The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1939 Page: 3 of 8
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CHAPTER XIV—Continued
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/ "My dear child,” Mrs. Follette
said, “have lunch with me. Mary
I'as baked fresh bread, and we’ll
have it with your berries, and some
Dutch cheese and cream.”
i “I’d love it,” Jane said; "I hoped
you’d ask me. We are going at four
to Delafield Simms for the week-
end. I shall have to be fashionable
for forty-eight hours, and I hate it.”
Mrs. Follette smiled indulgently.
"Of course, you don’t mean it. And
don’t try to be fashionable. Just be
yourself. It is only people who
have never been anybody who try
to make themselves like others.”
“Well,” said Jane, “I’m afraid
I’ve never been anybody, Mrs. Fol-
lette. I’m just little Jane Barnes.”
Her air was dejeoted.
“What’s the matter with you,
Jane?” Mrs. Follette demanded.
Jane clasped her hands together.
“Oh, I want my nxother. I want
my mother.” Her voice was low, but
there was a poignant note in it.
Old Mary came out with the tray,
rnd when she had gone, Mrs.
Follette said, "Now tell me what’s
troubling you?”
“I’m afraid.”
“Of what?”
“Oh, of Mr. Tpwne’s big house,
and—I think I’m a little bit afraid
of him, too, Mrs. Follette.”
“Why should you be afraid?”
“Of the things he’ll expect of me.
The things I’ll expect of myself. I
can’t explain it. I just—feel it.”
Mrs. Follette, pouring ice-cold
milk from a silver pitcher, said,
“It is a case of nerves, my dear.
You don’t know how lucky you are.”
“Am I lucky?” wistfully.
“Qf course you are lucky. But
all girls feel as you do, Jane, when
the wedding day isn’t far off. They
wonder and wonder. It’s the new-
ness—the—”
“ ‘Laying flesh and spirit . . in
his hands . . .’ ” Jane quoted, with
quick-drawn breath.
“I shouldn’t put it quite like that,”
Mrs. Follette said with some se-
verity; “we didn’t talk like that
when I was a girl.”
“Didn’t you?” Jane asked. Well,
I know you were a darling, Mrs.
Follette. And you were pretty.
There’s that portrait of you in the
, library in pink.”
“I looked well in pink,” said Mrs.
Follette, thoughtfully, “but the best
picture that was ever done of me
is a miniature that Evans has.”
She buttered another slice id bread.
She had no fear of growing fat.
She was fat, but she was also stately
and one neutralized the otter. To
think of Mrs. Follette as thin would
have been to rob her of her duchess
role.
Jane h'ad not seen the miniature.
She asked if she might.
“I’ll get it,” said Mrs. Follette,
and rose.
Jane protested, “Can’t I do it?”
“No, my dear. I know right where
to put my hand on it.”
She went into the cool and shad-
owy hall and started up the stairs,
and it was from the shadows that
Jane heard her call.
There was something faint and ag-
itated in the cry, and Jane flew on
wipged feet.
Mrs. Follette was holding on to
the stair-rail, swaying a little. “I
can’t go any higher,” she panted;
“I’ll sit here, my dear, while you
get my medicine. It’s in my room
on the dresser.”
Jane passed her on the stairs, and
was back again in a moment with
the medicine, a spoon, and a glass
of water. With her arm around the
elder woman She held her until the
color returned to her cheeks.
“How foolish,” said Mrs. Follette
at last, sitting up. “I almost faint-
ed. I was afraid of falling down
the stairs.”
“Let me help you to your room,”
Jane said, "and you can lie on the
couch—and be quiet—”
“I don’t want to be quiet, but I’ll
lie on the couch—if you’ll sit there
and* talk to me.”
So with Jane supporting her, Mrs.
Follette went up the rest of the
flight, and across the hall—and was
made comfortable on a couch at the
foot of her bed
Jane loved the up-stairs rooms at
Castle Manor. Especially in sum-
mer. Mrs. Follette followed the
southern fashion of taking up win-
ter rugs and winter curtains and
substituting sheer muslins and leav-
ing a delightful bareness of waxed
floor.
"Perhaps I can tell you where to
find the miniature,” Mrs. Follette
said, as Jane fanned her; “it is in
Evans’ desk set back under the row
of pigeonholes. You can’t miss it,
and I want to see it.”
Jane crossed the hall to Evans’
room. It faced south and was big
and square. It had the same stud-
ied bareness that made the rest of
the house beautiful. There was a
mahogany bed and dresser, many
books, deep window-seats with
faded velvet cushions.
y Evans’ desk was in an alcove by
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the east window which overlooked
Sherwood. It was a mahogany desk
of the secretary type, and there was
nothing about it to drain the color
from Jane's cheeks, to send her
hand to her heart.
Above the desk, however, where
his eyes could rest upon it whenever
he raised them from his writing,
was an old lantern! Jane knew it
at once. It was an ancient ship’s
lantern that she and Baldy had used
through all the years, a heritage
from some sea-going ancestor. It
was the lantern she had carried that
night she had found Evans in the
fog!
Since her return from Chicago she
had not been able to find it. Baldy
had complained, “Sophy must have
taken it home with her.” But Sophy
had not taken it. It was here. And
Jane knew, with a certainty that
swept away all doubts, why.
“You are a lantern, Jane, held
high . . .”
She found the miniature and car-
ried it back to Mrs. Follette. “I
told you you ■ were pretty and you
have never gotten over it.”
She had regained her radiance.
Mrs. Follette reflected complacent-
“I hope
said.
it won’t rain,” Edith
ly that girls were like that. Moods
of the moment. Even in her own
day.
She spoke of it to Evans that
night. “Jane had lunch with me.
She was very tired and depressed.
I told her not to worry. It’s natural
she should feel the responsibility of
the future. Marriage is a serious
obligation.” %
“Marriage is more than that,
Mother.”
“What do you mean?”
“Oh, it’s a great adventure. The
greatest adventure. If a woman
loved me, I’d want her to fly to me
—on wings. There’d be no fear of
the future if Jane loved Towne.”
“But she does love him. She
wouldn’t marry him for his money.”
“No, she wouldn’t,” with a touch
of weariness. “It is one of the things
I can’t make clear to myself. And
I think I’d rather not talk about it,
Mother.”
They were in Mrs. Follette’s
room. She had told her son about
her heart attack, and he had been
anxious. But she had been quite
herself after and had made light of
it. “I shall have Hallam over in the
morning,” he had insisted, and she
had acquiesced. “I don’t need him,
but if it will make you feel better.”
CHAPTER XV
Lucy was still to Eloise Harper
the stenographer of Frederick
Towne. Out of place, of course, in
this fine country house, with its for-
mal gardens, its great stables, its
retinue of servants.
“What do you do with your-
selves?” she asked her hostess, as
she came down, ready for dinner,
in revealing apricot draperies and
found Lucy crisp in white organdie
with a band of black velvet around
her throat.
“Do?” Lucy’s smile was ingenu-
ous. “We are very busy, Del and I.
We feed the pigs.”
“Pigs?” Eloise stared. She had
assumed that a girl of Lucy’s type
would affect an elaborate attitude of
leisure. And here she was, instead,
fashionably energetic.
They fed the pigs, it seemed, ac-
tually. “Of course not the big ones.
But the little ones Have their bot-
tles. There are ten and their moth-
er died. You should see Del and
me. He carries the bottle in a met-
al holder—round,”—Lucy's hand de-
scribed the shape,—“and when they
! him coming they all squeal, and
it’s adorable.”
terested her weak husband beyond
anything he had ever known in his
drifting days of bachelorhood. “Aft-
er dinner,” she told Eloise, “I’ll
show you Del’s roses. They are
quite marvellous. I think his col-
lection will be beyond anything in
this part of the country.”
Delafield, coming up, said, “They
are Lucy’s roses, but she says I am
to do the work.”
“But why not have a gardener?”
Eloise demanded.
“Oh, we have. But I should hate
to have our garden a mere mat-
ter of—mechanics. Del has some
splendid ideas. We are going to
work for the flower shows. Prizes
and all that.”
Delafield purred like a pussy-cat.
“I shall name my first rose the
‘Little Lucy Logan.’ ”
Edith, locking arms with Jane, a
little later, as they strolled under a
wisteria-hung trellis towards the
fountain, said, “Lucy’s making a
man of him because she loves him.
And I would have laughed at him.
We would have bored each other to
death.”
“They will never be bored,” Jane
decided, “with their roses and their
little pigs.”
They had reached the fountain. It
was an old-fashioned one, with thin
streams of water spouting up from
the bill of a bronzed crane. There
were goldfish in the pool, and a big
green frog 'leaped from a lily pad.
Beyond the fountain the wisteria
roofed a path of pale light. A pea-
cock walked slowly towards them,
its long tail sweeping the ground in
burnished beauty.
“Think of this,” said Jane, “and
Lucy’s days at the office.”
And yet,” Edith pondered, “she
told me if he had not had a penny
she would have been happy with
him.”
“I believe it. With a cottage, one
pig, and a rose-bush, they would
find bliss. It is like that with them.”
The two women, sat down on the
marble coping of the fountain. The
peacock trailed by them, its jewels
all ablaze under the sun.
Adelaide, in her burnished tulle,
tall, slender,- graceful as a willow,
was swinging along beneath the trel-
lis. The peacock had turned and
walked beside her. “What a pic-
ture Baldy could make of that,”
Edith said, “ ‘The Proud Lady.’ ”
‘Do you know,” Jane’s voice was
also lowered, “when I look at her,
feel that it is she who should
marry your uncle.”
Edith was frank. “I should hate
her. And so would he in a month.
She’s artificial, and you are so
adorably natural, Jane.”
Adelaide had reached the cir’cle
of light that surrounded the foun-
tain. “The men have come and
have gone up to dress,” she said.
All except your uncle, Edith. He
telephoned that he can’t get here
until after dinner. He has an im-
portant conference.” ’
“He said he might be late. Benny
came, of course?”
“Yes, and Eloise is happy. He
had brought her all the town gossip.
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That’s why I left. I hate gossip.”
Edith knew that pose. No one
could talk more devastatingly than
Adelaide of her neighbor’s affairs.
But she did it, subtly, with an ef-
fect of charity. “I am very fond of
her,” was her way of prefacing a
ruthless revelation.
“I thought your brother would be
down,” Adelaide looked at Jane,
poised on the rim of the fountain,
like a blue butterfly,—“but he
wasn’t with the rest.”
“Baldy can’t be here until tomor-
row noon. He had to be in the of-
fice.”
“What are you going to do with
yourself in the meantime, Edith?”
Adelaide was in a mood to make
people uncomfortable. She was un-
comfortable herself. Jane, in bil-
lowing heavenly blue with rose rib-
bons floating at her girdle, was
youth incarnate. And it was her
youth that had attracted Towne.
The three women walked towards
the house together. As they came
out from under the arbor, they were
aware of black clouds stretched
across the horizon. “I hope it won’t
rain,” Edith said, “Lucy is planning
to serve dinner on the terrace.”
, Adelaide was irritable. “I wish
she wouldn’t. There’ll be bugs and
things.”
Jane liked the idea of an out-of-
door dinner. She thought that the
maids in their pink linen were like
rose-leaves blown across the lawn.
There was a great umbrella over
the table, rose-striped. “How gay
it is,” she said: “I hope the rain
won’t spoil it."
When they reached the wide-pil-
lared piazza, no one was there. The
wind was blowing steadily from the
bank of clouds. Edith went in to
get a scarf.
And so Jane and Adelaide were
left alone. *
Adelaide sat in a big chair with a
back like a spreading fan; she was
statuesque, and knew it, but she
would have exchanged at the mo-
ment every classic line for the ef-
fect that Jane gave of unpremedi-
tated grace and beauty. The child
had flung a cushion on the marble
step, and had dropped down upon
it. The wind caught up her ruffles,
so that she seemed to float in a
cloud.
She laughed, and tucked her whirl-
ing draperies about her. “I love
the wind, don’t you?”
Adelaide did not love the wind. It
rumpled her hair. She felt spite-
fully ready to hurt Jane.
“It is a pity,” she said, after a
pause, “that Ricky can’t dine with
us.”
Jane agreed. “Mr. Towne always
seems to be a very busy person.”
Adelaide carried a little gauze
fan with gold-lacquered sticks. When
she spoke she kept her eyes upon
the fan. “Do you always call him
‘Mr. Towne’?”
“Of course.”
“But not when you're alone.”
Jane flushed. “Yes, I do. Why
not?”
“But, my dear, it is so very for-
mal. And you are going to marry
him.”
“He said that he had told you.”
“Ricky tells me everything. We
are very old friends, you know.”
Jane said nothing. There was,
indeed, nothing to say. She was not
in the least jealous of Adelaide. She
wondered, of course, why Towne
should have overlooked this lovely
lady to choose a shabby child. But
he had chosen the child, and that
settled it as far as Mrs. Laramore
was concerned.
But it did not settle it for Ade-
laide. “I think it is distinctly amus-
ing for you to call him ‘Mr. Towne.’
Poor Ricky! You mustn’t hold him
at arms’ length.”
“Why not?”
“Well, none of the rest of us
have,” said Adelaide, deliberately.
Jane looked up at her. “The rest
of you? What do you mean, Mrs.
Laramore?”
“Oh, the women that Ricky has
loved,” lightly.
The winds fluttered the ribbons of
Jane’s frock, fluttered her ruffles.
The peacock on the lawn uttered a
discordant note. Jane was subcon-
sciously aware of a kinship between
Adelaide and the burnished bird.
She spoke of the peacock.
“What a disagreeable voice he
has.”
Adelaide stared. “Who?”
“The peacock,” said Jane.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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Arapahoe glacier is said by geol-
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