Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-06

All he breathed, and somehow
the exclamation seemed an acknowl-
edglnent Of understanding. Shabbi-
ness and evident lack Of prosperity
did not necessarily mean i%lliteracy.
Nina, with a feeling of relief, went
about preparing super. Later, when
the meal was over, the visitor went
cried. They are all here, my favor
ties! Aristotle, Plutarch, Virgil,
Hume, Kant-oh, Kant"
He took the volume down, laughing
like a schoolboy. DO you enjoy
Kant?" he demanded gayly. DO you
truly enjoy Kant? Then, what do
you think of this" He futtered the
leaves familiarly, finally bouncing up
on a passage and reciting it trump
hantiy. Her father added another
and he another still, and Nina sat in
her old wooden rocker, grooming to
h baby n trying to follow the
wordy battle.
But the rain on the windows kept
reminding her that the wonderful
places where Lena was privileged to
go were far and away more attrac-
tive.
Nina, daughter" said her father,
suddenly interrupting her thoughts,
read that article we were discussing
last night. And the foot notes. They
explain exactly my view"
She put the baby down and went to
the shelves. When she returned the
child was on the strangers knee and
he was talking to her. 'Ni-nan," she
said. and he awkwardly rumpled it's
curls and laughed. Cant you say
mamma? 2" he asked.
My sister," she corrected, gravely.
But gave her to me
When-'
He nodded and Nina, when she
could see, read the article and was
surprised, when the house was quiet
for the night, to find that the day had
ended and pleasantly. The stars were
out, big and white, and she had Cor
gotten her disappointment.
But in the morning she remember-
ed. Lena could not possibly see her
today, and just everything was wrong,
She dropped Imply into the old rock
er and groaned. She and her father
and the baby-they would sink or
swim together. There was no other
a And she did not want another
way, only h would like to see the
person, other han her father, who
could extract comfort from a situation
like this.
h laughed at that and felt reliev-
ed and once more hopeful. But des-
pondcncy returned when a week aft
erWard a car stopped at the gate and
the stranger, Paul Pearson, came run
ming in. He had brought her father
a book bearing, he said, on a sub
ject they had discussed.
After that he came often. Her IA
ther, from n visit to the next, liter
ally lived in the clouds. Never be-
fore, he told her, had he met a foe
man worthy of his steel. But she
herself Writhed in desperation. Whole
days that. should have gone to the
work Of the farm went to looking up
passages that should refute an argu-
ment Or open a new line Of thought
when Paul should come again.
Matters before had been discourage
ing enough, but now, n particularly
after her next visit to Lena Myers.
Nina despaired. For an hour Lena
had chartered Of happenings too beau
tiful to seem possible grand recep-
ton n what the lovely ladies wore:
an afternoon" at which the music
was "divine;" small parties galore.
n preparation for the marriage Of
n of h city's beauties, Myrtle
Yates, whose beautiful trousseau she
had already written up. And Lena
herself vas 10 bright and CAV. and
so happy in her work. To save her
life Nina could not help envying her.
II 1t were not for the baby and her
father
But there she stopped. And she
left Lena feeling that the world itself
and everything to it was terribly
! askew and unfair. When she reached