Class Ring (Tobey and Midge Heydon Series Book 2) by Rosamond du Jardin

Author:Rosamond du Jardin [du Jardin, Rosamond]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781930009691
Publisher: Image Cascade Publishing
Published: 2014-08-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

AN EMERGENCY ARISES

SOMETHING happened right after New Year’s that gave us all quite a jolt. We were sitting around the living room one night, pretty much as usual. Mom was thumbing through a new magazine, Dad was reading the evening paper. Midge had her head in the radio, listening to some horse opera and I was doing my nails and sort of thinking back over the lovely two weeks just past. School seemed even duller than usual after all the excitement. And I missed Dick rather more than I had expected to. Or maybe it was just the fun of having too men interested in me that I missed. Now if the phone rang, and a male voice asked for me, it would be Brose. There wouldn’t be any element of uncertainty involved. But it wasn’t that I was any less fond of Brose than before—it was just—

Well, I asked myself somewhat severely, what was it exactly? Was I simply one of those fickle women who can’t make up their minds about what man they want and so try to hang onto every male in sight? But I really wasn’t like that. Look at all the men I knew that I never felt the slightest yen for, Sox and Itchy and the rest. None of my girl friends had ever accused me of being a grabber, like Mary Andrews. None of them ever worried about their favorite men dancing with me, or pairing off for tennis or badminton doubles. Well, then! It must simply be that I liked Dick quite a bit. Of course, I liked Brose a lot, too. That’s what had made it so thrilling and flattering, having them both around to give me a rush.

My thoughts were milling pleasantly like that, not really getting anywhere, but enjoying the trip, when the phone rang.

“I’ll get it,” I said and ambled out into the hall, expecting it to be Brose, or maybe Barbie Walters.

But it was Western Union saying they had a wire for Mrs. Henry Heydon. My heart started beating fast as I called Mom. There’s something so unsettling about wires. Maybe, I thought, as Mom hurried to take the phone from me, this would be some word from Janet. Maybe the baby had come earlier than the fifteenth, when it was expected. Maybe we’d know now whether it was a boy or girl.

Dad had followed Mom out into the hall and he and I hovered around as she listened intently to the message. We tried to read something from her expression and when I saw the frown between her eyes getting deeper, my throat choked up. Could it be bad news—something wrong? Was Janet—?

“Yes,” Mom said into the phone, “I got it all plainly. Thank you.”

She hung up and swung around excitedly to face us. “It was from Janet,” she told us. “Henry, you must wire her right back and tell her I’m coming. If I get the morning train to Chicago, I can catch a night plane for California.

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