The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-11-16
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What are you doing here3" de-
manded the girl who had just bought
six initial handkerchiefs. zone short
week ago you babe us all farewell and
went away to stay a month in the
country!"
That's all right" said the girl who
was looking at lavender bordered hand.
kerchiefs. II was there a month all
In n week! l came home because I
had to do SO to retain my sanity! Yet
when the Horans and the Worleys ask.
ed me over to visit them at the
cottage they had taken together for
the season. 1 thought I was going to
have the time of my life!"
We'll. didn't you?"
Il did," emphatically said the girl
who was buying lavender bordered
handkerchiefs. "And may the fates
preserve me from having 1t again!
1t was all my own fault and I should
have known better! Any person
bright enough TO be let run at large
should have more sense than to tackle
one bride and groom-and to think OF
any human being having the iron
plated nerve and reckless daring to
attempt to breathe the same atmos.
phere with two pairs Of newly married
people makes me absolutely dis.
gusted!
Il resolved not to make a nuisance
Of myself when l descended on the
d%ovecote." explained the girl with her
eye on the lavender colored handker.
chiefs. Il planned to slip of for long
walks by myself and to develop a fond
ness for solitary rowing bouts on the
lake and to discover dozens of letters
that l simply had to go away by myself
to write. l was going to give those
people plenty Of time to COO without
the dark cloud of my presence embar-
RAISING them! l needn't have wor-
ried, for they did not pay any more
attention to me than they would II I
had been composed Of mist.
What l found that I simply could
not endure was not any excess senti.
mentality but excess solicitude on the
part Of the brides. Now. I've known
Art Worley all my life, ever since we
used to pull each others hair and steal
cookies together, and of all the dare.
devil, reckless boys l ever knew. he
was the worst. He was always get.
ting drenched in transforms. upset in
lakes. sunstruck and mangled in acct.
| dents, and as his mother was one OF
those comfortable, placid women with
a divine faith in the nine lives of cats
and boys she never paid any atten.
ton to his mishaps. He grew up as
tough as a hickory and able to thrive
on a diet of nails.
THAT Is why Grace's conduct
first took away my breath and then in.
furiated me. Darling she would say
anxiously to Art at the breakfast ia
BILE. pausing suddenly as the awful
thought smote her. I forgot to lay out
your heavier underwear for you, and
there's quite a chill wind today! ]
just know you'll take your death Of
cold! Promise me that you'll change
at once-I should never forgive myself
II you got cold in your head through
my horrid carelessness!'
And Art Worley, before my very
eyes,, would gaze at her f%atuously and
frown a trifle with worry and then
would agree that his precious health
demanded the next heaviest weight
He would shiver a triae, too, and sa,
that the wind did feel cold.
That would start Helen. Harry,
she would murmur to her husband, dc
You feel the cold, too? Now, don't be
foolishly brave and say no when you're
really suffering! You know you sale
last night that you had a pain in YOU
shoulder! l just knew you shouldn'
have brought in those great heav!
armfuls Of stovewood! You tax you
strength too much!
Yet this same Harry Koran took al
the athletic honors at college. He re
sembles a giant Of prehistoric days IL
size. Yet Harry, instead of howlin,
in derision, would look seriously an.
would tell Helen that he supposed h.
vas foolish and that he must be NOR,
careful!
Then Grace would capture me as
started for a walk and would pour he
troubles into my ear. 1t seemed tina
Art had not eaten more than tw'
spoonfuls of his breakfast food tina
morning, and did I think he was goinl
to be Ill?
Then l would brutally say that Ar
Worley looked as solid and tough an
lasting as the big oak tree out in from
she would Indignantly retort that I ha'
no heart and didn't appreciate the rea
delicacy of his constitution.
When l escaped from her Hele'
would approach and WEEP on my shou,
der and demand to be told II I though
Harry would stop loving her becaus
the coffee had been so weak at breal
fast. due to her criminal neglect. Sh
felt that she had failed as a wife an
she could not bear to think OF he
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