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Chapter Tea
Off For Romance
1AVINIA doed her suitcase
' with bang, and locked it
All right" the said, "I'm all
el" She walked over to her aunt.
fiut her arm around her. "Dar
ing." ahe aaid. "if it'a going to
make you happy for me to have a
fling at frivolous living. I'll try.
I hope I make your hair stand on
end but I doubt It"
"You'll get by," said Aunt
Dorcas.
"Just about," said Lavinla.
"And that will be all."
"All you've got to do Is forget
Armsworth'a Department Store,"
Miss Dorcas said. "Forget that,
and the fact that you are a fairly
successful young woman from
Manhattan and Tend an attentive
ear to whatever young men aay
to you."
''Suppose there are no young
men?
"Of course therell be. Harbor
Head Is full of them."
"I mean suppose there are no
young men for me?"
"Nonsense! You're an attrac
tive young woman, and the men
will be quick to see and get
busv."
"Which will be lust ducky."
aid Lavinla, with a touch of sar
casm. Miss Dorcas gave her a sharp
look. "And don't talk like that
to the men." ahe warned. "If
there's anything men dislike if
there's anything in the world that
laps a wet blanket on romance
It's sarcasm, and what you modem
young people call vim cracks."
"Goodness!" said Lavinia, try
ing to speak gayly. "You sound
like advice to the lovelorn. Don't
tell me you are speaking from
actual experience!
"Maybe:"
Tell me about It, Aunt Dor
cas." "There ls'nt time. But please
remember, Lavinia, that I wasn't
born in a jungle or a buried city."
"I've always suspected you of
having had a romance back in the
old home town. Am I right?"
"All girls even a girl as plain
as I was get attention," aaid Miss
Dorcas.
Presently the buzzer rang. Miss
Dorcas went to the sneaking tube.
"Yes?" she said.
"It's the taxi you ordered,
ma'am," said a masculine voice.
"Then come on!" said Aunt
Dorcas, picking up her suitcase.
Lavinia picked up hers but
he hesitated. She stood in the
center of the room, looking about
at all ber little possessions. She
had a sad sort of feeling that
nothing was ever going to be the
same again. It made her feel like
crying made her wish ahe could
drop Tier suitcase, make a flying
leap for the bed and there bury
her face among the pillows.
And then the taxicab was mov
ing off downtown. The first lap
of Lavinia's journey had begun.
Grand Central Station. A stream
lined train. Speeding northward.
To Maine. To Harbor Head. To
a cay hotel. And then what?
Now they were turning Into
East Forty-second street. Now
they were setting out of the taxi
cab. Aunt Dorcas was paying the
tare, and tipping far too generous
ly. A red cap came out He picked
Up the two aultcases.
"What train, lady?"
The Boston Express," aaid
Aunt Dorcas.
"Yes'm. Right this way. lady."
Aunt Dorcas hurried after the
man. Lavinia fell Into step with
her.
Aunt Dorcas looked at her.
"Stick up your chin," she aaid.
"You look like somebody on the
way to the guillotine."
"Then I look exactly like I feel."
"Then I look exactly like I
feel," said Lavinla.
And a sudden wave of home
sickness for the quiet little spot in
Connecticut swept over her. . . .
A Little Frightened
THREE days later Lavinla Pren
tiss was standing on a high
rock unon the rumied coast of
Maine. She was alone, and had
never before In all her life felt so
alone. Aunt Dorcaa had atayed
over night had seen that she was
comfortably settled in a room at
the ClifTside Inn, had gotten her
properly introduced to the host
ess, had sampled the meals and
then departed.
"Here I go for the musty Plunk
etts!" she said ruefully. "Be a gay
girl, my dear, and are what you
ran do to masculine hearts while
I see what I can do to a dead
whale's innards!"
"Oh, Aunt Dorcas," Lavinla
wailed. "I do wish you'd stay here
witn me!
"Nonsense! You're on your own
now, Lavinia. Remember, your
mother was a heart-breaker, even
If your father was rather dull.
Try being your mother'a child for
a while. You've been your father's
quite long enough."
"Yes'm." Lavinia promised.
Very meekly.
Then Aunt Dorcas's Portland
tram coming along taking her
away.
And now the rugged coast of
Maine and Lavinia, lonelv, mis
erable, gazing out to sea. "I feel,"
she told herself, "like I Imagine
Napoleon must have felt when he
was left upon the Isle of St
Helena."
Then, seeing some bathers upon
the stretch of sand down at the
foot of the rocks, she decided
upon a swim. At least it would
give her something to do. Perhaps
the icy water would shock her out
of her feeling of depression.
She walked slowly bsck to the
Inn, conscious of people glancing
at her as she crossed the wide
veranda. She knew that they
looked at her as she crossed the
lobby.
"I'm Just another new girl come
to the Inn," she thought "and
they re all curious, bhe got Into
the elevator, still thinking. The
people who eyed her didn't know,
of course, that she was a dud so
cially. But they'd soon And out
when they played linage wun
her. or when they asked ber to
dance.
Oh. well, after the first bout
with her bridge-playing and the
first skirmish with her dancing,
they would leave her alone. Then
she could sneak out the book
about advertising out of her suit
case, find a secluded spot on a tall
rock, and do as she pleased.
"Remember." Aunt Dorcas had
said, "you're to put thoughts of
business completely out of your
head."
"Yes'm."
"You're to act like an attractive
lrl on a vacation not like a itu
ent cramming for exams."
"Yes'm."
Well, here she was at her room.
Now for the swim. She got out
the brief swimming suit and the
Say beach robe. Then, taking a
ecp breath, she prepared herself
for the trip to the strip of sand,
where she had seen so many
good-looking men and lovely girls
stretched out taking the sun.
'Thank goodness I can swim,"
she said later, as she left the inn
by way of the entrance reserved
for bathers. "I can always dive
into the water, if I'm cornered.
Goose pimples are better than be
ing made to feel like a social
flop."
On The Beach
REACHING the beach she tested
the water with her toe, and
decided to wait a while. The sun
felt wonderful to ner back. It was
better to enjoy that, than to tor
ture herself by plunging into wa
ter which felt like the inside of
the frigidalre in the apartment
back in New York.
She found a spot a little way
from a group of young people,
and sank down upon her beach
robe, leaving her legs and body
exposed to the sun. She began to
feel relaxed and began to doze
now and then hearing scraps of
conversation that came from the
group of young people she had
passed.
"I wanted to go to a livelier
spot than this," a girl said. "But
now I'm glad I didn't."
"Why?'' asked another glrL
"Didn't you hear? We re so
close to Canada, they say the most
fascinating-looking prisoners are
escaping right over the border
only a little way from Harbor
Head."
"Not really?"
"Yes really."
"So what?" said a masculine
voice. "You don't mean there's
anything to get excited about
prisoners from Internment camps
escaping?"
"Of course It's something to get
excited about I heard that some
of the men in the camps are sim
ply devastating."
"And you'd flirt with them Im
mediately, I suppose?"
"Naturally!"
"You wouldn't report them
and see that they were sent back
to Canada?"
"Well, maybe only "
"A consistent girl you are
knitting for the British, and flirt
ing with their enemies."
"Consistency," said a second
masculine voice, "is not one of a
woman's strongest points, my dear
lad."
"Oh, come on." someone cried,
"let's have a dip. The water's
probably warmed up some."
Lavinia sighed. Such lay young
things. They made her feel a mil
lion years old. Girls, able to get
excited over escaped prisoners,
willing even to flirt with them.
And young men who tried to
think seriously about such things,
and
"You'd better not take too much
sun all at once," someone said at
her side.
Startled, Lavinla looked up.
Margot Linden, the Inn hostess,
was smiling down at her.
"Oh, thank you," Lavinla said.
"I felt so relaxed. I hardly no
ticed the sun at all.
"That's the way It works," Mar
got aaid. "You feel relaxed, and
the sun gets in his dirty work."
She sank down upon the sand.
"I'm so sorry your aunt couldn't
stav. She's adorable. I have heard
of )ier, you know."
"Yes," said lavinla, "lots of
people have." She laughed. "But
Aunt Dorcas says she's through
doing the things that made people
hear about her."
"Do vou have ambitions to be
like her?"
"I did have."
"Meaning you've changed?"
"No." said Lavinla, 'meaning
Aunt Dorcas has changed."
Ta fee conUnarA
Rationing of Sugar
May Be Ordered to
Break Up Hoarding
Washington, Jan. 10. The
government may order sugar
rationing for consumers, author
itative sources said today, In
order to halt an unwarranted
hoarding epidemic.
Disclosing that auch action
was being considered, these
sources declared that the supply
situation itself did not require
rationing, but that regulation
appeared necessary to assure an
equitable distribution among all
users. Present supplies were
aaid to be ample, and prospects
were that they would continue
sufficient throughout the year.
Nevertheless, officials report
ed, many consumers have been
buying In excess of normal
needs and storing the extra sup
plies for use In event of a short
age and higher prices, such as
occurred in the first world war.
It was explained that these prac
tices, If allowed to continue
much longer, might result in
acute shortages later for non-hoarders.
SOLOMON A PIKER
Pawhuska. O k 1 a. (LP) A
chain letter to end chain letters
is now In circulation. The let
ter asked the person receiving
it to send his wife to the name
at the top of the list. It pointed
out that if the chain went un-
broken, the recipient would
J at the end of the chain receive
113,000 wives.
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Tennessee relatives. It was
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being eight inches long and
tunnel shaped. Landsden said
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that ha was to study for tha clergy. Tha young man took his degree in 1831, but Jumped
at the opportunity of becoming naturalist on the ship "Beagle," making a surveying cruise.
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tures of all, including the huge iguanas, ferocious looking but harmless lizards, and tha
giant tortoises. Right there he decided to become a scientist rather than a clergyman.
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