| Show t MISS LULU BETT PT by ZONA GALE by D appleton App lelon 3 company VI continued 12 oil by the music houses you yon go go by the lie sales for the first time it occurred to cornish that this was ridle you toil know im icalla study ins ing law ho he said shyly vind proudly how very interesting from ina oh ob but wont lie bring up soine some songs tome evening evenin for them to rry fry over her and dia di at this dl da laughed and said aid that she die was out of practice and lifted her glass of water la in tile presence of adults dl made one weep she die was so slender so young so without defenses so intolerably sensitive to every contact so in agony lest she be found wanting it was amazing how bow unlike was this dl DI to the dl DI who had bad ensnared bobby larkin what was one to think cornish paid very little attention to her to lulu lie said kindly dont you ou play miss bliss lie he had not caught her name no stranger eier eer dirt did catch it but dwight now supplied it miss lulu bett lie explained with loud and lulu burned her slow red this question lulu had usually answered by telling how a felon had interrupted her lessons and she had stopped taking a participle sacred to music in Wr ar bleton this vignette had been a kind of epitome of lulus iulus blo biography graphy cut but now lulu was heard to say serenely no ilo but im quite fond of it I 1 went vent to a lovely concert two weeks ago they all listened strange indeed to think ot of lulu as having had experiences of which they did not know yes aishe sold said it was in savannah georgia she gushed flushed and lifted her eyes in a manner of faint de defiance flance of course she said bald 1 I 1 dont know the names of all the different instruments they played but there were a good many she laughed pleasantly is as a part of her sentence they had some lovely tunes she a said ald she knew that the subject was not exhausted and she hurried on the hall was real larger large she superadded super added and there were mere quite a good many people there and it was too warm 1 I pee fee said cornish and said what lie he had been waiting to say that he be too had been in savannah georgia lulu lit with pleasure well she said and her mind wor worked and she caught at the moment before it had escaped it a pretty city she asked and cornish assented with the intense heartiness of the provincial ile he too it seemed hadi had a conversational appearance to maintain by its own effort ile he said that he be bad enjoyed being in that town and that he was there for two hours 1 I was there for a week lulus lulua superiority was really r retty have good wea weather T cornish selected next oh yes and they saw all the different buildings but at her we she gushed flushed and was silenced she was coloring and breathing quickly this visa na the first bit of conversation of this sort in lulus life after supper ina inevitably proposed croquet dwight pretended to try to escape and with his Irre irrepressible mien talked about ina elaborate to in his insistence on the third person she loves it we have bave to humor her you know how it Is or no I 1 you tou dont e knowl but you will and more of the same sort everybody laughing heartily save lulu who looked uncomfortable and wished that dwight and sirs mrs bett who paid no DO I 1 attention to anybody that night not because she had riot not been introduced an omission which she had not even noticed but merely as another form of tan tantrum trim a self indulgence they emerged tor fot croquet and there on the porch sat nat jenny plow and bobby waiting for IN dl to keep an old engagements engagement which dl DI pretended to have forgotten and ito be arl frightfully bt annoyed to have to keep she met the objections of ir ier parents with all the batteries of lier her coquetry coq set for both bobby vind and cornish and bold in the presence of company lit at last went laughing away and in the minute areas of her con consciousness jealousness she die said to herself that dobby bobby would be more bore in love with lier her than ever because she had bad risked ill to go with him and that cornish ought to be distinctly attract attracted eil to her because she alie had not stayed she was a as primitive fig as pollen ina was vexed vereil slie site said so pouting in a fashion fas lilon bilik h she should have outgrown with willie e muslin and blue ribbons and she had outgrown none of these thing ti lings that just spoils croquet slie she sald said tin IM vexed now we cant have a real al game from the side door where she must have been lingering anond the waterproofs lulu stepped forth ill play a game ahe said 6 0 0 0 0 0 when cornish actually proposed to bring some music to tte Den deacons cons ina 1121 turned toward dwight herbert all the facets of tier her responsibility and inas sense ense of responsibility toward dl DI was wag enormous oppressive primitive amounting in fact toward this daughter of dwight berberi Her Ifer berVa beri s late wife to III n ability 40 40 compres the offices of into the lie functions of the hie lecture platform ana na was a fountain of admonition ifer her idea of a daughter step or not nol was that of a manufactured product strictly which YOU yon constantly pinched and molded she thought that it a doral preceptor had bad the right to secret berrele e precepts dl DI got BOI them all but of course the crest k of t inas responsibility was to marry 1 1 IX this verb be transitive only when lovers are speaking of each alier tl ier or the alie minister or magistrate Is speaking of lovers it should never be transitive when predicated of 0 parents or any other third party hut but it is ina was quite agitated by its transitiveness as she took to her hus blind her incredible responsibility you know now herbert salt said ina if tills this mr cornish comes here very much what we may expect what may lay we expect espe ct demanded dwight herbert crisply ina always played ills his games answered what he expected her to answer pretended to be intuitive when she was not to go said 1 I know when slie she k know at all dwight herbert on the other nand hand did not even play her panics games when he knew perfectly what she meant but pretended not to understand made her repeat mafle her explain it was as it if ina livid to please him for say a living but ns as for that dentist he had to please nobody in the conversations of dwight and ina you saw the h historical Is tori call home forming in clots blots in the t he fluid wash of the community hell fall in love with dl said ina and ald what of that little daughter mill have many a man fall in love with her I 1 should say yes but dwight what do you think of him what do I 1 think of him my I 1 Y dear ina I 1 have other things to think th ink of but we dont know anything about him dwight a stranger so on the other hand said dwight with dignity 1 I know a n good deal about hira him with a great air of having done the fatherly and found out about this stranger before bringing him into the home dwight now dow related a number of stray circumstances dropped by cornish in their chance talks ile he has a little inheritance coming coining to liln him shortly dwight wound up A an n inheritance really how much dwight cht now that like a woman it 1 I thought he was from a good family said ina my mercenary little pussy I 1 well she said with a i sighs sigh 1 I be surprised it if dl DI did realy really I 1 f ti miss lulu bett the mocking ba erdl dwight insisted accept him A young girl la Is awfully flattered when a good looking older man pays her attention you noticed that dwight informed her with an air of immense abstraction that he left all such matters to her being married to dwight was like a perpetual rehearsal with Dwigh ts imbor tance tor for audience A few evenings later cornish brought up the music there was For something overpowering in this brown haired chap against the background of his negligible little shop ills his whole capital in his few pianos vor for tie lie looked hopefully ahead woke with plans regarded the children in the street us its if conceivably children might come within the confines of his life as lt lit imagined it A preposterous little men and a preposterous store empty echoing bare of wall the three planos pianos neur ear the front the remainder of the floor stretching away like the corridors of the th lost lie he was going to get a dark curot curall cur aln ln he explained pla ined and furnish tile the brel part of the store as his own room what dignity in phrasing but how wean that little room would look cot bed washbowl and pitcher end and little mirror almo almot t certainly a mirror with a wavy surface almost certainly that and then you know he always added im reading law n the e plows lows had been asked in that evening bobby was there they were dwight herbert said going to have a sing dl DI was to play and dl di was now embarked on the most difficult feat of her emotional life the feat of remaining to bobby larkin the lure the beloved lure the while to cornish she instinctively played the role of wo womanly m little girl up by tile the teethe lamp everybody dwight herbert cried As they gathered about the upright piano that startled Dwight lah inspru went standing in its ita attitude of unrest lulu came in with another lamp do you need this slie she asked they did not need deed it there was in fact no place to set it avid and this lulu must have known but dwight found a place lie ilo swept Nin lans photograph from brorn the marble shelf of the mirror and finhen lulu had p placed laced the ilia lamp there dwight thrust tile photograph into her hands you take care of 0 that lie he said with a droop of lid discernible only t to those who presumably loved him ills his old attitude toward lulu livid shown n terrible sharpening in these ten days since her return six SIW stood uncertainly in the thin black and white gown which finlan had bought for her and held Nin Nini laps alis photograph find looked helplessly about slie she was moving toward the door when cornish called see liere here arent you going to sing what dwight used the falsetto lulu sing lulu slie she tood awkwardly she had a piteous recrudescence of her old agony at being spoken to in the presence of 0 others but DI D had opened the album of old favorites which cornish had elected to bring and now she struck the opening chords of 0 bonny kloese lulu stood still looking rather piteously at cornish dwight offered his arm absurdly crooked the plows and ina and dl began to sing lulu moved forba forward td I 1 and stood a little away from them and sang too she was still holding ninians NIn lans Ians picture dwight did not sin sing ile he lifted ills his shoulders and his eyebrows and watched lulu when they had finished lulu the mocking bird dwight cried lie ile sa I 1 d I 1 bai ba I rd 11 fine cried cornish why miss lulu you hove have a good voice I 1 miss lulu bett belt the mocking ba erdl dwight insisted lulu was excited find and in some accession of faint power she turned to him now quietly and with a look of appraisal lulu the dove she then surprisingly said to put up with you yon it was her first bit of conscious repartee to her brother in law cornish was bending oer dl DI what next do you say lie he asked she lifted her eyes met his own held them theres such a lovely lovely sacred song here she suggested and looked down you like sacred music she turned to him tier her pure profile her er eyelids fluttering up and paid eald 1 I love it i I 1 it so do 1 L nothing like a nice sacred piece cornish declared cobby bobby larkin at the end nd of t the piano looked directly into ul dl is face give me ragtime he said now with tile the effect of bursting out cut of somewhere dont you like ragtime he put it to her directly DIs eyes danced into hit his they sparkled for him film her smile was a smile for him alone all their tore of common memories was in their look lets try my rock my ily refuge cornish suggested vot got up real attractive DIs profile again and her pleased voice saying that this was the very one she had been hoping to 0 o hear him sing they gathered for my rock my refuge Ite fuge oil oh cried ina at the conclusion of tills this number im having such a perfectly beautiful time everybody hostess put it lulu Is said dwight and added softly to lulu she dont have to hear herself hers if sing it was incredible ile he was like a bad boy with a frog about that photograph ot of ninian lie found a dozen ways to torture her called attention to it showed it to cornish set it on the plano piano facing them all everybody must have understood excepting the plows these two gentle souls sang placidly through the album of old fa favorites and nt at tile the melodies smiled happily upon each other with an air from another world always it was as it if the plows walled walked some fair inter penetrating plane from which they looked out as do other things not quite of earth say flowers and fire and music strolling home boule that night the plows were overtaken by some one who ran badly and as if she were unaccustomed to running mis plow mis plow this one called and lulu stood beside them say I 1 she said do you know of any job that I 1 could get me I 1 mean that id know how low to do A job tor for money I 1 mean a job she burst into passionate crying they drew lier her home with them 0 0 0 0 0 lying awake sometime after midnight lulu heard the telephone ring she heard Dwigh ts concerned 1 rs I that list ato 0 o and his cheerful be right there grandma gates WAS sick slie she heard him tell ina in a few moments he be ran down clown the stairs next day they told liow how dwight had sat for hours that hat night holding grandma gates so her back would rest easily and she fight for her faint breath the kind fellow had only about two hours of beep the whole night long TO OS CONTINUED |
