The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-21
THE THOROUGHBRED"
Bu Henry KHcheN Webster
r. .+#t<%% Author Of s$.g5s ~. 49, a NJ. r.
f. THE Real Adventure" "The Painted Scene" Etc 4
Author of

|. knowlfalling I'm love with -oa. in,-i.tI
a liew sway wfieho tsl.e Z didn't, think
quite ladylike And tli9, ll4,lu s,5,te i,s
rather scared and easily imposed upon.
and she might never have got away
at all. If you hadn't come aMls-A-the
new YOU. remember not prosperous
and self-contained, and-tlon't miiiG :
noble at al, but just raw ard real
and human. aud fighting mad, and
| turned her loose '"'oh
He still wanted to laaaaQ'h hex Out of
this fancy. but She was Very 5li1ltttl III
earnest about it, ga 5 t.,',s@:''a .k ~. =
You must believe it," she insisted.
And you must never forget It. You
mustn't treat me like the old Celia.
The old one never liked to be--next to
things or people. but do. l love it,
/ She paused to illustrate. I've just
come alive. don't YOU see. and found
| out what Il wonderful thing it is.
P-please say that you're new too and
| that this. tonight, is the beginning of
everything e. ..,
The beginning Of everything" he
| echoed.
For the former things had passed
away
L. So ends the first chapter of this cpl
sode in the life of the Alfred Blairs.
CHAPTER VII
INTERLUDE
We will sing. the preacher says,
the first and third staii2a,, emitting the
second. 4 u&t aftFi.s iaI@la@
There are three chapters In this
| frag ment Of Celia's and ,Alfred's story :
but we at the conclusion of the first.
are going to proceed, directly to the
third Blessed is the nation which has
no history. And blessed. for the same
reason, is the family which doesn't
give the novelist Il chance.
The three months which followed
| Celia's finding and renting and furn
| ishing Of the fiat make up this second
chapter To Alfred and Celia it re.
mains the outstanding one.-alid when
they are old. fancy they'll still talk
to eaclr other about it. As they see
u r"tr"enor+ivolr IL IS t'.";- per'".' ~
pure romance-three golden honey.
moons strung on Il, silver WIRE.
Please don't take me as saying that
I consider poverty romantic lark. or
even b perilous close approach to pow
erty that is spelled by an income. for
two people. of twenty-five and a half
dollars week.
But the ElairS were not really SO
poor as they made out They had for
! the present, plenty of good seryiceable
clothes; they had in certain prospect
, though they carefully avoided looking
at it, the income from their house. And
too. down in the bottom of the mind Of
each, though neither ever admitted it,
was the consciousness that this state
Of things was transitory, and really
terminable ut will.
There is no denying that this con
scious1ess changed the quality Of their
adventure a little. Spiced it family with
the. hayor of make-believe. It was
easier. for example. to make q joke Of
it, when mistake in the budget re-
duced them, for four whole days. to n
famine ration: or to smile. as they
stood together outside an enticing mo-
fiOn picture theatre around on North
avenue, and had. forlornly, to admit
that they had exhausted their amuse-
Ment appropriation for this week
don't mean that they enjoyed these
experiences. They honestly went hun
CRY. They endured genuine dtsap-
IOintment over not seeing Charlie
Chaplin In his bnrlesgue OF Geraldine
Farrar. But these pan.s could be
looked Mt as isolated phenOmena, not
no tSbe or,noe ~ ;" t-~~ .-'- s--4-,re: which
made IN enormous difference.
Inc n,osl as.i aiOus t,ll,,, about this
new mode Of life was. perhaps, Its In
fimacv ThSsys had v,over 1tvssl i'm
timately before, and this fact had j,
deeper-lying catIse than Celia 's-the
aid Ce1i8'S AlOofness or her hslslsa nd