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1988
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FREEZE OUT
Birchwood Island
WAB
even so,
exclusive. That would only excite further horror. Les knew his parents and he knew Only the very best families had their
owners. He knew, summer homes there. There were 20 the other island
a also, he'd have to go slow and easy in cottage owners in all. All 20 had verbal agreement that if any
one promoting his scheme. For a fort- decided to sell, the buyer would first night he studied Miss Prentice through his binoculars and from various con- It be approved by the other. 19.
cealed vantage points close by. It was a fine agreement, so long as was, of course, a silly notion to think
one wanted to sell. But when the he had fallen in love, but, Sidney Lanes were called to Califor- stranger things happened. nia and Sidney had to have some
At midnight of the first day of the
the highest third
Merritones were week, quick money, he sold to the bidder, and the devil with the other awakened by an ear-splitting scream. It came from the A feminine scream.
his Lee Prentice cottage. Les Merritone
downstairs when already was father and mother appeared.
Lights were moving along the road toward the Prentice camp from the Other islanders, heard opposite direction.
the Lea thought, had also screaming and were coming to inves- tigate.
owners.
owner.
*
The remaining 19 rosidents were, of course, indignant, but there was noth- ing they could do about it. They awaited with poorly concealed curios- Ity and anxiety, the arrival of the new
No one saw
him move in, but one morning the Raymond Mer- ritones were awakened by the raucu-. ous notes of a man yelling at a horse,
As Les drew near, the screaming The horse was drawing a plow. plow was turning sod in the open field stopped. A light went on in the liv ing-room. He bounded-up the steps behind the cottage formerly owned by and pounded on the porch. Sidney Lane:
"Open up! Open up! Merritone, your neighbour."
The
The Raymond Merritones were hor- rified. So
island were the other owners when they heard about it. A garden! A common, ordinary veget- able garden on Birchwood Island. So beastly vulgar.
It's Les
The door opened... Lee Prentice stood there in housecoat and high- heeled slippers. She looked even more beautiful than Les had imagined. His heart thumped.
"Some one tried to break in!" she No one had as yet seen the new explained, hysterically, "I heard him owner, whose name they understood outside. I called. A skulking figure side of the was Lee Prentice. They saw him went around the north
By Meredith Scholl
:
The
flannel house," three days later, wearing a shirt, jeans and an old straw hat, People were crowding into the camp. actually working in his own garden. More arrived by the minute. Disgraceful. The owners held a meet- room became jammed. Everyone star- ing and unanimously decided to free ed at Lee Prentice and asked excited the newcomer out.
questions. After awhile, three of the men, headed by Les, made a search of Secretly, Les Merritone, son and the grounds. Nothing was discovered. the camp, heir of the Merritone millions, was The party returned to delighted with the spectacle of a man where a consultation was being held. working in a garden. Les shared. It was decided that two of the men, the none of the aristocratic ideas about. Les one of them, would bunk on class distinction. It seemed to him veranda the remainder of the night, în that Lee Prentice, working in his case the marauder returned. garden, gave Birchwood Island a sort Les didn't sleep much, but he pre- of human atmosphere that it had tended to be asleep when, at dawn. heretofore lacked.
Burt Towne, the other man, groaned, An picked up his things and left.
•
Lee wasn't bold enough to present hour later Lee Prentice came to the himself openly to the newcomer, door and invited him in to breakfast. thereby unnecessarily exciting the He had a hard time when it came wrath of his parents. Not yet a while to explaining. anyway, Instead, from “his bedroom.
tractive.
window, he studied. Mr. Prentice "The fact is," he began, "all those through a pair of binoculars. And he people who came over last night were made a startling discovery. Lee Pren- glad of the chance to see what you tice was not male, but female. More looked like. They were more fed up over, she was a young female. And with the freezing out business than admit I suspected still more to the point, decidedly at they cared to
Ι that's the way they felt because wanted to meet you pretty badly, Lee slowly lowered his binoculars. which is why I prowled around last This, he thought, would never, never night and made a lot of noise. It was do. Snubbing an attractive girl like the only plan I could think of." * that. Thoughfully, he scratched his Lee Prentice poured him. a fresh of his cup of coffee and smiled, “Fortun- ately I'm a writer with a couple of best sellèrs to my credit, which "will But if Lee hoped that the attitude probably justify, my being here with of his parents and the others would your esteemed parents and the others, #often toward Miss Lee Prentice, he now that we have, all mot. I was was sadly disappointed. Smugly, the getting a little fed up, too. And and islanders assured themselves that no well, I guess I wanted to meet you. man, not even one who worked in a That's why I didn't scream till you garden, would last long without the had time to get home, so it would all friendly companionship of neighbours. look genuine way
chin, his head and
nook
Les: wondered too. He decided not to (Copyright 1988, By The Associat break the news that Lee was a girl. ed Newspapers).
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