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A slender girl with a charnfing, eager face and rich|
estnut hair took her traveling case from a taxi driver!
d stood holding it until the rattle of the cab died down |
¢ quiet street. She thought, looking up at the big, wea-g
g-beaten old building in front of her, that it looked very |
eary, »lmost as though it were ready to give up. !
There was nothing ramiliar about it. Nothing even |
pnt'y resembling the house of which she had dreamed !
e she was a child. ”
ghe had asked the cab driver, puzzled, “You’re sure'!
iis the Cameron house? Mrs. Willard P. Cameron, |
u know ?”’ .
“Yes, miss.. I know the place well.” I
And so Dana Westbrook had climbed out. And now !
p stood staring up at ine old house supported by im-|
nse Corinthian colurmns that had once been white and'
w were only a dirty gray ?
Soberly, she picked up her light case and opened the!
iron gate, sagging dejectedly on dusty hinges. And§
en up the long, brick walk from which many bricks!
re conspicuously missing. . {
A moment later she puliea aown the ancient bronze|
. A hollow peal, which she knew must be resounding’
deously within, greeted her.
The door was opened. Very little at first, as though by |
autious hand. And then wider, permitting the face of}
old lady to peep through. She had gray hair, drawn/|
« neatly, and blue eyes that held a hint of surprise§
tnem.
Impetuously, Dana put down her traveling case. Theres
s 2 joyous note in her voice: “You’re Grandmother |
meron, -aren’t you?” !
‘Goodness me, no!” The old lady’s voice rose in pro-|
t. Then, “Why you must be Dana. Come in, my dear. |
id where is your grandmother? She went to meet you.” |
‘Tdon’t know, You see I hadn’t the faintest idea what |
rerandmother looked like. No one seemed to be look-i
for me, and so I got a cab and came out.” ;
'Yes, of course,” said the old lady, her eyes darting!
xously from Dana to the door. “I’'m afraid, though,
ir grandmother won’t like it. You see, in our famil,v'
alwavs meet trains. And it is rather a reflection on
that you should come home for the first time in!
enty-odd. years in a cab.” @ i
For the first time,” Dana corrected her, her eyes danc-‘
in amusement, ’ ]
Yes, ves. But you are so like your mother—" Suddenly '
placed her arms around the young girl, strained her |
se, and gave her a quick bird-like peck on each cheek.:
kses that were somehow not without warmth. :
You're Aunt Ellen!” Dana exclaimed. ‘I should havel
own, because you are exactly as my mother described
to me—only-- i
Only older.,” The shy blue eyes smiled understand-!
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Tt doesn’t matter if you're sweet,” Dana said quickly. |
Thank you, child. There, I hear your grandmother’si
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Jana heard it, too. It was evidently old, just as every-|
he else around. here was. The automobile was_mak
a oreat deal of noise as it came up the drive. ‘
ena’s heart wag suddenly beating much faster. Shel
ught of something her mother had said to her w.hlchg
had never forgotten. “Most people have been fright-|
B by vour grandmother, for she is rather a stern per-|
,Dana. But T was never really frightened nntil——untllz
last. Because I knew she loved me very much.” e
ana had puzzled over the words “until the last.” It
§not until she herself was almost grown that she had|
M what her mother meant. <
twas this knowledge and the realization that she was|
"about to face the stern old lady that caused the blood|
mount swiftly to Dana’s fact and her heart to beat!
dly. Tn that moment she wished unhappily that she
kept the ocean between herself and this queer old|
ne, 1
here were hard, firm steps outside. Her aunt rushed
the dle or. J |
2arah!” began a harsh voice.
Sarah’s busy. Tuesday’s wash day, you know, Aga
" Aunt Ellen said apologetically. “I opened the door
~for Dana—" Her voice broke in excitement. 5
ana had risen. She walked courageously toward the
‘cmer. none of her uncertainty and unhappiness
Wing in her eyes
e old lady who had entere¢ the big, gloomy room
almost white hair, aquiline features and darl\l;E'} i
t burned- in a thin face. She stared down at Dana
cely, terribly .
I'm very glad you've come,” she said; but made N 0
¢ forward, , L
The child has come a long way and is very tired,
It Ellen said in ; le, troubled tone
~ len said in a gentle, troublec < o
Yes, ves,™ smuttered the old lady. ‘She must want
20 to her 1‘001}1."
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andmother Cameron sank into a chalr, heavily, he
“ling eyes fixed on a familiar pattern of t}}el I“rjrilge.
- fald, without lifting her eyes, “You are “e~come
E We hope you will be happy. You must tx(cube-er,
Lvdccompanying you to your room, but I, too, am very
It isn't necessary,” Dana said through stiif lips. “H
e 01y tell me where to go.”
e, call Sarah.”
T sister flew to pull a long rope thal was conclefd“led
Nd the faded draperies between the hall and Iving
L >ne pulled it twice in her agitation. e
M old colored woman answered the summons, gF .
¢as she came: “Yes’'m, I’'m coming, Miss Ellen. Fas
tVer mv : ”
. T my laigs can ca’y me.
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% stopped at the sight of Dana. “Fo, de lawd, sh
Pered, her face graying. “Fo’ de lawd!
Tommorrow: Mrs. Cameron Plans for Dana to Meet Rich Donald Moore
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beaten old house. There was nothing familiar about it.
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“SQarah!” the harsh tones of Grandmother Cameron re- |
called her. “This is Miss Dana. You have prepared her !
room?”’ '
“Qh, yes’'m”. Knotted black hands released the apron
corner they had been clutching. Sarah lifted Dana’s trav-.
eling bag and stared up the stairs. E
The girl followed, conscious of pitying blue eyes and |
burning dark ones watching her as she went up the wide, |
walnut stair. ; i
The old colored woman led the way down a long hall!
on the upper floor. The walk seemed endless. And then,
suddenly, a door was flung wied.
Sarah whispered: “Go on in, honey chile. You're the |
spit’ image of yore pore young ma who slep’ in this room. |
It ain’t never been opened till today since the night she
run away with Marse Dana, lovin’ him so and misserble !
married to Marse John. I dunno what come over yore|
grandma, ’lowin’ it to be open for you. Mebbe she’s get- |
tin’ soft in her old age.” |
“Thank you, Sarah,” Dana said, a lump in her throat. |
The door closed. She could hear the old servant shuf-|
fling down the hall. 1
CHAPTER 11 .
Dana was fighting for self-control as she crossed to a
deep window and looked down at the scene below. The
gray day had turned darker, and now a light rain was
falling, adding to the dreary appearance of the garden
which stretched some distance away until it ran into an
old brick wall. |
That unkempt area, deep in tangled growth, had once
‘been a lovely garden. It was there Dana’s mother had
moved as a young and beautiful girl, loved and loving.
It was there she had carried her bitterness and hurt as
‘a desperately unhappy young wife after she had married
““for security” to please her mother. And it was through
‘the garden gate at the far end that she had fled two years
later, leaving a tiny baby in this very room.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
Dana’s father had, told her the whole story when she |
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“I couldn’t have you hear from anyone that your mother
was not a good woman, Dana, dear,” he had said. “She |
was all that was pure and lovely. We loved each otherl
so very much. We were young, and your mother was |
desperately unhappy. We felt there was nothing else to/
do. We were married as soon as John Wallace got the;
divorce, and a year later you came to bless our lives.”
h“What became of my sister?” Dana had questioned,z
then. i
He had answered gently. “Your mother felt the baby'
would be a comfort to your grandmother, who had closed |
her home against us. And so your mother lived for 12
vears—until she died, Dana—never hearing anything
from your little sister at home.” :
Dana thought now: “My grandmother didn’t seem glad |
to see me. Maybe she is cruel. Maybe this is her revenge,
bringing me back to live with unhappy memories.” {
She shook herself out of the somber mood and looked '
around her, g . Lo oty
The room was beautiful. The rose draperies about|
the canopied bed were only slightly faded. The furnish-;
ings were graceful Colonial pieces ‘of an exquisite satiny |
wood. Her mother’s desk, inlaid in a classical design, was
in one corner. The rug was thick and luxurious, of a!
beautiful medallion pattern. A few choice prints and |
dainty floral pictures were on the wall. |
Dana’s eyes fell on a miniature on the dressing table |
and she went over, lifting it and staring down at it with |
misty eyves. This slender, radiant girl, dressed in the
quaint style of another era, was her mother. i
“How lovely she was”, Dana whispered. Compassion |
flowed through her. How that stern old woman down- |
stairs must have suffered when her beautiful daughter
passed from her life forever. . }
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i The door opened and a slender girl with enormous,
'unsmiling eyes came in. Il came to offer the family
’felicitations,” she said. :
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lrebelliously, “if she can’t forgive me for being my fathe
| er's child and looking like my mother.” » =-+ « = .
| There was a knock at the door.
| ‘““Come in,” Dana said, replacing the miniature on the
dressing table.
.~ The door opened. A slender girl with enormous, un
smiling dark eyes came in. She had a dark, curly bob,
{and she wore a blue and white frock, cut with uncoms
| promising severity.
| “She looks all of one piece,” Dana thought. “A mighty
| sober piece.”
{ And then came realization. This was Nancy, her half
| sister.,
i “I came to offer the family felicitations,” the dark
ihaired girl said slowly. *“I gathered grandmother had
let you in for a rather rough time.”
I “Well,” Dana laughed a little shakily, ‘it was not ex
ractly what you’d call meeting me with a brass band.
| Won’t you sit down ?” -5 TR
| The two sat stiffly in chairs, staring at each other.
. “Too bad you had to come at all,” Nancy said. “This
'isn’t exactly a jolly house to live in. If I'd 'ever had a
'chance to live anywhere else—'" She stopped, as though
realizing she had been too free, too friendly. Her dark
'eyes, which had held a hint of sympathy before, weré
suddenly remote.” :
“There wasn’t any other place for me,” Dana said. I
had given my father a promise that I'd write my grand
' mother if anything ever happened to him. When he died
‘three years ago, I was at St. Cecile’s. I wrote grand
mother, but I did not know until after I was graduated
that she had been paying my tuition since then, and that
'she had sent money for me to come here when 1 was
through school.” ~
'\ “She probably put a second mortgage on something to
do it,” Nanecy said bluntly. When Dana flushed unhap
| pily, she added, *“Oh, don’t mind tha.t We're so used to
'them, an extra one couldn’t make any difference. Be
'gides, we live in the past—in the grandiose dreams of
| what ‘used to be. Past glory should satisfy anybedy
'with a drop of Cameron blood in their veins. We mustn’t
| forget that noble Scottish Camerons spilled their blood
lall over foreign battlefields and our great-grandfather was
'a dauntless southern leader. . ; P
“We mustn’t forget,” Nancy continued mockingly,
“that until 25 years ago Camerons controlled the banks
here in this southern city, dominated the county polities,
had held all the best pews in the churches, made the most
money and gambled it away more recklessly than any
other family in the whole countryside.” ;
“But this isn’t 25 years ago. And I intend to live in
the present,” Dana said. L
“Well said, noble and brave Scot. We'll see.” I&?fig
smiled cynically. “Maybe you won’t break under the iron
hand of your grandmother, but I have an idea you'll be 8
bit bent in the process. Unless you run away, as your
mother did.” S
Dana said, her voice trembling; “How can you talk so
lightly of my mother—your mother, too?”
“Yes,” the other girl answered slowly. “That’s what
I can’t forget, what I can’t forgive.” Sl
Dana said breathlessly, “What could you know of her
problems?”’ i
“If’s easy for you, who had her love, to understand.”
Naney’s lips curved in a scornful smile. “Remember, Dana,
I was the one who was left behind.”
As Dana did not speak, the other went on lightly: “Ne
hard feelings between us. After all, we're pretty much
in the same boat. Both fatherless and motherless. Both
penniless, because my father fell in with the famliy fail
ings and lost all his money too. And your father, from
what T have heard of him, never thought it important to
make any. So we both start from scratch here!”
She lifted a slim hand in a mock salute,- opened the
door and closed it behind her. : : iy
Dana shivered. Tears streamed down her cheeks, She
thought: “Nancy dislikes me. My grandmother really does
n’t want me. I shouldn’t have come.” W
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