The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-10-21
Continued From Yesterday
CHAPTER vi


when the frat dubious November
lupnow had filtered down. shading
With white the bare clods In the
piowed fields. when the first small
fire had been started In the furnace.
which u the shrine OF Gopher
Prairie home. Carol began 20 make
tho house her own. She dismissed
the parior furniture golden oak
table with brass knobs. the moidy
brocade chairs. the picture Of The
Doctor" She went TO Minneapolis.
TO scampcr thru department stores
and small Tenth Street shops de.
voted TO ceramics and high thought.
Sho had to ship her treasures. but
she wanted TO bring them back In
her arms.
Carpenters had torn out the par.
tition between front parior and back
pariov. thrown IL into a long room
on which she lavished yellow and
deep blue. japanese obi with an
intrseacy OF gold thread on stiff
uitramarine tissue. which she hung
~ . anel against the maize wall:
. couch with pillows OF sapphire
velvet and gold hands, chairs which.
- Gopher Prairie. seemed fiippant.
she hid the sacred family phono.
graph In the dining room. and re-
placed It's stand with a square cabi-
net on which was a squat blue jar
between yellow candies.
Kennicc;t decided against a fire
place. -WcTi have . new house tn
: couple of years. anyway
she decorated only one room. The
rest kennicott limited. she'd better
leave TIL he made a tenstrike.-
The brown cube OF house stirred
and awakened: II seemed 10 be Ia
motion. II welcomed her back from
shopping: II lost It's miidcwed re
: preston.
The supreme verdict was Kenni.
colts We'll. by goliy. I was afraid
the new junk wouldn't be 80 com.
Portable. but l must say this divan.
or whatever. you call u. Is a lot
better than that bumpy old sofa va
had. and when I look around
Well. It's worth all Il cost. guess
Every one IN town took an inter
est In the refurntshing. The car.
penters and painters who did not
actually assist crossed the lawn TO
peer thru the windows and exciaim.
UkS3ne, Looks swell-' Dave Dyer
a. the drug store. Harry Hsydock
and Raym;e wutherspoon at the Bon
Ton. repeated daily. "How's the good
work coming7 hear the house u
getting to Be real classy"
Even Mrs Bogart-
Mrs. Boxnrt lived across the afley
from the rear OF Carols house. She
was q widow. and a prominent Bap.
fist. and q Good Influence. She had
SO painfully reared three sons to be
Christian fntiemen that one OF them
~ become an Omaha bartender. one
= professor Of Greek. and one. Cyrus
~. Bosart. boy Of IL who was still
at home. the most brsxen member Of
the toughest gang in Boytown.
Mrs. Bogart was not the acid type
OF Good Influence. She was the soft.
damp. fat. signing, indigesfiye. cling
ing. melancholy. depressingiy hopeful
kind. There are In every large chick.
en-yard a number OF old and indig-
nant hens who resemble Mrs. Borart.
and when they are served at Sunday
noon dinner. as fricasseed chicken
with thick dumpIings. they keep up
- resembiance.
olppI had noted that Mrs. Bosart
from her side window kept an eye
upon thu house. The Kennicotts and
Mrs. Bogart did not move In the
same sets--which meant precisely the
same In Gopher Prairie as II did on
nth ave. or In Mayfair. But the
good widow came calling.
She wheezed in, sighed. gave Carol