River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-04-23

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was more than the animal call OF
youth and sex. Running Elk had be-
come a fetch to her.
''The father must likewise have rec
ognized this. for as we passed out he
stammered into my ear:
You see, Doe. the girls mad. It's
~awful-awful! | don't know what to
dor
THE press had separated her from
us a bit, so answered: Get her away,
quick. no matter how or where! Use
force if you have to. but get her away
and keep her away. I'll see him to-
night
- guess it's our only chance mum
bled the old fellow. I'll kidnap her
and take her to Europe. It's awfulg
Il didn't go back to the city with
them. but said goodby at the running
board Of their machine, finding next
morning that the father had taken my
advice and hat they had sailed unex
pectedly for an indefinite stay abroad.
Il spent that evening with Running
Elk, who seemed glad to see me. He
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his progress and spoke lightly of his
victory that day. Sound him as l
would, | could elicit no mention of
Alicia Harman's name. He wasn't
much of a talker anyhow, and at last
l was forced to bring up the subject
myself. whereupon the silence of his
forefathers fell upon him, and all he
did was listen. | told him forcibly
that any thoughts of her were ridicu-
lous and impossible.
"'Why?' said be.
Il told him a thousand reasons why,
recounted them cruelty, u~nfeelingly,
but he made no sign to me. AS a mat
ter of fact, | don't think he under
stood them any more than be under
stood the affair itself. He appeared to
be blinded and confused by the splen-
dor of it all. She was so glorious, SO
different, so mysterious to him that
he had lost all perspective. Recogniz-
ing this, l descended to material
things which | knew he could grasp.
~ paid for your ~education,' said /,
and it is almost over with. In a few
months you'll be turned out to make
your living. and then you'll encounter
this race prejudice l speak of in a
way to affect your stomach and your
body. You're a poor man, Running
Elk, and you've got to earn your way.
Your blood will bar you from a good
many means Of doing 1t, and when
your color begins to affect your earn
ing capacity you'll have all you can
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Life isn't played on q gridiron, and
the first thing you've got to do Is
make a man of yourself. You've got
no right to fill your head with insane
fancies of this sort
"'Yes, sir said he. And that was
about all | could get out of him. His
reticence was very annoying.
II didn't see him again for two years.
| had barely reached the reservation
when the stage from the railroad
brought two women. two strange WON
ell. who came straight to my Office
Alicia Hartman and her French maid.
well | was fairly knocked end
wise. But she was as we'll poised and
self contained as on that Thanksgiving
morning in New York when she n
old Henry had picked me up In their
automobiles trifie more stunning and
a bit more determined perhaps. Oh,
she was a splendid creature. in the
first glory of her ~wOmanhood, a per-
fectly groomed, pulsating, spoiled god
dess. She greeted me graciously, with
hat queenly air of all great ladies'.
"'Where is your father?' l asked as
[ laid off her dust coat.
HE is in New York. said she. i
am travelling alone
why have you come out here, Ali
cha 2 / inquired slowly, being far more
i'll at ease than she.
do you need to askY she answer
ed. 4 respected fathers wishes when
| was in my minority. | Travelled and
studied and did all the tiresome things
he wished me to as long as he had the
right to ask them Of me. But when
l became my own mistress took my
full freedom. He made his life to
suit himself. and | am very sorry l
cannot build mine to suit him. But
we don't seem to see things the same,
and | dare say he has accepted the in
eVlLdDle.
""Then you consider this inevita-
ble?'
"She lifted her dainty brows. In
evitable is not a good word. | wish it.
| have wished it from the first. |
have never ceased to wish it for an
instant. | feel / must have 1t. There
fore, to all intents and purposes, it is
inevitable, | suppose
"'You have-er-been In communi-
| cation with
"'Never. Father did not wish It,
"'Then how did you know he is
here?'
HE wrote me when he left Yale
that he was coming here. | have
heard nothing since. He is here, is he
not?'
H.