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Rh got into High School! Not long ago Lucy told us of girls snubbing that kid; but I trust that, from this horror, our Branton Hills girls will turn from snubbing to pity. This account says that Madam Antor also was drunk. A woman drunk!! And riding with a rum-sot man at a car’s controls! Woman! From History’s dawn, Man’s soft, fond, loving pal! Woman! For whom wars of blood and agony cut Man down as you would mow a lawn! Woman! To whom infancy and childhood look for all that is upright and good! It’s too bad; too bad!”

As in all such affairs you will always find two factions talking. Talking about what? Just now, about Norman Antor. What would this wiping out of his folks do to him? Norman was now living with Mary and two aunts who, coming from out of town, would try to plan for our two orphans; try to plan for Norman; Norman, brought up in a pool of liquor! Norman: tall, dark and manly and with a most ingratiating dispositionif not drunk. But nobody could say. A group would claim that “this fatality will bring him out of it;” but his antagonists thought that “That guy will always drink.”

A day or two from that crash, Nancy, coming into Gadsby’s parlor, found Lucy talking with Lady Gadsby, Lucy asking:—