Show by EDNAJ RBI R A by CLARK AIGNE W by D past cit cserjes Ser jes CHAPTER IX continued 1 I want allt to stay here and work the farm and it pay I 1 can ann im not going to to grow just the common garden tiny more not much anyway IM going to specialize in the fine things the kind the south water street commission inen willit want I 1 want to drain the lie low lew land tile it that land and haat been libeth cited for years it ought to be rich growing land by now if once its properly trained drained and I 1 want dirk alik to go to sool good conot schools I 1 never want my iny son BOH to go to tile lie never neier never my life count except is as something for dirk to use im ilone done with anything else olt oh I 1 dpn t mean that im 1111 discouraged or disappointed in life or anything on thing like tilt that 1 I menn I 1 started out with the idea I 1 know better now Im inhere here to keep keel dirk from milking making the e mistakes J made londe T aug nem I 1 s tone toile as aa one of meditation not of air 1 ui rient t ent it dont work out that hint seems about mistakes its funny you got tu to make your ow own nana and not only that if you try to keep keel people from froin making theirs they pet get mud lie he whistled softly through ills his teeth following tills this utterance and tapped the chair seat with ills ilia finger its beau beauty tyl selina said then almost passionately aug and julle julie plainly could make nothing of tills this remark so she went on eager explanatory X plan atory 1 I used to think that if you wanted beauty if you wanted it hard haid enough an and hopefully enough it fame came to you you just waited and lived your our life its as best you could knowing that beauty might be just around the corner you just waited and then tt it calme Beall beauty tYl 1 exclaimed julie weakly she stared nt at selina in the evident belief that this work worn haggard woman MOS benio bemoaning aning tier lier lack or 0 per asonat pulchritude I 1 yes all tit the worthwhile worth while things in life work that you ion love and growth growth and watching people grow aur very eo strongly about things n developing that feeling to I 1 0 n all P something line fine come of it she threw out her hands in a fuglie futile gesture what I 1 moan mean by beauty I 1 want dirk to have it for sake pleaded julie Jull etlie the literal lets stop talking and do something in youve on probably got it till ill fixed in your inland long ago its time we heard it here selina bellna was one of the he anost popular girls in miss 11 chool tin ami lots of people thought the prettiest and now just look tit at her A flicker dicker of the old alaine leaped up in selina Ilat she murmured aug heined stood up if you yon think jiing rl ang your hiir arle whole life to making the ho ahny liapi Is going to make him happy youn fail nent int so as I 1 took you for voil hi go trying to live somebody alses ll 11 for thecil im m not going to lle live ills his life for idan I 1 ugilt ant to show him film how to live it ft so 0 o that hell get full value out of it Ne keeping him out of the haymarket nay market ii if the the lie na natural place r afir r wont ont do that ilow how can you t tell 1 1 with hats to bp be im ill out tit at the mirds pery every day in and out lit of the lie cattle pens talking to the drovers d 1 rovers find herders gerders her ders mixing in with bua ers I 1 can tell the he weight of a lagand aig and tint lies hes worth just by a look ut lit him and it steer too my son in law chael arnold sits up in the office 7 all dry in our plant dictating letters III clothe they never stink of tile the fie pens ms like mine do now I 1 it aint nt suing an anything tiling against him julie hut I 1 bet my grandson engene anu lie aie repented repeated it stressing afie nunie naine po go that you sensed ills his dislike of it eugene if lie he conics comes into the business at till nil when lie he grows grous lip ill wont go within distance of the yards ards ills iiii e I 1 bet will be in it a new office building on say madison street with a view of tile the jake inke life I 1 be hog gill it till all yourself and not know it and I 1 suppose retorted selina bellna that when ft hen your son in law michael arnold is your sour age hell be telling eugene how flow lie he roughed it in an of oell ll over nt at tile lie yards in theold the old days these will be the old days dais august laughed good humor edly that can be selina that can bo be lie he hewed chewed his cigar and settled to the bl eneis nt at liana you want to drain and tile plant elgh cje stuff you got to have hae a man on the lie place that knows what not this hip van winkle we saw in the cabbage field new kew horses A wagon I 1 will ill get you the horses a bargain at the yards ile he took out H m long tint hat check book lie ile began beann writ ling in it with a pen mat lie he took from tits all pocket some sort port of marvelous pen that perked deemed already filled with ink iad that jou fou unscrewed at hithe top and nil then at the tha bottom squinted through ills his cigar smoke the check book propped on tits his knee ile iio toro tore oft off tile the check with at hi for a starter lie said bald lie ile held it out to selina there now I 1 exclaimed julac in satisfaction that was more like it doing something but selina did not take the check she sat very cry still in tier her chair tier her hands gott folded led that the regular way may she said bald august giempel wits was screwing the top on oil his fountain pen again regular way for what irn im borrowing this money not taking it olt oh yes I 1 tint nm I 1 I 1 could get along without it I 1 realize that now after esterday yesterday eit erday Yester yesterday dayl 1 but in live five years suen seven lit ill pay it lack back then at a half uttered protest from tulle julie the only way ill take it its for dirk but im ill going to earn it and pay it back I 1 want 11 11 she wits was being enormously businesslike and unconsciously enjoying it a an 1 I 0 U J A promise to pay you ou back just its as ns as soon us as I 1 can business it and ill sign it sure said aug II empel anil and unscrewed ills his fountain poti pen again sure business very serious tic he scribbled again aguin busily on a piece of paper A year ear later inter when selina had learned many things among them that simple tind and compound interest on money anoney loaned leaned are anro not mere problems devised to nil fill duffas arithmetic in tier lier school teaching days das she went to august giempel between laughter and tears you say one word about interest that day not a word what a little fool you must have thought me bet veen friends protested august II fl empel but no selina insisted interest 1 I guess I 1 better start me a bank pretty soon if you keep on so businesslike ten yea is later lie was waa actually the controlling power in the yards bitang rangers bank anti and selina had the original 1 I 0 ta U with its in full aug II empel carefully tucked away w with ith other keepsake keepsakes keep kepp sakes sake j that bile bhe foolishly treas treasured tired ridI ridiculous cuto its scraps that no one but she would have bae understood or valued a small school state slate such as little children use the one on which slie she had taught pen us to figure anol and purse parse it a dried bunch of unis a bustled and wine rod red cashmere dress absurdly old fashioned a letter telling about the infanta of spain and signed tulle julie hempel army Z life count elc except ept as aa something for dirk to use n nold old a pair of mens old side boots with mud caked on them it a trude crude sketch utmost almost obliterated obliterate now done don e on a torn scrap of brown paper and showing the haymarket with the wagons vegetable ladon laden tind tile the nien men gathered beneath the street flares and the patient farm horses Ilo elta childish sketch chapter X it if those vague characteristics called variously manner grace distinction attractiveness fascination go to make up that nebulous quality arn kr n as charm and if the possessor of t quality la Is accounted fortunate fortu aate in equipment for that dint which the class y orators style the battle of life tn dirk dejong was a lucky lad ind tind and life lay promisingly before him undoubtedly lie he hall hail it and undoubtedly it did ile he was not one to talk a grent deal perhaps blui was one of his most charming qualities ho so well older men especially said he was a smart amort young youn feller und and mould make hla hia mark this surprisingly enough af efte te conversation corn creation to which lie ho had contributed bot a word other then yes or nto no or perhaps youre right sir air in the proper places it was during those careless car eleas years ienus of dirks boyhood between tittle nine tin and fifteen that selina changed the dejong acres from a worn out and down ilow nut at heel truck farm whose scant products brought a second rate price lirlee in a see sec ond rate market to a prosperous and blooming vegetable pardon garden whose output was sought a year in advance by the south water street commission merchants these six or seven years of relentless labor lind hail been no showy success with selina posing grandly as the new woman lit in business no it had been a painful grubbing heartbreaking heart breaking process its as Is tiny any project that depends on the actual soll soil for its realization she drove hermit pitilessly she literally tore a living out of the earth with tier her two bare bait hands yet there was nothing pitiable about this small dinall energetic woman of thirty live or forty with tier lier unit soft dark eyes tier her clean cut jaw line tier shabby decent clothes clothe that wove so likely to bo be spatter spattered eld with the mud ot of the road or nelds her exquisite twe aie with the funny little wrinkle across the bridge when slie she laughed rather there was something splendid about lierl herl coni ething rich prophetic it was tho the splendor and richness that hint achievement imports it is doubtful that she felie ever eer could have succeeded without tho the money borrowed front august ll empel without tits shrewd counsel she told liliu him this sometimes ile he denied it kaeler hasler yes ies hui you would have hae found a way selina some soline way julle julie no nn hut but you yes you are like that me too say plenty fetters that was butchers with me twenty years ago over on north dark clark street tire me butchers yet tet cutting olt off a steak or a chop dirk had ills tasks on the furm farin senn ina saw to that but they were not heavy py by the time lie he returned front from school the rough of the day was over ills food was always hot tippet appetizing pet izing plentiful the house was neat comfortable selina lind had installed it a bathroom one of the two bathrooms in high Pr prairie airle the neighborhood was still rocking with the shock block of this when it was informed by jan thai selina and dirk ate with candles candies lighted on the supper table high prairie slapped its thigh find and howled with mirth mil ali cabbages is beautiful said old oil pool when lie heard this cabbages Is beautiful I 1 be batelia telia 11 selina bellna during the years of the boys adolescence lind had never urged lihn him to a decision about tits his future that she decided would come As the farm prospered and the pressure lessure ies sure of necessity lifted she tried in various ingenious geil lous ways to eK extract tract from him some unconscious sign of definite nite preference fo for this calling alit ali t profession fes sion until dirk wits was sixteen she liar been content to let him develop as naura na ura silly as possible and to absorb nj rs on unconsciously from the traps slip she so guilefully left about him there was a i shed which lie he was free to use as a workshop shop fitted up with till all sorts of tools lie he did not use it ciuch after the first few weeks ile he was pleasantly and mildly interested in till all things lings ti held leold by none selina lad had thought of itself when they were fitting up the workshop the pools luul hold heard from roelf just once since his flight from the form A letter had come from france selina bellna had noer never aicard from him film but one dry day years later inter site she had corne come running to dirk with an illustrated magazine in tier her hand look she cried and pointed to it a picture lie had rarely seen tier her so excited so stirred the illustration showed a photographic reproduction of it a piece of sculpture a won comans womans lans tig lire it wits was called the alie seine A it figure tire sinuous nake alke graceful revolting vol ol ting beautiful terrible the face alluring generous treacherous till all at once it wits was the seine that fed the fertile valley land the seine that cla claimed lined it a thousand bloated Ilfe lifeless less floating Ti lings the red eyed hag of 1793 the dimpling coquette of 1050 1650 beneath the illustration it a line or two itself pool salon american future its roelf I 1 selina lad had cried Ito itself elf little pool I 1 tears in tier her eyes dirk had find been politely interested but then lie fie lind had never known him really lie he had bud heard tits his mother speak of him blin but at seventeen dirk and selina tallied of if the year ear to oine lie ife wits was going 10 0 o a university hut but to what university and what did lie fie want vant to study we c 11 hard ban to tit sity say kind of a general co coursin cour sip there oil ob selina had said yes general or court courte e if a person wanted to be an architect why I 1 suppose cor nell would be the place or harvard for law or boston tech for engineering I 1 ng 0 or r ott oli yell it if a fellow wanted apy any of those things good idea though to take a kind of general course until you found out exactly what you ou wanted to do languages and literature and that kind of tiling filing at eighteen it had been AlId midwest west university for dirk ailigh prairie hoard that dirk dejong was going awny away to college A neighbors son said going to wisconsin agricultural course fliche my goat not no dirk had ons answered pred ile he told tills this to selina laughing iut but she had not laug ad id like alli to ink that course myself if you ou must know they say its wonderful site she looked at litin suddenly dirk you like to take it would you to to so to I 1 ngeun Is that what oud like he stared met me I 1 nol no I 1 un less you want roe me to mother then I 1 would gladly I 1 late hate your working like this on tile the farm while I 1 go oft off to school it makes tile 1110 feel kind of rotten liming having my mother working for tile ino the other fellows i im ilu doing the work vill ini interested in for tile the person I 1 love loe best in the he world id bo be lost tiu ini hupp happy without the lie farm if the city creeps up on tile me here na its the they predict it will I 1 dont know what I 1 shall do just you wait tilt till im successful then therell ile be no wore working for you iou do you inn mean h by successful she blie had not culled called him that in years hut but iw now tho the old nickname canio to tier her tongue perhaps because the were speaking of tits his future ilia hit su decess what do you i on mean by successful cess ful idich lots of ni ony no no dirk no I 1 not success iloff tao taic tiling thing itself does that a success oil well if you sou hite money enough you ou can buy the things lie he makes and LA 7 at eighteen it had been midges university for dirk have hae ein cm almost OB as good it 21 dirk commenced hla his studies at midwest university lit in the autumn of 1000 1009 ills first 3 year ear was none too agreeable ns as Is usually tile the case in first llast years ile he got on well though before tile the end of the first se semester lie he was as popular 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