Cleveland County herald., 1919-10-02

confidential to yourself, but it's plain enough! I don't believe in that kind of thing. I think the worlds like this : there's a few people that their birth and position, and so on, puts them at the top, and they ought to treat each other entirely as equals" His voice betrayed little emotion as he added, "I wouldn't speak like this to every body"
 "You mean you're confiding your deepest creed-or code, what ever it | is-to mel?
 "Go on; make fun of it, then P | George said bitterly. "You do think you're terribly clever! It makes me | tired 1"
 "Well, as you don't like my seeming quietly superior after this I'll be nois- fly superior" she returned cheerfully. We aim to please!"
 'I had a notion before I came for you today that we were going to quar- rel" he said.
 "No, we won't; it takes two!' She laughed and waved her huff toward a new house. not quite completed, stand ing in a field upon their right They had passed beyond Anderson addition | and were leaving the northern fringes of the town for the open country. sIsn't that beautiful housel' she ex- | claimed. "Papa and I call it our Beau tiful House."
 George was not pleased. "Does it | belong to youY
 "Of course not Papa brought me out here the other day, driving in his machine, and we both loved it. It's so spacious and dignified and plain"
 "Yes, it's plain enough!" George grunted.
 "Yet it's lovely; the gray-green roof and shutters give just enough color, with the trees, for the long white walls. It 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 a sample of your taste in architecture?" he asked.
 "Yes. Why?"
 Because it strikes me you better go somewhere and study the subject a little p
 Lucy looked puzzled. "What makes you have so much feeling about it? Have I offended you?'
 "Offended' nothingw George re- turned brusquely. Girls usually think they know it all as soon as they've learned to dance and dress and f1irt a little. They never know any thing about things like architecture, for instance That house was about as bum a house as any house I ever saww
 He spoke of it in the past tense, be- cause they had now left it far behind them-a human habit of curious sig nificance. Tt was like a house meant for street in the city. What kind of a house was that for people of any taste to build out here in the coun- try?"
 But 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"
 Tt was bum house, anyhow" said George grossly. "I don't even know the people that are building it. They say lot of riffraff come to town every year nowadays and there's other riff raff that have always lived here, and have made a little money, and act as if they owned the place. Uncle Syd- ney was talking about it yesterday: he says he and some of his friends are organizing a country club, and already some of these riffraff 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 suitability 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. I 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 it, 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 a loss for some thing to say.