Would her mother do that if she realized any danger to her
children? Ah, that is what hurt!
"Polly, my father would do as much for me, too!" said Eleanor,
exultantly, the moment she remembered one parent who loved her
unreservedly.
"So would mine."
"Then why should he object to your having a good education in Denver?
And look at the way he dresses you, Polly! I don't want you to think I
am poking fun at you, 'cause I'm not, but the way you slick back your
hair into two long braids and the baggy skirts you wear are simply
outlandish. If I had that wonderful curly chestnut hair I'd make so
much of it that I'd look positively beautiful."
Polly felt hurt, not only because of her love of the beautiful in
everything, but also because she hoped Eleanor would turn out to be a
staunch friend. Now, of course, she wouldn't make friends with such an
old-fashioned country girl!
"It's much easier to keep the hair out of my face when it's slicked
back. Besides, there isn't any dress-maker in Oak Creek better'n my
mother. But she doesn't have much time to trim dresses. When I go to
Denver, I'll have as fine a wardrobe as yours."
"If your father has any money why doesn't he buy an automobile instead
of using that awful ranch-wagon? And why doesn't he hire servants to do
the work your mother now does? She could sew on your clothes, if she
had more time."
"Mother never liked to have me think much of dress and I have always
been so busy with my pets and trips on the mountains, that I generally
lived in my riding clothes during vacations.
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