20 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 19491
Father of the Bride
By EDWARD STREETER. Illustrated by Gluyas Williams
He now received them with open-armed cordiality.
Installment I
Daughter Kay Makes the
Great Decision
No matter what Kay might have
done about marriage it would not
have been looked upon with any
great favor by Mr. Stanley Banks,
merely because he happened to be
fonder of his first-born than he
realized.
During her teens he had dismissed
all aspirants with a contemptuous
snort. From the time that Kay
had first revealed herself to the
social world, minus a mouthful of
braces and plus a permanent, leggy
adolescents with porcupine hair had
begun to beat a path to 24 Maple
Drive. Mr. Banks had regarded
these Inarticulate sufferers with a
jaundiced eye.
And so the tender years had
slipped by. With their passing Mr.
Banks' emotional pendulum had
swung the other way. He found
himself wondering what was wrong
with the child. What was it that
caused men to bob Into her life
for a few brief weeks or months
and then disappear forever? She
couldn't go on being a bridesmaid
until she was an old lady I
It worried him and unconsciously
his attitude changed, even toward
Kay's most casual acquaintances.
Unlike the old days, when he had
been curt, suspicious and, on occa
sions, frankly hostile, he now began
to receive them with open-armed
cordiality that would have driven
any alert young male out into a
snowstorm.
Then suddenly without warn
ing It was obvious that some
thing was happening to Kay. Some
alchemv was at work within her.
There was a light in her eyes that
none of Dr. Barnes' vitamins had
ever kindled; a radiance that made
her, at times, almost a stranger
to Mr. Banks.
"What's gotten into Kay, Elite?
She acts queer to me."
'I don't know," said Mrs. Banks
""Maybe she's in love.'
Mr. Banks made noises of con
tempt. "In lovel Who would she
be in love with?"
"I haven't the wildest idea."
"Nonsense," said Mr. Banks,
"You must have some idea."
"Well, do you remember that
about two weeks ago Kay said she'd
met a coy named Buckley some-thlng-or-other
at a cocktail party?"
''You don't mean that big over
grown ham with the shoulders?
Listen, Ellie, you women Jump at
the damnedest conclusions. Just
because a man"
"All right. I'm wrong. You Just
wait ana see.
They waited, and as the days
passed It became apparent that
Buckley was coming more sharply
into focus. His name crept into
nays cnatier wun increasing fre
quency, though always ciisually
Ho was apparently a vounif man
with decided views on everything
irom iooioau to uoo views which,
for Kay's money, had not been
equaled since the Delphic oracles
went out 01 Dusiness.
Mr. Banks felt a resurgence of his
old attitude. This new moth, which
was beginning to fly so close to the
flame, became definitely d Is taste -
iui 10 mm.
"I don't think much of that fel
low," he said to Mrs, Banks after
Buckley had spent a painful ten
minutes in the living room waiting
for Kay.
"I don't know, dear," said Mrs.
Banks. "Why don't you Just leave
Kay alone and let her work tilings
out for herself?"
A hush of anticipation had fallen
over the Banks family as in a
theater Just before the curtain rises
but nothing happened. Kav con
tinued to look dreamy. Buckley,
during his brief appearances, main
tained his air of uneasy aloofness
Keep
enjoy
After a few stiff moments they
would both rush, unleashed, Into
me mgnt.
Then, unexpectedly, the storm
broke.
They were gathered round the
dinner table on one of the In
creasingly rare occasions when Kay
ate at home.
Don't those two Boys ever stay
at home lor a meal?" grumDiea Mr.
Banks.
'They've none to a nmht Kamel
with Joe Stanley," said Mrs. Banks.
xney comaivi wait ior atnner.i
Ben said they'd pick up something
to eat in town."
Kay sighed. "Ben's not a boy.
Pops. He's a man. He's old enough
to have a iamuy."
Well. Tommy Isn't." said Mr.
Banks.
"Oh. by the way. Mom. that re
minds me. I won't be home thlsl
week-end," said Kay.
"Where are you coins, dear?"
asked Mrs. Banks.
I m &oin? to sDend It with Buck
ley's family."
Mr. Banks dronned an unbroken
cracker Into his soup. "Look here,"
ne asxea, "are you going to marry
this character?"
I irucss so," replied Kay. She
continued to work on her soup.
Ana wnen, Mrs. panics asxea
wltn timid sarcasm, "are you think
ing 01 gelling marriear
I really don't know, Mother. It
all depends on Buckley's PLANS."
Kay's voice was that of a tired
kindergarten teacher. "But there's
one tiling we WONT be pinned
down. Bucklcv's VERY decided
about that sort of thing. He Just
wu-r De pinned down."
Mr. Banks felt his neck begin to I
pusn against ms collar. "I hope.'
he said in a strained voice, "that
Buckley won't think I'm nosy or
trying to pin him down If I ask
lew simple questions. '
Kav looked bored. "O K . Pom
I suppose we have to go THROUGH
mis. it aoes seem to me. thouirh "
Well, to begin with who the
new is mis uucKiey anyway?"
"Now, Pops, please. H we're
going" .
" and what's his last name, and
where the hell does he come from
and who does he think is going
to support him? If it's me he's
got another guess "
Mrs. Banks Interrupted. "Stan ev
nobody's deaf and you don't have
to swear every other word. It's
Just plain mortifying with Delilah
In the kitchen listening. You don't
give Kny a chance. Let her"
At that moment Kay, the darling
of his heart, turned on him for
me nrst lime in her life. "Listen.
Pons. I'm twentv-four vear.t old
and Buckley's twenty-six and we're
GROWN people and as far as vour
supporting BUCKLEY, I'll tell you
right now he's the kind that would
n't let ANYBODY support him.
Heel rather DIE first.
"THAT'S the kind of person he
ia. nes a wunukbi'ui, person.
He's the kind of a person that's
absolutely I mean ABSOLUTELY
independent.
"And his name Is DUNSTAN.
thai a what It Is Bueklev Dun-
stan. And he's a WONDERFUL
businessman I mean a REALLY
wonderful businessman and
nnn ne has a WONDERFUL Job."
"Doing what?" asked Mr. Banks
seizing tne nrst tactual straw
"Oh. I don't KNOW. Pons w
makes something. Docs It REALLY
make any difference what it is?
He's the kind of person that can do
niNYiniiNu anvthing at ALL
"As for his PARENTS well. Ill
tell you this. Pops they're Just as
good as you and MOM." There
was a suggestion in her voice that
this was an understatement. "They
Ve SWELL people and they live in
East Smithfleld."
Mr. Banks' blood nressurn had
!ipne down as quickly as it had
risen. He scarcely heard what Kav
was saying and he had fnnnttcn
all about Burklev. He was looking
at his daughter's flushed face and
remembering a small gl-1 with brown
uiKiHus unci airty overalls who used
to fly at her two younger brothers
wiirn iney goaaea ncr loo rnr. I
It seemed like such an Incredlblv
snort time ago. That was all. He
had a panicky feeling that tears
were coming Into his eves. Rising
from his chair, he kissed the top
of her head.
"O.K.. Kitten." he said. "I love
him already. What did you say his
mat name was?
(To Be Continued)
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