Show 0 ru daj b mia CL or E alvice CHAPTER X continued 16 i sabra built a white while frame house ouse in the style of the day with turrets towers minarets mina cupolas cu 1 band scroll work there was a stained stained ita ined glass class window in the hall in purple and red and green and yellow which confronting the enter xing caller gave him the look of being suddenly stricken with bubonic plague there were parlor sitting bitting room dining g room kitchen hon on the first floor four bedrooms on the he second floor door and a bathroom actually with a full size bathtub 1 toilet and a marble washstand was lista nd with varicose veins in the cellar chere mere was a hot air furnace As long as 88 were building and burnishing sabra said it might ya well ell be the best she hall had gone about bout planning the house and furnishing azy it with her customary energy and capability with it all he be found time to do her work on the wigwam for without her the caper aper would have bare been run to the around round in six months osage had bjong since ceased to consider it sneer that she a woman and the wife of one of its most prominent 1 citizens I t fzens should go to work every turning horning like a man 1 I f sabra in common with the other trell ell to do hous housewives eulves of the com coin unity employed an indian girl is a house servant ali there L re was no ather is ther kind of help available avail able after er hideous experience with arita i tine b e had bad been careful to get indian airis older more settled though was difficult she prefer preferred Ted osage girls these married young hoften aften before they had finished their studies at the indian school T r ruby cig big elk had been with sabra now tor for three years A curl bous big silent girl of about twenty two wo almost handsome one of six children a large family for an osage sabra was somewhat taken aback after the girl bid been beed with her er for some months to learn that aishe she already bad been twice marked what became of your husbands ruby died J she bad ad a manner that bordered on the insolent sabra put it down Z to indian dignity when she walked it the scuffed her feet ever so little and this for some inexplicable reason son seemed to add insolence to her rearing oh do lift your feet rubyl dont scuffle when you twala the girl made no reply went on scuffling sabra discovered that she was lame the left beg leg was slightly shorter than the she ric did not limp or rath er r hid bid the tendency to limp by the rotating rl tating sliding sound her walk fras straight leisurely measured mabra was terribly embarrassed apologized to the indian girl the 0 irl only looked at her and said clothing thing sabra repressed a little th lver she had never got accas diomed 4 omed to the indians I 1 father big 1319 elk had lleen een chief of the tribe by section for ten years and though 06 arte rte no longer held this highest amee falce was a man much looked up 0 o in the osage nation ile he had i ont it his six children and actually i tat fat wife to the indian school t he himself steadfastly refused refuse 1 eto speak a word of english though 9 knew enough of the Ian language guage he e conversed in osage and when necessary pec Lec essary used an interpreter it was a kind of stubborn indian in him it was ills his enduring challenge to the valte hite man you 1 ave not defeated me albit slowly dawned on sabra that ayoung A Toung clin was always to be found wiling in ID tile tha kitchen talking to al tully ruby she s he discovered to her was teaching cini to speak JOD osage sage A difficult language to the fl rhote be seemed to have a natural nat ural amplitude j aptitude tor for it site she came upon chem their heads close together brer the kitchen table laughing and talking and singing fiher rather fauby fi uby big 1119 elk was singing a song alth a curious rhythm and to I 1 f abras ear at least no melody j alm I 1 was trying to follow the grange Il gutturals guttu rals slurs aud ac 40 ants his bis eyes f fixed on rabys nubyn face 00 Is own expression utterly ab ft orbed rapt jill what are sou doing what Is 00 aisy Is the indian girls face took on its 4 08 tomary expression of proud dis dain aln she rose teach urn um song 10 athe le said bald which was queer tor for she IB poke oke english perfectly tv well I 1 must say Cli cimarron narro n cra itata att when you enow your father fw expecting you down at the office ice she stopped tier her quick eye aad alad leaped to the table where lay abe yie little round peyote disk or mes abial I 1 button which Is the hashish of 0 indian she had heard lie ard about it knew fi ow low prevalent among the indian J ribes from ja nebraska down to 1 y edito had become the habit of alinz this little top of aa r mexican cactus plant in snape shape ra alik about an inch and a halt in und d a quarter of an am inch 5 ak ln lescal the mescal or peyote gave the liter a strange feeling ot of lightness ight ness 18 POlled pain and fatigue caused alotis ats of marvelous beauty and grandeur the use of it had become an indian religious rite like a fury sabra advance advanced ed to the table snatched suat ched up the round button of soft preen green Teyo ro tc she whirled on C alm am what are you doing with this thing cims eyes cast down sullenly ills his hands la in his pockets he leaned against the wall very limp very bored very infuriating and insolent ruby nuby was just teaching me one of the mescal ceremony songs darned interesting its the last sod song they sing it at sunrise when abe re just about all in goes like this to horror he began an eerie song as he be stood there leaning against the kitchen wall his eyes halt half closed stop it screamed sabra with the gesture 0 of a tragedy queen site she motioned him film out of the kitchen lie he obeyed with very bad grace his going more annoying in its manner than ills his staying sabra followed him silently suddenly she realized slie site hated his walk and knew why he walked with a queer little springing gait on the tha very soles of his feet it came over her that it always had annoyed her she remembered that some one had laughingly told her what pete the old indian scout lounging on his street corner had bad said about young every time I 1 see that young cimarron Cl marron cravat a comin down the street I 1 expect to hear a twig snap walks lite like a storybook story book injun in the privacy of the sitting room sabra confronted her son the bit of peyote still crushed in tier her ban hand so youve come to this im ashamed of you come to what she opened her hand to show tag the button of pulpy green chrusl crushed h e d in 12 tier her palm A son of mine id rather zee see you dead oil oh for heavens sake mom dont get biblical like dad to hear you a person would think found me drugged la in a chinese op opium I 1 1 M den 1 I think id almost rather its nothing but a miserable little piece of cactus and what was I 1 doing but sitting in the kitchen listening to ruby tell how her father 1 I should think a man of almost eighteen could find something better to do than sit in a kitchen in the middle of the day talking to an indian girl wheres your pride cims eyes were still cast down ile he still lounged insolently his hands in his pockets how about these stories youve told me all your life about tile the love you south I 1 erners had for your servants and how old angle was like a second mother to you they were different they knew their place ile he raised the heavy eyelids then and lifted his fine head with the menacing took look that she knew so well in his father youre right they are different in the first place ruby an indian hired girl she is the daughter of an osage chief osage fiddlesticks what of it ruby big elk Is just as important a person in the osage nation as alice roosevelt Is in washington now listen here cimarron Cl marron cravat catl ive heard about enough A lot of dirty indians just you march yourself vours elf down to the wigwam office young man and dont you ever again let me catch you talking in that disrespectful manner about the daughter of the president of the united states and if I 1 ever hear that youve eaten a bite of this miserable stuff bauff she held field out her hand shaking a little the mescal button crushed crus lied in her aulm ill have your father thrash you within an inch of your life big as you are As it I 1 Is he shall hear of this hut but yancey w n being told only looked thoughtful and a little sud slid it its your own fault sabra yoube bound that the boy shall jive five the life youve planned for him instead of the one lie wants so hes trying to escape into a dream life like the indians its all the same thing 1 I 1 dont know what joure oure talking about I 1 dont think you know either cither tile the indians started to eat peyote after the whites had taken their religious and spiritual and decent physical life away from them llan ilan cannot live by bread alone ho lias has got to have dreams or life Is unendurable so the indian turned to the peyote he finds peace and comfort and beauty in his dreams A horrible suspicion darted through sabra yancey cravat have you ever lie he nodded his magnificent head slowly sadly many umes many times CHAPTER XI cici C III was nineteen donna fifteen and now sabra lived quite alone in the new dew house on street except tor for a colored woman servant sent from kansas slie she ran the paper alone as she wished it run site she ordered the iha house as she wished it she very nearly ran the he town of osage site she was a power in the territory and yancey was goue gone sabra had refused to compromise with life and life had taken matters out of her hands donna was nias away tit at an eastern finishing school hiss on the hudson yancey had opposed that of course it hall had been idea to send donna east to school east yancey had said kansas city certainly not oil chicago 1 I mean new york youre crazy 1 I dont expect you to approve I 1 suppose like tier lier to RO go to an indian school donnas an unusual girl sties not a beauty and never will be but sties brilliant what she is brilliant I 1 dont mean intellectual you smile I 1 mean that sties got the ambition and the insight and the foresight too of a woman of twice her age im sorry to hear bear that im not sties like mamma in man many ways only sties got of intelligence and drive she set get along with the girls here maurine turine Ili burket and gazelle slaughter and jewel riggs and czarina mckee and those sties different they go switching up and down pawhuska avenue marry one of those these tobacco chewing loafers and settle down like vegetables well she wont ill see to that going to marry tier her off to an eastern potentate at fifteen you wait see she knows what she wants shell get it too sure it you who knows what you want tier her to want but sabra had sent tier her off to miss on a diet of prunes 7 1 yet this thing was to her way of thinking Thin kirg monstrous and prisms that even her high and mighty mithry old grandmother felice venable approved walking the prairies beyond osage with that peculiar light fight step of his his eyes cast down prowling the draws and sprawling upon the clay banks of the rivers that ran so red through the red mans territory said that he wanted to be a geologist he spoke of tile colorado school of mines ile he worked in the wigwam office and hated it lie ile could pi ill a case of type more quickly and completely than a drunken tramp printer even jesse rickey nickey his mournful mustache more droop ing ng than ever protested to yancey she cant make a newspaper man out of that kid he be said not in in a million jears newspaper men are born not made lie fie just naturally hates news let alone a newspaper office ile he was born without an arm or something you cant grow it if you got it 1 I know it said yancey wearily hell find a way ay out for the first time a rival newspaper nourished flourished in the town of osage the town was scarcely large enough to support two dally daily papers but yanceys Yanc Yance cys ys political attitude so often was at variance with the feeling of the territory politicians I 1 that tile the new dally daily slipshod and dishonest though it was and owned body and soul by territorial interests achieved a degree of popularity sabra unable to dictate the polley policy of the wigwam with yancey rt at its head beat had to content herself with the management of its mechanical workings and with its increasingly important social and club columns osage swarmed with meet tings committees lodges knights of this and sisters of that the and the twentieth century clubs began to go in for chic betterment and no 10 osage merchant or professional man was safe from cajoling and unattractive females in ill shirtwaists shirt waists and skirts and eyeglasses demanding ills his name signed to tills or that petition with a contribution whatever aou ou feel that you can give sir air of course as a leading business man they planted shrubs about the cinder strewn environs of if the santa fe and the katy depots they agitated for the immediate paving of pawhuska avenues it done the ladles of the eastern star the venus lodge sisters of rebekah Hebe kali daughters of the southwest they came into the wigwam office with notices to be printed about lodge suppers and church so ci cl ables strangely ei enough 10 ugh they were likely to stay to longer tiger and to chat more freely if yancey and not sabra were there to receive them sabra was polite but business businesslike lik to her own sex encountered in office hours put cut yancey to mode le himself utterly charming he auld could no more help it than he could help breathing it II was almost functional with him ile he made tile the stout commonplace middle aged women feel that thai they were rosal and se ile he hollered them with ills line fine eyes lie bowed them to the doors their eyeglasses quivered ile he was likely on their departure to crum crumple alc plc their carefully worded nolice and throw it on the floor sabra though she made short work of the visiting benuses and re in kalis ran their notice andia and if necessary carefully rewrote it god almighty lie he would woul d groan tit nt noonday dinner the office was as full of benuses tills this morning like a swarm of over stuffed locusts sabra was at the head bead of many of these betterment movements also it if there could be said to be anything so formal as society in osage sahra sabra cravat was the leader of it she was the lie first to electrify the ladles of the twentieth century culture club by sen ing them waldorf salad that abominable mixture of tipple apple cubes chopped nuts whipped chippe d cream and mayonnaise the club tell fell upon it with little cries and murmurs thereafter it was at club meetings until osage husbands returning home to supper after a lays days work and being offered tills this salvage from the feast would it aside with masculine contempt for its contents and roar 1 I cant cat this stuff fix fis me some bacon aar and eggs from tills culinary and social triumph sabra proceeded to pineapple and marshmallow salad the recipe for which hall had been sent tier her by donna in the east its indirect effects were fatal when it again became her turn to pet as hostess to the members 0 of the lub slie she made her preparations for the afternoon meeting held at the grisly hour of half past two refreshments were invariably served at tour four with all arrangements made she was confronted by ruby big elk with tile the astounding statement that this was a great indian festival day Sep september tern and tile the corn dances were on and that she must go to the reservation in time for the mescal ceremony you cant go EO said sabra flatly midday dinner was over yancey had returned to the office was lounging in the hammock on the porch for answer ruby turned and walked with her stately irritating ri 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