Show LU LU BE by ZONA GALE I 1 copyright by 0 appleton ft company I 1 y YOURE 0 u RE I 1 THE STUFF FF SYNOPSIS Is general factotum in the house home of 0 her sister bister inn ina wife of 0 herbert deacon in the small town of warbleton War bleton lulu bett belt loads leads a dull cramped existence with which the she Is constantly at enmity though apparently satisfied with her lot to mr deacon comes bobby lar recently graduated high school youth secretly enamored of 0 deacons elder daughter diana an applicant for a job around tho the deacon house he la is engaged the family la is excited over the news new of an approaching visit from deacons brot brother lier fintan whom ahorn he had bad not seen for many years deacon jokes with lul with subtle meaning the coining inc lulu Is interested and speculative meanwhile watching with ith itom something ething like envy the boy and girl love making of bobby and diana unexpectedly finlan arrives S thus he becomes acquainted pitk with lulu first and in ix a measure understands her position in the house to lulu finlan Is a much traveled man of the world and even the slight inter interest tat which he takes take in her la is appreciated because because it Is I 1 something new IP hi her life I 1 11 continued 4 and a year before vint the first one oled led lind and two years they were mar tied lie computed 1 I never met that one then thea its close to twenty years since rince bert and I 1 have seen each other how awful I 1 lulu said and flushed again why chyr to be that long ion away from your folks suddenly she found herself facing this honestly as if the immensity of tier her present experience were iber her understanding would it be so aw ifal to be away from bert and monona and di yes find and ina for twenty P you think that lie laughed A I 1 man dont know what hes like till hes p iro acied around on its his own ile he liked I 1 the sound of it roamed around on this flits own owin lie he repeated and laughed I 1 again course a woman dont know ithac i why dont she asked lulu she I 1 balanced a pie pic on tier her hand band and carved ithe crust she was stupefied to lie hear ar iber own question why dont she t i maybe slie she does do you i yes said lulu ta good enough ile he applauded noiselessly with fat hands ills dla dia imond ring sparkled his even white teth teeth flashed ive had twenty years of galloping about he informed her k unable after all to transfer ills his inter ti t i tests from himself to her i Wb where ere she asked although she E knew t south central america mexico panama ile he searched his i memory colombo he superadded super added my I 1 said lulu she had probably gliever in her life had bad the least desire t to see any of these places she did not want to see them now but she iwanter passionately to meet her com 1 r ip anions mind E its the life he informed her must murt be lulu breathed 1 I t she bhe tried and gave it up i i where you been mostly he asked b lat at last r t by this unprecedented interest in t pitr er doings the was thrown into a pas 1 islon ot of excitement i nere she said aid ive always been lere bere fifteen years with ina before that we lived in the country lie he listened sympathetically now his tined stead bead well on one side lie he watched wat clied her hands pinch at the plea pies poor old girl he was thinking Is it miss lulu bett he abruptly inquired or mrs lulu flushed in anguish miss she said low as one who confesses the extremity of failure then from unplumbed depths another lulu LUIU abruptly spoke up from choice she said he shouted with laughter you betl bet I 1 oh ob you bet he cried never doub doubted tied it lie ile made his piling palms taut and drummed on the table say lie he said lulu glowed quickened smiled her ace dace was an another otiler face 4 which kind of a M mr are you site she attard tard herself ask and his its sh outings redoubled well I 1 who would have thought it of her r neier give myself away he be as lured ler her say by george I 1 never thought of that before theres no telling whether bether a mans married or rot pill by his name it dont matter said ald lulu eliy not not so many people want to know again he laughed this laughter W ras intoxicating to lulu no one ever laughed at what she said save gave her bert rt who laughed at tier her go it old girl ninian was thinking lut but this did not dot appear the child riona now arrived langin banging ta nging the tie front rate kate and hurling round the house on the board walk tb itching catching the toe of one foot in beal of ofle lie other and blundering f formia rd head down tier her short beit straight hair napping flapping over ocer tier lier face be be l flat footed on oil the porch W he bzan to speak using a ridiculous of words scarcely artica te t then in vogue in tier lier group croup and dog she shrieked billian anian r looked over ills shoulder ld out t bi lils hand and finished something at he ans saying ying to lulu monona loose ame to readily enough staring lipped all I 1 bet im your uncle said finlan 1 re being her li lebest known cnown form of romance monona was thrilled by this Int intelligence ellig ge CC give us a kiss said ninian finding in the plural some vague mitigation for sonic some vague offense Tense ol monann MO nona looking silly complied compiled and tier her uncle said gait my stars such a great big tall girl they would have to put it a board on oil tier her head inquired monona she had spied his great diamond ring j this said tier her uncle was brought to me by santa claus who keeps it a jewelry shop in heaven the precision and speed of his improvisation revealed him ile he had twenty other diamonds ilk like e this one ile he kept them for those su sundays when the sun comes up in the west of carse often I 1 some day lie N was wa 11 going to melt a diamond and eat it then TI len you sparkled all over in the dark ever after another diamond he was going to plant they gay any he did it all gravely gra iely about it he be was as conscienceless as a savage this was no fancy spun to pleasure a child this was like lying for its own sake ile he went on talking with lulu and now again lie he was the tense tease the braggart the unbridled unmodified male monona stood in the circle of his arm the little being was attentive softened subdued some pretty bairt light visited tier iier in her listening look site she showed herself a charming child it strikes rne me said finlan to lulu that youre going to do something mighty interesting before you die it was the clear conversational impulse born of the need to keep something going but lulu was all faith slie site closed the oien oen door on tier her pies and stood brushing flour from tier her fingers ile he was looking away from her and slie she looked at him lie he was completely like his picture she felt as if site she were looking at ills picture and she was aba blied and turned away well I 1 hope so she said which had certainly never been true for her old formless dreams were no intention nothing but a of discontent 1 I hope I 1 can do something nice before I 1 quit slie she said not nor was this hope now independently true but only surprising longing to appear interesting in its his eyes to dance before him what vba t would the folks think of me going on so she suddenly said her mild sense of disloyalty was delicious so wits ills his understanding glance youre the stuff lie he remarked absently she laughed happily the door opened ina appeared welt well said ina ilia it was tier her remotest tone she finnk tills this man to be J 5 lulu flushed in anguish Angul th miss ml sho she said low a peddler beheld her child in h his Is clasp made a quick forward step ch chin I 1 n lifted she had time for a very javel javelin n of a look at lulu hello I 1 said finlan lie he had the one formula 1 I believe im your husbands brother aint this ina it had bad not crossed the mind of lulu to present him beautiful it was to see ina relax soften warm transform humanize it gave one hope for the whole species ninian lan site she cried she sha lent a faint impression of the double e to th the e initial vowel she slurred blurred the rest until the y sound squinted in not Nee nyun but nearly Nee nyun ue ile kissed tier her since dwight here she cried and shook tier her finger at bam inas conception of hostess ship was definite A volley of questions wits was ilia hla train on time lie had bad found the house all right of course anyone could direct him she should hope and he seen dwight site she must telephone him but then she arrested herself with it a sharp curved fling of her starched skirts no they would surprise him itt at tea she stood taut lips compres compressed bed oh the plows were coining to tea how unfortunate slie site thought how fortunate site she said the monona made tier her knees and elbows stiff and danced up and down she must she must participate aunt lulu made three pies I 1 site she seren med and tier her straight hair gracious sakes said fintan 1 I brought tier her a pup and it if I 1 for get to give it to her they adjourned to the porch lan ian ina monona the puppy was presented and yawned dawned the party kept on about the place ina delightedly light edly exhibited the tomatoes the two apple trees the new shed the bird bath finlan said the m m rising inflection and th the a 1 I see prolonging the verb as was e expected of him ina said that the they y meant to build a summer house only benr roe me when you have a family ant there lie he know anything about that ina was using her eyes she was wa arch she lie was coquettish she was flirtatious tat ious and she believed herself to be merely matronly sisterly womanly she screamed dwight was at the gate now mow the meeting exclamation banality guffaw good will and lulu peeping through the blind 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 when tea lind had been experienced that evening it was found that a light rain was falling and the deacons and their guests the plows were constrained to remain in the parlor the plows were gentle faintly lustrous folk sketched into life rather lightly as it if they were say looking in from some other level the only thing thine said herbert that reconciles me to rain IS if that im let oil oft croquet lie ile rolled his rs a favorite device of ills his to induce humor ile he called it croquette lie ile had bad never been more irrepressible the advent ot of his brother was partly accountable the need to show himself a fine family man and host in a n prosperous little home bome simple und and pathetic desire tell you what ahat well doi sold said dwight nin find and ril ill e a little dol do I 1 cried mr plow this gentle fellow was always excited by life so faintly excited by him and enjoyed its presentation in any real form had unerringly selected a dwarf rocker and lie he was overflow overflowing ins it and rocking take this chair dol do ina begged A big chair for a big man mail slie site spoke as it if he were about the age of monona SI onona fintan finlan refused I 1 insisted p orf on his refusal A few years more and human relationships would have spread sanity even to inas estate and she would have told him why lie he should exchange chairs As it was she fo and kept glancing anxiously at the overburdened little beast beneath him the child entered the room she had bad been driven down hy by dl DI and jenny plow who had vanished upstairs find and through the ventilator might be heard tn in a lift and fall of giggling monona had also absen driven from the kitchen where lulu lula was tor for some reason hurrying through the dishes monona now ran to sirs mrs bett stood beside tier her and stared about re sent fully mrs bett was in best black and ruches and she seized upon monona and patted her as her own form orni of social expression and monona wriggled like a puppy as hers quiet said ina eyebrows eyebrow up she caught tier lier lower lip in her teeth well sir said dwight you think it to look at us but mother had her hands pretty full bringing us up into Dwigh ts face come came another look it was always so when he spoke of this foster mother who had taken these two boys and seen them through the graded schools tills this woman adored and when he spoke of her he became his inner self we must run upstate up state and aej see her while youre here nin he said to tills this gave a casual assent lacking his brothers really tender ardor little dwight pursued little did the she think id settle down into a nice quiet married dentist and magistrate la in my town and nin into say nin what are you apy anyway way they laughed the question said ninian they laughed 3 maybe laybe ina ilia ventured maybe ninian will tell us something about his bis travels ile he Is quite a traveler you know she said to the plows A regular gulliver they laughed respectfully how we should love it mr deacon mrs plow said you know weve never seen very much goaded on finlan launched upon his foreign countries ns as lie he had seen them population exports imports soil irrigation business for the populations ions fintan had bad no respect crops could not touch ours soil mighty poor picking and the business bayl lay I 1 those fellows dont know and any aay the hotels dont say foreign hotel to finlan ile he regarded all the alien earth a as barbarian and he be stoned it ile he was equipped for absolutely no intensive observation ills contacts were negligible mrs plo plow was more excited by the deacons party than ninian had been wrought upon by all ills his voyaging tell you said dwight when we 70 ran away that time and went to the S state t 11 te fair little did we think lie told about running away to the state fair 1 I thought he wound up irrelevantly ina and I 1 might get over to the other side this year but I 1 guess not I 1 guess not mi lulu he said ald 1 I wanted you to hear about my trip up the amazon ato TO BE BB CONTINUED |