Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-02-28
EVENING RpITIoN.


ana sfiftinKs his NY, mfftffuls face to
Nhe snnan behind his chair:
Il sss.Tsake away those ~oysters.s Per-
EEinets fswant my. soup right OF. and
OF II. I'm about staryed----
Hssstepped. himself struck by the
words.
last dinnersstcsether were 500 much
MI. Rose. carefully put b glass
down, his strong Jaw setting. Flavta,s
FlarRe startled eyes flasned wet ~
they went to her brother.
s.Corrie, Corrie, understand
how you beka1," escaped Gerard I'M
putsively. "But how could You carry
at on month after month";
The ruddy color ran up to .Corrie,s
forehead, he looked down at the
ut didn't take me long 10 see I
made an awful 3~bunglegof things he
confessed. half-shy and shesitants5
And II got worse and worse as I saw
what I had done to you people. Yet
understand asiot more than I can
say: rs Allan will understand now.
why I-couidn't help knocking down
that Tramp who wanted money -be-
cause 1 belonged in prison and wasn't
there. 1t was all too much for mesto
think out! Rut5-isn't there some
thing said about e fellow who puts
on? I used to.say that e to my
self. when-well. at night for In
stance. might have been a
schump. but 1t seemed up to me to
keep on with the work I had started,
and-and not to finch"
Dear, II you had only spared
yourself what you could" Flavia
an accident, at least; that you never
meant to hurt Allan
Corrie's violet-blue eyes laughed
out1of their eclipse and sought his
father.
Not much, other Fellow! No
tricks for mine: I had to tell just
the truth or shut up. No, sir, what
ever he looked like .Corrie Rose had
to plough a straight furrow." /,
Straight burrows lead home" said
Allan = Gerard, not sententiously, but
musingly.
He also looked toward Mr.. Rose.
and the senior nodded slow agree
ment. IT..
'They do. Gerard. And We get
more. sometimes, than we've any
right to except from ANYTHING we
Flavia and + liked the, people. What
we did for them didn't cost us much;
NE were not looking for any returns.
But the news Of it got out, some
how, and was cabled to New York
!days before we arrived here. One of
1.-THE journals got the story and work
ed up a Sunday article about what
Wal de Rosas,f and interviewed q Ger
tain Luis Cardenas and his wife,
Elvira, whom Flavia had brought to-
gether-it seems, they are happy and
lprospering well. my. giri-and prints
Fed the whole thing along with a
photograph of Corrie in his racing
i:clothcs. as my son. New York pas
pers so everywhere. The southerner
whom Isabel was in love with
brought that article about her family
to her. as ~anNexcuse for an early call.
the morning he asked her to marry
him. She says. herself, 1t was the
picture of 2Corrie IL: the motor dress
she last had seen him wear on the
day of the accident, that broke her
up so, and when her lover proposed
she told him the whole truth. II i
$Rosas, Corrie would have been bear
Fling a false charge yet"
The silence held many thoughts; n
silence broken by Corrie himself.
Tomorrow we'll write a jolly note
to Isabel he affirmed c%ontented]y.
"She doesn't need to worry 1onas her
honeymoon, poor kid; she has squar-
ed up There doesn't seem to be any
need for anyone to worry, ever, while
they're trying to keep straight, since
the scheme is a Square Deal, yol,
know"
The two older men exchanged. a
glance. SO
4. guess some of us need more
'Ithan a sauareSdeal, corwIn b.. his
LEATHER PRONOUNCED. s.sBut it's all
.Ifight; We get that, too" @-
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