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Thursday, April 13, 1939 I BRENTWOODI By Grace Livingston Hill SEVENTH INSTALLMENT • Synopsis When the wealthy foster par ents of Marjorie Wetherlll both die she finds a letter telling that she has a twin sister, that she was adopted when her own parents couldn't afford to sap 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 tells 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 they are destitute. Her sister and brother resent her being there but her mother and father are very Joyful over it. Finally, when she buys them all the things they need the whole family celebrate her appear ance. They tell her about the wonderful place called Brent wood where they lived before her father lost his Job. "Oh, I'll straighten it a little. But I wish you would go up with him this time. It hate to meet him looking this way. I ripped the sleeve half out of my dress last night when I stooped over to pick up Sunny, and I've just spilled some grease down the front of it. I'm a sight! And this is the only dress I have. I couldn't possibly get it washed out and ironed and on before he comes." "Oh, I can fix that," said Mar jorie smiling, "you'll wear one of my dresses, of course. We're Just the same size, so it's sure to fit you. Let's open my suitcase and rummage." Betty's eyes lighted with sud den longing, but her lips set in a thin line. "Indeed I couldn't deck myself out in your wonderful clothes. I couldn't do that!" "No?" said Marjorie teasingly. " Suppose I deck you then? Come Women Agree 93%! If 93 out of 100 users picked at random declare they were helped by a medicine, would you believe in its merit? That happened among women of 12 Southern states who were questioned about CARDUI. 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Marjorie reached under the neat muslin packing bags that contained frivolous evening things and pulled out two knitted dresses, simple of line, lovely of quality, and rich of color. "There!" said Marjorie happi ly, "take your pick. I think there's a blue one here some where, too. Yes, here it is," and she flung it across a chair. "Put them all on and see which you like the best!" Betty stood spellbound. "Oh! I couldn't wear those lovely things. It wouldn't seem right!" "Now please, Betty, don't spoil things by objections. Put them on one at a time and let me see which is the most becoming." Betty finally chose the dark blue. "It is less dressy than the others," she said gravely, "though it's awfully smart. I couldn't ask anything handsomer on this earth. I never thought I'd have a chance to even try on one of those wonderful hand-knit cos tumes. "Well, I'll be awfully careful of it," compromised Betty, "and I'll take it off as soon as the doctor has gone." "Nonsense! You'll do no such thing!" said Marjorie. "You'll wear it whenever you like. Here, I've got a couple of little cotton house gowns, sort of aprons they are, to slip over another dress when you're actually working. You take the blue one and I'll take the pink, and then we can tell each other apart. We'll put those on for kitchen work." "You make life a kind of play," said Betty as she wonderingly obeyed. "It doesn't seem right to be dolled up like this to make a bed." Presently they heard the doc tor coming upon the porch and Betty in the slim blue dress went to open the door, her hair a little gold flame of light about her shapely head. Marjorie, stand ing back in the tiny parlor al most out of view had time to no tice the quick look of interest in the doctor's face as he took ac count of the exceedingly pretty girl who was meeting him, and the little flush of rose that crept up Into Betty's cheeks as she met his gaze. Then the doctor turned and looked keenly at Marjorie. "Oh, you're the new sister, aren't you?" he said pleasantly. "Aren't you twins? You look so very much alike. I doubt If I could have told you apart if I THE BLKIN TRIBUNE, BLKIN, NORTH CAROLINA hadn't met Miss Betty several times." Marjorie looking up caught a bright flame of color on Betty's face and thought how pretty she looked in the new dress. She wondered in passing if this nice pleasant doctor was interested in her sister? B»tty lingered a moment at the door talking with the doctor, asking him particularly about her mother's diet and medicine, and the young doctor looked at her approvingly and smiled as he finally went out. Ever since she had arrived Marjorie had been planning what she would do, but there hadn't as yet been time to carry out her plans. "Monday you and I ought to go out and do some Christmas shop ping," said Marjorie to Betty as tney were putting everything in shining order Saturday evening after supper. "Christmas shopping, my eye! A lot of Christmas shopping I could do. I haven't got ten cents of my own," said Betty ruefully. "Oh, yes. you have," laughed Marjorie. "Look in your purse. I put some in there this afternoon while you were down at the store and it's for Christmas shopping and nothing else." "Do you think I would go Christmas shopping with your money?" asked Betty scornfully. "It's not my money," laughed Marjorie, "it's yours. I gave it to you so we could have some fun. You don't think it's any fun, do you, to do all the shop ping myself, and not have any body else be getting up secrets too? Now don't act that way." "And I used to think you were selfish!" said Betty sorrowfully. It was Sunday morning while they were getting breakfast to gether that Marjorie asked quite casually: ."Where do you go to church? Is it far from here?" Betty stopped stirring the pan cake batter she was preparing and stared at her. "Go to church?" she laughed. "We don't go. We haven't since we left Brentwood. For one thing we didn't have the clothes to go there or anywhere else. And for another thing I guess we were all too discouraged and disheart ened to bother about church. People don't feel much interest ed in going to church when they are having such a time as we've had. It isn't easy to believe in a God who lets people like Father and Mother suffer as they have done. I don't believe in a God myself." Marjorie looked at her aghast "Oh. Betty! That's awful! You mustn't talk that way." "Why not, I'd like to know? Do you believe in a God?" "Certainly." "Why do you?" Marjorie looked at her thought fully. "I never stopped to think about why," she said slowly, "but I do. I certainly do!" "Well, I didn't mean to worry you, only you asked about going to church, and I suppose you'll be disappointed In us if that's what you expect of us. Not one of us goes to church except Ted. He's the religious one of the flock." "Ted?" said Marjorie, lifting astonished eyes. "Yes, Ted. He's as faithful as the clock. He walks away back to Brentwood every Sunday. He's got a crush on a young preacher back there, and we can't keep him away. -He'll probably want to walk you way out there with him if you suggest church to him." "Why, I'd love to go," said Marjorie. "Why don't we both go? It's a gorgeous morning." "Thanks, no," said Betty cold ly. "I don't feel religiously in-' clined, and anyway, I haven't a coat. You couldn't just divide your coat with me, though I pre sume you would if it were possi ble. Besides, It's you that wants to go to church, not me. Here, Ted." as the boy came in from the street, "here's a candidate to go to church with you." Ted looked at Marjorie with a sudden sparkle in his.eyes. "Sure, I'll take her," he said diffidently. "But you haveta walk. There's no carline except a long roundabout way." "I'll love to walk!" said Mar jorie. So Marjorie and her brother started off to church. "I guess you'll be ashamed of me, but they don't mind clothes where we're going." "No," said Marjorie thought fully, "I'm not ashamed of you. I'm proud of you. Things like that are only comparative, any way, aren't they? They shouldn't have any part in going to church." Ted eyed her speculatively, and finally ventured another question: "I guess you're saved, aren't you?" "Saved?" said Marjorie alto gether startled. The phrase was not .common among the young people she knew. "You haveta be born again, you know." She gave him another keen look and as if he were answering the question In her eyes, he said: "You believe, you know, that's how you get to be born again. That's how you get saved. You just believe." "Believe?" said Marjorie in quiringly. She didn't say "believe what?" But her tone said it. So he answered. "Believe that Jesus is the Son of God and died to take our sins upon Himself and suffer their penalty." He explained it grave ly, as If he had done it before, and understood thoroughly what it meant. "Why, I guess I believe that," said Marjorie, "I've never really though much about it, but I be lieve it of course. It's all In the Bible, isn't It? I believe the Bible. I was taught to believe that when I was very young, though I'm not sure that I know much about It." "Gee, it's great when you get to studying It!" said Ted irrevel evantly. Marjorie looked at him in sur prise. "Have you studied it?" "Sure! We W Bible classes twice a week at the Brentwood chapel. Gash, I was sorry to move away!" "You must have had a good teacher," said Marjorie wonder in gly. "I'll say he was! He was swell I He seemed to know just what you'd been going through that day, and how to show you where you'd got off the track, see?" "Who is this teacher?" "Gideon Reaver's his name. He's just a young fella, only been out of Seminary a little over a year, but he certainly knows his Bible. He can preach all around any preacher I ever heard before. But you'll hear him. You'll see what he's like." "Well, I hope I shall be able to keep from going crazy over him," Marjorie smiled. Ted turned red. "Oh, you're not like that. You're sensible! But he's a prince, you know. I'm not blam ing 'em for going crazy over him. If I was a girl I might do it my self." "Did Betty use to go to church with you when you lived in Brentwood?" asked Marjorie. Ted's face darkened. "No!" he said shortly. "She wouldn't go. She said she had no time for church. She was all taken up with a poor fish in the office where she worked. He useta come out in a second-hand roadster and take her places. He made me sick. Had one of those misplaced eyebrows on his upper lip, thought he was smart, could smoke more cigarettes in an hour than anybody I ever heard of, and wore his hat way off on the back of his head like he was bored with the world and thought he was too good to associate with common people." "Then she doesn't know Gideon Reaver?" "No, she wouldn't be intro duced one day when I brought him home. She said she didn't care to know preachers, they would bore her, and it might be embarrassing to have him hang ing around. Oh, she makes me sick, sometimes." "I guess she's had rather a hard time," suggested Marjorie gently. "Sure she has! We've all had a hard time. And she's been a good scout, worked like every thing to take care of Mother and Father, apd all that, but still sometimes she makes me sick." He suddenly broke off and his / LEADERSHIP IN VALVE X BRINGS LEADERSHIP jfl * j >:*Hif | Wjji^ Chevrolet is first in sales because it's first in MIW Again the people of the nation of all the things they want in AERO-STREAM STYUNG are awarding Chevrolet first a motor car, at lower cost. raw ■own ir nutn place in motor car sales! ... Jk . _. . ' ____________ Visit your nearest Chevrolet /*WVJ And the reason they are buy- dealer today! 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