The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-28

sitiOu. She came over TO the open
door and looked out beyond the chick
ems The wheat fields rimpled up to
the hills. and the hills rolled back high
and green, into the blue of a Missouri
sky
There was promise OF a brilliantly
warm day in the air, which qUiVCred
with an electric intensity The very
beauty of some Missouri days has been
known to quicken even quiet pulses Uu-
comfortably. Mrs. Shaukliu did not
have a quiet pulse, and. standing i'm
the doorway. she iuterldced her bOny
finger NehcWently.
Tisu't only because I'm SO tired of
II out here, or because of the iUcuu-
vcuieucrS. or because of anything so
much as its because OF Eliza beth
Her voice began TO shake with feeling
Il wish YOU would tell me. Edward
ShaUkliu- / just wish you would tell
me what YOU yourself count on for
Elizabeth if ye stay ora out here. Isn't
she to have any pleasure. any school
ing, amy girl frieuds-auy young men
friends"
Mir. Shaukliu put one of the sUcculeut
pods in his mouth and cHewed il re-
fiectiVely- It always seemed to him
unnecessary and disturbing TO go root
ing into the future the way his wife
old He was ready 10 admit that Eliza
beth must be educated. and that she
must have pleasure and friends but
when Eis wife began To- project the
Shaukiiu household out of its old hab-
its toward those consumWatioUs for
Elizabeth. that minute he became woe
fully unhappy
What's 10 binder Elizabeth from
having friends out here he asked at
last. with a dugged twist of his head
that pointed TO and made much OF the
heast5eS and the comforts OF the farm.
What's to hinder Knocked his wife
go YOU suppose for one minute. Edward.
that PeuauC-cn boys are coming out
here TO see EIlzab beth and going to take
her in to town 10 parties, when there s
nifty girls handler"
Il drove out of town TO see YOU,
Nary" suggested lIr- Shaukliu Temiu-
is.eutly.
Kentucky amt Missouri. and Mis-
souri, roads amt Kentucky roads ON.
You -o uu and talk me down. Edward W
Mrs Shaukiiu'S voice rose TO nervous
vail thin and t1ut Talk me down
! know your father and mother lived
l,ro before YOU I know they dug the
we'll and built the smoke house, and !
know how fond your mother was OF
the spring mouse. and I know YOU think
what WAS sOod enough for your father
and mother oUElt TO he good enough
for us Well I'm just plain to say il
amt -ood enough i want Elizabeth
should have better
She turned from the door and sat
down I'm the chair by the kitchen table
with her hands still kuOtteu together.
She had had so many times In her life
L. watch what her husband said IN
order 10 twist il into another reason
for moving into town. or for getting a
piano Tor EIiza beth or for building an
L tnat she had got "a birdike alertness
she seemed always just ready to peck
1t isn't only that you are JImid
about planning yourself. Edward II S
that you make everybody else tinfld- II
'5vereu't for You I'd have had many 2
thing over and done long since. and all
the good Of IL ours, but let thing 50
nluch as by my lips bat il TO ground
YOU viii. IF We weren't able 10 move
10 town and give Elizabeth a chance
I'd feel different but We are able
she took in the spring house. and the
smoke house, and the well as she i'm
ished and her slim, sharp face con-
tracted still mOre-''aud we got 10 go,
she said
After dinner was over Mr. Shauklin
went to the back porch to smoke there
in full view OF the spring house, and
fortify himself by regarding it. AIRS
Shanklin called i'm Hester and Jeffer-
son. and turned the kitchen over to the
former WIh relief The day fairly
and her head had begun TO ache. As
she left the kitchen her eyes rested for
q moment with SuTrptitious envy on
the two darkis. who were already in
stalled before the corubread and Shout
der with beaming content
Just 10 be satisfied like that-' said
Mary Shaukim to herself We'll. what
we have out here Is just about enough
10 satisfy people like that" She went
across the porch and into the sitting
room TO lie down Cows and pigs
milk and Cream-hog killing time and
. harVest''-the words went SCuTrying
through her head as she passed her
husband-"butter and eggs. swiH and
fodder" Her head was in such Il
" hirI she could hardly reach the sofa.
Later on she was dimly conscious that
someone came in and closed the shut
tiers and put wet towel on her head
If was not Elizabeth. Then she slept
She awoke with a sensation of having
silent a long time, and a conviction that
If must be nearly night The room
seemed pitch dark. She could hear
overEraa5 TIE sound % hurrviug feet