Show alliet g M V ar ML iva efel V 19 ILI I 1 i P BY A 0 continued from bat I 1 week fella turned the th bone beada toward the city be tir prid jan to know of all the we chinta youre ping 1 to bear of some day that youve gever beard of before still slid when twenty years had passed and the ford the phonograph the radio and th rural mall delivery bad dumped tle world at jans jana plodding feet he liked to tell of that momentous day when whom selina dejong had bad driven off to market ifer a it man with a wagon load of hand scrubbed robbed tc garden truck and the boy dirk perched beside her bar on the me eat seat if then you yon had been traveling the hinted read you have seen lerent le wagon vegetable Tege table laden driven by a too thin woman sallow bright red in a shapeless blade black dresa dress a bat black felt hat that looked like a mane mons old fedora and probably vaa as on the beat seat beside her you would have seen a farro farm bov boy of cine nine or thereabouts a brown freckle faced lad is 11 comically home homemade made suit nit of elott clothe leo end and a straw hat with a broken ati A A aping brim which he wae was forever jerking off only to have it set alt finnly on again by the woman who ho seemed to fear the effects of the hot ir je noon moon sun or his hi close cropped bead lead at it their feet was the dog dot pom a mongrel whose tall bore no relation to tit lis head bead whose assorted legs appeared vil wholly lolly at variance with witia his hi sturdy barrel of a body he dozed now for it had been hie lite duty to watch the wagon loud load at bight night while pervus slept A tabby shabby enough little outfit but magnificent too here wae was solina dejon jong driving u the halsted road toward the city instead of sitting hack blick robed in the farm parlor while ailigh prairie came to condole in se ilan as they jogged along the hot dusty vay thee welled up a feeling very like elation more store than ten years ego go ake had driven with klaas mans root pool up that lame some road tor for the first time ond and in pite spite of the recent tragedy of her fathers death her youth her lonell aea the terrifying thought of the new home to which she waa was going a cr among strangers ehe she had been conscious of 0 a warm little thrill of elation of excitement of adventure I 1 that was it the whole thing a luat just a grand adventure her father simeon peake had said and now the sensations of that day were repeating themselves now aa as then she took stock louth vaa mas gone but she had bad health courage a boy of nine twenty five acres of workout rana farm land dwelling and outhouses in a bad state of 0 repair and a gay adventuresome that was never to die dle though it lea led her into curious places and rhe she often found at the end only a trackless waste from which ehe she bad had to retrace her painfully but alway to her red and green cabbages cabb ngee were to be b jade and burgundy and porphyry lite life baa has no weapons against a raman like that down the hot dusty country road she wn was serious enough now the cost of the funeral to be paid the doctor bill bilt jans ul ali the lre and email small of the poor little fara farm holdin on down the road here a head bead at a ait oit room window there ft a woman womans COed faure ett in the dat way U mrs vander slad cc c ts porch fulling her flushed sace ace with her proa cornelia COr nelja snip to in the yard pretending to tie tile up tb ulf 1 a stalks ot the golden glow and eyeing the ap preaching Proa cLIng team jtb the tb arid coe alpe lose to theae these selina wavea bowed bo welt called en how d ayou you do mn mrs yonder vander budel I 1 A prim reply to this salutation dl dim aPp writ larg largi i on the fana farm bushed bathed face hello cornelia cornella A ed tart start notable for it its bid bad oh ob Is U it you mra MM dejonge dejon BI 1 in my eye eyes I 1 think it a As you like that mens eyes hostile cot cola d peering veering ive six the boy climbed OT ir the ie wile wheel el ailed a tia on pall alu water at a fa ouse well they ate sta and drank RS they rj boug tor for there as no time to lose the boy hud bud atai ted out bravely enough dueh in the beat heat oi oz the day sitting very straight beside hia his jn mother other tilling to the horses kh sh deking and waving his arms at chicken chickens that flew hawking squawking across the road new be he P n to droop sleepy 0 o should say ay not his ills llda lids vere heavy hwy she wrapped the ad d sinator ci about bim him in the abt light the dut du gleamed white on a weeds and brush and enss tho far ott I 1 nellow ganance of a cowbell arlel es hoof hoofs clop clomping cl ing up behind then them wion wagon passing in a joud ot dust a curious on backward back ivard clan glance or a greeting due of the bome boye boys or jabob bsma B sma youre dever clar asma to mar ket mis DeJon dejonge gj staring with china blue eyes at her load ye yes I 1 am mr ur boomsma Boom sms talat aint work for a woman ails debolle aca you better toy stay home lome and let the men folks go a men folk looked op up at her oa with th the th asking eye eyes ot of a child roe one with the trotting trusting eye eyes ot of a dog AIT men folks 08 are going I 1 answered anAw wired ered selina but ut then they had alwi always thought h her a little queer so it t matter much bhe she urged the horses on refusing to confess to herself her dread of the destination which they were al sip ing lights now in the houses along the way and those houses closer together the boy slept night had come on the figure of the tile woman droops d a little now as the old wagon creaked on toward chicago A very email small dg ure in the black dress ani an I a shawl over her shoulders she had taken off oft her old black felt hat the breeze ruffled ruffied her hair that was line and soft and it roada mada a little halo about the white face that gleamed almost luminously in irk the darkness as she turned it up toward the sky ill III steep sleep out with hobig in the wagon it wont hurt either of us it will be warm in town there in the haymarket twenty five live cents maybe fifty tor for the tho two ot of us in the rooming house bitty ditty cents just to sleep it dakra hours of work in the fields to make fifty cents she drove along in the dark a dowdy farm woman in shapeless garments just a bundle on the rickety feat seat of a decrepit truck wagon the lights of the city rame come nearer she was think ing clearly it disconnectedly without bitterness without reproach my ily father was wrong he ile said that life was a great adventure a fine line show lie he eald said the more things that happen to you the richer you are even if thearo they ro not pleasant things that s living he said iso no matter nhat khat happen to you good or bad its just BO so much what was that word ord he lie used so much oh yes rel velvet vet just so much velvet velet well it lent true lie ile lind brains and charm and knowledge and be he died in a gambling house hot shot whilo while looking on at someone else who was to have been killed isow now were on the cobblestones all 1111 dirk wake up sly little so big iso be he a asleep asleep on a pile of i 0 tato sacks because hie ills mother thought that life was mas a giand adventure venture aa a fine line show anil and that ou on took atas tt it came A allot lie I 1 I 1 it as tt came and made the best of I 1 it that laa tent t the tile way you take the beat and make inake the tile most of it IL thirty fifth street that was anoche hour and a halt half to reach the haymarket im rm not afraid after all 04 you just sell your vegetables tor for what you can bet let well its going to be different with him I 1 austn I 1 coll ell LI any more ile doesn doean t like it dirk that s m a fine name nam dirk dejong no drifting along for him that ao starts with a plan and follows it bell he 11 have ivery chance every cnance too late into for me now but he be 1 l be dif ferent twenty seco second nd street twelfth LO look ok at all tle people I 1 in m enjoying benj taij no use denying it it im enjoying just as I 2 enjoyed driving along with klaas maas pool that evening year years and years ago arx scared seared but enjoying e it perhaps I 1 to be but that 2 hypocritical end and soaking sneaking why not dot 0 11 1 I really do enjoy it I 1 ill wake him dirk I 1 dirk were 1 I most there look at all the people and ana the ther light lights were almott almost there I 1 one boy awoke awake raised himself himsel f from is bed ot of sacking looked aboul blinked waked ank sank back agala again all and d curled into a ball dont binl to ee tl the is light lights people he ile W wa asleep again selina guided the horses of skillfully through the down town they were within two block blocks ot of the haymarket nay market on ban dolph street dirk I 1 come come ame up t bre tre ditl aether grumbling b be a climbed to the seat yawned dawned smacked bis his lips rubbed hie his knuckles knuck les into bis his eyes soon i atas awake swake and looking about him they turned turn ed lato into the haymarket Hay Har the wagons wagon were streAM streaming IDS in from the german truck track tanne that lily ny to the north of chicago as R well a as from the dutch farms that lay to th tho southwest whency selina came fruits and vegetable tons of lt it acres u of it piled plied in the dagons ago that at blo ble ked the through this lids tittle little section and south water rater street that lay to the east PIL med all the verdant growing things that fd ud chicago 8 millions million S something ft of thu tills came to selina as go ne maneuvered ed her vay through the throng she felt a R little thrill of of achl achievement eye she knew the spot 1 q wanted tor for her A 2 W croas ule the way tm t M chris Spank atan rante rooming house ua and saloon chrt chris knew r S her had known pervus TOS tor for yan years and his father ther before him would be need naj kind to her and the bor boy ln in case of or dirk was wide awake now eager excited cited fie caned called to the hors stood up in the tile wagon but clung closer loner to her as they found themselves la in the thick of the tile melee ti lre vere 7 a a good place mother herol t ier a a da dog g on that wagon like uk tom jam pon hearing his name dame tood stood up look looked d into tile boya boys face quivered wagged a nervous nerT oui tall barked sharply down pom I 1 quiet pom I 1 she did not want to attract ct atten attention tiou to herself and the boy it we was still till early she bad made excellent time deryus had often slept in matches aa as be he drove into town own and the horses bad had lagged but selina ellna had urged them theta on an tonight halfway down the block selina exiled the place the h wanted from the tile opp 0 site alte direction formers came a truck fanner a cart obviously making for or the same for the ant first time that night selina drew the whip out of 0 if its socket and clipped sharply her surprised oage naga V tt IU ith a tart start and slid a they broke into nto aa all awkward lope ten ton seconds too 00 oo late the Cler germac niam farmer perceived pere elred her intention up hia his own tired team arrived an alred at the spot jutt as an se line blocking bloc kin the way prepared to bach back into the vacant space aleh get out of there you r he lie roared then for the first time pr caled tn in th dim light of the street that Ms ills rival was a it woman omen he ile faltered stared open mouthed tried other tacal tc o lou IOU cant can t eo go in there missus ah wab ye I 1 can she backed be eked her tam item dexterously yes we cant shouted chic lh lu an attitude of fierce belligerence belll gerence cheres Vh eres your maar demanded the defeated driver glaring here 11 replied selina put her band hand 0 on n dirk dirks s bead head the other preparing to drive on re te calved thia this with incredulity he assumed tie tle existence of a husband in the neighborhood at chris bels probably or talking prices with a friend at another wagon sagon when he should be here attending to his own tn in the abnee of tills title her natural protector lie relieved hta his disgruntled feel 1 ing as he gathered up the reins woman aint got na business here in haymarket anyway better you re home night time in your kitchen where you belong 11 this admonition so glibly mouthed by so many tn in the past fw few fe w days now was uttered once too often gelinas s nerves snapped don t talk to me like that you peat great stupid I 1 what good does it do a worn wom an 0 o stay home in hr kitchen it if she alien loing to starve there nud anda aher he boy with her herl playing home in my kitchen won t earn me any money rat 1 1 X if it im here to sill sell the th vegetable vegetables I 1 helped ralso got out of my wey youl h here ere to sell ell the ege I 1 helped raise and rm 1 to do it IL get out of cay MY way you couf now ow she 1 over the wagon wheel wheal to unhitch the urd tid ti d horsek it 1 if impossible to tell what interpretation the north elder alder put upon her movements certainly he ile md had lothin to fear fam thie this email AM all gaunt creature with the th blazing 1 eye eyes new thelea as be he gathered ay tip me his reiga 1 terror waa aj writ large oa on his face kaufell rau fell what a nani wa WAS off in a clatter 0 of aba Is and boo boob on cobblestone cobblestones selina 11 swift 1 rou MOthe Mot herti ell tar tay here be dirk with pom bukto se back in a minute she marched down the tb treet street driving the horses boreto to the barns where tor for twenty alv costs the animal animals were to be mused la in more comfort than their owner she was back a oon come direr are we going to leep sleep her herd I 1 he was delighted bight night here ell all snug in ta the hay bay uk ilk camper sr the boy lay down dowa wriggling laugh inc like gypsies ain t it 19 amr iju t it dirk not aint it the school teacher she lay down beside him put pan arm around him soil drew him to her close and suddenly be was asleep deeply the treet street bame b ca diw 4 u the ard laughter ceased th light lights T din at chris SP 11 selina lay looking tp irp at the tk ik abere were no tears in her eyes bhe be wa was past tears she thought here I 1 nm am selina peake la in e tr argon gon la the straw like i doff with iti ltv puppy beside it I 1 was going to be ilka like jo in louisa Ale alcona atts book how ilow terribly long tons it Is going to be until I 1 must try to leep sleep I 1 roust must try to AIM bhe she did sleep miraculously As A te a lay there them 0 u o child tn n her mn arms asleep pac wace coins to the haggard tiffi ard face relaxed the ared limb mach like an n other domun who had lain la in the straw with her child in her rma arms almost two thousand years before chapter it nouh be enchanting to be able to record that selina next day bad had phenomenal success disposing of her carefully bunched ware wart to great advantage smartly ott oft up halted halsted treat street toward high prairie with a goodly profit jingling la in her stuffed leather pun purse the truth lo 10 that she be kid had a day so devastating 0 0 catal trophile tc le as would hare have adz um mot most men mon and certainly any w 2 leaa less desper deep erato tite and determined bhe mho bad had awakened oot not to daylight but to tie U three blackness the treet street waa was tt ajr y astir belna selina brushed br tur skirt to rid it of the clinging bay tidied herri herel elf aa as beet best ehe she could dirk still till aileen he called rom from beneath the be wn to act as sentinel at the dashboard dash buard and crossed the street to cauls spank a she knew chris and nd he be her lie let her wash at the faucet at the rear mr of the eating house she would buy hot coffee for herself and dirk dirt to jo wana warm and revivify them th thy would ert ept tin tha sandwiches left from tha th night tight betom an sella the ton ions room 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