The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-03-04

thir1 time That year, and, when s1s dil
eoDs, Oeorzs was not ne1r0oed
either By her hostess or By hersels-sn
oddify eonfriys1 D<tSsea the two
ladies' without either Of them realizing
how o1d IL wss.
Al other times L1cys thozznts Of
George were snythinx bat contt1so1s.
and weeks v'nt By yhsn be vas not
consciously . her mind st all Her
life was Q busy one: she had TIE big
house 10 keep up sbs had O garden
10 keep up. TOO. q large and beautiful
garden she represented her father a.
q director sor half dozen public char
ity organizations. and did private
charity worn Of her own. being o PROXY
mother Of several large families; and
she had danced down." a. she said.
groups from eight or nine classes Of
new graduates returned from the uni-
yersliies, without marrying any Of
them, but she still daneed-snd sun
did not marry.
Her father. observing this circuD-
stance happily. yet with some hypo-
critical concern, spoke Of II 10 her one
day as they stood In her garden i
suppose I'd want 20 shoot him. be
said. with attempted lightness. But !
mustn't be an old pig. I'd build you q
beautiful house close by-jgst over
yonder."
NO. mol That would be like she
began impulsiyely; then checked hef.
self. George Amberson's comparisoc
Of the Georgian house to the AmbersoSj
mansion had come into her mind. and
she thought that another new house,
built close oy for her, would be Ike
the house the Major built for Isabel.
Like whatT'
Nothing" She looked serious. ant
when he reverted to his idea Of ~somt
day" grudgingly surrendering her OF
to a suitor. she invented a legend
"Did you ever hear the Indian name
for that little grove Of beech trees or
the other side Of the houseY sh,
asked him.
'No-and you never did eitherl" ha
laughed.
Don't be so surel / read q greaf
deal more than used to-gettins
ready for my bookish days when III
have to do something solid In the eve
nings and won't be asked to dance any
more. even by the very youngest boys
who think It's a sporting event TO
dance with the oldest of the older
girls The name Of the grove was
Toma-Nashah' and n means They.
Couldnt-Help-It'"
Doesn't sound like it,
Indian names don't. There was q
bad Indian chief lived in the grove be-
fore the white settlers came. He was
the worst Indian that ever lived, and
his name vast was 'vendonah.,
That means Rides-Down- wn-Everything.''
Il see" said Eugene thoughtfully
He gave her a quick look and then
fixed his eyes upon the end Of the
garden path. go en-"
"Vendonah was an unspeakabls
case" Lucy continued. He was so
proud that he wore iron shoes, and he
walked over peoples faces with them.
He was always killing people that
way, and SO at last the tribe decided
that IL wasn't a good enough excuse
for him that he was young and mex.
perienced-he'd have TO 20. They took
him down TO the river. and put him in
canoe. and pushed him out from
shore; and then they ran along the
bank and wouldn't let him land, until
at last the current carried the canoe
out into the middle, and then on down
to the ocean, and he never got back
They didn't want him back, Of course
and II he'd been able TO manage n.
they'd have put him In another canoS
and showed him out into the riyes
again. But still. they didn't elect an
other chief In his place. Other tribes
thought that was curious, and won
dered about IL a lot, but finally they
came to the conclusion that the beech
grove people were afraid a new chief
might turn out to be bad Indian, too,
and wear Iron shoes like Vendonah.
But they were wrong. because the real
reason was that the tribe had led such
an exciting life under vendonah that
they couldn't settle down to anythina
tanner. He was awful. but he alwayy
kept things happening-terrible things
Of course. They hated him. but the'
weren't able to discover any otha
warrior that they wanted to make
chief In his place. They couldn't he'll
feeling that way"
Il see" said Eugene. $50 that's VIII,
they named the place They Couldn'S
Help-Itr"
1T must have been"
And so you're going to stay here n
FOUR garden" he said musingly. "Yos
'hink It's better to keep on watkins
'hese sunshiny gravel paths betweeS
FOUR flower beds, and growing to lool
Ike pensive garden lady in q Vic
'orian engraving"
Il suppose I'm like the tribe that
ived here, papa. had too much un-
pleasant excitement II was unpleas-
lnt-out 1t was excitement. / dcnp