Show f A T 9 IV Q WHERES YOUR MAN SYNOPSIS introducing so big dirk D defone in hla his infancy and his mother selina DeJ dejong daughter ot of simeon peake ga rambler n ibler and gentleman of fortune ifer her 1 lire f e to young oung womanhood hoo I 1 in ch chicago 1 c a go in 1188 1888 has been 0 nal somewhat seamy bu but t gene generally rally enjoyable at school her chum la Is julie hempel daughter of august hempel butcher simeon la Is killed in a quarrel that la Is not his own and an d aselina nineteen veit ears rig old and practically destitute secures a pa 91 tion as teacher at the iilah traille praille scho school 0 1 in the outskirts ot of chicago living at the honio homo or of a truck farmer mass klaas in hoek twel twelve e years old son 0 f klans selina perceives perc evea a kindred kind ged d spirit a lover of 0 beauty like ke herself selina hears gossip concerning the affection of the widow Panr lenberg rich and good looking for pervus dejong toor poor truck farmer fanner who to la insen a ible to tile lie widows attractions perv perus u s buy Se Sell linas nas lunch box at the community auction over her lunch box which selina and dejong share together the chool teacher arranges to instruct truc t tile the farmer whose education has been negi neglected acted cluley leads to mutual affection ellna becomes become mrs dejong dejon g a farmers farmer a wife with all the hardships unavoidable at that time dirk 1 Is a born selina of N vermont erm 0 nt stock stoc k businesslike and shrewd has plants plans for building up the farm which are ridiculed by her husband maartje pool klaas wife dies and after the requisite decent interval teral ln klaas n marries arries the widow pearlen berg tho the boy itself sixteen years ears old now leaves his home t to make his way to france and study stud his ambition being to become a sculptor dirk Is eight years old when ills father dies selina hellna rises to the occasion and with v ath dirk takes a truckload of i vegetables sege tables to the chicago market to the amazement of her neighbors the men at the haymarket regard selina bellna as an intruder CHAPTER VII continued 10 selina turned the horses heads toward the city be surprised jan to know of till nil tile the filings youre going to hear of some soine lay day that youve never neer heard of before sit still II 11 when twenty years cars had passed and ali lie ford the phonograph the radio and the lie rural mall mail delivery delhery had dumped the world at jans plodding feet lie he liked to tell of that momentous day when ellna dejong had driven oft off to market like a man with it a wagon load of hands scrubbed rubbed garden truck and tile boy boj dirk perched beside her on the seat if then lien you ou had been traveling the halsted alsted II road you would hie have seen it decrepit wagon vegetable laden inden driven by a too thin woman sallow brightened in a shapeless black dress a bat 1 acred 1 lack black felt list art that looked like a mans old fedora and probably was on tile the sent seat beside tier lier you would have hae seen n farm boy of nine or thereabouts a brown freckle faced tail lad in a comically hoine tunde suit of clothes and it a straw lint hat with a broken and hopping flopping brim which lie was forever jerkins jerkin orf off only to have it set on again by the woman who seemed to fear the effects of the liot hot moon sun on his close cropped heau head at t their feet was the dog pom a mongrel whose tall bore no relation to ills his head whose ill assorted legs ap conred wholly tit at variance with his sturdy etui d barrel of a body tip ile dozed nav for it lind been ills his duty to watch tile lie wagon load at night while pervus slept A shabby enough little outfit but bill magnificent too here was selina dejong driving up the hulsted halsted road toward the city instead of sitting black robed in the farm parlor while high prairie came to condole in selina at ah they cogged jogged along the hot dusty dasiy way there welled up a feeling very cry like elation more afore than ten years ygo ugo S slie lie had driven with klaus klaas pool up that hint same road for the first time and lit in spite of the recent tragedy tr aged of tier her fathers fu death tier her youth tier lier loneliness the terrifying thou thought glit of tile the new home to which she bile wits was go going ing a stranger among strung strangers rs slie site had been cons conscious clous of a warm warin little thrill of elation of exel excitement of aden lure I 1 that was it the whole things just a grand adventure tier her father simeon peake had said ant and now the sensations of that lay day were repeating themselves them seles now us as then slie she took idock youth was gone but slip she had health courage a boy b of if nine acres of workout farm land drelling duelling du I elling and outhouses out houses in it a bad still state of repair and it u g egiy ay spirit that was never to die though it led tier lier into curious pences and sit slie often found at tile the end only a track waste from which she had to retrace her steps painfully hut but albas to tier her red led and green cab linges were to be jade and burgundy burgund chry chriso ase tin and porphyry life ars hrh no weapons I 1 against a woman like that down the hot dusty country r road slie site wits was serious enough now tile cost of tit alie e funeral to be paid the doctors bill jans wages all the er benses large and small of the pour poor little farm holding on down the road idere a head at n front room window there it a womans comans call coed figure standing in the lie dour wily mrs mr i Nt inder slade on the porch fanning tier flushed cacti wah her ter apron corrella cornelia snip in the lie yard pretending to tie tic up ahr drooping stalks of tile the golden glow and tile tie approaching pro aching team with tile ryll gossi gossips p s gaze gaie to these selina wave waed bowed called t by EDNA FERBER 0 1 doubleday pegg co service how ayou do mrs vander A prim reply to 0 o this salutation disapproval writ large on tile the furm farm cifes flushed face I hello lello cornella cornelia I 1 A pretended start not notable tible for its bad acting oil 01 itt if it you mrs dejonge suns in my eyes ees I 1 think it was you QU III like e that Wonie ns eyes ees hostile cold peering phe five six the boy bo climbed over the lie wheel tilled filled a tin pall with water ut lit it farmhouse well TI they I 1 ey tile ate and dr drank ink us its they rode along for r there was no time to lose the boy had started out bravely enough in the heat of the lily day sitting up lip very ery straight beside ills his mother calling to the horses shrieking and waving his arms arins at chach chickens ells that new flew across tit lie toad road now kow lie began to droop drool no should say not ills lids were heavy she wrapped the old black fascinator about him in the twilight the dust gleamed white on weeds and brush bru sli and grass the taron oft mellow of n cowbell horses hoots clop chopping clopping ping up tip behind them a wagon passing in it a cloud of 0 dust a curious backward glume glance or a greeting exchanged one of tile ho boys bos or jakob boomsma Boom sma sina youre never neer going to mir mar kot ket alls its dejonge DeJon gl staring with alth china blue eyes cies at tier load yes I 1 am air boomsma that aint work for a woman mis ails dejong you better stay home and let le the men folks go Se Sell linas nas men folks looked up at tier her one with alie asking kIng eyes of a n child one with the trusting eyes of a log dog my at men folks tire are going answered selina but bui then they had always thought tier lier a little queer so it matter much site she urged the horses on refusing to confess to herself her dread of the destination lesti nation which they were approaching lights now in the houses along the way wai ind and those houses closer together the boy oy slept night had come on the figure of the woman drooped a little now as the old wagon creaked on toward chicago A very small figure in the blaik black dress and a shawl bluel over tier lier shoulders she had taken off tier her old black felt hat the breeze ruined tier her hair that was fine tin and soft and it made a little halo about the white face that gleamed almost in luminously I 1 it I 1 nou sly in tile darkness as she turned it up toward the sky ill sleep out with in the wagon it wont hurt either of us it will be warm in town there in the alii market twenty five cents maybe mabe fifty for the two of us in the rooming house fifty rents cents just to sleep it takes hours of work in the fields to make fifty cents slie site drove along in the dark a dowdy farm woman in shapeless garments just a bundle on the rickety sent seat of a decrepit truck wagon the alie lights of tile the city cattle came nearer she was thinking clearly if disconnectedly without bitterness without reproach my aly father was wrong ile he said that life was vaa a great adventure a fine show ile he said the more things that happen to you ou the richer you ou are even een it if not pleasant things living lie he said no matter what happens to you good or bad its just so much what was us that word he used so much oh yes yea velvet elet just so 90 much velvet elet well it true ile he had brains and charm and knowledge and lie he died in it a gambling house baiot while looking on at someone else who was to have hae been killed now kow were on tile the cobblestones will dirk wake up lip my little so big no lies asleep asleep on a pile of potato sacks because his mother thought that life wits was it a grand adventure a fine show and that you took it its as it came A lie ile ive taken it as it cattle came and made the best of it that tile the way you take the best und and make mal A the most of it thirty third fifth street that was another hour and a half to reach the lluy ha market im not afraid after all you ou just sell vou sour r vegetables for what you ou can get well its going to be different with him I 1 call him any alii more ile he like it dirk it i fine name dirk dejong no drifting along for him ill sop see flint dial he starts with it a plan find and follows it liell hell line have every eer chance every chance too late for me now hut bill liell hell be different twenty second sit acet twelfth look at all the people im enjoying tills this no use denying it im enjoying this jut alist as I 1 enjoyed driving along with klaas pool that evening years ears and years cirs ago scared but it perhaps I 1 to be hut but hypocritical and sneaking why not if I 1 really do enjoy it ill wake him dirk I 1 dirk were almost there look at all the people unit the lights were almost there tile the boy raised himself from froin ills bed of sacking looked about blinked sank back again lint and curled into a ball dont want to see the lights people ile he was asleep ngali selina guided the horses skillfully through tile the downtown streets Bt they were within two tivo blocks of the haymarket has market 0 on n ran ilan dolphi street dirk I 1 come now come tin no liere here with ru root other lier q rumbling lie climbed to the seat cent yawned dawned smacked ills lips rubbed ills knuckles into lilt ills ees I 1 soon lie wits was awake and and looking about him interestedly they turned into the haymarket Ha the wagons were cre streaming in front boiu tile german truck forms that lay to the he north of chicago us its well us from tile the dutch farms filut lay ay to the lie southwest whence selina tame came fruit and vegetables tons of it neres of it piled in tile the wagons that blocked tho the lit historic square quare through tills little section and and south water N I 1 titer street that iny lt to tile the east cast haq passed sed all the erdina verdant er dint growing glow ing things that fed Chi cagos millions something of tills canie to selina uy its slie she maneuvered lier her way ny through the throng slie site felt n little thrill of of achieve ment site she knew tile lie spot slie she wanted for tier her own it was just across tile way from froin chris Spank rant rooming house and saloon chim knew tier had known benua for foi years and ills his father before min him would be kind to tier her and the hoi boy in case of need dirk was wide awake now eager ex excited citel lie he called to the horses stood up tip in the wagon but clung citing closer to her a ni they the found themselves in the thick of the melee I heres leres a good place mother here I 1 theres it a dog on that wagon like alom aloin hearing it his name stood up looked into the boys bos face quivered qu hered wagged a nervous tall barked burked sharply shai ply down poin ioel I 1 quiet pont pom I 1 1 site she did not want to attract attention to herself lier self and the boy it was fill early she had made excellent lune lime ianus had often slept in snatched i its as lie he drove into town ton and the horses tin tugged lagged but selina had urged them thein on oil tonight halfway down don the block selina espied dhe place blie bhe u wanted anted irom froin tile opposite direction came a truck farmers curt cart obviously making for the same stand for tile the first time that night im here to sell the vegetables I 1 helped raise get gel out of my way youl you I 1 selina drew tile the out of its socket and clipped sharply tier surprised nags with a start and a shuttle they broke into tin mi awkward lope ten seconds too late the german farmer perceived tier her intention whipped up ills own tired droll team arrived at tile the spot just its as se 11 linn naj the lie wn n prepare prepared to hati into the lie vacant acuna space 1 I atti ell get out of there you sou ile he roared then lien for the first time per ce caled ived in the dim light of the street that ills rival was a woman ile he faltered stared open mouthed tried other tactics you cant can t go in there missus oil oh yes I 1 can she backed tier her dexterously yes we ML aunt shouted dirk in an a attitude of fierce belligerence belll gerence 1 wheres Wh cres our man demanded the defeated driver glaring here replied selina put tier lier land hand on dirks head tho the other prop preparing tiring to drle drive on re calved tills with incredulity lie he assumed the existence of a husband in the neighborhood lit chris bels beis talking prices edth v illi a friend at another wagon when lie should be liere here attending to ills his own in tile absen absence e of tier natural p protector ro lie he rell relieved eved ills his disgruntled feelings as lie gathered up the lie reins woman aint got no business here in haymarket anyway better youre home night time almo in your our kitchen where you ou belong this admonition 0 so o glibly mouthed by so BO many ann ile people ople in the tie past few days ns now was uttered once too often Se gelinas linas nerves snapped dont talk to roe me like that you ou great stupid what good does it do it a woman to stay home hoine in tier her kitchen if ashes going to starve there and tier her hoy boy with tier staying home in ny illy kitchen wont earn all me any money moncy im heri here to sell tile vegetables I 1 helped raise and im going to do it get out cut 01 al my illy way you ou now kow flie file over the wagon wheel to tn unhitch the tired horses horse it Is impossible tit U tell hill interpretation tit tha north sider put upon tier nim emente certainly lie he hud had 10 nothing to fear front from this small gaunt creature etli the lie blit klitzing blitzing zing eyes never theles s as aa lie gathered up ills his reins terror was i writ alt large on his rubicund face I 1 what it a woman 1 was off la in a clatter of wheels and hoofs on the cobblestones selina swiftly you stay liere here dirk with boiu motheral Mot herll ile be back baci in it 11 minute she bile marched down the lie street driving the horses to tile the bains where here for twenty five cents the 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