and forlorn keep your chin cupl jim called encouragingly we arent licked yet old danl man tommy made no reply the car picked up speed As jim drove through the gateway and along the road to the village ha took with him a mental picture of tommy moving dejectedly into the shadows his shoulders hunched under the prep school blazer ridiculous young don keyl ot of all the preposterous ideas tommy fancied himself as a clas dashing h don juan a debon alre man about town he needed the discipline of a military school Hs he needed to be made to work on the farm he needed he might have relieved the boys mind at once there was a reason on the rack tommy had delivered a weapon into his hands hed use it to extract a little industry from the youngster tommy would work off his school conditions or hed he know the reison reason why lie he had found a way to bring tommy to time jim accelerated the speed of the car the prospect of an evening with dolly was stimulating they d go to dutcha the beer garden he had discovered over near cherry hollow it would be fun to dance e with dolly tonight tonight he would be himself again not the playboy jim whom lenore glorified and cherished not nol jim the extra man at the vaughns but the jim he both regretted and approved the jim who followed vagrant impulses the jim who could become agreeably sentimental over moonlight and the blue danube and dancing out of doors in the soft summer night hid hed give dolly the time of her ber life dee dum deedee deedum q funny kid lie he liked her good lord I 1 I 1 A car rushed past him speeding 1 like ke a rocket under the arching tress he recognized the sound of the motor the fawn colored enamel the long smooth lines of the open i roadster it was cecilya Cec ilys car with cecily a at the wheel driving somewhere alone A feeling of irritation routed the melody of the song little foell jim thought grimly shed break her neckar neck or be arrested where wa was s she going whom was bhe going to meet jakshe was she 7 nice evening mister dolly said settling herself into the sons coupe A M moon oon and i everything th ing I 1 1 made to order jim slipped in behind the wheel 4 1 I wired ath the weather man man nonsense aj A broad white road A summer night lavishly sprinkled wl with th stars jim recaptured the feeling of gaiety hed had earlier in the evening had and lost in the moment that Ce clellys Cec ilys ellys road roadster had shot past him through the village dolly looked almost demuri demure tonight in a white flannel coat and a white beret pulled over her glinting curls the red sandals added a piquant touch where are we going dolly asked have you been to dutcha Dutch wv jim asked dutcha whew the exclamation was a whistling sound of pleasure and surprise Is it that sort of place jim as asked ked ive never been there in the evening but im not wearing my emeralds dolly objected dont you want to go oh besl he knew that she was pleased excitement bubbled in her voice but after a moment she said you you know I 1 mean mea wits its expensive at ditc dutcha hs id just as soon go somewhere els else maple grove or Gree greenles niels or just jus t ride rush hush cupl up jim said pretending to be offended 1 I told you this was an occasion I 1 have a weeks wages in rn my pocket fifteen dollars dollar sl levs lets shoot the roell okay MI mister terl 11 excitement bubbled igan again in her odd husky voice jim liked having her there beside him warm and friendly as un demanding as a kitten he was touched by her consideration it if fifteen dollars would buy her a handsome evening certainly she should have it they left leff ithe i the highway pre presently bently and turned into the road that led through cherry hollow the borough set in a wooded depression between gently rolling hills bills lay before them after a time in the moonlight it was charming a villa lage ga from hans Christ christian lin andersen a stage set tor for the pled piper ot of hamelin the artfully quaint houses located apparently at random among dogwoods dog woods and pines and wild cherry trees were inhabited by artists more or less successful cess ful writers musicians a ta I 1 aa r v I 1 0 1 youve got me ble mixed up with greta garbo a sprinkling pr Inkling of 0 less gifted individuals bals w who ho enjoyed living in an unconventional community A stream ran through the hollow crossed by bridges dammed here and there in into to PO pools 0 Is rimmed with iris and splattered with illy pads this is a cute place it dolly remarked as the sons coupe followed a winding lane crazy jim replied the houses have been built according to an architects blueprints I 1 think they sprang up like mushrooms some morning after a heavy rain this road seems to end in a garden wall where do we go from hete they had some difficulty to in finding their way out eventually however after an interval of bumping along picturesque but rutty lanes they found the road they had lost this as right dolly said encouragingly agin gly theres the theater over there the cherry hollow theater was located beside the stream la in a depression pr eslon at the end of the boi borough ough jim had known of it before he came to meadowbrook Meadow brook had passed it once or twice riding about the country on his free afternoons now as they approached the low stone playhouse he diminished the speed ot of the car the theater had a a significance ft can r e for him aside from its history its location its distinctive reputation cecily sf jeremy plyde clyde was connected in some way vay with the company here perhaps cecily was here toni tonight glit perhaps that was where shed been going when she sped past him through the village A performance was obviously in progress the windows were rectangles ot of light A number ol of cars were parked at the side ot of the playhouse but buethe the fawn colored roadster was nott not there heri going ln in dolly asked amiably jim realized then that the mac pher sons coupe had been advancing at a snails pace that in the moment dolly spoke he had stalled the engine sorry he said a carted its interesting 1011 it the car its in motor ifor purring si again aln picked up speed on the open road dolly told jim of a show she shed d seen seen onci ones when she went to visit her aunt in new york she re called the comedians jokes anet and sang the hit number of the musical score in her engaging voice the rhythm was perfect she remembered all of the words by the th e time they had reached dutch dutcha 8 1 jim had bost lost the feeling of being a little out of sorts they drew up before the roadhouse roid house singing in a jovial and discordant duet sing hallelujah hallel hallelujahs u jahl sing hallelujah all the dayl jim parked the car and opened the door for dolly the orchestra wore bavarian costumes the drummer looked lute like old king cole in suspenders and bare pink knees the dance floor in 6 the garden was dimly lighted and moonlight sifted allied down through the branches of lofty trees dolly danced with spirit and faultless rhythm the white beret pressed against jims shoulder the red san dais twinkling across the floor her cheek pressed his shoulder her slim blira rounded body felt firm buoyant held lightly in his arms there was something about dolly something piquant something moving they sat in a stall separated from other stalls by sapling screens covered with vines A bulb in a swinging lantern made a rosy pleasant light all jim lifted his mug and smiled at dolly across the tha tablecloth ble cloth checkered in blocks of red a and n d white t 0 dolly glanced about the garden her eyes shining her cheeks naturally pink under the film of raspberry rouge people were coming in crowds smart looking pe people ople tim jim J observed his eyes following dollys dallys Dol lys dowagers and debutantes men with a ruddy country look and perfectly tailored clothes college boys and boys of tommys tommas age theres the tha patton girl chos to bs be married soon sha informed jim indicating a party just entering the garden tha nia redhead jim asked not particularly interested no the dark one and the man ashes going to marry friends of ce of miss vaughns ashes to be a bridesmaid at the wedding yes jim was still apparently indifferent but the small vivacious brunette held his attention now no w she had or was to have a homespun counterpane tor for a shower gift cecily had seen mrs macpherson unpacking his trunk cecilya where was she now he brought baroug ht his straying attention back to dolly you know he said looking at her intently you dont look like the sort of woman who drives young men to the ends of the earth the flax blue eyes rayed with masca mascara raed cd lashes widened in surprise 1 I N she asked the ends of the earth jim nodded but who she askea youre kidding youve got me mixed up with greta garbo im laughing its no laughing matter young lady jim maintained a grave expression A young man confided in me tonight ile he took a crumpled envelope from his pocket heres his farewell message I 1 hope it will 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