Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-19
this beautiful dignity of maidenhood
and force her to bow to him as super.

and force her to. bow to him as SUPER
man. , (
"she is very beautiful and absurd1
lly proud, but I find her amusingx' he1
said to Mrs. Schwarz,. and then in al
tone as If he were lightly bargainins6
for her soul, he added lazily: "Justs
have it understood that she belongs
to me! You understand? I may5
come o o again." I
Then he turned to Hilda and. I'M
beautiful English. with all the out-l
ward courtesy Of a gentleman, said: q
will bid you good morning, Miss
Lessing!" !
In dumb amazement she stood and
watched him 20 down the path to theI
barn where Schwarz and two of theI
other men were working over a great
coil of wire. Somehow in the inStantI
Of his going 1t came to her like al
Shocks ""That ma is a spy" ]
Over and over she said it to herself
as she watched him standing in the
saw the immediate attitudea
of salute and Difference of the other}
two as he drew remembered
.snatches of the conversation she had
overheard the night before, and took
insthesWhole thing as a revelation. +
THAT man is spy! They are, peri
haps,ss@aH spies!" !
She stood rooted to the spot where|
he had left her, washing and rewash-1
ing the spider in which she had cook-|
ed his sausages, and taking. in theI
awful thought. The horror and in-f
dignation with which she had listened
to his audacions and insulting ordera
to Mrs. Schwarz concerning e weres
for the moment forgotten in theE
amazing conviction that she had dis-g
covered a spy! 1
Somehow her senses seemed racingE
around in her body in a frenzy, a1&H
she was almost blind and breathleE&
with trying to stop them long enough
to think what it all meant. So She
stood and reWashed that old greasyN
spider till Mrs. schwarz's raspinE
voice shivered on her suffering conf
seriousness with a thrill Of pain:
How long are you going to ,EtandE
there and wash that dish; you lazyg
girl? Get you up the stairs and
make those peds, and be quig aboudN
i'd" she shouted. Hilda caught herr
breath and hurriedly finished herr
dishes.
Upstairs by herself, with view OUT
the open windows, she saw the
stranger ordering everyone about1
She came to herself again and began(
to boil with rage over the awful thing1
that ma had dared to say about her!l
She belong to him! Indeed! she(
would rather die q thousand deaths
than belong to him. She loathed and
feared him with every atom Of hera
fine sensitive being. She was con-
WINGED without knowledge or need of
proof that he was a spy, a traitor td
his country and a man to be despise1I
And he was coming back againNy
Oh, horror! Somehow she must get
away before he came! She must not
stay in this house another day!
1t camesto her hat he was not yeti
gone. He might return; to the housed
again. She could see him standing1
nowsbetWeen the cabbage plants. !
pointing to the little tool house made}
there flashed across her. mind what
he had said about the powder house.
Powder and dynamite! Why shouldj
they need such things on q truck
farm? She had always connected
with a. red. nag and blasting on1
a city street. But powder here!j
Continued In tomorrow
K. Evenings Herald. 1,t