Show L ul P 01 t 4 at by A GUNTER copyright 1112 by A ress ambrose remar remarked ked mrs gr grant tit wood jack wuen alian Js s a boy pe tie has ha written i ten some poetry tt to genevieve Genev leve i i lt ua unfortunately fortunately A mr ir grantwood Grant rant wood vas was prejudiced aga against ins it r poe poetry t ry stall ar and athe the theater beate rai I 1 cpr r he knew w mat hat these things had nothing tp to do the j hardware business and he lie elt thai they wera were apt it to lobo improper so he ban babied ed lit att list down on tha tale table and cried i poetry theil the boy 9 an idiot hes he s very much in love with gene rene vieve replied his rile irrelevantly well why cant can t he court her with common sense and plain prose did I 1 write poetry to you lily mande va 1 iq enow navy dad declared yhomas homas gant h as a hat stil ic egla Sa amyeL v nil a ck pl i tn be re son bie you arity a Y ayi know aft or L i U V ym e w bu but il sa s1 silly lly and and c celay illy an and d ala mandeville ev file w with ith ill III and pill the combination q words was against you 4 anyway away the verses were very afy peTs persisted isted mrs grantwood Grant wood f whose idea ot of poetry was bounded on one side by the psalm of life and on the other by boy C r f w sh shall I 1 i I 1 not arivs R f hak taj b 1 1 ob r 0 t gr r eye n d 0 it the VV e e c at I 1 14 film aa etli nl th the e rats were ira ki I 1 i uw UTI led la ance ce good I 1 always hue knew w that boy df IF I 1 r b in I 1 adili I 1 sleep last night for the rats ahey V raiq room jle sol Q e As donor of the cat jack wilton r re e alve od jae attal aleut from G genevieve Genev in I 1 leve v s fatter batner ye yet tv t the h e jaan e mill a and r f nance dance was clouded he lie litt had d deter in ed ito to try hisa fate alaj that ai 1 gaela GA get elb e vieve that that he e loved love her that thal life was nothing without her and a num berof of other beautiful remarks that he had carefully prepared tor for the occasion he chehad practiced 1 bis speech in his room hsc got told hl sall that it should be now or deverr aiva aad ahad bad left come home alth abounding self belf butt becore fief reached rhe the grantwood Grant wood home he experienced ced a aT QUlar c ind nd asad a Ms rhia arage began to dwindle iq at thep tb ernt door it had sunk below tile waist I 1 ij line an alq wha net her was w as ithe the parlor it had ebbed entirely away jack wilton was ras not afraid at 0 the choleric mr air gr grantwood Grant n vivo wood 0 o or the neu re mrs if was the girl herself hdm h ead 41 bim astle D tt whether it was ras the smoothness of her blonde hair the whiteness pt c her stiffly laundered dresses the tile passion jess less common sense shining in lien eyes byes whether lierl ll 11 awas was any lilly or all of these things the young man could not tell but certain it was that he lie had never been able to make love to genevieve Genev leve though he had served long and faithfully in her train many frantic efforts he bac made but gene vieve was ras neither sentimental nor flirtatious and hei heir cheerful frien friendly dil ll neta bl his aromatic ro matic bights kao now he he gaad gazed in dumb misery ry from alit the rug at her feet to the clock ahls geneveve sang ua all 11 her lit oad tongs andi hanf in the last installment of the he 4 s friend it wasja lrea aa 10 20 and at 10 30 A as jack wilton new 1 str uld bageard coughing vi violently ole an fn timing room and at that signal all visitors must depart the ther time timor was near ana ancl yet he could not speak meanwhile upstairs s tommy grant wod awoke with a start at a slight soun 41 room and there oil on the table was agrest a great gray rat that was ras heir nightly visitor remembering T noi nio lases ases pre pe cad had loved and a nd I 1 y tommy kiwas kl was p preparing re paring to tong aug 4 a L i at the visitor when a lithe little f form 0 s r r ing ng feord the darkness to t the ra ta b thi ca cat was ras quick apt bp t tp the e rat w quicker and wan with a startled startled ak if bum ped J for I 1 theldor thel doo aard acu I 1 led q downstairs the nev hewat v albard jbard behl becj d it 1 I 1 mi i A grantwood Grant wood lying in bed and w abc h 14 tile clock decided i that it ww wag time for ambrose to begin cough arg in the cluing room ambrose hea called callec thu hu the oa on her alp toj loi strange thu thun thumping aping ping and bumping on the stairs and a huge rat pursued by the new nevi cat rushed into the room they ran both the pursued p issued and the pursuer right over the sleeping bleeping form of old alien the negro nurse who lay on a byars Grant woods bea bed 4 1 I bh jh I 1 lord ord decried f cried the et ea carat cana 1 day I 1 ain t dr breed dressed proper to rio 1 in glory kj arsi sl Oran Orani lwood r rose se in bed I 1 and quck a pf action threw v the brass brdas cap car diestock diest lck at at the tie rat a al 1 it rushed pas ahk cardl candle candlestick e stick stich was waa heavy and and if well limed might have done done great damage a tp th rat att unfortunately it hit tilt old ellen S 3 V ohl oh lordy she wailed walled g her holin h ha olin the he bed ed eJot bles don astrike ts in we e dark she javas was firmly per that the end ot at the world had coine come but the rat took a acre a cheer fu u view and hung on to t life w with ith the tei tenacity lacity of a arleia strap haniger with the herisse raed down the hall ball toward the din ing nit hoo rp andja rs gran im ill of 1 rul ul of the mandeville china gathered the bed clothes about her and tol fol lowed in 14 haste 1 i I I 1 u th oi I 1 I 1 lr minding himself that he be was busl bust ness man manager ger sporting editor and society re reporter arter for or the only paper la in th the e c ou u ty that his aunt battle who ha had d ral baled e him had said that very night that tha any girl would be proud broud to m marry a rry nar fliri im and that it must be now or never and all the time he sat at glumly in a straight backed chiare t acing aping geneviev who chatted gayly ard the unusual colstr in the thoi hall and the girl was fright ened before jack wilton could reassure her the curtains parted and the rat and the cat darted into tin tile room the young man sprang up with open arms and genevieve Genev leve utter ing one unearthly shriek rushed antor hafl I 1 mb r c f e her hair was tous d liei k ev w while flie rock frock crushed and jack V it w ow on iff tsi a hot rush of words old id everything that be he had meant 10 arf JO 0 I 1 it sv aei d a great deal more s h e he ile might have talked all night had not a voice of thunder interrupted him sir abat t does this mean meana in the door stood mr air grantwood Grant wood glaring ominously with mrs airs grant wood in curl papers and a blanket trying very hard bard to se beeer and not be grant wood grinning broadly john wili W 1011 s f 0 ar 9 vp I 1 A nor N ering r rages ages but to ever never so angry as this td h arsi a relating Q 1 ft rv ing c tit u 59 so limp a as now TV wa I 1 he did 11 av jr 2 t aa k N genevieve come to your mother V G V 0 deoit rin bevle enot at stir ahe she was ex re D the pr arst it great thrill ot her lit ladylike life oan sad she clung ung to a c beg he lover 11 k 11 cried mi I 1 bwll wel ipg with rage but his wrathful tor wito was bathorn bythorn by Thorn as mandeville a no leville grantwood Grant wood d who shout ed say pa look at sat raf I 1 for fa jack wilton s cat had at laft last cornered 2 ad her prey and ws was bringing her master for the customary praise mr air grantwood Grant wood athla sma I 1 I 1 son 1 looked tO t f 0 good gracious lily h he e ex C fatme 1 what a rat and forgetting h 3 d daughter he fell on his h s knees knes by tt 13 pate I 1 t ll 11 t mr air Grant grantwood wood begged jackall ton ian pressing bis his geato his lhea hart e I 1 love your daughter t f t 1 air 1 grantwood Grant wood was pressing it the e cat to his heart jack he aepli ashes she s the best ratter r jn in jha keate ld I 1 know I 1 am not worthy sighed pe young man I 1 but ill 11 try to m make aia her happy I 1 I 1 she shea s hungry j 11 g air mr Grant woo t and she a much too fine I 1 to eat rats get her a chicken bone tommy wil give her to me urged jack wll ton and the absent minded mr air grantwood Grant wood realized at last that he lie was being asked tor for his daughter daughters a hand he picked up the cat and his eyes began to twinkle all right jack he answered swap witt with you it if you must have genevieve Genev leve 1 must have the cat now that s a bar geln 1 I 1 S IF I 1 f r blittle A littfe inter in the evening jack wilton nilton was lia hastening home tn tell afa aunt saw e ana til A glad new mew s aGThe 0 6 the blood was st still ill pounding unreason unreasonably ahls hi reins ir aid and he jt A va IS seemed to be wa walking biking ian on air w when he suddenly the words of his fits poem came back lo 10 him imbued imbue cr with new land and vi inea ding he thought ot of the time he had spent on that boeri hism nights of gony ala early icorn morg ing ng fittings in pursuit of inspiration from rom the rising sun and nd its queer h he e 1 infused P ed fyr he was ras celil of f ther the opta fekn that a news newspaper ml is f ilter ary that lit wasn gasn t the boena poena that won ron her alter atter alli alii bi bilt it myrold boube u nelly t i |