| Show CIMARRON THE STORY Yancey Cravat Junt Juat returned from th the n newl newly opened Jn Indian lan territory relates hU hili a ato to a large Urn gathering of th the Ven Vin al all able U family Yanc Yancey la II marr married to H Sabra bra Venable la Is a criminal lawyer and ami editor of th the Wichita WIgwam When th the Run Hun tatted Yancey had raced his hla pony against th the thoroughbred mount of a girl The gifts gift's horse horre was waa Injured and when Tancey Yancey stopped to hoot shoot It eh she Ih grabbed his hla pony puny and Rot got the tile land Yanc Yancey y wanted Vancey Yancy announces announce h he h. I is II going hack back to 0 the the- Oklahoma country with lIh Sabra and their year four old ton eon Cimarron They make the journey Journy In two covered wagons They arrive at Osage where Yancey Intends to atari start a Yancey ancey In la determined to find and out who killed I I Pewter Pew Pew- KIff K- K Iff ter of Ih the New liar hay Preparations for the publication of th the Okla homa Wigwam ar are ar completed Yancey consents to conduct II- II vine worship on Sunday During It Ilia services Yancey announces announce h he h. has haa learned who killed Peg Peg- ler lie Jle II tonne In time to tn eira 4 n a bullet fired by Still Yancey Vancey shoots and BId kill Then h he announces announce that killed PeRler Sabra's second leeond child chIM Donna la le about three yea years yean ol old t when ahe she return to Wichita fur Far her KM first visit Yancey Yancy frustrates a bank hank rot rol bery Lery and kills two desperadoes Yance Yancey urges Sabra to join him himIn himIn himin In the thus Hun Run at the opening of the Cherokee Cherok trip She Sh refuses refuse CHAPTER VII VII Continued Continued 11 II Saturn's wan wag Intended to bo ho cold roM Her heart sho she told toll herself woe win breaking Tim TIll change o that these last four tour years yean had lutil made In tier her never ne woe wag worn moro apparent than now You Vou felt the same mt woy ny when I t tInt wont went oft off to the first t Hun Yancey reminded her You carried on Just one ono degree less INS than thon your mother And If It I gone ono you'd you'll still Mill he be living In la the lionso In with your smothering you oil In Southern South South- h- h ern rn fried chicken end and advice There touch much truth In III title this she fihe lint had to 10 ml- ml Jull She Sho melted clung riling to him I eY I Smile BU sugar nr Walt Valt till you tee see Clot and I Donna years from now riding the Cravat acres Ires After nil all n It hundred other men In o. o Osage were vere going coins to mill the tho Chero- Chero eo o Strip fun JIun The town town town-thu tho whole hule territory territory had had talked of or nothing else Iso fer month Slip She dried her eyes s She Rho even n man man- fI used aged tl n watery otry smile 11 lie w WD ne making the tho ho stun on a n brilliant wild eyed mare J with n It strain drain of Spanish In her for fur speed nod grace ral find and n a strain of or American must mustang nil for endurance The Thin start was shortly shortly short short- ly Iy n after sunrise so ns as to make progress before the heat bent of or the Iho day dilY a awoke them before lawn dawn with a n tnt n of shooters six and n 1 blood curdling series lIerl of cowboy yips 11 The escort rode rl with nail the others for fr n a distance out on the plains plain Sabra nt lit the last minute had the family horse borse hitched to the buggy hugy bundled and ond Donna In with her 1 Isaiah hanging on behind soma the how the prim little vehicle ed d and 1 reeled II Us its way WilY over o the prairie road In fn the wake wilke of Ir the departing ad all At the Ihl last Sabra threw the rein reins to Isaiah sprang from front the hu buggy y run ran to 0 Yancey as ns hI he pulled 1 up his hor horse l' l lie lIn bent far over r In hi his saddle picked lier er tip up In one great t arm aril held her hr Clo close n while he ho kissed her Ion long an and l hard bard Sabra come pome with lIh me mI Lets Let's get clear away from this Youve gone craty t I The Ihl children I IThe The Ihl children too All of II us Come Comer r on en n. n Now v I Ills Us eyes were wro blazing She fhe saw that he tae actually meant it It A sudden premonition n shook her Whore are you ou going Where are you rou going IIo lie sot sitt her tier down Gently and was ort off turned halfway ny In his the saddle to 10 turn face liar her his white while l sombrero held aloft In his tats hand his lda curlin curling black locks Jocks tossing In the Oklahoma breeze Five years passed 1 before she saw sow him again CHAPTER VIII Di Dixie le tI were rl riding d ln by hy on their dally daily afternoon parade Satire glanced tip as 1 they drove e by She was at nt her desk 1 by hy the window In Inthe Inthe the hl front of the Oklahoma WI Wig Ig om tier Her tn then darkened now as ns she hI saw lW t them driving slowly by hy I Dixie 1 i t Lee Iee never nver drove Iro with them ru knew where she sho was this afternoon She was os down In the hack back room of the Osage First National 1 hack bank talking business to th the president Murch Ran Han kin The business s men of the town were Irl negotiating for tor the bringing of I the packing house amid nud a plow works and a 1 watch factory to Osage Osal Any Anyone Anyone Anyone one of these Industries required a substantial sub sub- bonus The of or the day lIay dayas as as S the boom spirit Room the tae town lown of or Usage Osage I Dixie Lee Iee was essentially a commercial woman woman shrewd shrewd clear headed She hall had made malle a u great success suc sue cess CISS of or her t business She was a per perr nonage In the town Visitors came to her lir house now from the cities and ant counties roun round l about She had hat built for tor h herself and her thriving Ing business the first brick structure to In the wooden town own a square squar solid and Imposing two-story two house Its Us bricks formed from the native Oklahoma red clay The house Ia lad al l been opened with a th the tile Hie e of or which ha hat had l laU emu aU vw Lieu seen lit itt th the Southwest By EDNA FERBER I t II by r Edna Ferber Service Ie Sabra Cravat mentioning no names had had hod an on editorial about It In which the phrases Insult to the tie fair womanhood woman I hood of America and sad orgy ory rivaling the Bacchanalian re revels ls of history Yancey library stood her In good tood stead these thelle days figured prominently U tt was was this this red rel brick brothel brothel less less sinister than these good tood and Innocent women suspected inspected I Dixie Lee Ire no now a 8 women oman of thirty or more rule I It with an nn Iron hand Within It obtained certain certain tain laws and rules of conduct so rigid as nil to 10 be he almost prim It was WU In a away away way WilY a club a n rendezvous a salon lalon hundreds of ot men who ho came come there here hereIt It II was nil all they had hall ever lr known wn of richness of color olor of luxury Here lIere they tiey lolled sunk deep dPp In rosy roy comfort Om flirt while they talked territory politics swapped yarns yarM of the old cattle lays days played cards drank wines which tinted tasted use line w water aler to IC their whisky scarred palates They kissed these women thought tenderly of runny ninny of them and frequently married them and these women once married settled down contentedly to on an almost slavish domesticity A hard woman Dixie Tee Lee a bad woman n. Sabra was morally right In her attitude toward her Yet rpt this woman as ns well 11 a as Sabre filled her place In the early life lite of the Ihl territory The fhe Oklahoma Wigwam had nourished flour nour In these lust lost live years of Sahra's Sabra's proprietorship pro She WU was thinking seriously of making milking It a It dally daily Instead of a weekly of using the till entire building build lag ing on fin 11 huska avenue n for the newspaper news hews paper halter plant and ond building a proper house houKe for herself nail and the two children children chil ehll dren on ono one fIt of the rl residence streets newly sprung up streets up-streets streets that boasted neatly painted houses and elm clot and cottonwood cottonwood cot cot- trees In the front yards Some one OliO came up the steps of the lie little porch and Into the tho It was Mrs Wyatt Well Weld she oho exclaimed simply but managing to put enormous normous bite bile and significance Into Inlo the mono mono- II syllable 5 II II hi 1 tier Her glance fd followed 11 d l b Subra bras Together the two women tight lipped condemnatory watched the then lie n gay parade paralle of Dixie girls go by The Hashing flashing company disappeared A whiff hIlT of patchouli float oil back to the two women standing by hy the time open window Their nostrils Ii lifted In dis lis dain Bain The Tho sound pound of the horses' horses hoofs grew fainter Its HH a 1 dl disgrace to the community Mrs Wyatt's Wyatts alts voice took on Its platform plat plat- platform form mid note t r and nn 1 an Insult to tn every Ivry every wife anti and mother r In III the tho territory There ought to o bo hp a n law Sabra turned nw away ny from the he win win- In dow Her ryes eyes sought hl the tho orderly rows row's of hooks hook bound neatly nully In tan toad and red red YonI red Yanceys Yancey's Yanceys Taw law hooks books so 10 long bug unused now except perhaps for occur Monal newspaper reference tier Her face set lItt Itself In lines hues of resolve Per Tor hays there I Is tae A man like Yancey Cravat spec Cravat spec spectacular dramatic Impulsive tins hns has a thousand critics rl tI Ill I'll scores of hitter bitter ene Ine tides mies As the weeks had gone by and Yancey failed to return return had had failed to write write rumor rumor clouded by hy scandal looped leaped like I lire tiro front from house to house In Osage from town to town inthe In Inthe the Ihl Oklahoma country over O the Southwest South west Indeed All the old stories were revived re and their ugly red tongues ticked licked a n sor sordid path through the newly newly new new- ly Iy opened I land They say lIay he Is hs living with the thin Cherokee e squaw who Is really his wit wife They say he lie was seen making the Iho Kun JIun In the KIckapoo opening In InIS IS 1595 They say he ho killed a n man In the Cherokee Strip Run Bun mind and was caught by a II posse us' and hung Ihl They say he tie got jot a wet Ion of land sold 1011 It nt lit a high figure and wa way was seen In lor lording larding It around the bar of the lie n t amace note in lr in 11 his nis white while sombrero and his Prince Albert coat They say Dixie nixie Lee Iee Is ls hU his rend real wife trite and he left her w when hen she w was ie seventeen seven teen came to Wichita ichita and married Sabra abru Tenable and ami he ht Is the one who hits has set tet Dixie up In to the brick lieu hoti t e. e They say soy he drank fl the flue t quarts of whisky one olle night and died and U is t hurt burled aril a I 1 In an unmarked irked grate crave I In lu horseshoe e ranch randl where the I l gang held hlll forth They Ihly say MY he Is U really the leader of the gang rh They say sty They Thy say Ih They say It Is Impossible to I i ho how hoty Sabra survived Ill I'll those first t U- U weeks t that hut lengthened Into that lengthened length h cued ened Into Sears There 1 was as In her this the wiry Iry endurance of the French the pride of the tae southern southerly Venable She Site told herself that Yancey w was as II dead Ill I'll t. t She he told the hue world that he tae W was dead She knew by some deep and unerring Instinct that thul he was alive She ran ron the paper competently wrung from Crom It a decent livelihood for herself an and l the two children When hen It hall hail no longer been possible to keep klI secret from her tier parents the fact of ot Yanceys Yancey's prolonged absence Venable Vellable had descended lI her upon prepared prepared pre pre- parl pared I to gather to the Ihl family bosom her Iter deserted child an and l to brill bring her together with her offspring back hl to the part tal home Lewis had hod been too frail trull and III to accompany puny pany his tads wife so Felice dire had brought it with Ith tier her the more Imposing ln among the enables end and flans Ians who chanced chancell to be visiting the Wichita house bouse at the time of her departure Osage had looked upon these stately figures with much awe but Sabra's reception reception re re- of ot them bad had been 04 IU coolly I cordial as her hr rejection of their plans for tor tier future was firmI firmI firm I Intend to stay right here In Osage sure she announced quietly but In Inn ina n It tone that even I Felice Venable recognized recognized rec ree ns M Inflexible and run the paper and bring up my lilY children as their f father would woold have expected them to be brought up III I mean meon to stay here hereIn hereIn In Osage until Yancey Yancey until She never nl finished that sentence The Tile Osage Osne society notes became b less Iss simple rom From hare bare accounts of quilt quill ings Ins sewing bees bell and churl church h so so- they blossomed med Into flowery nowery Imitations of the tho metropolitan dailies dailies' descriptions of social events ent Sabra was without being fully aware of It a power that shaped the social aspect of this crude rule southwestern southwest southwest- ern town The fhe ladles ladies of I the he new nelV Happy lour Hour club on her declining de to become a member pleasing pleading lack HICK or time and press Iress of work n ai as well II she might III made nil I her an honorary III member mania mem em- em her ber resolved to have her Influential name on their club roster somehow f e As Aa Sabra Looked at Him She Knew They were paying unconscious tribute to Oklahoma's first feminist She still ran the lie paper single handed with the tho aid alII of or Jesse the most expert printer In the Southwest when sober SOhN and as us goo good II as the lie 0 average erne erneI I when drunk There still sUII a was vas very little actual money t In lu n the Iho territory 1 People I e traded this for that Sabra often trall translated subscriptions to the this Oklahoma Okla Olda homa loma Wigwam Wigwam and even eu advertising space Into e Into terms of frt fresh h vegetables berries wild willi turkeys quail prairie chickens dress lengths and shoes sloes and stockings for the tae children Sol Levys Levy's store stor grown Iron n to respectable respect able oLle proportions now provided proDded Sabra with countless nl necessities In return for forthe forthe forthe the advertisements mm I which Ii were re sent through the country via Ia the Oklahoma Wigwam am In n quiet dreamy n way Sol 11 Levy lety Y had hall managed to buy a n surprising lug ing amount of Osage real estate e by hy now lie III owned IJ th the lot on ou which his hU store stood the one olle Ju just t south of It anti and omon among other pieces piece the tho 1 build building nod and lot tut 1 which comprised the site of the tIl 1 Wigwam I uni anti and the be Cravats Cravats' houe house In Ia Inthe Inthe the year ar following Yancey's Yanceys departure Sabra's Subra's 0 survival sun was made malle possible only through through tilt the almost shamefaced generosity of this quiet eyed earl manJe man Ive Je got dot ot It all nil down d In m my books boks Sabra ahra would say 1111 proudly You know that Il It will all be 01 Iii paid pahl iii hack back sonic some day dap He Ile begun began In th tilt the Oklahoma am ama a campaign u of nut lh advertising out of all proportions to 10 hits his n needs 1111 8 and Sabra's debt to 10 hint him begun began to shrink to tn the vanishing point She SlIe got Into the habit of talking to him about her business problems and he advised ad her shrewdly When she he was utterly dial dla- dla 1 t- t ii I 1 on nr lane f fri frU u nc V vv UJ oJ j au n but as one who |
