The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-12-04


there's few people that their birth
and position, and so on. puts them al
the top, and they ought to treat each
other entirely as equals" His voice
betrayed a. little emotion as he added
IL wouldn't speak like this to every.
body"
"You mean you're confiding your
deepest creed-or code. what ever II
is-to met"
go on; make fun Of It, then T.
George said bitterly. "You do think
you're terribly cleverl 1t makes NE
tired T.
swell. as you don't like my seeming
quietly SUPERIOR after this I'll be nois-
lily SUPERIOR" she returned cheerfully
1--WE aim to pleasel"
II had a notion before I came for
you today that we were going to quar-
REL" he said.
"No, we won't; It takes twol" She
| laughed and waved her muff toward a
new house. not quite completed, stand
ing in field upon their right. They
and were leaving the northern fringes
OF the town for the open country.
"Isn't that beautiful house" she ex-
claimed. "Papa and call 1t our Beau
tiful House."
George was not pleased. "Does It
belong to your
"Of course notl Papa brought me
out here the other day, driving in his
machine, and we both loved 1t. It's so
spacious and dlgnified and plain"
"Yes. It's plain enoughl" George
grunted.
"Yet It's lovely; the gray-green roof
and shutters give just enough color.
with tho trees, for the long white
! walls. 1t seems to be the finest house
I've seen in this part of the country"
George was outraged by an enthu-
siasm so ignorant-not ten minutes
ago they had passed the Anderson
mansion. 'Is that sample Of your
taste in architecturer he asked.
"Yes. WhyT
Because II strikes me you better 60
somewhere and study the subject q
littleI"
Lucy looked puzzled. "what makes
you have SO much feeling about it7
Have I offended you?"
"'Offended nothingi" George re-
turned brusquely. "Girls usually
think they know It all as soon as
they've learned to dance and dress aud
ilrt little. They never know uny-
thing about things like architecture,
for instance. That house was about
as bum a house as any house ever
sawi"
He spoke of II In the past tense, be-
cause they had now left 1t far behind
them-a human habit of curious sig
nificance. at was like house meant
for street In the city. What kind
Of house was that for people of
any taste to build out here in the coun-
try2
'But papa says it's built that way
| on purpose. There are q lot of other
houses being built in this direction,
and papa says the city's coming out
this way; and In year or two that
house will be right in town"
at was bum house. anyhow" said
George GROSSLY. II don't even know
| the people that are building 1t. They
say lot of riffraff come to town every
year nowadays and there's other riff
ran that have always lived here, and
have made little money. and act as
II they owned the place. Uncle Sgd
ney was talking about II yesterday :
he says he and some of his friends are
organizing country club, and already
some Of these rlffraff are worming into
it-people he never heard Of at all |
Anyhow I guess It's pretty clear you
don't know a great deal about archi.
| lecture"
She demonstrated the completeness
OF her amiability by laughing. "Tll
know something about the north pole
before long" she said. IF we keep
going much farther in this direction -
At this he was remorseful. "All
right; we'll turn and drive south
awhile till you get warmed up again
expect we have been going against
the. wind about long enough. Indeed
I'm sorryw
He said. Indeed, I'm sorry" In Q
nice way. and looked very strikingly
handsome when he said 1t, she
thought. No doubt It is true that
there is more rejoicing In heaven over
one sinner repented than over all the
saints who consistently remain holy
and the rare, sudden gentlenesses OF
arrogant people have infinitely more
effect than the continual gentleness OF
gentle people. Arrogance turned
gentle melts the heart; and Lucy gave
her companion little sidelong, sunny
nod Of acknowledgment. George was
dazzled by the quick glow Of her eyes
and found himself at loss for some
thing to say.
Having turned about he kept hi,