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She's a good mixer. Besides, if she'd made up her mind to play that new pipe organ you could pretty near bet she'd do it. So inside of three minutes she had us loaded into the car and off we rolls to surprise the Zoscos. Villa Nova, you know, is perched on the top of quite a sizable hill, with a private road windin' up from the Pike.
It seems they'd come to pick us up to make a call with them on some new neighbors. "Who?" asks Vee. "You couldn't guess," says Mrs. Robert. "The Zoscos." "Really!" says Vee. "I thought they were " "Yes," chimes in Mrs. Robert, "I suppose they are, too. Rather impossible. But I simply must try that big pipe organ I hear they've put in. Bob thinks it's an awful thing to do. See how shocked he looks.
After being lonesome for a month or so they begun fillin' their 20 odd bedrooms with guests of their own choosin'. Course, some of 'em that I saw arrivin' looked a bit rummy, but it was plain the Zoscos didn't intend to bank on the neighbors for company. Maybe they didn't want us crashin' in either, as Mr. Robert suggests. You couldn't worry Mrs. Robert with hints like that, though.
Rollin' in it. Maggie's done a lot for the fam'ly, too. Gave me a flivver all for myself last Christmas; took me out of the commission house and started me in at high school again. She's right there with the check book, Maggie. "That's what makes them other Zoscos so sore that Brother Jake and his wife. See? They'd planned all along comin' in for most of his pile themselves.
They just shuddered when his name was mentioned and stayed away from Villa Nova same as they had when that Duluth copper plute, who'd built the freak near-Moorish affair, tried the same act. But it didn't look like the Zoscos meant to be frozen out so easy.
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