The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1919-08-16

and shutters give just enough color.
with the trees. for the long white
walls. II seems 10 be the finest house
I've seen In this part OF the country
George was outraged by an enthu-
siasm so lgnorant--not ten minutes
ago they had passed the Anderson
mansion. SIS that sample Of your
taste IN archltecturef" he asked.
"Yes. Whyf"
Because 1t strikes me you better 60
somewhere and study the subject
hitler
Lucy looked puzzled. "What makes
YOU have so much feeling about ftp
Have l offended your"
".Onended' nothlngl' George re-
turned brusquely. "Girls usually
think they know IL all as soon as
they've learned TO dance and dress and
art a little. They never know any
thing about things like architecture,
for instance That house was about
as bum house ms any house l ever
saw r.
He spoke of 1t In the past tense. be-
cause they had now left IL far behind
them--a human habit Of curious sig
nihcance. III was like house meant
for street In the city. What kind
OF n house was that for people OF
any taste to build out here In the coun-
try7'
seBut papa says It's built that way
on purpose. There are 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.
1T was bum house. anyhow" said
George GROSSLY. II don't even know
the people that are building IL. 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 riffrafr are worming into
it--people he never heard OF at ALT
Anyhow | guess it's pretty clear you
don't know great deal about archi-
lecture"
She demonstrated the completeness
Of her amiab,lity by laughing. 'rn
know something about the north pole
before long" she said. III we keep
going much farther In this directionr'
AT this he was remorseful. "All
right; wen 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 sorry"
He said, Indeed, I'm sorry" In a
nice way. and looked very strikingly
handsome when he said II. she
thought No doubt IL 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 his
horse TO walk, and at this gait the
slelghbells tinkled but Internationally.
The snow no longer fell, and far
ahead. In a grayish cloud that lay upon
the land, was the town.
Lucy looked at this distant thlcken-
ing reflection. when we get this far
out we can see there must be quite a
little smoke hanging over the town."
she said. IL suppose that's because
it's growing. As II grows bigger II
seems TO get ashamed of itself. so 1t
makes this cloud and hides In II.
Papa says IL used TO be a bit nicer
when he lived here he always speaks
OF IL differently-he always has
gentle look. a particular tone Of voice,
I've noticed. He must have been very
fond of IT, From the way he talks
you'd think life here then was Just
one long midsummer serenade. He
declares II was always sunshIny, that
the air wasn't like the air anywhere
else-thnt, as he remembers IT, there
always seemed to be gold dust In the
air. i doubt I'll ! think II doesn't
seem 20 be duller air to him now
just on account OF having little SCOT
In II sometimes, but probably because
he was twenty years younger then. II
seems to me the gold dust he thinks
was here is just his being young that
he remembers. 1 think II was just
youth. II Is pretty pleasant to be
young. isn't Itf'
you're a funny GIRL George said
gently. "But your voice sounds pretty
nice when you think and talk along to-
gether like that r.
The horse shook himself all over,
and the impatient sleighbells made his
wish audible. Accordingly George
frightened the relns. and the cutter was
nM In. "a Il.