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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1923)
^ SYNOPSIS Stella DbIIm separated from her kiun hnnil. and her daughter, laturrl, 13. live in the "cheapest room" of a fashionable hotel In Millmmpton. In the parlor*, where alie pa**e* much time reading, l.aurcl overhear* scornful reference* to her mother nuide by *ocial leader* in the hotel world. Hoth mother and daugh ter are always smartly <lre**cd when they go together to the dining room. Laurel goes on a vl*it to her father in New York. (Continued from Yesterday.) "Well, the first time I knew I liked the woods,”—Ah! one of her trustful moods—"wasn’t when I was up there in them, but light in a city street, looking, into an art store window at a picture of a trail just like lots of trails we've tramped. It flashed over in<* right there on the crowded city sidewalk, ‘I just love the woods!’ And last winter our teacher took our class at school to an art gallery one after noon, and when I got the first queer Hindi, and heard the first echo-y s unds that go with art galleries, it •/ame over me what fun we’d had picking out our favorite pictures in irt galleries here in New York, ami : * ng afterwards to get hot chocolate nnewhere, and all of a sudden it ished over me, ‘Whf, I just love art :;• Meries!’ ” Laurel’s father looked away from • or. Some of his seeds, then, had taken root and were growing. Kvcn mong thorns! lie must plant and plant and plant, then, while it way st.11 *the planting season. 3. Later that same night, in Laurel's muni at the hotel. Stephen sat down beside her by the reading lamp and glanced through the pile of books he bad selected for her. "Idylls of the King" was one of the hooks. "What do you say wo save this one to read out loud in the woods?" he inquired. "Oh, you don’t have to. my dear." "I’d like to go,” she assured him brightly, which was true. Laurel \nuld like to do anything to please 'er father. CHAPTER III. 1. Laurel was to go to Mrs. Morrison's the following Monday. She dreaded the visit. She wns suspicions of wo men, and especially suspicious of mothers, tine of the rensons Laurel always looked forward with such Joy to the month with her father was that there never ftrere any slights— never any fear of any slights, llis presence seemed to prevent the possi bility of slights. Everybody to whom he introduced her In his fine, protid manner as "my daughter Laurel," treated her with the same kindness— almost deference—with which they treated him. Mrs. Morrison had been kindness itself to her a year ago. at tea In the hotel, but her father had been Ihere then. Ladies had a way of being kind when men were about. Laurel had discovered. It was being left alone with Mrs. Morrison that she dreaded. Besides, Laurel knew very llttie about the etiquette of private homes She was fnmlliar with the ways and customs of a hotel. Knew tlie proper manner to assume towards waiters, and porters, and clerks; knew, too, the proper fee to pay bellboys and cham bermaids, if she asked them to do anything for her, which she seldom did, for dimes and quarters were never freely squandered by Laurel and her mother on ice water or extra blankets for cool nights. But she was uncer tain about the proper manner to as sume towards servants in a private home. In the winter time she and her mother lived in an apartment hotel. How many servants were there usually, anyhow, and what did you call them, and what fee did you give them? And when, and how, and for what? Or didnt you give them a fee at all? And Just how. she won dered. should you dress in n private home? Hid a girl of 13 change three times a day, for instance, and put on an organdie for dinner? And who did her hair? Miss Simpson, it ap peared, was not to accompany Laurel to Mrs. Morrison’s. Miss Simpson wasn’t very good at hair. She nevei even attempted curls. But she could get snarls out, and brush, and divide fairly well, under direction. Laurel was helpless without somebody. He took Laurel down to Mis. Mor rison's in his automobile. She talked very little as the car sped over ihe smooth roads, through pretty settle ment after pretty settlement. When finally Stephen announced "The next town's ours" Laurel murmured mis erably, "Y'ou'-ll surely he back for me Saturday, won't you?" Stephen laughed. "Surely," he said. "Why, you’d think 1 was putting you In an institution." Anti a little later he sang out cheerful!, "Here we are at the prison gates!" and turned the car in between two cement posts, partly Ivy-covered, and up a short curving drive. The house wns cement, and partly ivy-covered, too, like the posts. It was set low, seemed to cling to the ground, and the close-cropped lawn ran right up to long French windows on either side of the front door. The French windows were open and from out of one of them stepped Mrs. Morrison. She waved her hand ut Stephen and Laurel, and called out In a high, pretty voice, "Hello!" then walked rapidly towards the approach ing car to meet It. Laurel noticed that she was dressed In an ordinary white skirt and outing waist, and wore tennis shoes. She was at the door of the ear when it stopped, and, before Laurel's father had a chance to open it, she had stretched out her arm in front of him—ignoring him completely—grasp ed one of Laurel’s hands and was saying in the lovely voice Laurel re membered, "Hello, Laurel.” She said "Laurel," not "Laurrul"—like most people. Her voice was like a bell. "I'm ever so glad to see you. I've been waiting and waiting for you. (let out, dear. Let her out. Stephen." She hadn’t paid any attention to Stephen till then. "Your trunk has come.” she said, still addressing Laurel, still Ignoring her father—or almost, for she flung him only the briefest little "Hello" as he stepped out of the automobile beside her— "and for the last hour I’ve been think ing you yourself were coming every time I heard a horn blowing outside our drive.’’ As Laurel stepped off the running board Mrs. Morrison put her arm around her and kissed her lightly on tile cheek. Afterward-s she left her arm there in a casual sort of way as If she forgot to remove It. "Let's come into the house this way.” she suggested. Hml gently drew Ijmrrl across the lawn towards ihi French windows. "1 ve tea and cakes nil ready.” she said In a low tone, as if It was a confidante not meant for Stephen’s ears. "And e nnaiiion toast.” She nave Laurel's shoulders the tiniest little bit of squeeze. Arm in arm with Mrs. Morrison. 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