The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-12-20

enterprise norning could possibly hap
pen to disturb it; / was all ready for
the first of July announcement and
boom. Never did / have . lighter heart
than when | Joined Anita and her
friends at Sherry's. 1t seemed to ms
her friendliness was less p~erfunctory,
less u matter of appearances. And the
sun was bright, the air delicious. my
health perfect. 1t took oil the strength
of all the straps Monson had put on
my natural spirits to keep me from be-
ing eXuberant.
had fully intended to be back at
my Office half an hour before the Elk
change closed-this in addition to the
obvious p~recaution of leaving orders
that they We're TO telephone me if any
thing should occur about which they
mad the least doubt. But so comfort
able did by vanity make me that I for
got to look at my watch until a quar-
ter TO three. l had u momentary
qualm: hen reassured. | asked Anita
TO a k a walk with me. Before we
set out | ~telephoned my righthand man
and partner, Ball. AS I had thought,
everything was quiet; the Exchange
was closing With Textile sluggish and
down a quarter. Anita and l took a.
car to the park.
|S " 'ti oliVAl ~ lI4tIt r.. 1t SebIIletl
TO me l was making more Roadway
with her than in all the times l had
seen her since we became engaged. At
each meeting I had had to begin at the
beginning once more, almost as if we
had never met; for | found that she
mad in the meanwhile taken on all, or
almost all, her original reserve. 1t was
as II she forgot me the instant I left
her-not very flattering, that,
You accuse me of refusing to get
acquainted with you said I, "of re-
1us1ng to see that you're a different
about you? Why do you all stick to
your first notion of me? Whatever 1
am or am not, Pm not the person you
condemned o sight
You have changed" she conceded.
The way you dress-and sometimes
the way you act. Or, is it because I'm
getting used to your"
No-lts-' / began, but stopped
Ihere. Some day I would confess about
Monson, but not yet. Also hoped the
change wasn't altogether due to Mon
son and the dancing master and my
mltatlo of the tricks of speech and
manner of the people in her set.
she did not notice my abrupt halt.
Indeed, [ often caught her at not listen
ing to me. L saw that she wasn't lis
tenfng to me now.
You didn't hear what / said" I 4ac-
cibS "IIeI SliCtI ply, lOT l. WAS IT.
rltated-as who would not have been?
h started, gave me that hurried
apoiogetlc look that was bitterer to
me IMAM the most savage insult would
have been.
II began your pardon" she said.
we We're talking of--of changes.
weren't we?"
We We're talking of me- I answered.
the subject that interests you.
not at all"
She looked at me In a forlorn sort of
way that softened my irritation with
sympathy. I've told you how it Is
with me- she said. II do my best to
please you Il
Damn your best." I cried. Don't
Try to please me. Be yourself. Tn not
a slave. driver. / don't have to be,
eohcllated. Can't you ever see that
IN not your tyrant? Do I treat
you as any other man would feel
he had the right to treat the girl
who had engaged herself to hin? DO
l ever thrust my feelings or wishes
o~r.ionging on your? And do you
thlnk repression easy for a man of my
humbly. Ae saiu
Don't you ever say h a to me
again" half commanded half pleaded.
u won't have you always putting me !
She halted and faced me.
why do you want me. ANYHOW ~
she cried. Then she noticed seyaral,
on a bench staring at us and
gr1nn1ng: she flushed and walked IN
! cont KNOW said 1. Because I'm
tells me | can't hope to break thro11ph
that shell of self c~omplacence yoI,ya
been cased in by your family and vo,,r
associates. Sometimes I think I'm mis-
taken In you, think there isn't any real.
luIlan blood left in YOU veins, that
like the rest Of them-a human
whose heart and mind have heen
lAkeh out n a machine substituted
machine that car say and do onlv q
narrow little range of conventional
enulgs-llke Q of those French dolls"
sb you mustn't blame me for that"
TOO and Tn ashamed Of 1 It,
you could know how T,va
oeen educated. They've treated mo as y
ne fIathead Indian women treat their
oaples-keep their skulls in a press
81 that t?-un their heads and
only, somehow, in my case-the nroc-
wasn't quite complete. And SO. IN
sIead OF being contented like the other
tlathead girls, Im-almost a rebel, ~
INES. I'm neither the one thing nor
me otner-not natural and not Flat
from Flathead. not enough Flat
lead to get rid of the natural"
i take back what I said abo,,t not
moving why II want you, Anita
said; Il do know why-and-welI 90
marrying me-" sie'
Continued Next Weekly
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