!
The evenings turned out to be Tuee
days. Thursdays, and Saturdays. Sup
per was over by six-thirty In the Pool
household. Pervus was there by seven,
very clean as to shirt, his hair brushed
till It shone; shy, and given to drop
ping his hat and bumping (gainst
chairs, and looking solemn. Selina was
torn between pity and mirth. If only
he had blustered. A blustering big
man puts tbe world on the defensive
A gentle giant disarms It.
Selina got out her McBride’s gram
mar and Duffy’s arithmetic, and to
gether they started to parse verbs
Paper walls, dig cisterns, and extract
square roots. They found study Im
possible at the oilcloth-covered kitchen
table, with the Pool household eddying
about It. Jakob built a fire In the
parlor stove and there they sat, teacher
and pupil, their feet resting cosilv on
the gleaming nickel railing that enclr
cled the wood burner.
On the evening of the first lesson
Roelf had glowered throughout sup
per and had disappeared Into the work
shed, whence issued a great sound of
hammering, sawing, and general clat
ter. He and Selina had got Into the
way of spending njuch time together.
In or out of doors. The boy wor
shiped her Inarticulately.
She had
early discovered that he had a feeling
for beauty—beauty of line, texture,
color, and grouping—that was rare in
one of his yeurs. The feel of u tHlln
ribbon In his fingers; the orange aud
rose of a su n set; the (olds of the wine
red cashmere d ress; the cadence of a
spoken line, brought a look to bis face
that startled her.
Since the gathering at Ooms' ball
This way of romance
EAST
b? tra in and ship, through the
S ou th la n d to N e w Y o r k — it costs b u t
little more.
T h e superb Shona route to C a lifo rn ia
— (fo u r fine trains d aily — thence the
scenic Sunset route th ro u g h the South
land to N e w Orleans.
Y o u ’l l relish y o u r me a lt in th e
S o u th e rn P a c ific d i n in g ca r — fre s h
fru its and vegetables always a delicious
feature»
C o n n ec tio n at N e w O rh -a n t w ith pa
latial steamers fo r N e w
r k - meals
an d b erth in clud ed in th e • ..e fare.
Aik about C arriso Q<r ? route
from Son D ieg e-—A|>o>. .e T r a il
detour o f A rizo n a .
Stopovers en ro u tc.F o r fu rther
in fo rm a tio n , ask
the doorway, on the soap box, for all
High Prairie to see,
“Five cents I’m bid for this lovely
AndB,hl . little mouthful put up by the school
teacher’s own fair hands. Five cents I
Five—”
hood fn ^ h .çaro ln*-U S ,>'h"n., t,«n,n5S:
“One dollar!” Pervus DeJong.
un
" s .’ n s « r Ï a Î lly
ly ‘“in
.» 'y £ a ïï b £ u Wh‘
The balloon faces were suddenly
k
. n lo
.' " A î t . " o i o o i h a r
C
d a u g h te r o f
c h hum
u m la J u l lie H c m p e l
punctured with holes. High P ralriel “Qonsl—for Tsn Dollars to Pervus
k u ^ d ’ k I ?e m p * 1' b u tc h e r
Sl’m eon ° i
DeJong.”
Jaw dropped with astonishment. Its
a i d H i n , . QU‘ r r e l t h a t *’ n o t h1’ O'»»
mouth stood open.
go, now np to the hubs In mud, now
a n d S e lin a , n in e te e n y e a rs old an d
t a a e h e / X de« t lt u t a . becom es a s ch ool-
There was nothing plain about Selina blinded by dust and blowing sand.
A sale at Christie’s, with a miniature
now. Her dark head was held high,
t lA ? 1 A P r.K R J 1— B ,1 ,n a M c u r « a posl-
,nd his fair one beside It made a vivid going for a million, could not have met
taatJh
« r o a u t t , k th
ig h Chtc‘
P r io s r i.
nCv m a t * a i , n,
h th#h
' r e t ’ H o?
i
foil. The purchase of the wlnecolored with a deeper hush, a more dramatic
K ii« i
h, ° ‘ n « o f a t r u c k fa rm o r . i cashmere was at Inst Justified.
babble following the hush.
K la A s P o o l.
In K o e lf, tw e lv e y e a rs 1
“And ten !” cackled old Johannes
They ate their lunch together In one
• «■ • » » o f K'M». S e lin a p e r c . lv .» i !
h e r s e lf 1
B lo r 4 r «< b e a u ty , lik e
Amhuul. hl# rheumy eyes on Selina.
corner of Adam Ooms’ hall. Selina
Art and human spltefulness struggled
o eC ? A i > T ttB I H ’— T h e m o n o to n o u s -life
visibly for mastery In Adorn Oom«.’
u n i . ¿ * M ! i i 7 . ’ w f 0!, I ’i.t M c h , r Bt th a t
face—and art won. The auctioneer
P . M O O D Y .A gent
h i
S e l , n a ’ - b rig h te n e d s o m e w h a t
Phone 226
^ t l t. « r c CboyP^ i ‘i ,,‘i hlW O i “ “ • • » » H iv e .
triumphed over the man. The term
“crowd psychology” was unknown
C H A P T E R I V — S e lin a h
. . e „ a . rs go ssip
to him, but he was artist enough
t o n c . r n ln g th e a g e c tlo n o f th e “W id o w
to sense that some curious magic
la a r le n b e r g .
ric h an d good lo o k in g
w h o 1 ?rV tU *
Poo r t r u c k f a r m e r
B.v the first of March ha could speak . mellow golden glow.
process, working through this room
ln ” n ’ lb l« to th e w i d o w » a t
a slow, careful and fairly grammatical
ful o f people, had transformed
tr a c tio n « .
F o r a c o m m u n ity 'so ciab le '
“Yon didn't go to tile meeting,”
S e lin a p re p a re » a lu n c h b a s k e t, d a la ty
English.
He could master simple I primly. “Mr. and Mr* Pool went.”
the little white box, from a thing
^ e t i ° n „ ? ft ‘ ro p l* P ro p o rtio n s , w h ic h 1»
sums. By the middle of March the les- |
despised and ridiculed. Into an object
a u « * o n e d ' . f o e o f f l n g to c ustom
The
“No. I didn’t go."
s m a lln e s s o f th e lu n c h box e x c ite s d e r l-
sons would «ease. There was too!
of beauty, of value, of Infinite desir
”Wlty not?”
f 1®.” ’ an<l ’! f " I " ? *
fu n th e b id d in g
much
work
to
do
about
the
farm—
1
ability. He now eyed it In a catalepsy
She saw him swallow.
"1 got
in i
5?te d ’ . i >,* J<; ne f ln a l|V fc o u r-
n X i * « ? £ • • * ’ f t .r ,d Ic u lo u « ly h ig h p ric e
night work aa well as day. She found through too late. We’re fixing to sow
of admiration,
? n i r ? hr 1 ,u J?c h b a s k e t, w h ic h S e lin s
herself trying not to think about the tomato seeds In th e, hotbeds tomor
“One-ten I'm bid for this box all
a n d D e j o n g s h a re to g e th e r , th e s c h o o l
te a c h e r a r r a n g e s to Ti n s tr u c t th e go od-
i time when the lessons should cease. row.“
tied with a ribbon to match the gown
n a t u r e d fa rm e r , w h ose e d u c a tio n has
She refused to look ahead to April
> Selina opened McBride's grammar.
of the girl who I r night It. Gents, you
been n e g le c te d .
On« night, late In February, Selina "Ahem!” a school-teucherly cough,
get
the
rlblien,
the
lunch,
and
the
girl.
Adam Ooms scuffled about among
wms conscious that she was trying to
"llow, then, w ell mjrse this sentence:
the many baskets at his feet. His nos And only one-ten bid for all that.
control something. She was trying to
Gents!
Gents!
Remember,
it
ain’t
trils looked pinched and his skinny
keep her eyes awny from something
(Continued on page 6)
hands shook a little us he searched for only a lunch—It's a picture. It pleases
( She realized that she was trying not
ihe eye. Do I hear one— ”
one small object.
to look at his hands.
‘
She wanted,
’•’Five bits !” Barend DeRoo, of Low
When he stood upright once more he
crazily, to touch them. She wanted to (P A S H PA 11) for fa ls e teeth d en -
‘ralrle. In the lists. A strapping young
was smiling. His little eyes gleamed
| feel them about her throat. She want- V-' tai gold , plat.uu.i. aud discahled
Dutchman,
the
Brora
Bones
of
the
dis
His wooden scepter pounded for si
ed to put her lips on his hands— brush ¡jewelry
Hoke Smelting and Refining
trlct. He drove to the Haymarket
lence. High In one hand, balanced
the hacks of them, slowly, molstlly, ' ^°«- Otsego, Mich,
with his lead of produce and played
daintily on his finger tips, he held
he
had
been
moody
nnd
sullen,
had
with her mouth, lingeringly. She -. ti '.-- -
ards all night op the wagon under the opened the box and took out the
Selina’s Uttle white shoe box, with its
refused to answer when she spoke to terribly frightened. She thought to
gas torches while the slreet girls of deviled eggs, and the efip cakes that
red ribbon binding It, and the plume of
had fallen a little, and the apples, and him of his bid for her basket. Urged herself: “I am going crasy. I am los
the n •tghhorhood assailed him In vain
evergreen stuck in the ribbon. Affect Six feet three, his red face shone now tbe sandwiches sliced very, very thin. he would only say, “Oh, it was Jusl ing my mind. There is something the
*ng great solicitude he brought it down like a harvesi moon above the crowd. The coldly appraising aye of all High fun to make old Ooms mad.”
marfer with me. I wonder how I look.
i Now! with the advent o f Pervus De I must look queer.”
Treatment, both
then to read the nume written on it
A merry, mischievous eye that laughed Prairie, Low Prairie, and New Haar
Jong,
Roelf
presented
that
most
touch-
held It aloft again, smirking.
At half-past eight she closed her local and Internal, and has been success*
lem watched this sparse provenjjer
at Pervus De.torg and his dollar hhl.
' Ing and uilserable of spectacles, a book suddenly.. T m tired. I think ful in the treatnernt o f Catarrh fog o v a
He said nothing. Grinning, he held
“Dollar and a h a lf!” A high clear emerge from the ribbon-tied shoe box.
It high. He turned his body at the voice— a hoy's voice. Roelf.
She .orty years. Sold by alt druggists.
She offered him a sandwich. It looked small boy Jeuloua and helpless In his It’s the spring coming on.”
Jealousy.
Selina
hud
asked
him
to
wnisr from side to side, so that all
smiled
a
little
wavering
smile.
He F. J. C H E N E Y fit C O ., T oledo, Ohio
“Oh. no!” said Selina aloud. But infinitesimal In bis great paw. Sud
might see. The eyes of those before <he was unheard in the gabble. Koelf denly all Selina's agony of embarrass Join the trl-weekjy evening lessons; rose und stretched himself, Ills great
him still held • mental picture of the nad once confided to her that he had ment was swept away, and she was had. Indeed, Insisted that he he a arras high above his bead. Selins
Is your ch ild tflrk in g good prog
huge hamper, food-packed, that had saved three dollars and fifty cents In laughing, not wildly or hysterically, pupil in the class round the parlor shivered.
ress at school ?
stove.
Just been handed down. The contrast the last three years.
"Two more weeks,” he said, “Is the
Five dollars hut Joyously and girlishly. She sank i
If your ch ild ia not m aking a
Roelf would not. He disappeared last lesson Well, do you think I have
was too absurd, too cruel. A ripple of would purchase a set of tools that his her little white teeth Into one of the
laughter swept the room; rose; swelled mind had been fixed on for months absurd sandwiches and looked at him. Into his work shed after supper; did done pretty good—well?"
satisfactory average at sch o o l you
to • roar. Adam Ooms waited with
“Very well,’’ Selina replied evenly. should find ou t w h y .
expecting to find him laughing, too. not emerge until after Dejong's de
D efective
She felt very tired.
nice genre of the dramatic until the past. Selina saw Klaas Pool's look oi But he wasn’t laughing. He looked parture.
astonishment
changing
to
anger.
Saw
ey
esig
h
t
is
often
responsible
for
There was something about the sight I The first week In March he was til,
laughter had reached Its height, then
very earnest, and his bine eyes were
held up a hand for silence. A great Muartje Pool’s quick hand on his arm fixed hard on the bit of bread In bis of this great creature bent laboriously and did not come A rheumatic nfflic- poor p r o g r e s s in s tu d ie s .D o n ’t
scraping “AhemI” as be cleared his restraining him.
hand, snd his face was very red and over a slate, tbe pencil held clumsily th.n to which he w s . subject, it w„s uwait longer. F ind out for turt
“Two dollars!” Pervus DeJong.
In his huge fingers, that moved Selina the curse of tbe truck farmer. Selina's
throat threatened to send the crowd off
clean-shaven. He bit Into the sand
“And ten." Johannes Anibauft cau
again.
wlch and chewed It solemnly. And strangely. Pity wracked her. If she evenjngs were free to devote to Roelf. *,OW’
“Ladles—and g en ts! .Here's a dainty tious bid.
Selina thought;
"Why, the deaf had known to what emotion this pity who glowed again. She sewed, too;
“Two and a quarter.” Barend D e thing! The great big dear thing! And was akin she might have taken away read; helped Mrs. Pool with the house
little tidbit.
Here’s something not
only for the Inner man, but a feast for Roo.
he might have been eating breast of the slate and given him a tablet, and work In a gust of sympathy and found
T w o fifty!” Pervus DeJong.
the whole course of her life would strange relief therein; made over an
the eye. Well, boys. If the last lot was
duck. . . , Ten dollars!” Alond she
have been different. “Poor lad,” she old dress; studied; wrote all her let
T h r e e dollars!” The high voice oi said, “What made you do It?”
too much for you this lot ought Jp be
thought “Poor lad.” Chided herself ters (few enough), even one to the
Just about right. If the food ain't quite the boy. It cracked a little on the last
He seemed not to hear her; bit
for being amused at his childlike earn dried apple aunts In Vermont. She no
enough for you, you can tie the ribbon syllable, and the crowd laughed.
rumlnantly Into one of the cup cakes estness.
Threc-three-three-three-three - three- Suddenly: “I can't hardly writs at
longer wrote to Julie Hetqpel. She
la the lady's hair and put the posy in
He did not make an apt pupil, though had heard that Julie Was to he mar
your bottonbole and there you are. three. Three once— ”
all, only to sign my name and like
painstaking. Selina Would go over a ried to a Kunsas man named Arnold.
"And a half.” Pervus DeJong.
There you a r e ! What’s more, the lady
that.”
T h r e e sixty.”
problem or a sentence again and again, Julie herself had not written. The
herself goes with IL You don't get a
"Read?”
patiently, patiently. Then, suddenly, first week In March passed. He did
“F our!” DeRoo. ,
country girl with this here box, gents.
"Only to spell out the words Any
like a hand passed over bis face, his not come. Nor did he come the fol
“And ten.”
A city girl, yon can tall by looking at
ways I don’t get time for reading. But
smile
would come, transforming It. He lowing Tuesday or Thursday.
The
boy's
voice
was
beard
no
more.
It. Just. And who Is she? Who did
figuring I wish I knew. ’Rlthmetlc.
"I wish they’d stop,” whispered I can Agger some, but those fellows In would smile like a child, and Selina
She was bewildered, frightened. All
up this dainty little box Just big enough
should have been warned by the warm that week sbe had a curious feeling—
for two7” He Inspected It again, sol- Selina.
Haymarket they are too sharp tor me.
rush of Joy that his smile gave her. or succession of feelings
"Five r Pervus DeJong.
She was
•mnly. and added, as an afterthought,
They do numbers In their head—like
O p tom etrists J ew elers
She would smile, too. He was as restless, listless, by turns Period of
"Six !” DeRoo, hl* face very red.
that, so quick."
“If you ain’t feeling specially hungry.
"And ten.”
and insuufact tiring op tioisu s
Who?—” He looked about, aplahly.
Selina leaned toward him'
‘TU pleased as though he had made a fresh furious activity, followed by days of
and wonderful discovery.
"Seven !1
•
Inertia. It was the spring, Maartje
ALBANY
Selina's cheeks matched her gown.
teach you. Til teach you.”
"Its easy," he would say, "when you said. Selm a hoped she wasn’t going
“It's only Jelly sandwiches,” said
Her eyes were wlue and dark with the
“How do you mean, tsacb me?”
know
It
once."
Like
a
boy.
to be Hi SI* had never felt like that
effort ahe was making to force back Selina to DeJong, In a panic.
“Evenings.”
He usually went home by eight thir
Eight I” Johannes Amhuul, gone
the hot hase threatening them. Why
He looked down at his great Cal ty or nine. Often the Pools went to before. She wanted to cry. She was
Amor A. Tussi ng
Irritable to the point of waaplshnesa
had she mounted this wretched soap mad.
loused palms, than np at her. “What
bed before he left. After he had gone with the children In the schoolroom
"Nine!"
DeRoo.
box 1 Why had she come to this hid
vould you take for p a y F
Selina was wakeful. She would heat
On Saturday—the fourteenth of
LAWYER AND NOTARY
“N inel Nine Pm bid I Nlne-nlne-
eous party! Why had ahe come to
"PayI I don’t want any pay." She water and wush; brush her hair vlg-1 March—he walked In at seven Klaus,
n ln e! Who'll make It—”
High Prairie! Why! . . .
win genuinely shocked.
orously; feeling at once buoyant and j Maartje and Roelf bad driven off to
H alsky , O kkoon
Let him have IL ' The cup cakes
Miss Selina Peake, that's who.
His face lighted up with a sudden depressed.
( n gathering at Low Prairie, leaving
fell a little. Don’t—"
Mias Se-II na Peake!”
thought. ‘TeU you what. I could
Sometimes they fell to talking. HI« I Selina with the pigtails and old Jakob,
T e n !’’ said Pervus DeJong.
A hundred balloon faces pulletFby a
start for you the fire, mornings, In the wife had died In the second year of I She had promised to make taffy for
Barend DeRoo shrugged his great
single cord turned toward her as ahe
DELBERT STA R R
school. And thaw the pump and bring their marriage, when the child w a s ! them, and was fn the midst of It when i
stood there on the box for all to see. shoulders.
In a pall of water. This month, snd born. The child, too, had died. A j his knock sounded at the kitchen door.! F u n era l
‘Ten-ten-ten. Do I hear eleven? Do
Director and Li
They swam toward her. She put up a
January a n t i February to d part of girl. He was unlucky, like that
It • All the blood in her body rushed to her
I hear fen-fifty. Tpn-ten tea tententen-
hand to push th e« back.
March, even, now I don't go to market was the same with the farm.
censed
Embalmer
head; pounded there hotly. He en
“tVhat’m I bid! What’m I bid! tententenfen! Gent*! Ten once. Ten on account It's winter. I could start
Selina's
heart
melted
In
pity.
He
tered.
There
slipped
down
over
her
a
Efficient
Service.
Motor Hearse.
What'm I hid for this here lovely Uttle twice: Gone—for ten dollars to rer- you the fire. Till spring. And I
Ladv Attendant
vus DeJong And a bargain. " Adam could come maybe three times s week, would look down at tbe great cal complete armor of calmness, of self-
toothful, gents! Start her up I”
loused hands; up at her. One of tbe possession; of glib how do you do Mr.
Rrownsville........ ......................... Oregon
“Five cen ts!” piped up old Johannes Ooms mopped his bald head and bis evenings, to Pool’s place, for lessons.”
charms of Pervus DeJong lay In Ihe DeJong and how are you feeling snd
Amhuiil. with a snicker. The tittering cheeks and the damp spot under his He looked so helpless, so humble, so
things that his eyes sold and Ids tongue won't you sit down and ttaerss no fire
crowd broke Into a guffaw. Kellna was chin.
h u g e; and the more pathetic for bis did not. Women always imagined he in the parlor we ll have tn sit here.
Ten dollars. Adam Ooms knew, as hugeness.
conscious of a little sick feeling at the
was about to say what be looked, hut
He took part In tbe taffy pulling.
pit of her stomach. Through the hase did all the countryside, this was not
She felt n little rush of warmth he never did. it made otherwise dull Selina wondered If Oeertje and Jozlna
w . L. W R IG H T
She saw the widow's face, no longer the sum of ten dollars merely. No toward him that was at once Imper
conversation with him moat exciting. would ever have done squealing. It
Mortician & Funeral Director
sulky, but smiling now
Sbe saw basket of food, though tt contained sonal and maternal.
Sbe thougbr
His was in no way a shrewd mind. was half-past eight before she bundled
H oelfs dear dark head. His face was nightingales' tongues, the golden apple again. “Why, the dear thing! The
Halsey and Harrisburg
His respect for Selina was almost rev them off to bed with a plate of clipped
set, like a man's Ha was coming of Atalanta. wines of rare vintage, great helpless big thing t How serious
Crfll D T avlok . Hafsey, or
erence. But he had this advnntage; taffy lozenge* between them.
She
toward her. or trying to, but the crowd could have been adequate recompense he la! And funny." Sbe laughed, sud he had married s woman, had lived
W. !.. WRiaMT, Harrisburg
wedged him In, small as he was among for these ten dollars. They represented denly, a gay little laugh, and he. after with her for two ypars She had borne heard them scuffling and scrimmaging
those great bodies. She lost sight of sweat and blood; toll and hardship; a puzzled pause, joined her couipnnlon- him a child. Selina was a girl in ez about In the rare freedom of their
parents' absence.
hours under the burning prairie sun at uhly'
him. How bot It was! how hot. . . .
perience. Sbe was a woman capuhle
Pervus DeJong and Selina sat at »
An arm at her w slsf. Someone had midday; work doggedly carried on
“Three evenings a week.” repeated of a great deal of passion, but she did tbe kitchen table, their books spread
mounted the little box and stood teet r- through the drenching showers of Selina, then, from the depths of her not know that. Passion was a thing
Ing there beside her. pressed agali t ’ Pi ng; nights of restless sleep snatched Ignorance. “Why, I'd love to. I’d— no woman possessed, much less talked out before them on the oilcloth. Tbe
sweet, heavy scent of fruit filled
her slightly, reassuringly, pervus De- an hour at a time under the sky In love to."
sboht. It simply did not exist, except I the room
Selina brought the parlor
Jong. Her head was on a level w ltj the Chlcogo market place; miles of
In men, and then It was something to i«iUp int0 the kitchen, the better to '
weary travel down the rude corduroy
be ashamed of. like a violent temper,
It was a nickel-bellied lamp, I
road berwees High Prairie and Ohlca-
or a weak stomach.
a laUvw gloss abade Shirt cast « ;
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