The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 28, 1935 Page: 3 of 8
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The Lucky
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SYNOPSIS
Th« luck thtt had brought the Boa-
ton Lawrerjcts to California at the be-
ginning of the gold rush ha* deserted
th# preuetit generation. From a 4.000,-
•cre ranch, their holdlngM have shrunk
to a flmtl! farm, and the old family
home in Clippersville. The death of
their father forced the three eldest
chMdren to work ho that Sam and little
Ariel might continue their education.
Phil, now twenty-flve, had g-o.no Into
the Iron works, Gail to the public li-
brary and Edith to the book depart-
ment of ClipperHvllle's largest store.
Seventeen-year-old Ariel is becoming a
problem, and Phil In fascinated by "tint
terrible" Lily Caen, whose husband has
deserted her. Young Van Murchlson,
•don of a wealthy family, returns from
Yalo. and Gail has visions, through
marriage with him, of the turning of
the Lawrence luck. Dick Stehblr.s,
Phil's beat friend, has the run of the
houae. Ariel is sneaking out of the
house at night for Joy rides. Van con-
tinues his social attentions to Gall, but
the girl feels she is making no prog-
ress In gaining his affections. Phil sng.
feats, to the girls* consternation, that
they Invite Lily Cass to the house. Van
asks Gall to go with him for a week-
end with the Chlpps, his uncle and
aunt.
CHAPTER IV—Continued
"Cm-bum," Gall affirmed, nodding.
She was grateful to Edith for taking
It as a matter settled. Dick continued
to regard her with an odd. an almost
contemptuous, smile.
"You like all that sort of thing, don't
jreu?" he now asked.
"Well, I don't know that I like It
especially. 1 don't know much ulimit
It." Gall answered, slightly nettled.
"Never having been on a house pnrty
ef this sort, I couldn't say I liked It
or didn't like It," she went on pointedly.
"Meaning that I don't know what
I'm talking about?" Dick asked, with
• not-qulte-good-natured laugh.
"Well-^-" Gall said, with a shrug
which Indicated that he was at liberty
te put that Interpretation upon her
words If he would.
The man laughed, and sprawled a
placating great hand across the table.
"Aw, don't be mad, Gull.
"I'm not mad."
"Yes, you are! But what do you care
what I think of the Murchlson oatfltT
They don't."
"I only think, when you don't know
a person, and that person lias never
done one thing against you—" the girl
commenced stiffly.
"It's only that I get such 11 kick out
of It," Dick murmured, subsiding.
Gall tried lit'r l.iost to tool sorry for
hitn.
UitfiT nhe told iSillth positively that
she would riot. «o to the Ohlpps' house
party unless she heard directly from
Mrs. Chlpp.
"Oh, I am so relieved, dearest!"
Kdith breathed gratefully.
"No, It's not worth while," (Jail said.
She grew a little hitter, Jihln'kltig about
It. "It would he the host time I ever
had, and If mamma had lived, or papa.
I should take all this sort of thing as
n mutter of course," she said, with dig-
nified resentment. "However, I can't—
as I'hll said, I can't put myself In a
false position!"
"Gall, she will telephone you!" Kdlth
predicted fervently.
"I don't know." Gall was tired and
blue.
They were still talking at one o'clock
when Phil came upstairs.
"I put the lights out. Everyone InT"
he asked.
The sisters exchanged a look.
"Ariel must be! She went with the
gang down to Dobbins' at about nine."
Gall stammered. "She said you Mid
•he could. I'hll!"
"I Mid If she'd be back early!" Phil
exclaimed. He crossed the hall, opened
door, and returned with an anxloua
and angry face. "Where Is she, d'you
suppose?" he asked.
"Wall, she must be—oh. this Is per-
fectly terrible, Plill 1 She must he still
down there. We could telephone—"
"Listen, she can't get away with
tills t" Phil Interrupted. "It's after
twelve. Dobbins' closes at infciiitght."
"Maybe one of the boys started to
drive her home."
"Maybe she decided to stay at the
Lovelaces' I"
"Tut-tut tut-tut—" Gall began on a
weary note. Hinging the bedclothes
aside as Phil ran downstairs to the
telephone and Kdith fled to her room
tor more clothing.
Qall was all hut dressed, and Phil
returning from downstairs three mln-
utea later, when Ariel appeared in the
upper hallway, clad in pajamaa and an
aid Japanese Jacket of brilliantly col-
ored cotton, with a pillow dangling la
bar hand tad her soft, taffy-yellow bait
In coofuttoti.
"WMfti the escltementr she de-
gnwMd, looking like snythlng la the
wmN nther than a girl who had haea
••Mas, scared aad chilly, across opsa
Nad* la a roadster exactly
utes before. -It was so hot |
I'd sleep dewa a* the Ml
s eM aeda. But it's an
Sba should have
Ariel, looking sleepy, warn, bewil-
dered, vanished Into her room with §J
yawn. Nobody followed her to die-
cover the clothes Hung wildly here
aad then Just as they had fallen wbaa
she had torn them off, or to kiss the
cheek that waa still ao cold from night
wind. Indeed, among the three eldera
la Gall's room there was even a feel-
Ina that Injustice bad been done little
Ariel, who had run down to the drug
store so Innocently for a soda, after
her lessons were done, and who had
been home and In bed for almost three
boura.
Phil produced two small round well-
wrapped cakes of violet soap, and pre-
sented eacli girl with one.
"Peace offering," he said humbly,
but with a little laugh In the corner of
his eyes. "1 was sort of—oh, rotten,
about Gall's visit!" he said. "My dear
old girl. Ede and I'd trust you to go
with anyone you like to China—you
know that. Why, we deitend on you.
You're the thing that has held us to-
gether all these years. You're the
guardian angel of the Lucky l.uw-
retires!"
Gall's heart swelled to bursting: she
could not speak.
She made up her mind that she
would not consider the l.os Gatos
Week-end, unless some formal recogni-
tion of the Invitation came from Mrs
Chipp. Hut this heroic mood oozed
away when Friday passed, and Satur-
day passed, and there was no sight
of Van, and no word from liltn, flail
bore It as long as she could, and then
telephoned suddenly, reluctantly, on
Sunday morning to the Chlpp house to
ask for Mr. Murchlson.
A woman's voice slightly amused,
slightly surprised, very sophisticated,
answered tier. Van Murchlson was
with friends In Iturllngame. and who
was this, please?
Gall dured not reveal her Identity.
It was Mrs. chlpp herself, she sus-
pected; It might have been the solu-
tion of her whole problem If she had
been able to ask, easily, cheerfully.
"Are you expecting me on that house
party next week, Mrs. Chlpp?"
But she could not do It. Instead she
mumbled something that might have
been a name and might not. and hung
up the telephone with her heart pound-
"What's the Excitement?"
lug and her cheeks roil. Moving nlmut
the quiet Sunday kitchen'; busy with
the eternal dishes and chairs, bread
box and pudding bowls, she raged at
herself for her cowardice.
"Yon tool,! How I bate you! Von
poor fool!"
She gathered the dishes expertly.
Wandering back und forth between
sink and dresser, she put them one by
one Into a shilling line on the shelf,
s#lllo(|ul/.lng as she did so.
"Iturllngame, eh? I Imagine I'd hate
It. How can I say that:?—I don't know
anyttilng about It! But 1 imagine—or
rather, I should think a boy would
hate it. 1 wish I hadn't telephoned.
She didn't know who I was, though!
"Well, why shouldn't I telephone
her? No harm done!
"Suppose she does tell him some girl
telephoned, and he suspects It's iiy?
What of It? Everybody is telephoning
everybody else all the time."
Edith came In. flushed and pretty,
from church.
"It's boiling out. It's going to be a
marvelous day. What a day for a pic-
nic I" with a long sigh, as they wan-
dered through the great dim front hall-
way and looked th rough the o|>eiied
front door Into the mellow greenness of
the garden.
"1 know." tiall sighed, too.
They were halfway upstairs, loiter-
ing. A voice spoke from the doorway
behind them.
"Any swill this morning, ladles?"
And Instantly the day burst Into
bloom. Edith tactfully retreated to the
upper regions; Gall came out on the
front steps. In her dark blue kitchen
apron. Van stood there grinning up at
her.
lie seated himself on the steps;
Gall. In a wicker rocker, had her el-
bows on her kneee. her hands hooped
over her face.
It waa heaven, sitting out in the
shade wth this hlg. tweed clad young
man. The violence of last week's
hopes and fears bad all faded awsy; It
was enough to alt here together, with-
out past or future.
"No golf today?"
Oh, I could have played. But I
dea't play very well. The other fel-
lers were all too good. Resides, ay
aaat wanted me; aiy filial from
Sacramento are here, tttl he
Oatl hMRfced
-We alght take ear
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"How d'you get there!"
"End af the trolley Una. Aad tfcea
•alt-
He stayed about aa hour, and they
lauihed cootlauoaaljr. So Joyoua. aa
unatralaed, waa this particular meeting
that Qall preeently could My. "What's
this house party next week-end V
"Ob, the usual thing 1"
"Down at the Cblppe' place?"
"Yep. Dp In the Santa Crus moun-
tains, hack of Los Gatoe."
"How many will there be. Van?"
"Oh, about a dosen."
She couldn't—somehow—bring hla
to anything definite about the invita-
tion. Be seemed to feel that that waa
settled.
But Qsll was In wild spirits wbaa
he went away, none the less. He had
Mid, "I take you," In reference to the
house party. Ilia aunt must be per-
fectly cognizant of that. And she. Gall,
had talked to him easily, unaffectedly.
In her old gingham, and he had wanted
to come and tlnd her, and her jealousy
of hla Iturllngame friends had been
silly, anil everything waa all right
again.
Dick Stebblns turned up with hla
reconstructed roadster and the plctile
suddenly became a glittering reality.
Kilitli and Gall, as they so loved to do,
plunged Into a glory of prepars.Wons.
eggs boiling frantically; blackened old
cotTee pot stored with small packages
of sugar, matches mustard, pepper,
and salt; creum pourell back Into a 1SB8BI
fat bottle, and secured with a thick cap
of pa|>er and a rubber hand.
When I'hll came In the usti.;l picnic
uproar set In; they couldn't all go In
Dick's car obviously, but those that
rode going could walk-and-trolley back.
i'hll thought lie might borrow Jim
S):ike's cur—It was an awful looking
old thing, but It did move.
(Sail tlew up and downstairs. In and
out of doors, tying strings, wiping oily
lingers, tying dingy old tin cups on a
string. At four they were sli off
They picnicked on the grassy plateau
two hundred feet from the dam, bHiklng
down at the world, listening to the rip-
ple and chuckle of the creek hidden in
the redwoods iiehlnd them. The grass
smelt of dew .ind pungent tar-weed;
the redwoods #ere caught In solemn
shade Gall sat with her back braced
squarely against a massive oak. I'hll
lay stretched with his head against
her knee. The others were still eutlng
in a desultory, protectant manner
Suddenly, from where he lay like a
dead body in the grass. Saui's young
boyish voice rose pure and strong:
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Tliey all sang, even Ariel cutting tier-
self oil lu the middle of a word to Join.
They sang for halt an hour.
And when they got back to the darn
old close odorous house, at ten o'clock,
there was a message pinned on the
kitchen door. It rend:
"Crooks I Why didn't you wait for
me?"
It was signed "V. M "
So that this was one of (jail's com-
pletely huppy eveulngs. The day had
been full of pleasantness and content.
Bwrythlng was exactly as It should be.
Monday passed. No word from Van.
No sign of Vau. tiall began to hope
fervently that the week-end iwirty
would be postponed. Iler brain—her
heart were sick of the constant surging
back and forth of hope and fear.
'J'li:il night I'Jdlih asked lightly, deli-
cately, "Any lews of our swain Ut-
dayV" and quite suddenly Gail told the
desired lie.
"Yes. lie ami Mrs. Chlpp came m-—
Just for a minute."
"Oil, (tall, darling{.'all telt her
heart tlirii a little sick as .she saw lior
sister's generous pleasure. 'Oh. that
makes It ail right!" said Kdlth.
'What'd she say about the week-end V"
"Well, just— Just that she expected
me."
After all. they might do just e.vactlj
that thing tomorrow. Van and his aunt
Gall reflected uncomfortably. Tliey
might easily make the lie merely an -
an anticipation. She tried, meanwhile,
to minimize It.
"Tlicv only stayed for a second, lie
had prolmhly parked the car right
across the middle of the street!"
Ariel coming In. Kdith Instantly com-
municated the news, and then (Jail j
knew it was too late to retreat. Inno-
cent as the deception bail seemed at i
Hrst, It began to gather size and uio- j
ineutum like a rolling snowball.
She fell ashamed of herself all eve I
nlng, Jumpy whenever the telephone j
rang, nervous whenever tne casual j
family conversation came back to her i
brilliant prospects for tomorrow.
The next afternoon Van stopped hla
llat. open, racy-looking roadster •( the
library at four o'clock, and Hall de-
scended the steps. She looked charm-
Ing In her old brown coat, the t'o« skin ;
Mary Tevls had given Kdith. her own
brown hat, Ariel's best blouse with the
frill, and new chamols-skln gloves
charged that day at Mutter's.
Van lea|>ed out to take her suitcase;
rhey were laughing, delighted to he to-
gether again, as they -towed It In the
rumble. Then Call was where every
girl loves to be, snnl' Into the com-
fortable slanted seat I*, -iile 'he man
she likes, off for « holiday.
One thing had especially disturbed
her among many small disturbances; It
had not been a happy day. There bad :
been the conaclousness of her untruth
ahout the Invitation to hegln with. '
There had been the allied disappoint {
ment of the fact that Mr* Chlpp had
not neutralised the lie hy coming Into j
the library or (tending a note. Bat
tfeaae were minor considerations when
compared to the disquieting effect of a
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Hudspeth, Hylton F. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 28, 1935, newspaper, March 28, 1935; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth126888/m1/3/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stonewall County Library.