Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-03-02

but by sheer force of nablr ne held
the pipe in his teeth.
"And how have things been going?"
asked Sidney practically.
"Your steward has little to report.
Aunt Harriet, who left you her love,
has had the complete order for the
Lorenz rousseau. | thought I'd ask
you about the veil. We're rather in
a quandary. Do you like this new
fashion Of draping the veil from be-
hind the couture in the back
Sidney had been sitting on the edge
of her chair, staring.
There" she said-"I knew it This
house is fatal They're making an old
woman of you already Her tone was
tragic.
He sucked calmly at his dead pipe
katie has new prescription-rec-
ipe-for bread. 1t has more bread aud
fewer airholes. One cake of yeast"
Sidney sprang to her feet.
sIt's perfectly terrible!'' she cried.
Because you rent a room in this house
is no reason why you should give up
your personality and your-your intel
ligence. Mother says you water the
flowers every morning, and lock up
the house before you go to bed. IL
never meant you to adopt the family !!
X. removed his pipe and gazed ear
nestly into the bowl,
'BiH Taft has had kittens under the
porch he said. And the groceryman
has been sending short weight. We've
bought scales now, and weigh every
thing"
"YCu are evading the question"
"Dear child, am doing these things
because / like to do them. For--fOr
some time I've been floating, and now
I've got home
Sidney gazed helplessly at his inn
perturbable face. He seemed Older
than she had recalled him: the hair
over his ears was almost white. And
yet he was just thirty. That was
Palmer Howe's age, and Palmer
seemed like boy. But he held him
self more erect than he had in the first
days of his occupancy of the second
floor front
land now" he said cheerfulIy, what
about yourself? You've lost lot Of
illusions. of course, but perhaps you've
gained ideals. That's step"
Life" observed Sidney, with the
wisdom of two weeks out in the world,
life is q terrible thing, X. We think
we've got it, and--it's got us.
Undoubtedly"
''When | think of how simple | used
to think it all was One grew up and
got married, and--and perhaps had
children. And when one got very old.
one died. Lately I've been seeing that
life really consists of exceptions
children who don't grow up, and
grown-ups who die before they are Old.
And'--this took an effort, but she
looked at him squareIy- people
who have children, but are not mar
ried 1t all rather hurts"
"AlI knowledge that is worth while
hurts in the getting"
Sidney got up and wandered around
the room. touching it's little familiar
objects with tender hands. Il. watched
her. There was this curious element
Ill Ills love lOI HcIs IAldl WACh A1t $50
with her it took on the guise of friend
ship and deceived even himself. 1t
was only in lonely hours that it took
on truth became a hopeless yearning
for tn touch of her hand or glance
from her clear eyes.
There is something else,9' she said
absently. Il cannot talk it over with
mother. There is a girl in the ward"
"A patient?"
Yves. She is quite pretty. She has
had typhoid, but she is little better.
She's-not good person.
81 see'
AT first I couldn't bear to go near
her. b shivered when had to straight
Ell her bed I'm being very frank,
but I've got to talk this out with some
one. / worried a lot about it, because,
although at first | hated her, now
don't. l rather like her
She looked at X. defiantly, but there
was no diSaDprOyal in his eyes,