“She stood beaming her delight of the flower-like group that had invaded her room.”
Marjorie Dean Macy’s
Hamilton Colony
CHAPTER I
“Something fine is going to happen, Bean.”
Jerry Macy leaned back in the roomy porchrocker, half-closed blue eyes squinting propheticallyup at the turquoise August sky. “Yes,sir; it is.”
“Several fine things ought to happen, but theyhaven’t.” Marjorie Dean Macy’s emphasisupon the “ought” was energetically wistful.
“Something celostrous is coming this way,”Jerry continued to maintain. “It’s in the air.”
“I wish it would hurry up, and come, then.Captain was to be home from the beach yesterday.She hasn’t happened. Leila owes me a letter.That hasn’t happened yet. I haven’theard from her for over a month, or fromVera, either. And there is Hamilton Arms,still boarded up and with no sign of Miss Susanna,4or Jonas. Where is everybody? That’swhat I’d like to know.”
“I’m with you yet, Mrs. Macy,” Jerry remindedpertinently. “And incidentally, youstill have a nice kind husband.” She beamedupon the lovely occupant of the porch swingwith pretended solicitude.
“Thank you for reminding me of my blessings.”Marjorie nodded laughing gratitude atJerry. “What do you