BRENTWOOD
By Grace Livingston Hill
TWELFTH INSTALLMENT
Synopsis
When the wealthy foster par
ents of Marjorie Wctherill 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 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 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 and gradually per
suades them to accept things
they need. When the doctor
calls to see her mother she no
tices that he seems particular
ly interested in her sister.
Marjorie goes to church in
Brentwood, where her family
used to live, and becomes very
much interested in the young
minister there, with whom she
later has lunch in the city.
While at Brentwood she sees
the home her family formerly
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and gives the deed to it to her
father on Christmas morning.
The whole family is very joyful.
While preparing for Christmas
dinner the minister and doctor
both drop in and are urged to
stay to dinner. All are enjoy
ing themselves when Evan
Brower makes a surprise visit.
He is unwelcome by all, but
Marjorie agrees to have lunch
with him the next day.
"Oh, no!" laughed Marjorie
firmly, "I'm not going back yet.
I haven't finished my visit. But
I'll be ready at eleven if you like.
Thank you again for the orchids.
So nice of you to think of me.
Oh—" as he swung the door
smartly open, "it's snowing again,
isn't it? i How lovely! Christmas
always has twice the thrill when
it snows sometime during the
day! Well, good night. I'll be
ready at eleven."
So they started in to sing again
discovering a lot of sweet old
Christmas songs they all knew.
A little after eight Gideon rose.
"Friends, I've got to tear myself
away," he said. "I have a service
at nine. I came here originally
to get recruits for it, but I haven't
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the heart to tear you apart on
Christmas night. Though it would
be great to have that last song re
peated, and if the doctor would
come too he and Ted and I could
do the trio!"
"He wasn't going 'to ask us! No, |
he hasn't the heart to tear us:
away! And yet he's fixed it all up i
for us to be on the program!",
laughed the doctor. "But, friend, j
you're going to have the surprise
of your life. We're going, of
course, aren't we, Betty?"
"Oh!" said Betty both eager
ness and withdrawal fighting for
the mastery in her eyes.
Marjorie passed her brother as
he was coming down the stairs, a
kind of triumph in his tread. j
"Is Betty going?" she whisper
ed as she passed.
"I don't dare ask," he grinned
Back. "Leave it to Doc. Perhaps
he can work the trick!" ,
But Betty was flying as fast as
any of them to get ready. Here
was a chance to go out with a
good-looking young man and
wear her new fur coat and her
new gray hat, and B£tty was not
the one to turn that down, even
if it was just a religious service
in a little old despised common
chapel!
By common consent the doctor
went with Betty.
It was a beautiful service.
There was much singing and
prayer, wonderful, tender prayer
from both minister and people.
There was a heart-searching talk
from Gideon Reaver pressing
home the fact to each soul pres
ent that the Lord Jesus was born
and suffered and died just for
him.
And then after another tender
brief prayer Gideon called for his
quartette .and Ted calmly arose
and led the way to the front.
Marjorie as she walked behind
him marveled at his coolness, his
reverent attitude, as if he were a
young priest going to perform his
duty at the altar. She found her
self a little nervous about Betty.
But Betty came, and her alto
was deep and sweet.
Then they went home with the
memory of the little chapel in its
gala greenery, and the sweet
songs, the tender looks on faces,
the Christian testimonies with
which the meeting had closed, all
a holy beautiful ending to a day
that had been wonderful from
start to finish.
Marjorie lay awake for a long
time and thought it over, step by
step, thrilling anew at the mem
ory. There was just one part she
forgot to review, and that was
the interlude in which Evan
Brower figured.
And none the least among her
memories was that of Gideon
Reaver.
Betty lay beside her, eyes star
ing wide ahead at the blank wall
of the room in the darkness. Bet
ty was thinking of the look on
the doctor's face when he had
said, "Something real about this
place!" Wondering about the
doctor, thinking of all the fun he
had made for them during the
afternoon and evening. Contrast
ing it with a few experiences in
her meager past that she had
called "good times."
The next morning Marjorie be
came aware of something strain
ed in the atmosphere that hadn't
been there the day before.
Finally she said to Betty, "Have
I done something wrong?"
"Oh, mercy no!" said Betty
sharply. "It's just seeing that
high-and-mighty friend of yours,
I suppose. Have you known him
long?"
"You mean Evan Brower? Oh,
yes, I've known him practically
all my life."
"He means to take you home
with him," said Betty. "Excuse
me for listening. You'll go, too.
I can see that! And if you do
it'll be goodbye sister, all right!
Are you engaged?"
"Mercy no!" said Marjorie.
"Where did you get that idea?"
"Out of his masterful manner.
If you aren't*, you probably will
be by the time lunch is over. You
ought to have toM us about him
before you let us all get to caring
about you. It wasn't fair, after
all thepe years without you."
"Betty!" Marjorie whirled
about toward her sister.
"What In the name of peace is
the matter with you, Betty?"
Marjorie said, half ready to cry,
"there wasn't anything to tell.
He's just a friend of the family
and there's nothing at all be
tween us. I'm not engaged to
anybody, and don't mean to be
for some time if I ever am."
"Oh, yes?" said Betty again in
credulously. "Well, wait till you
come back—if you come back!"
Suddenly Marjorie rushed at
her sister, half laughing, half
crying, and gave her a loving
shaking.
"There!" she said breathlessly.
"Stop this! I'm not going away
with him. I wouldn't think of
such a thing."
Then a taxi drew up and she
was gone.
Down in the city Marjorie had
troubles of her own. It was Evan
Brower's idea of a good time to
make Marjorie suffer plenty for
having gone off without leaving
him her address.
So Marjorie was seated at a
sumptuously appointed table in
one of the most exclusive hotels
in the city, with a stern compan
ion who lectured her as if she
were a naughty little girl.
At last she looked up and
smiled.
"Now, Evan, don't you think
we'd better talk about you
awhile?" she suggested. "And
how in the world did you get
away from your family Christ
mas party? I'm afraid you hu.-t
your mother's feelings terribly."
That was an unfortunate
thought. She saw it at once.
Evan stiffened immediately.
"I came away. I had to. I
felt that you needed my protec
tion and I had something to say
to you."
He put his hand in his pocket
and pulled out a tiny velvet case,
of the color of violets. She look
ed at it and anxiety entered her
soul.
"Open it!" he said, "I want to
watch your face when you see it."
There seemed nothing to do but
take it and open it. She held the
little box gently in her hand as if
it were a living thing that she
might hurt, and hesitated, look
ing at him, and trying to think
what to do. Then she touched
the pearl spring and disclosed
the wonderful blue diamond set
in a delicate frostwork of plat
i inum.
For an instant she caught her
breath at its beauty, for it was a
charming ring. Then suddenly
the trouble in her eyes grew def
inite and she shut the cover down j
sharply with a snap.
"Oh, Evan! Please! You ought
not to have done this! Not now
anyway! I told you I could not I
think of such things now. Please! |
I'm sorry, but I couldn't take
that!"
"Please!" she insisted. "I could
not take a thing like this until I
was sure!"
His face was haughty and
frozen.
"And why aren't you sure?" he
asked. "It's been nearly ten days
i since I asked you to marry me.
You've had plenty of time to
think it over."
"No," she said firmly, "I
haven't. I've had other things to
think about and settle. They had
to come first before anything."
"Well, haven't you got them all
settled?"
A gleam of something like joy
| flitted across her face, but she
ishook her head.
"Not all, yet."
"How long will it take?" There
was a trace of anger in his voice.
"I'm not sure, but when I come
ihome I can talk with you about
jit. I shall know then what I am
going to do."
I She laid the box down definite
ly on the table between them,
and sat back with finality.
1 "But I love you, Marjorie!"
) She studied him rather hope
jlessly for a minute and then she
! said:
"If you truly love me won't
you prove it to me by putting
that ring back in your pocket and
just sitting there and talking to
me in a pleasant natural way as
you always have done, without
any perplexing questions or any
thing? Just let's talk!"
He looked at her keenly for a
minute and then he said quietly,
with an inscrutable mask on his
face:
i "Very well. What shall I talk
about?" She knew by his tone
that he was angry but she could
not help it.
"Oh anything! Suppose I ask
you a question. It's something
I've been wondering. Kvan, you
were brought up a good deal as I
was, you're in the same church,
and active in it. What do you
believe about being saved?"
He looked at her as if she had
suddenly gone crazy.
"Saved?" he said. "What in
the world do you mean?"
"Why saved from your sing. Pit
to go to heaven, you know, when
you die."
His face softened attd he spoke
to her as if she were a sick per
son, or a very young child.
"My dear! I am afraid the
long strain of nursing Mrs. Weth
erill, and then seeing her die, has
been too much for your nerves."
"Oh, no," said Marjorie look
ing up brightly, "you don't under
stand me. I'm not in the least
morbid. In a way I'm happier
than I ever was in my life before,
because I've found that I have a
Savior from sin."
He studied her face with vexed
unresponsive eyes a moment and
then he said coldly:
"So, that's the line of your new
family is it? They are fanatics!"
She sprang up as if he had
struck her, and her eyes grew
suddenly alien.
"No, Evan, you are mistaken!
My family are not fanatics. But
I heard this in a sermon, and
then I x-ead it in the Bible. It is
there quite plainly if you will
hunt for it."
She was speaking almost
j haughtily, as if he were a
stranger. Then she glanced down
|at her watch. "And now if you
will excuse me I will take a taxi
back home."
She flashed a distant little
smile at him and walked out of
the dining room.
He followed her, of course, in
stantly, his face haughty and in
dignant. but he summoned a taxi
and put her in."
"You are very headstrong!" he
said as he gave her hand a cold
hard grip. "I didn't dream you
had it in you to be so hard. When
are you planning to return?"
"I'm not hard, Evan, really.
Only you've said some things that
were rather difficult to bear. But
we'll talk about that when I get
home. I shall probably come a
few days after New Year's."
He watched her gravely as the
taxi took her away into the light
falling snow, his own face stern,
reproachful.
There was an alert strained
something in the atmosphere
when Marjorie got back to her
father's house that melted at
once under her smiles and her
obvious gladness to be with them
once more.
"Didn't we have a good time
yesterday?'* Marjorie said to
Betty, thinking aloud.
"We all did. but I can't see
where the good time came in for
you." said Betty sourly.
j "Oh, my dear!" said Marjorie
( twinkling. "I had the best time
of my life seeing you all open
your things."
That evening after the children
were put to bed they all gathered
in the little parlor again, with the
soft lights of the Christmas tree
glowing, and talked.
"Marjorie," said her father,
"your mother and I have been
talking things over and we feel
there is grave danger, in our love
for you, and our longing to have
you with us, that we shall be un
fair to you. Since seeing the
young man who called upon you
last evening we realize more than
ever that there are others whom
ybu have known far longer than
you have known us, who perhaps
have a prior claim upon you."
(Continued Next Week)
Signs of Death
Anaxagoras, the Greek philoso
pher, who lived approximately
500 years before Christ, is re
sponsible for the custom of clos
ing places of business or giving
holidays to individuals when
death takes a prominent person.
He was a school teacher, and
knew full well that his end was
inevitable. The morning that he
passed into the next country, an
old friend approached his couch
and asked what he wished. Old
in years, but mentally youthful,
and knowing school boys inti
j mately, he remarked, "When I
| am dead give all the school chil
j dren a holiday." His wish was
| observed and has come on down
; through the ages. ' But death
I never takes a holiday.
Despite the fact that men real
; ize that sooner or later they must
cease to live, it is remarkable
how many believe that there ex
| ists a possibility of not being
I dead, even after pronounced so by
i a physician. I have had numerous
lequests from all classes of peo
ple asking for the definite signs
of death.
Let me say that the most def
inite indication of death is the
j total absence of the respiratory
[murmur and the lack of cardiac
ipulsation. I know that in some
instances a few individuals have
passed into a coma, a trance or
have experienced suspended ani
mation, which to a certain extent
simulate death, but I have never
known any competent or experi
enced doctor to mistake such a
condition for death.
However, for the benefit of
those who desire definite signs
which they may interpret, let me
say that if a string is tied firm
ly about the finger, the end will
become red or purple in color if
life is not extinct. If one looks
through the fingers held closely
together, with a bright light on
the other side and they do not
appear reddish, but opaque, death
lis sure.
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