Show CIMARRON 9 Jy ByE Edna d n a Fer Ferber b e r by I Edna daa Forb Ferber CHAPTER XIII Continued XIII-Continued Continued 19 19 Khe Rhe went through h It and stood It miraculously until one olle grotesquerie proved too much for tor her III strained 1111 II Id I'd nerves and broke them Hut she slip went nt Into Inlo the III Indian house and saw aw Im sitting beside the Ille Indian woman andas and its as she nhe looked nt at his beautiful weak Iak face she thought I wish Isil that I had Imd never found hIm that day when hn h ho he lost lost on the Ihl prairie long Ion r ng ago l lie II Ic came toward her hr hU his head hend lowered 10 with that familiar look his Rne eyes e. 11 hidden by the lids Look ook nt at me met mel I Sabra commanded In III Inthe Inthe t the h vol voice of ot Felice 1111 Venable NI The Tile boy hoy raised M Ids his eyes She looked nt at him her face stony Ruby Elk lak came town toward Id I'd her with the leisurely Incident insolent scuttling step II The two women Razed gazed at et each Arh other rather ruttier their looks onks clashed like swords held hII high II They Thy did not shake hands There were races there were prizes prize there was dancing In the old 01 Indian days the bucks had raced on foot font for tr fora a prize that t wits Willi n R puny pony tethered Nt I distance and won by hy the Ihl II fleetest Pl 1111 to 10 reach him moun mount I and rude ride him buck back to the starting point Today the prize was n a magnificent cur 11 that stood glittering In III the open olIn field half halfa a mile tulle distant Sabra thought III I mn nm dying I t nm am dying I II And Durum Donna This squaw Is III her ln in Miss Dig Dig- num's on the Hudson I handsome head right had hall hou bought ht the Ihl young couple the house Just across neross the Ihl road from Illg Elks Elk's a story one red brick hll bungalow 1110 lo sub sub- ugly II They showed Saturn Rara and y through h It It It was furnished furnished fur tur complete Mongrel Spanish furniture In III the living room roost-red roost red plush fringe brass nail heads hals ni n. bigas big ns lIS twenty dollar gold cold old pieces An All upright upright up up- rl right ht piano An oak dining room set t A fine hath bathroom room with heavy y rich h bath towels neatly hung on III the racks rucks A shining hilling stained oak oale bedroom set net with witha a ros rose colored taffeta spread Sabra felt n a wave of ot nausea Chu Chis face was nM I U smiling ra radiant II t. t Pane y was Joking and laughing with the Indians In III the kitchen sat lIat n a white girl Irl In a n gingham dress and anti n kitchen apron aran The Ihl girls girl's lisle hair was a so 80 light II n R yellow ns OM to 10 appear appear ap ap- pear almost white Her unintelligent eyes were Vre palest blue Her skin wasso was so io fair ns as to bo ho quite colorless In III the Ihl midst of the roomful of ot dark Indian faces the white face fae of ot the new Cravat nt hired girl seemed to swim s In III n a Nary hnry blob before Sabra's ahra's eyes yes nut Hut she he held on She felt scornful dark eyes eyell on tier her Sabra had a R feeling as I though she Gad been brn disemboweled and now was wall a hollow v thin thing nn an empty shell that moved and walked and talked Dinner Dillner White servants r and negro servants r to watt walt on them A long table tallie seating a score or more morl anti many such tables Bowls nil and II plate piled with food nil all down the length of It lilts 1118 of ot crisp pork roasted In Inthe Inthe inthe the Indian fashion over hot embers sunk In a ft pit lilt In the yard ard and skewered skew skew- red ered with n a sharp pointed stick Howls of dried corn orn Great fat tnt black ripe olives Tinned lobster Chicken Mies Illes of dead ripe strawberries Vast ast plateaus of ot angel food food cake ake covered co with snow no fields fIld of ot Icing Sabra went through the motions of ot otea ea eating tI lit Sometimes she put a morsel mont Into Inlo her hr mouth and actually swallowed swallowed lowed 1 It There was n a great clatter of ot knives and forks and dishes 1 tiling t was nil eaten out of ot on one plate plaIt Platters natters and bowls were replenished Ha Sabra lIbra bra found herself seated beside Mrs Rig lilg I Elk lk On her other side Ide was Yancey He tie was ell eating ling anti and laughing and talking Mrs AIrs Rig Elk was being almost comically polite solicitous She ho pressed 1 this tidbit that dainty on h her r stony guest Down the center of the table at al Int Intervals intervals In In- t r als were huge hue bowls piled with a sort fort of ot pastry stuffed with forcemeat t It was as like a great r at rut ru loll ru loll and piles of ot It vanished beneath the onslaught of ot appreciative guests For Tor Gods Cods sake ke pretend nd to eat ut something Submit Sabra Yancey murmured under his breath Its done now They consider It an all Insult T Try Tto to eat at something She stirred the pastry and und chopped meat that had b been o put lUI on her plate Good 1101 said saud 1 II Mrs rs Rig Ills 11 Elk k beside her anti and pointed at the mass with one olle dusky maculate linger finger Sabra Subra titled lifted her fork to h her r lips and swallowed a bit of ot It It U was Willi delicious de de- licious spicy spicy rich appetizing Y Yes IS the Lille saId wild and thought 1 I niu am being won won- This Is killing 01 me Yes rs It II Is very Tery good This meat this meat this smiling is It chopped or ground through a grinder The huge Indian woman beside h her r turned her hr expressionless gaze gale on Sabra Ponderously she shook her lead head from side to side In negation Naw aw she site answered politely Iy The clatter dutler of ot a fork dropped to tn the plate n a clash among the cups ups and saucers Sabra Cravat had fainted Usage Osage Okla OLla was as a city Where scarcely two decades ago prairie and sky hind had met the 1101 eye 11 with here a buffalo wallow nil ow there an nn Indian encampment you now saw a u twenty twenty- story hotel the Savoy The Italian head waiter bent from the waist and murmured In III your jour our ear his secret about the veal saute with mushrooms mushrooms mush mush- rooms or ur Ih the spaghetti Caruso du Jour Sabin fahrR Cra Cravat congresswoman from Oklahoma lunching In III the Louis XIV room with the members of ot the Ihl Women's Wom um ens en's SIn State Ie Republican 10 committee It I Pf would say 1111 looking hooking up nt Rt him with those thIe Intelligent dark eI eyes ejes Ill leave 1111 It to you tu n Nick hk Only Iv quickly We f haven't much time NIccolo 1 Mazza mini would say any yes es he hI understood No Xo Noone Noone on one land had much time lime In III O Osage Oca age Okla kin Twenty five years earlier anybody who was 1111 In Oklahoma had haI dilated on his hiM or I her eastern connections Town lown If It necessary was fast Kast They had 1181 been n a little ashamed of ot the Kun Bragged about the lilt Splendors splendors dors of ot I the he homes from which they IhlY hind hall come Now nw It wits was considered the till height of chic to 10 10 be ethic to 10 Fa say that your our parents parents par par- through In III covered o rill had come n I wagon unarm Grandparents were still rather rare In Oklahoma As All for the IIII Hun Run of ot it 8 II It was I n eM Mayflower I pr lIn At Atthe Atthe the huge dinner given gl In III Saturn Cravats Cravat's honor when she Mie h was elected congresswoman congresswoman congress congress- rl on s' s woman and from which they tried to 10 exclude Sol ol Levy 0 over our pr vigor Tor vigorous oils ous and triumphant protest I the clod chairman remain of ot the cacti committee on an arrangements arrange p ments menns explained It nil all to Sol ol patron patron- You Iou see were we're Uniting only people who carne came to Oklahoma In the Hun Well sure said the former pets ped peddler Id tiler genially nil all right I walk walked Id The lice Levy y Mercantile If company's 0 Ia II S building now occupied nn RII entire square block Jok tumid was fifteen stories high In III Inthe Inthe the Ihl huge plate glass windows on ten Paw Paw- avenue n postured ladles ladies waxen and coquettish as on Fifth avenue nUI The daughter of ot Mrs Pat Int Lenry Leary nee Crunk Crook Nose always caused quite n a flutter when she came In hr for tomed though h Osage e was wnM to 10 money troney tutu mill the 11 spending oJ of ht It the s' s On n lavishness wits was something spectacular made Hand silk underwear the sheerest sheerest sheer sheer- est of ut cobweb French stockings model hats dresses well dresses well In the matter antler of ot gowns It was no good trying to 10 Influence In fluence Maude Leary lenry or her 11 mother They frankly wanted heads bends spangles and on n 8 foundation of ot crude color The saleswomen were fl polite and acquiescent but they cocked an nn eyebrow nt at one another Squaw stuff Iliff Now that little Cravat girl girl IlIce Felice Cravat at Cimarron Cravats Cravat's daughter- daughter was different Site She Insl Insisted led on plain smart tailored things Young though she was she was Oklahoma Oklahoman state stull woman tennis champion Site She he always said she look looked a n freak In III fluffy nulTy things things like s-Ilke s like a R hoy boy dressed up In III girls girl's clothes She h had long lOll lean muscular arms and a u surprising breadth of ot slim flanked and practically practically Sh She had hall n curious curl curi outs ous trick of or holding he head bend down and looking up at nt you under her tier Ills lashes hIs hI's and when she did that you OU forgot forgot for tor- got ot her hr boyishness for her lashes were like fern fronds and her hr eyes ees In her dark face nn an astounding ocean gray She was n 8 good sport too She didn't seem scent to mind the fact that her mother when she accompanied her wore the blanket anti and was hatless hallos Just like any poor Kew 1 Instead of ot being one of ot the richest of ot the She was rather handsome for a squaw In 10 Ina a big Insolent slow moving wa way Felice I Cravat CrR every one agreed was wasa n R chip of ot the old block blok and by hy that they thy did not her father They rhey were wre thinking of Yancey Cravat old Cravat old Cimarron her grandfather who was now something of a legend In Osage Ol and tind throughout Oklahoma Young and his Osage wife had had a II second child child n a boy boy and and they had culled called In Cello in Yancey roncey alter after the IIII old lW boy I Young Yancey was Willi a bewilderingly handsome mixture of a u dozen types and und forbears Indian forbears Indian Spanish h. French Southern Southwest With that long face the head bond narrow lIo people said suld he loved like the king of Spain without Spain without that dreadful Hapsburg laps Haps burg Jaw jaw- Others said he was the Image of ot his grandmother Sabra lIt Cravat Still others contended that he was his Indian mutter mother over o again again- Insolence anti and all 01 A third would come ome along and say lillY Youre oure crUZ crazy lies lie's old ohl Yancey born torn again R I 1 guess you dont don't remember him There look that's what I 1 mean I Th the rhe way WilY be tie closes his eyes as liS If It he were wre sleepy and then when he dues dos look at nt you straight you feel as If It you'd been struck struIk by lightning II They I say bay ay ht he's hes s FO so smart that the Usages sages believe e hes he's on one of ot their old gods come hack back to 10 earth Mrs Tracy Wyatt RIt she site who had been Donna Ionna Cravat had tried to adopt one of ot her tier brothers brother's children being herself childless but and his wife Ruby III l ak had never lIe consented consented con lon to this thill She was a case II Sf that Donna 0 III Cravat Oklahoma was agreed about that She could get away with things that teat any other woman would he be shot for fur When old Tracy Wyatt att had divorced 11 his wife to murr marry this girl local feeling hail had been very ry much against her hr livery Iery on one had turned d to the abandoned middle middle aged aged wife with attentions and sympathy but the site had met their warmth and I liens with such mull vitriol that I the he they Ml fell back In III terror and II finally II lame came to 10 believe the stories of how how- she had deviled dl and old 1111 Tracy all III through their They 1111 came to tn feel that he ht hurl teem been Jn Justi tl tied fled In III deserting her und and taking to In wife Ite Ihl this and tn fa fa Inciting girl Certainly he hI seemed to take n II newlen new len e on fill life III lost I the five Inches around sI reCa retained host the an 1st line lillI 1111 plo pule something of ot the high ligli h color and spirits of or his old mild driving ln days II s. s and trade made n II grunt lilt 1111 In London Laudon uttering utter utter- Ing 1111 the tIe season when Donna was Willi pre presented sealed at nt court Resides there was wall no withstanding the Ihl money I liven wen In n R country bin hla I hili e of lIt millionaires Tracy fortune win was something to 10 marvel about abort The 1111 name of ot seemed to In be 1 f fIr ever Ir where As AI you II rode 1011 In trains you 1011 saw the chining shining mum round el II blink cick of fit oil nil cars car thousands thou snails sands of lit then them III painted on Oil them In III letters of ot while hili all att OIK Motor 11 k 1 r rt t y A Chip ft bf f the Old Block In Ing through Oklahoma and the whole of the Southwest t you passed tulles mills of lit Wyatt oil tanks whole hole silent cities of monoliths like something grimly than squatting eunuch like eunuch on the prairies As for tor the Wyatt house house It It wasn't a house at nt nil mill hut but n R combination of ot I the palace of Versailles and the Grand Irand Central station In III New tW York It occupied occupied oc grounds about the size sire of ot the Ihl duchy of ot Luxembourg anti on the grounds once barren plain had been set great trees brought from England A mile of ot n avenue planted In elms le led up to to- the mansion amid each elm chin bought transported and stuck In III the ground had cost ost fifteen hundred dol lars heirs There Thre were rare plants farms farina forests lakes tennis courts golf olt links polo 1010 fields race tracks airdromes swimming pools Whole paneled rooms had been helu brought from France In the bathrooms hl were Ire electric cab rab- theta nn and sunken tubs of ot rare marble and shower baths buth glass glos enclosed These bathrooms were wre the size of bedrooms bed hI rooms and the bedrooms the size t of ot ballrooms and the Ihl ballrooms hi as liS big asan ns liS an 1111 auditorium There wets was nn nil Ice lIe and cooling system that could chill chili the Ihl air of or every NY room In to the house n eu-n on the hottest Oklahoma windy day Thee The kitchen range looked like a II house hous In III Itself and the kitchen looked like that of ot the l Biltmore only larger When hn you OU entered the IIII dining rotten room you OU felt that here should he tie seated solemn diplomats In to gold braid signing world treaties and hn hating their portraits painted doln doing it It II hl gardeners npr manned the grounds The house hous servants would woul have e peopled a village Sabret Cravat ut rarely came to 10 her daughters daughter's house horse and when she shedid shedid did the Ihl ery simplicity of her slim allot straight little figure In It its dark blue georgette or black crepe was startling In the midst t of ot these marble columns and vast ast corridors and royal hangings hang hang- ings Ih She did come creme occasionally ly alldon and andon andon on tho those thoe e occasions ou found her In do Inthe dothe the th great central apartment apar that was like a II throne room standing there before before be hi I fore tor the lice portraits of ot her 1111 sons son's two children Felice lIlIce and Yancey Cravat Cra I Falling Failing to tet possess either of the |