Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-05
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"Oh," she said, "mothers written
two or three books, and lots of magn-
zine articles, about wOmen-wOmenS
rights and suffrage, and all that.
She's been-well, sort of leader ever
since she graduated from college,
back in-just think !-1S7O, when most
girls used to have accomplishments
French, music, and washing extra
you know"
She said it all with quite adora-
BILE seriousness, and his gravity match
ed hers when he replied: II would
like to meet her very much. Femin-
ism's a subject I'm blankly ignorant
about
II don't believe" she said thought
fully, "tkat I'd call it feminism in
talking to mother abo':. 1t, If l were
you. Mothers n suffraGst, but
there came another wave of faint
color along with her smile-"but-
well, she's awfuliy respectable, you
know"
She didn't seem to mind his laugh
ing out ut that, though she didn't
Join him.
"What about the other interesting
member of the sanily," he asked
presently, "your sister? Which is she,
q suffragist or a feminist?"
II suppose" she said, you'd call
Portia feminist. Anyway, she
hasn't time to talk about it much. You
see, she's business woman. She's
house decorator. She tells you what
kind of furniture to buy. and then
sells it to you. Portals terribly clever
and awfully independent"
'All right" he said. THAT brings
us down to you. What are your"
She sighed. "I'm sort of black
sheep, guess. I'm just in the univer-
sity. But I'm to be a lawyer
Whereupon he cried out so explo-
sively that she fairly jumped. Then he
apologized and said the notion of her
In court trying case-he was a law
yer himself-seemed rather startling.
She sighed again. "And now l
suppose" she said, you'll advise me
not to be"
mot Bit" he said. Its the fin
est profession in the world"
But he said it off the top of his
mind. Down below, it was still en-
gagged with the picture of her in q
dismal courtroom, blazing up at
jury the way she had blazed up at
that conductor.
awfully dull and tlresome, though,
until you get way up to the top"
That reused him. Its awfully dull
when you do get to the top, or what's
called the top-being client care
taker with the routine law business
of few big corporations and rich
estates going through your office like
grist through a mill. That's supposed
to be the big reward, of course"
He was out of his chair now. tramp
ing up and down the room. '"The thing
to bear in mind. If you're going to
travel that road, is that a case is
worth while in precise and unaltera-
BILE ratio to the amount of money in
volved in it. If you question that
axiom Mt all seriously, you're lost.
That's what happened to me-"
He pulled up with jerk. looked at
her and laughed. "If my sister FIRE.
dcrica were here" he explained. t'she
would warn you that now was the time
for you to ask me If I'd been to see
Naude Adams or something like that"
She smiled in sort of contented
amusement. Then the smile trans
muted itself into look of thoughtful
gravity, and there was a long silence
which, though it puzzled him, he made
no move to break.
At last &he pulled in a long breath,
turned straight to him, and said: II
wish you'd tell me what happened
to you"
And, under the compelling sincerity
Of her, for the next two hours and q
half, or Whereabouts, he did-told it
- he had never told it before.
He told her how he had started at
the foot of the ladder in one of the
big successful firms of what he called
"client caretakers." He told Of his
discovery of real legal problem and
Of the passionate enthusiasm with
which he had attacked it, the thrill
ing weeks Of labor he had put upon it.
And then he told her how the head
Of the firm, an old friend of his ia
TIERS, had called him in and said the
work he had done was very remark.
able, but, unfortunately, not profitable
to the firm, the whole amount involved
ln the case having been some twenty
dollars. In other words, he was fred
He told her how he'd got in with
IN altruistic bunch the City Homes
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