Show 0 lydia ia of 0 the pines pa 0 es by H HONORE ON 0 R E WILLSIE r CIE kr A ck STORY FROM THE START ardla adl with her baby sister Pa tence returns return from play to aha U untidy honit home of 0 her father ant any tl s dudley in lake city liar her tat y ses friend fl nl and nor her own do de voted admirer ihrer johr levane lev ina think hunk it Is time the indians indian on 0 n ft at nearby reservation were amov mo v lic lac in fin order that the white whit men me n light have this land the ne next it oay lydia patience nd companion nion kent moulton playing by the lake are accosted by an old d squaw clydla yd arle glees giver her rood food margery argery small mail daughter of davo marahall arshall the towns banker 10 dolhn in them margery gery failing into 0 the water la in pulled out unhurt but frightened H her er father blames lydia and kent fo or r the mishap ml thap until lydia e explains lydia enten high school at her ber first party pa arty the he t other girl ridicule c ule her homemade costume levine tells amos his plan to aske timber from the indian reservation er rv atlon and ultimately hive have it opened tor for settlement ett lement patience succumbs to diphtheria leaving ill clydla dia feeling that her trust truit in n a in if lost she duds fin d 9 comfort camf rt in the loving kindness of 0 john levine A mote of amos backed to by levine and hold held by marshall Man hall due and cannot be met lydia sael with marshall and for hr er take ak he agrees agree to renew it CHAPTER VI 7 the cooking clasi f lydia with parted lips and big wast fol fal eyes stood quietly beside miss towne 1 I what you yon giving ns as said bald kent reds beds my favorite color reds Ile dB all right olga tossed her head but that dress she ought to know better A ive ave cent cheese cloth would have been betterin better nn that kent was truly enamored of pretty Ol gabut he be looked at her angrily tou ton girls malce make me sick he grunted and started dodging among the dancers across the room to lydias side aide iffie stood pouting the matter asked charlie jackson oh I 1 just said lydias dress wa abright right find and kent went off mad charlie barile 3 in n turn stared at lydia kent IB fin the meantime was grinning sit at lydda amiably hello fello I clydl want to dance 1 I cant dont know how replied lydia despondently easy oa as anything come on ill teach you lydia seized aelred kents lapel with wi th fingers that would trem tremble bladel e slightly slight ly kent I 1 dassat stir uy my back breadth dont match and my skirt hangs bangs awful oh shucks replied kent angrily you girls are all alike iteus my favorite color mine too said charlie jackson at her elbow Wb atre you two arguing about her dress growled kent 1 I dont don t oft be anything the matter with it do you 11 nope and its on the prettiest girl in the room too eli el kent you bet returned kent believing bellev lne though that he be tied lied for figu was as pretty as it a ten tea rose lydia blushed and gasped if you wont dance come on over mid arid have some lemon suggested kent t if I 1 sit in the window vf fidow will you bring roe me a glass asked lydia still mindful of the back breadth you take ta keher her to the window and ril rii get the lemo kent said charlie knit kent led the way to tha th window seat eat youre a good old sport lyd he said Char charlielo liell look out tor for you I 1 gotta get back to altu he be returned to make pence peace with the pink or gandie gandle she was very love ly and kent was having his first flerta tion yet before he went to sleep that night the last picture at floated before his eyes was of a thin little figure with norn mittens clasped over patched knees and a 0 ravished lavished ravi shed childs face looking into chis charlie jackson fatout sat out two whole dances with lydia their talk was of adam and of fishing lydia longer longed to talk about indians with him but dare promptly at ten amos appeared at the front door lydia a first party was over amos and old ad lizzle were charmed with lydias description of it and were sure she had had a wonderful time but lydia clydla felt that hat the tress dress had made of tile the pa party y a hideous failure failure she knew now that she was marked mong among her mates as a poverty strick en n little dowa dow whom popular boys like kent and charlie pitied and yet because life Is its as kind to us as we have the intelligence to let lei it be it was out of the party that resolve of lydia andias a grew row slowly a new to have some day as pretty ban hands ds and nd BS as well shod feet as olya olga an and hilda abid cissy to learn liow how to inal make e her ber dreares ro co that even the compo lug ut f an or jandle sandle might not be beyond tier heir john levine was running for sherl if on tile the ite publican ticket he was wag elected lecter early in april by a comfortable majority and invited amos and clydla to a fine dinner in ce celebration at the best hotel in town lydias lito life was wag so 90 different from that of any 0 of the children that site she knew that thai growing into adolescence with the old wild bond ot of play disappearing in lie she i ml brick back more and more on a urlce attain liere lier self elf this did sti st ot I precut pro her going faithfully oin s a month to call on OB margery marshall and these were rather pleasant than otherwise margery was going through the paper doll fever lydia always brought florence dombey with her and the two girls carried on an an elaborate game 4 0 male make believe belleve the lie intricacies of which were entirely too much for elviry marshall sitting sitting within earshot amos garden was a thing of beauty its trim rows of vegetables were bordered with sun sunflowers flowers whose yellow heads vied in height with the rustling ears of corn amos bad a general grudge toward life lie had bad a vague unexpressed belief that because he wits was a descendant of the founders of the country the world owed him an easy living ile he had a general sense of superiority to his foreign born neighbors and to the workmen in the plow factory but in his garden all his grudges disappeared he always felt nearer to his wife in the garden she too had been bred on a new england farm arm he always felt as it if the fine orderliness der liness of the rows wits was tor for her lydia greatly preferred weeding the garden to cleaning the house indeed the contrast between the fine garden the well kept patch of lawn and the disorderly house was startling one afternoon in ili august clad in her bathing sult now much too small for her she was working in the garden when a voice behind her grunted granted eat 11 1 lydia jumped and turned the old squaw of two years before stood begging she wits was as pitifully thin as ever As ai she stared at the ugly old indian lydias throat tightened she seemed to feel baby Pat patience lences fin gers clinging to hers berm in fear want some vegetables she asked motioning lne toward the garden the squaw nodded eagerly and held up the dirty apron she was wearing lydia began slowly to fill it talking as she worked where do you live she asked the indian jerked her gray head toward the north big woods but twenty miles it must take you a long time to walk it poor thing 1 the squaw shrugged her shoulders lydia stared at the toothless trem baing old mouth hideous with wrin lien kies then at the gnarled and shaking old hands t you anyone to take care of you all sick boy sick man alek alck girl sick kick all time sick all time nothing to eat but wont some other indian make you ou a garden a little one again the squaw shrugged her shoulders her apron was full now she produced a string from inside her waist and tying the apron up bag l like ike she slung it over her shoulder then slie she gave lydia a keen glance friend Or fend she said briefly and in turn rn ing she tottered painfully out of the gate followed by adam lydia walked thoughtfully hought tully fully out the little pier amos had built it was hard to on der stand how bow the indians with till all their rich pine land could be so poor she resolved to ask her father and levine about it and turned a somer pault nult into the water she swam swain about until tired then turned byer over on her back to rest lying so BO a shadow drifted across her face arid and she raised her head A gray cray birch bark canoe floated silently beside her in lt it in a gray gra bathing suit sat charlie jackson jacksn goodness exclaimed lydia how in the world you do it so BO quietly I 1 dont see come on in its as warm as suds charlie shot his canoe to the pier and in a moment was floating beside lydia she took a deep breath let herself sink and a moment or two later come came up several yards beyond him ue ile did not miss her for a moment then he started lor for her with a shout shou A game of tag followed end ing in a wild race to the pier you certainly are a little sunfish in the water panted charlie as they m wit t with feet dangling off the pier ought to be im I 1 m in it enough returned lydia charlie theres a poor old squaw came here today the matter with the In indians dianI why dont they work charlies mouth twisted in a sneer it hv dont they work why dont the whites whiles give era em a chance dirty thieves prowling round lwe timber wolves hohes ask dave marshall ask that hat gunis hoeing crook of a levine dont asiz me jul levines not a crooks crook shouted ly dla din lies hes my friend the sneer left charlies face and he Isug laughed hed your friend to Is he be little sunfish yes said aid lydia furiously tie he gere gare me ine A hugging the lie dors ugly faith faithful fu tead ile he immediately tried to sit ait la in her wet lap and hes done as a much tor fur me ina 91 a my own father if bes your friend frie tid said the la in than gently 1 I wont speak against him to lo you again lydia ldla instantly wits mollified Cli arlla was wap so old and so eo young I 1 he was ss so 0 o different dIf terent from keul t that star tar 1 l ing toto into hi his deep black eyes lydia suddenly felt his bla allen alien race 1 I must go 0 o in and dress she ibe said its time to ret get supper charlie nodded and untied his bla canoe i daddy lydia said raid that night at supper sapper why should mr marshall and charlie jackson both say mr levine Is a crook amos ate a piece of bread meditatively tat ively before replying any mau man that goes COPS into info politics in this country leaves liln his reputation behind him you and ill never have a better friend than john levine lydia nodded she was wait only a child after all and still retained in fi elicit faith in the opinion of those she loved she went back to school that fall full of interest and importance she was a sophomore now arid and very proud of the tact fact that she knew thu the ropes her arrangement with billy held for his set second ond year books with much pinching of the grocery money had achieved two new galatea sailor bailor suits and so while she felt infinitely interior to the elaborately gowned young misses of her gradt gradi clydla was not unhappy she planned a real feast fealt for thanksgiving she negotiated with billy norton for the exchange of two pounds of fudge for a brace of wild duck the saturday before thanksgiving she gave the house bouse its usual lick and promise prom lse and then started out with her skates to enjoy the first ice of the season she had bad a glor glorious lous morning there was no snow and the lake had frozen crystal clear this the air was breathless As she mile skated she chanted to improvised tunes bits of verse she ghe hunted through scottish mountains and moors she whirled from ghent to alz aix and still high hearted and in the land of cislo visions na took on off her skates and entered the house bouse she banged the door then stood for a moment staring elviry and margery were seated before the living room stove while old lizzle lizzie sat on one edge of amos arm altri chair eyeing the two belligerently margery was wearing a new fur coat her beautiful black eyes looked out from under a saucy fur trimmed hat with a scarlet quill on the side elviry worle black broadcloth with fox collar and neiff lydia in a remodeled coat of her in mothers others and her old tam and mended mittens recovered from her surprise quickly Hol hollo lol 1 she said when did you come comet this la a the first time youve ever been in our house mrs marshall itri yes replied elviry and with a glance at lizzle lizzie 1 I tie be here now if mr marshall made me oh mamma protested margery 1 I 1 wanted to come you hush bush up margery I 1 what I 1 came tor for Is that mr air marshall would like to have the three of you come to our house for thanksgiving dinner lydia suddenly giggled dont worry mrs marshall we vant cant come were going to have company ourselves for thank thanksgiving agi ving elviry gave a huge sigh elgh of relief well too bad she said were going to have a grand dinner too so are we retorted lydia flows florence Doro Dom beyl beyll asked margery mamma cant I 1 stay and play with lydia a while well stay a few minutes said eairy loosing her furs and settling back in her chair its a real small place lizzle lizzie but you can do so little work now mew I 1 x spose pose its ita just as an well lydia had produced it a pasteboard shoe box of paper dolls which she gave are to margery she cuddled florence dombey la in her arms and gave cave one ear r to question as am to the names and personalities of the paper dolls the other to Riv irys comments comment oit ait it aint sd BO small sniffed salted lizzle lizzie it its biggsen anything you ever live IN in elvery till dave sold bold enough lumber lumbar he tole stale tron from the govI government to tart start a bank land azle dont be to ao crosa crom said aalde elviry 1 I suppose youve heard the talk about john levine iles hei getting in with that halfbreed balf hall breed crowd up on the reservation that the indian tents agents such buch friends with they say levines land hungry enough to marry H R squaw ties iles so dark I 1 be surprised it if he had indian blood himself land knows nothing would surprise me about him they say hes bes just naturally crooked lydia avil and norence dombey suddenly stood in front of 0 elvary dont you say such things about mr levine said aidla slowly cheeks bright eyes as blue a as 3 mor tuce nee domneys Dom beys welt I 1 exclaimed elviry beginning to pull tier her tura furs up 1 I dont seem to be 6 able to please you two with my conversation so ill be going mai margery get up off that dirty floor I 1 nev never e r c cared a red mu much c h a about bou amos wife she was too proud but at least she was clean shed turn uru over in her arave if she knew what this house looked like come margery the horse will be cold standing so long lizzle lizzie opened her mouth to speak but lydia shook her head and the two stood in sli silence ence watching the departure of the visitors when the door had closed lizzle lizzie bont birst forth in she opened the pantry door an angry tirade but lydia only half listened she looked slowly around the living room then walked into the dining room and thence int into the kitchen she opened the pantry 0 door and stared at the dust and disorder the remnants of food the half washed dishes she came slowly back into the living room old lazle was replenishing the stove still muttering to herself lydia observed for the first time that her apron was wag dirty thinking it over she could not recall ever having seen ceen lizzle with a clean apron A deep sense of shame suddenly enveloped lydia oh I 1 wish someone had taught me she groaned 1 I wish mother root lier had bad lived everybody has to go tint und die on me I 1 suppose lizzie and aadil be next adam helps to keep the house dirty theres dog heir hair everywhere dont you get worked up over elviry marshall child said ald lizzle lizzie 1 I hate bate her exclaimed but |