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THE PELHAM PNYX I9 plaining that the whole affair, including the proposal, was just an unavoid- able mistake. In the living-room Miss Susan sat down for a moment to catch her breath and as she did so, her eyes fell on the page of a book she had been reading. Far down the page, near the bottom, she noticed the words: One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. She thought for some minutes. Finally Miss Susan smiled strangely, bent down and patted Dobson gently, and then went slowly back to the kitchen to finish her ginger cookies. She had had her glorious hour and its memory would never leave her. s 4 UPPER sci-loot ' PN - An. a lk Seated Cleft to rightj-Joy Guinn, Elsie van Berkum, Julia Dilts, Margaret Tuck, June Wham, Gwendolyn Mitchell, Marion Mitchell, Victoria Ned. Standing-Eva Secord, Donald Metler, Edgar Ker, William Colcock, John Wiley, Gordon Beamer, Margaret Strawn. Absent-Paul Tokar, Paul Bender, Marion johnson.
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l8 THE PELHAM PNYX ONE GLORIOUS HOUR By June Whan, GRADE XIII THE sUN shone forth clear and bright upon the little white cottage nest- led among the maple trees at the turn to Lynechdoche. In the kitchen Miss Susan Smiley hummed gaily as she prepared to place in the oven a second batch of ginger cookies. And why should Miss Susan not be gay? Was she not chosen Queen of the Kitchen at the local county fair the day before, and had she not received word that very day that her two-day-old niece was to be her namesake? And so this worthy lady did not object even when Dob- son, her pedigreed Persian cat, snuggled down in the best armchair. But now manly footsteps were heard approaching as down the walk came none other than Samuel O. Lawrence, the town's most eminent lawyer and bachelor-probably coming to return the umbrella he had borrowed four years before. Miss Smiley hastily wiped her sticky hands on her apron and admitted to her spacious living-room the said Mr. Lawrence, who immediately settled himself on the horsehair sofa. The lady of the house was by this time thor- oughly curious about the purpose of his errand which, indeed was a twofold one, first, to reveal to Miss Susan the fact that she was to receive from her father's estate a considerable sum of money and then to suggest that she, soon to be wealthy as well as a good cook, should abandon her lonely life and become Mrs. Samuel O. Lawrence. Lest Miss Susan's decision should be in- fluenced by her newly-acquired wealth, the lawyer thought best to reverse the order and make the proposal first. After passing several irrelevant remarks concerning the weather, Samuel cleared his throat vigorously and began his proposal. Now Miss Susan had never in her whole life received a marriage offer and at her age, Cshe was fifty-one in she did not expect one. To be sure, Mr. Lawrence had on one or two occasions accompanied her home from a Box-social but for protection only. The sudden proposal of marriage, then, was almost overwhelming and all she could do was to blush furiously behind her hand and stanimer something about a week cr so to decide. Elated by at least partial success, the lawyer plunged into the second news item. Miss Smiley . . l mean, Susan, . . it is my very pleasant duty as jun- ior partner in the firm of Lawrence and Lawrence to announce that you have been left a small fortune from the estate of your father. Miss Susan was fairly overcome, she gasped, clutched wildly at the near- est chair, and finally sank breathless into a nearby rocker. It was too much! And then the wonder of it all struck her. It was a glorious hour for her, S0 glorious indeed, that she invited Samuel to stay for tea which he graciously consented to do. Of course there were several minor items to be settled-there always are -but in just a few months the spinster was to come into her own. In order that there should be no doubt whatever about the matter, the lawyer drew from his vest pocket several important looking documents and proceeded to read aloud to Susan. . . . from the estate of Elkanah R. Smiley to his eldest daughter . . But Miss Susan heard no more. It was her elder sister, then, who was to receive the money-her sister who had left home at the age of nineteen and had lived in poverty ever since-and Susan was glad, so glad. The lawyer, however, on learning of his error, decided rather suddenly that he had a pressing business engagement and departed in great haste, ex-
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