The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-01-22
CHAPTER x-fcontinued.)

looked at Wiley with the pity OF the
money getter for the dreamer, and
Wiley looked at Hen with the reserve
OF the idealist for the vulgarian. He
encountered men Of action; the In
drawing INDIGESTION, at time, made him
revile himself as q weakling.
Aureliet Aurelie, with her hurt pride,
her love that was a tragedy, her wild
beating of life against her bars. Not
yet had she more than dimly grasped
her fame--not o than that, east
biowsy breakfast feeders had propped
the supplement up against IN sugar
urn, and over their coffee and chops.
had Scrutinized her full sheet present
ment--that careless Egyptian face up
turned, the leaves and blossoms In her
hair, the simple gown betraytng her
slender rounded throat-scrutiniZed,
grunted: read the lead Of the story,
grounted again and turned to another
roll and the pink un" to scan the
football cores y,
But or somewhere, the gilded world
had called her. The letters she got by
hundreds, the congratulations and In
Quiries, curious and kindly, envious
and ingratiating, warned her. A New
York. manufacturer wanted to use her
face on his tooth powder boxes-that
was the worst she knew Of. And John
Lindstrom, in a rage had seized most
of her mail and burned 1t and forbid
den her intercourse with the town. She
had gone about in q dream, some In
effable heartsickness, which Harlan
had left with her--she fought It rebel
tously with pride and anger nj sullen
silences. When she made one trip to
town she tossed her small head along
High street, conscious that every
household FASTENED to, the windows to
see her. There goes Aurelie Linds-
trom-the first time she's been out since
It hAppenedl" =
TT" was spoken of the best families
as n would speak Of a surgal opera
ton. But ven her former s~choolmates
didn't banter her--she went past them
with hardly more than q nod and they
fell back to discuss her status, her
looks, her possibilities-she couldn't be
as handsome q 3 Vawter's silly picture
made her. ..a.@. ..... ."II .'h
Wiley lounged into Miss vance's Of
nee In the court house the next morn
ngsafter the arrival OF the twins They
saw Aurelie go into Dickinson's store,
her red dress a brave bit Of flame. Mr..
Curran sighed, looking at Janet's firm
pen scratching Its way across a dis
trict requisition paper. Poor little
girl" he said, I'm desperately sorry"
Miss Vance's cool gray eyes lifted.
why f# .t.f ~.
ooh, I don't know. Only I'm begin
ming to think as Harlan did-the whole
thing IN horribly vulgar. 1 never knew
Aurelie much before-but she's been at
the shop. Live met her'-he looked
away frowning al his own tremor-"she
hasn't an idea Of what to do-and there
were six proposals of marriage In Sat-
urday's mail" x,
Miss Vance scratched on: IT should
q GAf~I< -1W4AI AR-~1 ~ "a
AS for ~vulgarity, Ii couldn't be much
worse than her surroundings before. /
hope something comes OF 1t for her"
I'm afraid it'n spoil her"
mot necessarily. Wiley, it's like you
to accept it impractically."
why, the whole towns laughing at
her. And here the McFetridge boys
with their ridiculous scheme"
"Why?"
Wiley subsidized. Janet was always
squelching him. WELL" he ruminated,
for a week she made the old town
famous-it figured in a Chicago date
line six times, and the photographers
came and snapped Lindstrom's shack,
and the Sinsinawa bridge. and the
north side school where she used to
go and'-Wiley got up and sighed
well, Amelia Parsons says the motor
Iety to Rome was shocking, and the
Shakespeare club ought toNpass resolu-
lions deplortng the whole business"
Probably they will. They deplored
my election also. IL Aurelie can go
and do anything that otherwise she'd
never had the remotest chance of do
ing, l approve. Miss Conway said she
was a very bright child in the eighth
grade. And she certainly has appealed
to our sentimental self" ~.
Eth. Welt" He shrugged. Janet,
the whole thing hit me-" The little
girl Is a deal like myself. I fancy. A
soul in bonds. / was, Janet-you re-
member?"s He raised his hand to the
October hills. Il had to go off foot free
n wander and see it all. Something
beyond all this. Aurelie's suddenly
awakened, too, out Of her bitterness
her love-" he checked himself and
sighed. Il can understand all that,
Janet. My world was gilded splendid
ly--and It Is yet. o know. l can't get
rs It true-these proposals Of mar
Rage she getsT" pursued Miss Vance
impersonally.
ROT Even Aurelie laughs-and
tears EN- up! A lot OF people bother
her, indeed. But she's a sturdy little
soul with a terrible simplicity and d.
rectness. Wants to be somebody
wants to be somebody God bless the
kid can understand" "
NuLALb W 10 EOInCDOUyt JBnEI
watched him shrewdly. "And you?
Wiley, I took you at your word-you're
going to run for congress"
janet"
II had luncheon with Governor Del
roy up in Des Moines last week. Now,
please-please-this Is not for the
News, remember! I told him you had
promised to lead his forlorn hope in
this district"
Janet, I neve held an office in my
hfe!"
Neither did Delroy until he rebelled
up there in the North" She rose and
came swiftly to him. wiley, I've been
all over the county in my school work,
and all over the district at the insti-
tutes, and I say the time has come!
You don't know the restlessness against
Congressman Hail and this old regime.
Some live forceful man is going to
seize the chance and ride on 1t to sue
cess, and oh, Wiley, I want 1t to be
youi"
you iunched with Delroy? You-dis-
cussed--meT
Yes. He was eager Il know Of
you--he'd watched your editorials"
Wiley looked quizzically at her.
Janet lunching with Delroy, the great
new name in the tumult Of the new
politicst or course Delroy knew Of