The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-05-01

FAAte--
"Tis morning and the days are Ionel'
miration and that you didn't get your
share. SO when her suitors began a
siege Of the castle. whose gates were
locked against you. you plugged the
chimney with trunk tray and played
at being ghost and otherwise sought to
terrify your sisters lovers"
That's not nice, Chimneys. You
mean that I'm Jealous"
mo. | don't mean that you are jeal-
GUS now. | throw it into the remote
and irrevocable past. You were jeal-
Gus. You don't care so much now. and
hope you will care lessr'
THAT is being Impairment If you
talk that way shall call you Mr. Ames
and go home"
You can't do that. Hezekiah."
II should like to know why not. If
you say I'm Jealous of Cecilia now or
that | ever was | shall be very, very
angry. for it's not true"
mo You see things very differently
now You told me only last night that
Cecilia might have Hartley Wiggins.
Assuming that she wants himl And
you and he have been good trends,
haven't you? You had good times on
the other side And while Cecilia was
in town assisting Providence In finding
your aunt cook you went walking
with him.
81 did. | did," Knocked Hezekiah
And why do you suppose | did,"
Because Wiggys the best of fellows.
solid, substantial citizen who raises
wheat to make bread out Of
"And angel food and ginger cookies"
added Hezekiah. feeling absently in
the pockets OF her coat. mo. Chin
neys. you're nice boy and you don't
buster hits you In the dark but there |
are some things you don't know yet"
81 am here to grow wise at the feet
of Hezekiah. daughter of kings Open
the book of wisdom and teach me the
alphabet, but don't be sad IL balk at
the grammar
II never knew all the alphabet N.Y.
self" said Hezekiah dolefully. Then
she laughed abruptly. II was bounc-
I'd from two converts and no end of
Hudson river and Fifth avenue educa-
ion shops"
"The brutality of that. Hezekiah.
vrings my heart. Yet you are the
,est teacher ever bad. and thought
was educated when | met you. But !.
had only been to school. which is
ifferent Not until the first time our
yes met. not until that supreme mo-
nent'-
Mr.. Ames." Hezekiah Interrupted
the happiest possible Imitation OF
fiss Octavia's manner. IF you think
hat. because | am poor lone girl a
Tho knows nothing of the great. wide .
Iorld. am a fair mark for your ca
,lery | assure you that you were new u
r more mistaken in your life' II
you oughtn't to mimic your aunt S
isn't respectful. and, besides. you A
ave something to tell me. What's all Il
lis rumpus about Cecilia's silver a
book? Suppose we dis b
ISIS that and get through with it," p
You see." she began earnestly. I'm b
ping to tell you something. and yet III
N not going to tell you So far as 81
'u and ! have gone you've been toll Il
ably satisfactory. II | didn't think 81
~ had some wits In your head | nj
couldn't have bothered with you at &c
!. That's frank, isn't it,"
1T certainly is But I'm terribly re
ssed for fear may not be equal to la
is new ordeal" OF
IF you fail we shall never meet
ain; that's all there is to that Now A
ten real hard. You know something ar
out it already. but not the main 81
int Aunt Octavia got father to con- N
MT to let her marry us off-Cecilia ju
d me. Cecilia. being older. came Ike
st. | was to keep out of the way. sc
d father and | We're not to come to
int Octavia's new house up there or H
eddie in any way While we were W,
road | was treated as a little girl tn
d not as a grownup at ALL But. you A
,. I'm really nineteen. and some of on
elias suitors were nice to me when bu
, were travelling. They were nice to ru
. on Cecilia's account, you know" pc
OF course. You're so hard to look Tx
it must have been painful to them IN
be nice to you-almost like taking be
isoni Go on, Hezeklah, ne
You needn't interrupt me like that. hi:
ell. as part of the understanding. and tn
ella agreed TO it--she thought she
d to for papa's sake-she was to all
TRY particular man. Do you IN pc
rstand me-a- particular man? Aunt