Nothing In Life Is Alien To You: I Was A Penniless Girl From Summum Who Stepped From The Morning Train In Spoon River. All The Houses Stood Before Me With Closed Doors And Drawn Shades - L Was Barred Out; I Had No Place Or Part In Any Of Them. And I Walked Past The Old Mcneely Mansion, A Castle Of Stone 'Mid Walks And Gardens With Workmen About The Place On Guard And The County And State Upholding It For Its Lordly Owner, Full Of Pride. I Was So Hungry I Had A Vision: I Saw A Giant Pair Of Scissors Dip From The Sky, Like The Beam Of A Dredge, And Cut The House In Two Like A Curtain. But At The "Commercial" I Saw A Man Who Winked At Me As I Asked For Work - It Was Wash Mcneely'S Son. He Proved The Link In The Chain Of Title To Half My Ownership Of The Mansion, Through A Breach Of Promise Suit - The Scissors. So, You See, The House, From The Day I Was Born, Was Only Waiting For Me.