ephew she adopts as the most loved reature in her life, an indecent friendhip in more than one way, in her view. nd along with all this is related the rogress of the growing family of an der sister of Lilian Sayre, who con›les Lilian in her typical manner when er "sinful" acquiescence in the situation ecomes known:

"I've done the best I knew how to hide your shame ever since it happened, even from you, but these things can't be hidden. The Bible says that our most secret sins will one day be shouted from the tallest roof tops.. "Your sins,, Sister, would sound pretty silly shouted from the tallest roof tops. Can't you just hear the Lord yelling: 'Netta Jackson missed church last Sunday'!"

“Oh, Lilian, you make me mad, you ake me so mad!"

Finally in supreme sorrow it is not to er sister she turns but to the Negro oman who in his lifetime was her Isband's mistress and is the mother of s only child, when she loses her adopd and idolized nephew, and again when ara's boy is the subject of their last deal, their joint loss.

I felt lonesome and wanted to be with somebody. What a relief it was then to remember that I would have Clara to talk to in a little while. I could tell her the day's trouble and by telling her, it would shrink to a size I could deal with. Only this time the trouble was hers and not mine. Yet, being hers, it was mine.

It is not so easy here to find quotable passages. The author has gallantly submitted to the discipline of his commonplace narrator, who tells the story in a manner to win him the highest praise: ars est celare artem. A heroine by no sudden event or turn of chance, but through the contingencies of a common place life, dramatic as some incidents are, it is only looking back on the sequence that the full import of her character comes home to one. Nowhere does she make any claim of high purpose, or indeed find any idealistic guidance. She is just an ordinary lower middle-class small-town American making the best of life, as a matter of course. In conclusion she makes only this comment:

How strange it is that of all the people in my life, Clara turns out to be the one I've shared the most with. And the rest of that paragraph is given to more planning. especially for the future of her dead husband's coloured grandson, ending:

Maybe for him the plans will work out better than they did for Pete or Randall or Clara or Carl or me. There is money enough for any plan. And at last, there is love enough too. It is deplorable and discouraging to all pride in English letters that publishers should pander to the uneducated and make fortunes out of an old second-rate novel and a vulgarisation of the beauti ful old Bible, while works like these are ignored. K.W.

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