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Everett Graham, aNew York bro
ker. and a widower of 41 meets and
marries sandra Courtney. a sirl liv
ing in a togn where he _had a branch
office. Sandra was 18. with all a
girl’a desires and dreams.
Sandra's 'father was pleased that
she was to make so good a match.
but her mother felt anxious, worried
for fear, the disparity in ages would
not work for Sandra); happiness. '
Sandra'a friends plauged her un-
mercifully calling Graham "Grand-
pa," .and telling her she would have
to playnurse to him when he was
all doubled up with age and rheuma-
tlsm’ Rose Grandon, Sandra’s most
intimate friend was particularly dis-
gusted because Sandra thought of
marrying a man as old as her father.
But he was rich, generous, and his
very dignity that frightened Rose,
added to his attractiveness in San-
dra's eyes.
Sa.ndra's brothers also made hex
courtship srather trying one until
Graham won them over by gifts.
Ona of them, Toodles; said, when
Sandra told of her marriage: “So
you aregoing to play second fiddle,”
expressing what her young friends
all felt, and what she herself hated
to think of. She says in telling her
story: "I have a notion that a young
untried _girl is a good deal like a
book with its leaves still uncut. A
man takes har withathrill of pos-
session; but just what is in her he
does not know. It may be she will
be interesting. and -- able to ‘hold
HIS interest once it is aroused. Or
it may be that eavh page as rt is
perused grows harder to read, his
thoughts -wander, and will not con-
centrate because of lack of action, oz
hccnusc of :I sanyeress in the story
which -bores lim. Women, vefy
young women especially are so :mx-
ious to ‘be everything all at once thai
they leave no page unturned, nath-
ing fresh _ and new to stir a man‘s
jaded appetite!
Sandra goes to hernew home with
all the enthusiasms of girlhood, only
to almost immediately become jeal-
ous of the wife who was number one.
while she was number two. Gra-
hsmfs friends never tired of telling
her how lovely his first wife was,
and she also had to constantly gaze
upon her picture hung in a promi-
nent place in the home. He also
bought her sapphires, and sapphire
colored gowns which she adored un-
til she was told he did the same .for
his first wife, whom everyone said
the resembled. ' .
Graham, o. cold undemonstratlve
man was unfitted to marry the girl
who longed constantly for the ex-
pression of love. We wanted Sandra
to be dignified, he hated tears, and
Sandra was inclined to weep when
unhappy. Irma Barton, an old friend
of Graham's is introduced. Sandra
has many sad hours over what she
thinks is it love affair between Irma
and Graham. Also Sandra meets
Halliday. a friend of Graham’s, a
man about town. Through this ac-
acquaintance she also finds herself in
unpleasant situations.
Instead :il the home she has pic-
tured. all rose and bright colors she
_has the old home and the furnish-
ings used by the first wife. While
everything was good, solid and sub-
stantial, it was not dainty, not
"girly.”
Graham affects clubs, etc. While
he is out Sandra finds pictures, let-
ters. etc., from Leola. his first wife.
All these to her mean that he still
loves the other woman more than
he does her, a nd she agonizes ac-
cordinglyl For she has learned to
lovehlm in spite of his careless
treatment of her. _______ __
As time rolls on her troubles be-
come more poignantiy real. Sho auf-
fers, und endures until she is driven
almost to desperation because of his
lack of understanding her nature;
his absorption in self. and his own
affairs. In thc end however Sandra
finds that even being wife number
two has its compensutions. that she
possesses 1 love that is deeper, stron-
ger than that he had given the first
wife of whom she is no longer jeal-
lous.
SANDRA MEETS
EVERETT GRAHAM
“ (JHAPTER I.
I always had thought it a terrible
thing for a girl not to be the first in
a man'g affections. To be a second
Wife seemed like having a warmed
over dinner, only it was affection in-
stead of food that was wnrnzezl over
and served i n a tempting form,-so
tempting often that t he camouflage
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innocence,
ity. .
Everett was just forty one
had been a widower two years.
That age and youth-even age as
forty-oneiwere intoler-
ant of each other I had no slightest
idea. .lt _was one of the many things
lenrn by experience; that
crabbed teacher, who everlastingly
insists they will not mix no matter
typified by
I was to
how we try to amalgamate them.
Everett seemd crazy about me the
very first time we met. At least I
g It was at a lawn tennis
game. He was in__our town on busi-
that enough and probably too much
ness, and had been invited to thc
party, because he was friendly with
Lulu Carroll’s father. It was Lulu‘s
thou ht so.
Daffy.
I recall
nothing to
rol| introduced us.
He had a branch office in Lake-
ville,-the town where I lived- and
he remained nearly a week. In that
time he -:onstantly seemed to seek
me; and as constantly found me will-
He
ing to spend my time with him. -
such a
enter my
was nearly as old as father, and
n
attentions
money.
He sent me flowers and books.
found that I was an omni-
vorous reader, he ordered me sever-
latest booksfrom a larger
town near by. Then he never ap-
peared where I was without a box
When he
al of the
of bonbons. telling me laughinglyzi
“All young girls like candy."
declaring "You are so sweet I have
no fear of making you sweeter; that
is impossible."
is it any wonder that Iwas at-
him? l~ never had been
accustomed to such attentions. The
blundering villagc boys were bash-
ful, and even when they tried to be
nice were sure to be clumsy. While
Everett was so graceful in all that
tra c ted to
he did.
I felt loucly when he left, but he
to send me books, and
candy occasionally. Often accompan-
ied by a short note. Just a few
words that anyone might read, but
keep up my interest in
continued
enough to
him .
Everett
be terribly unsatlsfying.
` ln few weeks Everett came to
Lackoville again. He only remained
a few days. but again he sought me.
And again Iwas flattered that bel
should single, me, a young girl, out
b
for his attentions
Long afterwards I teamed that fa-
ther had
would not
could.
My mother was n quiet little home
body who rather disliked the idea of
a widower calling. and giving me
things. But I laughed away hor
fears when .she talked of Everett.
and declared .nothing would .make
me be a man's second wife.
I _wonder why we so often do the
things we declare we will not.
SANDRA IS CHIDBD
BY HER FRIENDS
CHAPTER ll. '
Even ag
would make y
felt I was not quite truthful
ml
might - sometime, after I was older,
-if he asked me.
The town boys and girls leased me
about Everett. Some
of them dubbed him "granpa" and
made fun because he was as old a
I1!
unmercffully
my father
four years
summer l_met vereit But l didn’t
mind their rhafflng-very much His
was so nice to me I hardly think
any girl would.
"You are ai jealous," I told Rose
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Grandon. the prettiest girl in town.
"indeed i’m not, honest Sandra.
l‘d`rnther arrya man without a
penny and as ugly as could be to
l
look at if I
perfectly how I was dress-
ed that afternoon. A simple tennis
costume of white skirt a nd shirt
waist. white sport shoes, and a soft
white felt hat. Everything girlish-
ly simple and inexpensive. Surely
attract a. man so exqui-
site in his taste, so critical of femi-
nine attire as was ‘Everett Graham.
a New York broker. Yet his eyes _
scarcely left my face after Mrs. Cnr-
rhing as marriage did not
find. I was simply fiat-
tered that he singled me out for his
because he was handsome,
had exquisite manners, and so much
was a widower, So any'
girl or .woman who married him
would naturally get a. warmed over
affection which'I then thought must
een rather pleased that
Everett seemed to like me, and t hat
in a mild -way he had encouraged
him; Not that he ever said anything
much to him: but he let him see
that he was welcome when hc came
to the house. knew nothing of it,
but father had some sort oi heart
trouble. He also had made some un-
fortunate investments, so that he
have very much to leave
if it were divided between mother.
the two boys. and me. He was anx-
ious about me because 1 was a girl.
l suppose he figured the boys, could
shift for themselves better than` I
I declared that nothing
me marr Everett, I
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Dad was a little older.
e was forty five the
oved him, and he loved
n ag old as Mr. Gra-
necessarlly, but some girl’s._ ‘was very dark Hubufll. dee!! ""d'S0\d
Everett Graham was tall, dark _ in some lights, I often used to _wish
and very handsome, in an aristocra- that whatever D|Sm_9l\t had Bell
tic way. 1-Ie was an accomplished used--they say thats .what causes
man of the world. That he was also
blase I had no way of knowing, _or been used quite so lavishly. People
that he had been called fickle. Ha could see my hair before they saw
‘ dressed in perfct taste, and' was me. So Rose SMU- Ihlil U19 b\‘0Wf\'
well-groomed. Rose said he looked ish eyes,_and the light skin that usu-
always as if he just that minute lcft ally goes with such hair. And I also
11| yaleyg h,md5_ had-freckles. I had tried to get rid
s
I remember that_ Iwas a. littlc
cross at Rose when she teased me l was ten, but although I had tnkcn off
when Everett visited puckvnie the ine skin many limes. the freckles
second time. I thought him vcryipresisted. They WGN! lighter in
wise, very generous, very kind. And color now, and smaller. Mother said
much more charming in his manners tliut when I was older they wou d
than the boys with whom I 'had probably disappear altogether. Bu
romped and danced for years. _ -
When he left the second time I‘ two brothers made fun of me for_
someway felt like crying, - but I trying to S9-K fill Of I-llelli B0 Ula*
_ _ 43 I forced back the tears. I look horrib- finally I stopped. But I commenced
  ly unattractive when I cry. My face again that spring I met Everett- _ __ _`<. ;-
ds et so red. but with no success. ~ '  _ _ -_--__
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1 poked alittle when 1 Said good Sometimes luscll to think that  _______, Q ,_ _  ._  _._f_.__~ __;/,_.u_
If th ft h had one the next
ful box of roses. He bade mother
and father good bye nicely too, and
said he should be in town soon
again. That his business there
would require his attention.
I was awfully lonely after he left
And for u day or two I "moaned"
last friend": so Rose said. But Rose
never had been admired' by a man
_like Everett, so I forgave her. We
|had been chums all our lives so she
felt privileged to say what she _liked
to me. 1 wouldn't have stood it Toodles and Buster. I didn’t wonrlcr`
from anyone else. , _
Mother was glad when Everett
went away, and said so. But father
rebuked her, and remarked:
“He is a good substantial man.”
cl 1 r than San
“But he is mu 1 o de ~ - ~
dra. I am afraid she will become in- “ll the Mme- Whe" they were g0_0Ill
terested in him. And such marriages
never turn (gui, happily, I want ‘my Wag f0lII‘i€Gl1, illld B\IEIi8i‘ was I.W&lVi2,i
girl to be happy, dear. As you and
I have been." .
They dirln‘t know I was where I
could hear them talking. _ It
once more made me _think of Everett
in the light ofa husband.
I wanted to be happy too! But
wouldn't it be nice to be married to
a man who was rich and generous.
and so good-looking? _ He would bc
so kind to his wife she couldn’t help-
but be happy., Of course she wouldn't
be crazy in love with him like the
young people were in books I had
read, or like Rose seemed to think was
necessary. But one would be ter-
ribly proud of him, and love him
enough
Everett was dignified. More so
than dad who was always joking
and teasing either me or the boys.
But even his dignity added to his
attractions in my eyes - then. I
set him apart, made him different.
"Give me one of the boys every
time." Rose declared when we talked
of him. "Honest Sandra Idon't
believe he'd let his wife peep lf he
didn’t feel in the mood. I am sure
she Wouldn't be allowed to say her
sou] was her own."
“You are jealous. tha/t’s the reason
you say such things," I replied In
my most superior manner.
MAYTIME-AND THE _WHOLE _
WORLD THROBBING WITH LIFE
CHAPTER inf
It was in May thatl first mct
'Everett Graham. - For several days
it had been unusually warm. ` The
leaves on the trees and shrubs had
stolen silently from their winter hid-
ing places. and were bursting bril-
linntly green on thcir stalks and
branches. It seemed to me that tue
whole world was-throbbing with lifc,
was more keenly alive than ever it
had been before. _
Iwas just a girl that wonderful
Maytime, with just a girl‘s visions,
hor ideas, and ideals. The books I
had rcud were mostly light novels.
and nomanccs which exaggerated
those ideas without doing mc any
particular good or harm. Yet in at
wayl realized that they helped nie
to overcome the difference in our
ages. Many ofthe heroines of the
novels I had read had married men
much older than they, and had been
happy ever aftcr-according to -the
narrator.
I had always liked my name: Sun-
dra. Roso said it sounded as lf- I
was a writer and had taken .it 'as
my nom de plume. Rose often said
such queer things, although she was
a perfect dear. But after she said
that I liked my name better than evcr--
Sandra Courtney. When I said it
aloud, I was pleased with the sound
and glad I hadn‘t been named Mary
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holes in nll .kinds of pots .and _ ‘z
pans, granltewnre, tim". src, alu-
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different colors in hair--had not
of them in every possible way BIIICG
they were a great trial to me My
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Everett ‘She‘s done it before and
without freckles. Girls is silly any
way. Freckles don’t hurt."
Buster, my other brother, his
right name was Charles. _ wasn't quite
so bad, yet he also often said fright-
fully embarrassing things. llosc
about looking as if “I had lost my Grandon l\adn’t lilly bl”0iil0l‘S. will
once l was so exasperated I told hcr
she ought to be thankful `slie hu\1n't.
I used to urge mother to punish
them, but shc said all boys who had
young lady sisters were just like
somctinies when thcy had been
worse th.=\;\ usual that boys were
said to be made of “scissors and
snails and puppy dogs tails" or somo-
fhing equally horrid.
Of coursr- they weren't like that
I was really fond of them, Tood es
I guess those are rather‘bad ages
for boys. “Neither hay or grass"
futher had said once when I begged
him to make them behave.
Everett seemed to like them, and
was quite nice to them so they didn’t
play any more tricks, or tell tales
about me while he stayed. When hc
got back to New York he sent Tood
les at fishing rod and tackle, and Bus-
ter a big push wagon for which he
had cxpressed a wish-expressed it
loudly. But it made things very com-
fortable for me' lliecausc if the boys
commenced to act badly I threatened
in tell Mr. Graham.
EVERETT SURPRISES SANDRA
WITH A LETTER
CHAPTER 1V.
ing after Everett left. I felt almost
as if I were all alone, although ul] the
town boys and girls were around as
usual. But someway Everett had a
way of making you know he was
there. I rlun‘t know how else to ex-
press it. But Rose and some of the
others made no secret of their joy
that hc had gone.
“So 'granpa’ has dually taken
himself out of the way, has hc?"
Rose asked. “Now perhaps we can
have some fun.”
I never said much when they teas-
ed me, and called Everett "Grand-
pa," but it mndc me uncomfortable,
and I alwaygilushed terribly. ' When
Everet't's first letter camo, uhout
thrce days nftcr he icft, »l was so
pleased that I didn’t mind their toas-
ing me one single bit.
He had said nothing about writing
to me, so I was awfully surprised.
lt was just a short letter, such a one
as any friend might have written
mc. There wnsn't a word about car-
ing for mc in it. But just at the
last he said:
“l have _misss-d my little friend
more than I ever thought if possible
to miss anyone." It was silly. but I
kissed the paper right on those lines.
Thcn I chaired it In thc bosom of
my dress for 'days-just like the
girls in the novcls did. But finally
l put it away in 'the bureau drawer
under my shlrtwalsts. The boys
never disturbed them, and the ict-
ter was getting \vorn out.
It took me one whole afternoon to
answer that letter. I must have
wasted nearly u box of paper before
it suited mc. Then it didn’t-not
perfectly.
I wrote about everyday things, the
people he knew, etc., just' as ho did.
untfi»-l- came to the very end of my
letter. Then I told him flint I had
missed him too. more than I cv:-r
had missed anyone before. I wasn't
very original, but I had spoiled so
many sheets of paper l didn’t ilarc
use any more. As it was I had to
burn up nil the spoiled sheets ami
the envelopes to match for fear the
boys would find them. it would have
been terrible if they had. I ncvor
should have heard the las; uf it.
If IS Blrdllse how things long past
come back to us. I recall ~distinctly
that ‘whenever Everett came to call
in that fir-'st short week I knew him.
that Iwas always a bit frightened
to go down to meet him,-he always
asked for me-for fear I did not
look nice enough, Even theni had
heard him express an opinion upon
the way some of the girls in our
town were dressed at the tennis par-
ty. and ii made me uncomfortable.
I Wvre sinmle wash dresses at home
but they were always freshly hum.
dered, and until he commenced com-
in! tothe house I neve ha thou ht
_ - r d g
of wearing anything different. Even
‘now I know there could not have
been anything Vf‘I’y wrong about my
ginghams for morning and dainty
muslins for nfternoon. Anyway Ever-
ett said 1 looked lovely in them; ` and
that mother was sensible to keep me
looking so young.
I don'~t know that I was very dif-
fel‘9Ilt from Other Qiflg (if my ago,
brought up as I had been. and if l
confess that I felt in some way mf.
ferent, set apart from the rest of the
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relief_froni _ the hcavywinter foods that clo the
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BiSCuif with berries and other fruits. 'liy this 
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food combination forafew days and
notice the return of mental bacyang' and_physical
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I was only eighteen when Everett ticed it, because he squeezed my loyed joy, I was sure of it thc day _ __-.r~ f__j<\"‘ ` Th) ;'_'u'__J__`:,_._\_ T; » f ___‘,_\\"-.»'__  __ _
Graham .asked me to marry him. hand, and his voice was almost like they told Everett lhlll I WHS Dllliillii E'  _{-f____,Q'__\\",£_» _-» _ ° \ . ___ '“*"`._| Jj{’.=_:'§;..
Eighteen-with all that it. in a small | a kiss, it was so tender. -That was on stuff tu gel rid 01 me f‘°““kl°S he' ° ' "~ 0 Q' fl 'J_ -§f ~~._ ~_%\ ` ' 9 f__,;_3'-`\ 1  4”! _3_)"_;.°\ __*_?
town girl, implies of ignorcmcc, ri' 1 the way I thought of I.; after he had cause he came to see me. _ - ‘ ,‘ '*;f~;_'y'__ ...Q .,__-__ '~ \®_\ _%_' §y_,)».;-_ ___(__;-7:.) -_-_ _ _. ' _- - _
and of lack of' adaptabil-| gone. - "Sandra 'S I’“m“’5 Stuff 0" “eff  _:___ ._ _......____ _ .___ _ ‘ ’ 'W' "' » 'f __ _  -'/ ')_'l_v_ _ff D 5*- ` .
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g t" en 8 er e g _ " th a 'mt' but sh i MADE IN CANADA
town florist delivered mea wonder it didnt work wor u._ i 0|
thinks you’ll think shes prettier'
Ile bought me a big box of candy face letuuee 0 YOU 0 I _'if _ -_ __- __ _ _ _ _ _ _
_and some magazines as a parting "Shi Hume was H“"`y conuded t' - -_  Y __"'
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letter I think most pcoplc will under-
stand. _
I attached a sentimental value. to
the few lines lic had written, that I
ncvcr should luivcdreamcd of put-
ting upon thc notes I had received
occasionally from the town boys.
This charming man from` a great
city where there were so many love-
ly girls had singled mc, Sandra
Courtney, out l`or his special atten-
tions.
ltwusalung limo bcforc he an
swereq my lcttcr. Nearly six
weeks. lint nshe sont me some
books and candy in thc interim I
did not foci that he- had forgotten
me. although l looked anxiously each
day for a reply; and once or twice l
locked myself in my room and shed
a few tears when father said there
was “no mail." ‘
Then came the morning when I
received Everett's second letter. I
had walked down with father, and
went with him to the Post Office. I
read it as I' walked -slowly home un-
der the blossoming trees, the sent
of early flowers in the air. He sort
Of HD0l0f§ized for not replying soon-
er. asked me to forgive him, and
said he would be more prompt in tho
future if I would. He also said hc
would be in Lnckvilie again before
fall, and signed himself: “Your
fond friend. Everett Graham.
EVERETT PROPOSES
(`IIAPTER V.
I was delighted at the way Everett
had ended his second letter. “Your
fond friend.‘ what could be nicer?
it was different, too. Most letters I
ever had either received or seen had
been closed with “Yours sincerely,"
or “Very truly” or some such stereo-
typed phrase. I showed the few
words at the close to Rose Grandon
because she was my chum. I was
sorry that I did. She said sho
thought it silly for amun as old as
Everett to writc to mc at all. I was
angry with her for the first time
since we were tiny girls. I wouldn't
speak to her for two days.
I wonder if any who read my story
will be interested in all these littic
insignificant things I am telling so
thatwhat, comes after may be pluinnr
to them? I envy thc real story
writer who understands the tech-
nique of telling at story so that it
will interest the public; yet perhaps
a true story like mine may help some
other girl to avoid my mistakes, and
so be saved the sorrow that came to
me because of them.
I always felt cross \vhcn Rose
called Evercit "old_" llcally after u
little I had nnt_ thought of him ns
old at all. Just as ilnc, and so won-
derfully wlsc. That fueling I now
_know was cnuscd more by his charm
of manncr when hc excrteri himself
to please than by anything hc said. I
Of course l couldn’t act with him
as I did with thc town boys. I
shouldn't have dared. No girl of
eighteen would hnvc taken any libcrl
ties with a man as dignillodus was
Everett Graham. Yct after all his
dignity was If source of pride to mc.
Now for unothcr few weeks wo
corresponded regularly. 'ilhcn thc
last of August he came to Lakcvillc-
agnin. This time for a two weeks
visit.
When he cams to thc housn lm did
not spend as much time talking fo
fnthcr as hc did on his former I vis-
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T0 be lloilcfll he had tb ask Very SP1- | stammercd. flushed and _ trembling.
dom. as I was usually wtltching for I rl-.member that there flashed through
him about the hour he called, and_ my mind 1,- wisp that he had made.
would walk to the gate to inect him. ‘ love to me before he said anything'
H6 lllllidiy l00kGd ai- alll'0ll0 but _ about marrying, like they did in the
me this visit; although several of the novels I had read. Then came the
shgs_ ;=1__ct_e¢i__anxious__tn__bs_wmh hun. other thought: that pei-i1a;_»_; _:_bar
an a o m-an t at nsp e o was the way men of hisaged . ay-
calling him "Grandpa" ‘be they didn’t talk much about love
Then one day he Came when I was until after they were married. Per-
over makin; up with Rose. On my_ naps they clam tlnnir It was digni-
return I found him talking very ear-_ fi.-d_ .
ll€Stiy With filtilef. So although I scarcely realized how'
“C0lll€ 11€l‘0 'Shlldl”ll." futher SI\id_ it could have happened so quickly,
very gently. his voice somewhat dif-_ when Evert-if left that afternoon I
ferent than I cver had heard It. “M12 ; \v:x_~: engagcri to him. llc must. have
Graham has asked my permission to been awfully sure of me I thought,
1ll_f\l'Py y0\l-If YOU CHIC Gllflugll for| because he had a wonderful solitaire
ll ln.” he added, as I made no reply. in his pocket. when 1 looked at it
I couldn’t! I was so astonished, so sparkling on my finger I knew that
flattered. a good dcal frightened, and it would make all the girls envious. `
u t_i_1_\y bit gl=:_d. ____ I But after I' went to bed that night
mf SOUH 0 21 will-l|?ll‘ IIHSII. l cried a little when I thought of
do_csn't‘ft.’ But that was thc way it that other wife. She had been first.
affected mc. |Toodles had grinned when he saw
“Can you care for me enough to my ring, and although he liked Ever-
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