Chapter 12
During the next couple of weeks, things just drifted on, and I let myself be carried uncomplainingly along with the tide. It was nearing the end of October, and the weather was starting to get chilly. A cold wind ripped up out of the river now, every time I came down my street. Winter was setting in fast, though there still might be as much as a month yet before it got uncomfortably cold.
Every Saturday night there was a big party at the clubhouse. The second week in October another sophomore girl was initiated, name of Beth Sidney, a smoky-eyed little burnette who, they said had had an illegitmate child in her high school days and had given the kid away for adoption. Looking at her, I was willing to believe it. Some of the strangest sorts get into Chesley, which is suppose
