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Throughout that afternoon adult members of the Atwater family connection made futile efforts to secure all the copies of the week's edition of The North End Daily Oriole It could not be done

It was a trying time for "the family" Great Aunt Carrie said that she had the "worst afternoon of any of 'e Newland Sanders came to her house at two and did not leave until five; all the ti over, one by one, the hours he'd spent with Julia since she was seventeen and turned out, unfortunately, to be a Beauty Newland had not restrained hi before he left she wished Julia had never been born--and as for Herbert Illingsworth Atwater, Junior, the only thing to do with him was to send him to some strict Military School

Florence's father telephoned to her e Plum and the ardent vocalist, Clairdyce, had just left his office They had not called in company, however, but coincidentally; and each had a copy of The North End Daily Oriole, already so Mr Clairdyce's condition was one of desperate calitation left hione forth with his hair just as he had rumpled it, and with his hat in his hand They wished the truth, they said: Was it true or was it not true? Mr Atwater had told theh he knew nothing of her fiancé's previous es, or of the number of his children They had responded that they cared nothing about that This man Crum's record was a matter of indifference to them, they said All they wanted to knohether Julia was engaged or not--and she was!

"The odd thing to me," Mr Atwater continued to his wife, "is where on earth Herbert could have got his story about this Cru a er, and divorced, and with all those children Do you know if Julia's written any of the fas and they haven't told the rest of us?"

"No," said Mrs Atwater "I'm sure she hasn't Every letter she's written to any of us has passed all through the family, and I know I've seen every one of 'e about hiine where Herbert got his awful inforht he was the kind of boy to just s out of whole cloth"