Show Q U ID h y eel III bv D APPLETON AND COMPA GOOD giell general factotum in the bouse house et of her plater ina wife of herbert deacon in the email small town of warbleton War bleton lulu bett dett lead leads a dull cramped existence with which she li Is constantly at enmity though apparently satisfied with her lot bobby larkin recently graduated high school youth Is secretly en adored of deacon a 3 elder daughter diana the family la Is excited over the newa news of an approaching visit from deacon a brother fintan whom he had bad not seen for many years unexpectedly finlan ar rives riven thus he be becomes acquainted with lulu first and understand understands her position in the house to lulu fintan in 1 ft a much traveled man of the world and even the slight in n terest which he takes in her li is appreciated because it Is something new in her life at an outing which the family takes fintan and lulu become I 1 e ex presses his disapproval of her treatment as a sort of dependent in the deacon home diana and bobby in the course of soft noth ings ing discuss the possibility of eloping and ser surprising the whole school lulu has awakened to pleasant possibilities cone conar r ng n nin finlan tan s intentions toward louard herself finlan taken the family for a good time in the adjacent city at upper supper after the theater as part of a joke lulu repeats the words of the civil marriage cere care mony with finlan herbert re members that a civil wedding Is binding in n t the a state and inasmuch as he Is a magistrate finlan and lulu are legally married IV continued 3 ina inexplicably began touching ariy tears oh she said what will minima sir siy lulu h ardly heird her mrs bett was vas incalculably d stant you sure lulu said low to ninian for the first time something in her exceeding isolation really touched him sav I 1 ie e fil sill I 1 you come on NN with ith me well liae hane it done over oner again somewhere if you siy sly so go oh slid lulu if I 1 thought he ile leaned and patted her hand good girl I 1 e said they sat a lent finlan on the cloth with the flat of his plump I 1 anda dwight returned it a s a go all rigl bigit t he besold slid he ile sat down laughe lau bel 1 rubbed at his face you two are tied as tillit as tie church could tie you I 1 food enough said fintan eh lulu its its all right I 1 guess lulu eald said well III be dished said dwight sister 1 said ina fintan meditated his lips set tight and high it Is impossible to trace tl e processes of tl ti Is man perhaps they were nil all compact of the devil may care att sit tude en engendered gendered in any tiny persistent stent traveler perhaps Perli aps the paral ie le cookery of lulu played it its I 1 art rt iwas I 1 wae going to make male a trip south tt 0 Is n anth I 1 e said on my way 4 home from here suppose we get marled agian by somebody or other and start rigl rigi t off you d ule that m oil t 3 iou ou going south I 1 les es eald said lulu only its it s july said ina with her sense of fitness but no one I 1 eard it was ran ci ranged ed tl at their trunks sl f how ilow it etem em ina would mould see to that tl ti ough sl e was scandalized that t tl ey were not arst to return to IN war ar bleton for tl it e blessing of mrs bett mamma won wont t mind said lulu mamma mimma cin t a fuss any more they left the table the men ind women still sitting at the oti er tables jiw nothing unusual about these four indifferently dressed indifferently conditioned the I 1 otel orchestra orches tri ragtime in deafening made lulus vi wed edling ling march 0 a it was still early nest next day a hot sunday when ina and dwight reached home mrs bett was stand ing on the porch IN Wheres here s Lulie asked mrs bett they told airs mrs bett took it in a bit at a time her iler pale eyes erched their tares 61 e shook her head heard it again rasped grasped it her first question was who vahos s gol to do 3 jour our work toa ina had bad thought of that and this was mae manifest oh she eald said yon you and III have to banige mrs belt bett meditated frowning I 1 left the bacon for her to cook for borr ts she said laid I 1 can cant t wok bacon fit to eat neither can you wave had our breakfasts ina from this dilemma had find it up in the city 07 on expense IN well ell we dian didn daunt diunt t I 1 lave ave much in mrs rett s ea ases es gathered but they were not for lulu ST T sl oum tl it in binl she s ild I 1 should athir bar 1 I 1 lule ul 1 I in mg g t have I 1 lad ad a I 1 atle pore laore gratitude gritl tude to her than this on their way to chuich ina and I 1 dwight encountered dl who hid bid left the house some time earlier step ping sedately to church in company with bobby birkin dl di was in white and her face was the face of an angel so young so questioning so utterly devoid of her sophistication that child said im ina must not see so much of that birkin boy she s just a little little girl of course she t dwight sharply and if I 1 was her moti er oh ob stop chati said ina sotto voce noce at the church steps to every one with whom they spoke in the aisle after church ina an bounced their news had they I 1 card eard lulu married dwight s brother finlan I 1 W if to every one with whom they spoke in the aisle after church ina announced their news in the city yesterday oh sudden aest es and rom antic spoken with tl ti at inflection to which ina was a prey V august mrs bett had been having a tan trim brought on by nothing definable abruptly as sl e and ina were getting supper mrs bett had fallen silent I 1 ad in fact act refused to reply when id ad dressed when all was ready and dwight waa was entering hair wetly brushed brosl ed she had withdrawn from the room and closed her bedroom door until it echoed she ashes s got one again eald said ina grieving deigl t you go he ile went showing no sign of annoy ance and stood outside his mother in la law a door and knocked N answer mother come and have some sup per no answer looks to me III e your muffins was just about the best ever 0 no o answer come on I 1 had bad something funny to tell you and find ina lie ile retreated know in ing noti ing of the admirable control exercised by this woman for I 1 er own satisfaction in sending I 1 in aw iy ay un satisfied he ile sl owed noti ing but ans lous tons concern touched with regret at his failure ina too returned from that door discomfited deigl t made a ballint effort to re retrieve trIeNe the fillen fortunes of their evening meal and turned upon dl DI who hid bid just entered and m ith exceed ng facetiousness in quiren how bobby was dl di loo ed hunted sl e could never tell wheal cr or her parents were going to tease her about bobba bobb or rebul rebut e I 1 er for being seen with him it de penda on mood and this mood dl DJ had find not the experience to gauge she now groped for on e neutral fact and mentioned that ht was going to take her and jenny for ice lee cream that night inas ina s irritation found just espres sion slon in I 1 er off offee ce of I 1 wont won t have 3 ou downtown in the evening sl e sid s id ld but vou let i e go last night all the better reason why you should not go I 1 tell vou ou cried dwitt why not all walk down dovin why not ill all I 1 ive i e ice fee cream he lie was all gentleness ind propitiation tl it e reconell concil re ng element in I 1 is I 1 ome me ale too monon i a ardent I 1 ope ter 1 er tei temble feir were in her ee I 1 rows ler parted lips YU too certainly dwight could not do enough for ei ery k ry me ne monona clapped I 1 er bands 1 goody I 1 goody I 1 last time yea you let we go that s v by papa a going to tat take you tl is t me ina slid these ethical balances bal inces having been nicely ina proposed another but she slid but sou must eat more supper or vou cann t go I 1 dont don t wint ny more monona s look was I 1 onest and find piteous mal val es no difference lou must eat or i 3 ou 11 get sick not 1 ery cry well tl ti en no Is ice fee cream soda for such a little girl monona began to cry cat but she aisse I 1 I 1 er plate she ate chew ing I 1 agh and sir wl see sl e c n cit it if she will n III eat ina sid to dv igi t hie only trouble Is she will not take tale the time she don t put her mind on her meals dwight herbert alagno diagnosed ed it oh oli bigger bites than tt tl at I 1 he en lounged his little daughter laughter dl s mind had bad been proceeding along its own piths are vou v on going to tale jenny and bobby too she inquired certainly the whole pirty bol by 11 want to pay for jenny and I 1 I 1 ale me darling said ina patiently p and less punctiliously idled nonsense this Is going to be papa papas s little pirty put we had tl if e engi engagement gement with bobby it wis an eng well said ina I 1 tl ink we 11 just set that aside tl it at en ga gement I 1 think vie ue just will papa I 1 boby 11 wint to be the one to for jenny and I 1 di 1 ina s voice dominated a n I 1 will 3 vou on be more careful of your grammar or shall I 1 speak to you again ivell W ell id I 1 d rather use bad grammar thin than than P she bookel resentfully sent ent fully at her moti er her father their moral defection was evident to her but it was indefinable tl TI ey told her that she ought to be ashamed when papa wanted to give them all a tre it she sat silent frowning put upon I 1 look ook mamma I 1 cried monona swallowing a third of an egg at tit one on impulse ina saw only the empty plate mammas nice little geril cried she shining upon her child the rules of the ordinary sports of 0 the pi pl ground scrupulously applied would have hae cla clarified rifled the ethical at of this little family but tl ere was no one to apply tr em wl WI en dl di and monona had been excused dwight asked nothing new from the bride and groom lo no 10 and dwight its it s been a week weel since the last see where are they then lie ile I 1 new perfectly well tint thit they were in sm savannah annah georgia but ina placed ed its 1 Is game told him and retold bits blat tl at the letter had bad said I 1 dont don t understand she ad led aliv they should go straight to oregon vi without coming here tere first dwight hizir ded that nin pro lilly il ly had to get bad bael and find shone pleasingly in the reflected importance of a brother filled with affairs I 1 don t know what to make of I 1 u lu in s letters ina proceeded they re so st lou haven t had but two have VOU that s all well of course its it s only been a month but both letters hive bide been so ina was never nener really articulate whatever corner of I 1 er brain hid bid the blood in it at the moment seemed to be operative and she let the matter go at that I 1 don t think its it s fair to mimmi going off tint thit way leaving her own mother why she may never see mamma again ina a breath caught into her face came something of the lovely tenderness with wilch wl ich ste ome sometimes times looked at monona and dl DI sl st e sprang up she I 1 ad forgotten to put some supper to warm for mamma the lovely light wis still in her fice vice as sl ale e bustled ab ut against tl ti e time of mamma s recovery from her tantram dwight a face was like tl is when he spoke of his foster mother in both these be there was nas Pom something ething which functioned as pure love ime mamma manima I 1 id d recovered and va wis eat ing cold scrim scribbled bled eggs on tl e corner of tie kitchen tible when nhen tie ice lee cream ream soda party N was nas as ready to set out dw gl gi it tl rew I 1 er a it casu il it let come too moti moil er bett but ale sl e shook her head she ed to go ed it with violence but ale sl e con to give ghe to her arbitrary refus il i i quality of contempt when jenny arnved with bobby sa s1 ale e hid bid bault t a of glad gladioli loll for mi mis s bett tin I 1 tool them to her in tl e I 1 itchen and as she lild bild the flowers aloni ers bes de I 1 er tl ti e girl stopped and kissed her you little darl n angl 1 I cried mrs bett and clung to her her lifted ebes I 1 it t by something intense and living but when the lie ice cream party had set oft off at nt last mrs belt left her supper gith g ith ered up the flontis annl an cr sed the lawn to the old cripple grandma gasps inie sl a n t have em 0 the old woman thought and tl ti en it was quite beautiful to watch her with gates cates hom ale tendel and petted to 1 alose I ose complain she listened ind to 0 o wl ora om sl e tr ed to tell tl e sm 11 en v ants of I 1 er div alen wl en her jezl ne gl bor or had bid gone grin ima ates s 10 it ti 1 it t i v is as g d is i i dose of i i e ine cine to I 1 ai ave e her ion ton e in you ee said lulu he had another wife EO DE LOTI O I 1 D i do and it ft A ill sm sion 1 ite a |