Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-11-28
Nobody could Win against Tanner

Nobody could win against Tanner
In court"
.Aurelie?~ He shook her sternly. Il
she had damned his paternity It would
Judge. you must remember"
"And he sent Papa John to jail-for
nothing. For swearing7 Why, I q
swear. too"
He smiled his patience. '.Linstrom
committed the worst Of contempt"
Contempt. Who cares for that3
Suppose you had lost-suppose the
case meant everything to you? Your
family ct home. waiting-hungry. Har-
Ian? Really hungry, and you saw You
Tor! There's times when Knute and
j have gone to school with no break
fast, and for lunch we dug wet but
ternuts from Under tho leaves. And
I'd go to school with q flower In my
hair n laugh and nobody'd know.
Just proud wouldn't even tell you"
horror In his tone. Not to have enough
to cato his class and breeding
was disreputable.
She smiled up. through her tears:
Mon dieu, yes-but what Of that?
Many times we've been hungry"
He was more shocked than she could
guess. Hunger was q luxurious state
OF mind incident to picnics and ath-
letics. One neverf really met people
hungry from having nothing to eat.
And to dig nuts and eat them and then,
come n town. proud-Oh. 30 very
proud-wtth q flower in ones hair.
high school Nv without h.S deienine to I speak
to any one He thought back to the
time he vas q senior. and Aurelie had
BEEN gypsy girl with short dresses
and long legs-he wondered what an
amazing change had come to her In
the four years. He had forgotten her
along Stnstnawa,. he q come upon
her gravely watching his threshing Of
q pool for bass. and she had mockingay
dertded him. She met him again hunt
ing and showed him m offers den IN
Ia wild morass Of the bottoms. when
none would have believed there was
an otter In tho state. After that-weN.
he met her day by day and then BY
night unique creature. no said at
lrst, laughably untamed. And he
amused himself by tanning her ana
Catholic, to como "~up-river'' out Of q
corner Of tho south. foreign and
known-to know the outdoors ~ the
Wild alone know it-this was the sum-
mer madness that seduced him.
Hungry? Why the flrst winter here.
when Michigan's h~ouseboat stranded In
who raised me. died Of pneumonia, We
were always hungry-we trapped any
sort Of animal to live. And when the
Lindstroms came and lived with us.
It wasn't much better-eomo times.
Then they started me to school-and
ia. Amt I done we'll Harlan?"
"Adorably. But" he sighed.
II know. You want me to 30 on and
graduate-and be q regular lady. Just
to show everybody. Oh, and I will.
dear. I promised myself I would-Just
Tor you! Everythtngs just for you!"
He was laughing again with that
curious hurt In his heart. And az he
held her. murmurtng his fondness. he
WINGED at the remembrance Of tho
days TO come. His mothers stateliness.
the Van Hart tradition-darvard, his
law career-vague and Of b well or
dered future. but he knew that on him
votion. Aurelie-what was all this to
her. and what could she be to 1t?
and now you'll 30 east" she went
don't know what I shall do. oh. .Har-
Ian. LIES 10 snarly-one can laugh
and be proud. but It hurts. And e
With me, but that hurts. too"
He was still, and ct length some
thing like . Sigh came. II wish you
could know my father. Aurelie. Why.
he'd be the flrst man to help Lindstrom
ne he could-and Uncle Michigan and
Knute and Peter and Ill Of you. He's
the gentlest. most tender hearted MAJ
lcovrf-that damned everything father
Isfs1ds Ior-and his father before him
sl-and behind that hundreds 01 yoaIa