The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-10-17

of thing. l think the worlds like this:
theresa 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 a little emotion as he added,
81 wouldn't speak like this to every
body"
''You mean you're confding your
deepest creed-or code, what ever it
is-to me?"
go on; make fun of it, them"
George said bitterly. "You do think
you're terribly clever! 1t makes me
tired"
'Well, as you don't like my seeming
quietly SUPERIOR after this I'll be nois-
lily superior" she returned cheerfully.
1--WE aim to please"
81 had a notion before I came for
you, today that we were going to quar-
rely he said.
t'No, we won't; 1t takes twow She
laughed and waved her muff toward a
new house. not quite completed, stand
| ing in field upon their right. They
had passed beyond Anderson addition
and were leaving the northern fringes
of the town for the open country.
''Isn't that a beautiful housep' she ex-
claimed. "Papa and call it our Beau
tiful House."
George was not pleased. "Does it
belong to your
"Of course not! Papa brought me
out here the other day, driving in his
machine, ana 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. 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. SIS that sample of your
taste in architecture?" he asked.
eyes. Why?"
Because it strikes me you better go
somewhere and study the subject a
| little!"
Lucy looked puzzled. "What makes
you have so much feeling about it?
Have offended yo%"
"'Offended' nothingp' George re-
turned brusquely. "Girls usually
think they know it all as soon as
they've learned to dance and dress and
fiirt little. They never know any
thing about things like architecture,
| for instance. That house was about
as bum 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. SIT was like a house meant
for a 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."
"It was bum house, anyhow" said
George GROSSLY. II 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
raft that have always lived here, and
have made little money, and act as
If they owned the Mace. Uncle Sgd
ney was talking about it yesterday ::
he says he and some of his friends are
organizing country club, and already
some of these riffraff are worming into
it-people he never heard of at all !!
Anyhow 1 guess it's pretty clear you
don't know great deal about archi-
lecture"
She demonstrated the completeness
Of her amiability by laughing. "Pll
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 sorryw
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 loss for some
thing to say.
Having turned about he kept his
| horse tO a walk and at this gait the