Show MISS LULU y 1 r J by ZONA GALE by D appleton A VI continued 12 oh by the music houses you go by the sales for thep the first time it oc burred to cornish that this was nas ridle ridic ulous you know im really study ing law he said shyly and proudly law I 1 how very interesting from ina oh but won t he bring up some songs some evening for them to fry over her and dl DI at this dl laughed and said that she was out of practice and lifted her glass of water in the presence of adults dl DI made one weep veep she was so slender so young so with out defenses so intolerably sensitive to every contact so in agony lest she be found wanting it was amazing how unlike was this dl to the dl DI who had ensnared bobby larkin what was one to think cornish paid very little attention to r fer er to lulu he said kindly dont don I 1 you play miss he had not caught her name no stranger ever did olli catch it but dwight now supplied it miss lulu bett he explained with loud emphasis and I 1 ulu burned her slow red this question lulu had usually I 1 answered by telling how a felon had interrupted her lessons and she had stopped taking a participle sacred to music in warbleton War bleton this vignette had been a kind of epitome of lulu lain s biography but now lulu was heard to say serenely no but I 1 im in quite fond of it I 1 went to a lovely concert two weeks ago they all listened strange indeed to think of I 1 ulu as having had expert ances of which they did not know yes she said it was in savan saran nah riah georgia alt she flushed and lifted her eyes in a manner of faint defiance of course she said I 1 don t know the names of all the different inspru ments they played but there were a good many she laughed pleasantly as a part of her sentence they had some lovely tunes she said she knew that the subject was not exhausted and she hurried on the hall was real large she superadded and there were ere quite a good many people there and it was too nv warm arm I 1 see said cornish and said what he had been waiting to say that he too had been in savannah georgia lulu lit with pleasure she said and her mind worked and she caught at the moment before it had escaped isn t it a pretty city she asked and cornish assented with the intense heartiness of the provincial he ile too it seemed had a conversa appearance to maintain by its own effort he said that he had en joyed being in that town and that he was there for two hours I 1 was there for 4 week lulus superiority was really pretty have good we weather athert cornish selected next oh yes and they saw all the dif ferent buildings but at her we she flushed and was silenced she was coloring and breathing quickly this was vas the first bit of conversation of this sort in lulu a life after supper ina inevitably pro posed croquet dwight pretended to try to escape and with his Irre ble mien talked about ina elaborate in his insistence on the third person she loves it we have to humor her you know how it U Is or no I 1 you don t knowl know I 1 but you will and more of the same sort everybody laughing heartily save lulu who looked un comfortable and wished that dwight wouldn t and mrs bett who paid no attention to anybody that night not because she had not been introduced an omission which she had not even noticed but merely as another form of tantram a self indulgence they emerged for croquet and there on the porch eat jenny plow and bobby waiting for dl DI to keep an old engagement which dl DI pretended to have forgotten and to be fright fully annoyed to have to keep she met the objections of parents with all the batteries of her coquetry set for both bobby and cornish and bold in the presence of company at last we went nt laughing away and in the ml mi nute areas of her consciousness she said to herself that bobby would be more in love with her than ever be cause she had risked all to go with him and that cornish ought to be distinctly attracted to her because she had not stayed she was as primi tive as pollen ina was vexed she said so pout lag ing in a fashion which she should have outgrown with white muslin and blue r bbous and find she had outgrown none of these things that just spoils croquet she said ara vexed now N i e can t have a real game from the side ide door where she must have been lingering among the water proofs lulu stepped forth III play a game ale fil e said a As a 0 when cornish actually proposed to bring some music to tie tle deacons ina turned toward dwight herbert all the facets of her and inas sense of responsibility toward dl DI was enormous oppressive primitive amounting in fact boviard this daugh ter of dwight herberts late wife to an ability to compress the offices of into the functions of the lecture platform asna was a foun tain wn of admonition her idea of a daughter daugn ter step or not was that of a manufactured product strictly which you constantly pinched and molded ahe thought that a moral jp preceptor receptor had the right to secrete precepts dl DI tot got them an all but of course the crest of 1 was to marry DA this verb be transitive nay when lovers are a of og each 1 t lf da 4 other or the minister or magistrate Is speaking of lovers it should never be transitive when predicated of par ants or any other third party but it Is ina wag was quite agitated by its transitiveness as she took to her husband her incredible responsibility you know herbert said ina it if this mr cornish comes here very much what we may expect what may we expect demanded dwight herbert crisply ina always played his games an what he expected her to an awer pretended to be intuitive when she n as not so said I 1 know when she didn dian t know at all dwight her bert on the other hand did not even play her games when he knew per factly what she meant but pretended not to understand made her repeat made her explain it waa was as if ina had to please him for say a living but as for that dentist he had to please nobody in the conversations of dwight and ina you siw the his home forming in clots in the fluid wash of the community hell he 11 fall in love with dl DI said ina and what of that little daughter will have many a man fall in love with her I 1 should say yes but dwight what flo do you think of him what do I 1 think of him my dear ina I 1 have other things to think of but we dont don t know anything about him dwight a stranger so on the other hand said dwight with dignity I 1 know a good deal about him with a great air of having done the fatherly and found out about this stranger before bringing him into the home dwight now related a number of stray circumstances dropped by cornish in their chance talks he has a little inheritance coal coming ng to him shortly dwight wound up an inheritance really 7 how much dwight now lim t that like a v woman oman isn t it I 1 thought he was from a good family said ina my mercenary little pussy 1 well she said with a sigh I 1 t be surprised if dl DI did really miss lulu bett the s mocking ba irdi froll dwight insisted slated In accept him A young girl Is awfully flattered when a good looking older man pays her attention haven t you noticed that dwight informed her with an air of immense abstraction that he left all such matters to her being mar ried to dwight was like a perpetual rehearsal with dwight s self imbor tance for audience A few evenings later cornish brought up the music there was something overpowering in this brown haired chap against the background of his negligible little shop his whole capital in hia his few pianos for he looked hopefully ahead woke with plans regarded the children in the street as if conceivably children might come within the confines of his life as he imagined it A pre poster ous little man and a preposterous store empty echoing bare of wall the three pianos icar tear the front the remainder of the floo stretching away like the corridors of the lost lie ile was going to get a dirk curtain he ex and furnish the baca u part of the store as his own room what dignity in phrasing but how idean little room would look cot bed washbowl and pitcher and little mir almost certainly a mirror with a wavy surface almost certainly that and then you know he always added im ion reading law the plow a I 1 ad been asked in that evening bobby was there they were viere dwight herbert said going to have a sing sl dl DI was 70 to play and dl di was now embarked on the most difficult teat feat of her emotional life the feat of remain ing to bobby larkin the lure the be loved lure the while to cornish she instinctively played the role of worn wom anly little girt girl up by the festive lamp every body bodyl dwight herbert cried As they gathered about the upright piano that startled Dwight lah moat standing in ita its attitude at of unrest lulu came in with another lampi lamp do you need this she asked they did not need it there was in fact no place to get set it and thia this lulu must have known but dwight found a place he swept s photograph from the marble shelf of the mirror and when lulu had placed the lamp there dwight thrust the photograph into her hands you take care of that he sat with a droop of lid discernible only to those who presumably loved him his old attitude toward lulu had shown a terrible sharpening in these ten days since her return she stood uncertainly in the thin black and white gown which finlan had bought for her and held fintan a photograph and looked helplessly about she was moving toward the door when cornish called see herel here I 1 arent aren t you going to sing A what hat dwight used the falsetto lulu sing lulu she stood awkwardly she had a piteous recrudescence of her old agony at being spoken to in the prea pres ence of others but dt DI had opened the album of old favorites which cornish had elected to bring and now she struck the opening chords of bonny eloise lulu stood still looking rather piteously at cornish dwight offered his arm absurdly crooked the plows and ina and dl DI began to sing lulu moved forward and stood a little away from them and sang too she was still hol holding ding finlan s picture dwight did not sing he lifted his shoulders and his eyebrows and watched lulu when they had finished lulu the mocking birdi bird I 1 dwight cried lie ile said ba ird finel fine I 1 cried cornish why miss bliss lulu you have a good voice I 1 miss lulu bett the mocking ba ird I 1 dwight insisted lulu was excited 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 yon you it was her first bit of conscious repartee to her brother inlaw in law cornish was bending over dl DI what next do you saya eay he asked she lifted her eyes met his own held them there theres s such a lovely lovely sacred song here she suggest ed and looked down you like sacred she turned to him her pure profile her eyelids fluttering up and said I 1 love it that s it so do I 1 nothing like a nice sacred piece cornish declared bobby larkin at the end of the piano looked directly into DIs face give me ragtime he said n now owa with the effect of bursting out of somewhere dont don t you like ragtime I 1 he put it to her directly dl DI s eyes danced into his they sparkled for him her smile was a smile for him alone all their store of common memories was in their look lets let s try my rock my refuge cornish suggested got up real attractive DI DIs s profile again and her pleased voice saying that this was t the he very one she had been hoping to hear bear him sing they gathered for my rock my refuge oh cried ina at the conclusion of this number I 1 im in having such a perfectly beautiful time isn t every bodar everybody s hostess put it lulu Is said dwight and added softly to lulu she don dont t have to hear herself slag sing it was wits incredible he ile was like a bad boy with a frog ab about out that photograph of finlan he found a dozen was to torture her called at to it showed it to cornish set it on the piano facing them all everybody must have understood ex hepting the plows these two gentle souls sang placidly through the al at bum of old favorites and at the melodies smiled happily upon each other with an air from another world always it was as if the plows walked some fair inter interpenetrating penetrating plane from which they looked out as do other things not quite of os earth say flowers and fire and music strolling home chati that night the plows were vere overtaken by some one who ran badly and as it if she were un accustomed to running mis plow mis plow I 1 this one called and lulu stood beside them say I 1 she said do you know of iny any job that I 1 could get m me e I 1 mean that I 1 id d know how to do ajob for money I 1 mean a job she burst into passionate crying they drew her home with them a a 0 a a lying akaki sometime after mid night lulu heard the telephone ring she heard dwight a concerned ie is that sor so and his eh cheerful ee erful be right t there grandma gates was sick she heard him tell ina in a few moments he ran down the stairs next day they told jiow how dwight had sat for hours that night holding grandma gates oates so th thit ther her back would rest easily and she fight for her faint breath the kd kind fellow had only about two hours of bleep the whole night long TO BB CONTINUED |