BRENTWOOD
~ By Grace Livingston Hill
SIXTH INSTALLMENT
Synopsis
When the wealthy roster par
ents of Marjorie Wetherill both
die she finds a letter telling
that she has a twin sister, that
she was adopted when her owst
parents couldn't afford to sup
port both of them and that her
real name is Dorothy Gay.
Alone in the world, but with a
fortune of her own, she con
siders looking up her own fam
ily whom she has never seen.
A neighbor, Evan Bower, tries
to argue her out of It and Mis
her he loves her and asks her
to marry him. She promises to
think it over but decides first
to see her family. She goes to
their address, finds that the;'
are destitute. Her sister treats
her like an enemy and resents
her offer of help, but finally,
after many explanations, agrees
to take money to buy coal and
food in order to save her
mother's life. Her father comes
in sick and hungry but hurries
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to the cellar to build a fire and
ret *he \ house warm. Her
brother Ted comes in, is resent
ful of her being there at first,
but when he finds all that she
has dime both he and Betty de
cide they like their new sister.
Meanwhile, Evan Brower finds
she has disappeared and fran
tically tries to locate her.
"IH carry you," she said
brightly, struggling with the
frantic child. "There! There,
you're cold. See, I'll tuck you in
side this nice kitty-coat!"
She unbuttoned her coat and
put him within its folds.
It wasn't an easy trip, that,
but Marjorie was very determin
ed when she started a thing, and
at last, breathless and aching in
every muscle, she arrived at the
house, a little behind Ted and
his burden.
By the time Ted arrived with
the hand cart the sisters had
Bonnie established on a hard lit
tle bed on the floor in the kitch
en. |
What has Ted been after, any
way?" Betty suddenly asked.
"I told him to bring that first
and then go get a truck and
bring all the rest of the things."
"Oh!" said Betty breathless
with relief. "Oh! Won't that be
wonderful! But—what a lot we'll
owe you."
Then they heard the front door
open and heavy footsteps tramp
ing in, and the girls flew to cau
tion Ted. and set Bud to watch
the door.
"I found Bill hanging round
with nothing to do. so we brought
everything," explained Ted in a
low mumble to Marjorie.
It proved a bit hard to subdue
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Bill's voice and step, but Betty
was vigilant, and Bud was de
lighted with his office of door
keeper, and it didn't take long
after all to marshal in the poor
bits of household comfort that
had gone out one by one to sup
ply necessities. When the door
shut at last on Bill, and they
I heard his truck drive away, the
brothers and sisters looked at one
another in the garish light of a
single stark electric bulb swing
ing from a long wire in the parlor
ceiling and drew breaths of re
lief. Suddenly Betty dropped
down in a big shabby faded chair,
buried her face in her hands, her
weary, slender young shoulders
shaking with the sobs that she
would not allow to become audi
ble.
Marjorie was by her fide in
stantly, her arms about her.
"There, dear! Don't cry. Poor
dear! You're so tired, aren't you
But listen! We're going to have
a nice supper now and a good
time getting things to rights.
Come, cheer up!"
Betty raised tearstained eyes
and Began to laugh softly, hys
terically.
"I'm—only crying—because it's
so wonderful —to see our old
things back again!" she gurgled.
Marjorie smiled.
"Well, it does seem more home
like, doesn't it? My. that couch
looks good to me. I'm going to
try it after a while, but now I'm
going to take Bonnie's tempera
ture again and see whether we
need the doctor."
But while she was taking the
temperature, the doctor arrived.
"I'v had a call out into the
country," he explained as Betty
opened the door for him, "and
I might have to be gone all night.
I thought I'd better just step in
apd see how the patients are be
fore I leave. I want to make sure
your mother's lungs are not in
volved before I go so far away."
Betty went with him upstairs.
"All going well above stairs,"
he announced cheerfully when he
[came down. "Mother's breaking
into a nice perspiration, and her
lungs are clear so far. I don't ex
pect her fever to go up tonight at
all."
He glanced down at Marjorie.
| "You're the sister, aren't you?
; You two are very much alike.
Well, I think you can be easy in
your mind. Anyhow I'll be back
in the morning."
"But we have another patiepf
in here," said Marjorie. "I tljifik
you'd better look at her jjfefore
you go. I've done all I know
how to do but her Hfiperature
seems to be going up i n spite of
it" /
She led the wjf to the couch.
"I don't anticipate anything
serious," the doctor with a
smile toward Betty, and another
at Marine. "It's her stomach.
°f cojft- se% Children will eat all
sorts of things, you know. It
looks like a light case of pto
maine, but I think she'll come
out all right. Don't you worry,"
he added comfortingly, "every
body's going to be all right.
They'll all be decidedly better in
the morning, I'm sure."
Betty looked up and met his
eyes wistfully, and Marjorie
watching saw the glance, and
thought what nice eyes the doc
tor had. Nice brown eyes.
Dinner was ready in a surpris
ingly short time, and the starved
young appeties were ready too.
Marjorie went out to the kitch
en to get Bud his glass of milk,
while Ted attacked the big beef
steak with the carving knife
which had just been recovered
from the pawn shop.
"It's almost too pretty to cut,
isn't it?" he said. And then he
heard a step behind him. They
all turned and there stood their
father staring at them all In
wonder, and sniffing the air.
"I smelled something so heav
enly," he said, and he smiled a
tired little smile that made him
look like Bud. "Where did you
get the meat, Ted?" he asked, his
eyes resting on the laden table.
"It appears you are having a
feast."
"Sit down, Dad." said Ted lay
ing down the knife and springing
to draw up a chair for his father.
"You aren't fit to stand up."
"Oh, I'm all right," he said,
passing a hand over his fore
head. "I thought I'd go out and
see if I could get an evening's*
work. It might bring in a few
cents and help to buy another
bag of coal."
"My eye, you will!" said Ted.
"You sit down and eat your din
ner, that is, if you feel able to
sit up."
The father sank back in the |
chair under Ted's powerful young
handling, and looked about daz
ed.
"But you haven't told me yet
where you got all this dinner."
"Father, I'd better tell you
right off quick. It's all in the
family. You don't need to be
troubled. My twin sister has
come and she got all these
things!"
The father looked ug. with
great startled eyes jjncT turfifed
perfectly whiter v, * v "'
"Your sister has come? What
do you mgs,n, Elizabeth? Do you
mean the little sister who was
Do you mean that she
-has come and gone and your
mother and I did not see her?"
"No. Oh, no. Father," said
Betty, half frightened at what
her revelation had done to her
father. "She hasn't gone. She's
right here in the house. Here
she comes now!"
Marjorifc stood there smiling
with a plate of bread in one hand
and the glass of milk in the
other, looking so at home, and so
sweet and domesticated that he
had to look twice to be sure she
wasn't Betty. And Marjorie met
her father's eyes for the first
time in her young life, and loved
him at once.
Suddenly she put down on the |
corner of the table the things she
was carrying and went to meet
the father who had risen to his
feet and was staring at her, went
sweetly across the years into his
arms and laid her golden head on
his shoulder looking up into his
face.
"Father, I've come home! Do
you mind?" she said shyly.
Hungrily his arms went round
her, and his face came down
softly and touched hers.
"Do I mind?" he said wonder
ingly. "Do I mind? Oh. my lit
tle girl, whom I have never seen
before! My other little Betty.
Do I mind?"
He touched her forehead with
his lips, almost as if he felt she
was not real, and then he look
ed up again, while all the other
children sat and looked oil in
wonder. A had come
over that sudden radiance of his
face.
"But what a home you have
come to, my child! What a home!
All the comforts gone!" Then
suddenly he looked around- and
saw the familiar sideboard and
chairs and table, and bewilder
ment came into his eyes.
"Am I dreaming. Ted? Or is
all tnls real?" He turned troubled
eyes on his boy.
Ted gave him a sharp look.
"It's all right. Dad, but you
won't be long if you don't sit
down and eat some of this beef
steak pretty quick, and I mean
it!"
"But, my son, I cannot eat un
til I understand."
"All right, tel! him, Betts!"
said the boy.
"Why, Father, it's just that we
have a fairy sister with pockets
full of money, and she insisted on
paying for everything," said Bet
ty.
"Do you mean," asked the
father, laying his fork down be
side his plate with a look of fin
ality, "that we are feasting on
Mys. .WetheriU'c! money?, I could
not v possibly do that, my Sear."
There was such pain and pride
in his voice that Marjorie's heart
was thrown into a panic. Was
pride after all to put an end to
her new hopes and plans?
"Father—" she said earnestly,
and did not realize how naturally
she had called him that, "it isn't
her money at all. It is my mon
ey. I didn't know whether you
wanted me or not, or whether
anybody was alive or not. but I
had to come and see. I had to
find out if there was anybody
who really loved me a little bit."
There was the catch of a sob
in her voice as she finished, and
a mist in her eyes. Even young
Bud paused in his chewing for
an instant and looked at her
sympathetically.
Then her father came out of
his sorrowful daze.
"Want you?" said he tenderly.
"How we have wanted you! How
we have longed for you, and talk
ed about you, and tried not to
blame one another, your mother
and I for having let you go!"
"Oh, dear Father!" said Mar
jorie, deeply stirred, and putting
out a shy hand to lay upon his.
"I'm so glad it is not too late for
me to try to make up just a little
for your suffering!"
He gathered her hand into his
thin nervous one and clavpcd it
close.
"Does your mother know?" he
asked of Betty.
"Not yet. I thought she ought
to get a good sleep first before
we excited her. Besides, there
was so much to do to get things
going right again," explained
Betty.
"Well, this will be meat and
drink to your mother," said the
father, gazing intently at the new
unknown daughter.
When Betty came down to
breakfast Marjorie was setting
the table. She had cut the bread
and laid out the eggs and bacon.
"You'd better make the cof
fee," she iaid to her sister. I
don't know how without a perco
lator. I'm afraid I would spoil it."
"We used to have a percolator
when we were at Brentwood, but
it got broken in the moving,"
sighed Betty.
"Brentwood? What's Brent
wood? Was that where you liv
ed before you came here?"
"Yes," said Betty sadly. "It
was swell! It was an old farm
house that had got caught on
the edge of a new suburb when
the city grew out there, and it
had been fixed up with a great
big porch across the front. There
was a view out across a valley,
looking away from the city, and
a little brook in a meadow next
to our place. Then the man Dad
worked for died, and the firm
closed up, and here we are!"
Betty's tone was almost hope
less as she finished. Then after
a minute she went on again.
"Can you blame Mother for
getting sick and going all to
pieces?" *
Then the father's voice was
heard calling:
"Betty!"
Betty turned and flew up the
stairs. In a moment she was
down aagin, her eyes full of ex
citement.
"Father's told Mother, and she
wants you to come right up!"
Marjorie turned on her eager
sister and kissed her.
"Don't worry." she said softly,
"it's all going to come right."
Then she hurried off upstairs.
Afterward Marjorie couldn't
quite remember everything that
happened, or what they all said.
It was just a memory of being
folded in tender frail arms, gen
tle hands upon her head, the
softest lips in all the world upon
her own, kisses on her lips and
forehead and eyes. A voice say
ing softly:
"My, little, little baby. My
lost darling!"
When she came downstairs at
last she had a look upon her as
If she had been crowned.
The girls sat down in the
kitchen for a minute.
"You'll want to fix Mother's
loom before the doctor comes,
that is, if she wakes up in time.
If she doesn't we'll Just have to
let it go as it is. Doctors always
understand."
(Continued Next Week)
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