Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-05-05


iHad Butted In with a Telegram
nobody else'S. We fused over it a
lot AMI because l most always con-
trived some excuse to chase out to the
Kendrick house at the boss heels
merely to help Tarbell keep cases on
him-there we're plenty Of chances for
the fussing.
1t was on one of these chasing trips
to "kenwood" that the roof fell In.
The major had gone out somewhere
TO the theater, 1 guess-taking his wife
and Maisie Ann, and the boss and
Mrs. Sheila were sitting together in
The majors den, with a little coal
blaze in the basket CRATE because the
nights were beginning to get a bit
chilly.
l had butted in with a telegram
which might just as well have stood
over until the next morning, if you
want to know. After I had delivered
it, Mrs. Sheila gave me that funny
little laugh of hers and told me to go
hunt in the pantry and see if l could
find d piece of pie, and the BOSS added
that if I'd wait, he'd go back to town
with me pretty soon. i
| found the pie, and ate it in the
dining-room, making noise enough
abou it SO that they could know I
was there If they wanted to. But
they went right on talking. and paid
no attention to me.
DO you know, Sheila,''-they had
long since got past The Mr. and
Mrs. you've been the greatest pos
sible help to me in this rough-house,
all the way along" the boss was say
ing. You have held me up to the
rack, time and again, when 1 have
been ready to throw it all up and let
go. Why have you done it?"
heard the little laugh again. and
she said: 1T is worth something to
have il friend. Odd as it may SEEM,
Graham, l have been singularly pow
erty-stricken in that respect. And I
have wanted to see you succeed.
Though you are still calling it merely
a business DEAL it is really a mis-
sion, you know crammed full of good
things to a struggling world. If YOU
do succeed-and | am sure YOU are
going to-you will leave this commu-
nifty, and hundreds Of others, vastly
the better for what you are doing and
demonstrating"
use 1JIt# th.iJElS- q n1nY'S rlnirf nf xinIy- ~
the boss persisted. 'How do YOU get
it? You are all woman, you know;
and your mixing and mingling-at
least, since I have known you-has all
been purely social. How do you get
the big overlook"
frivolous once, like most young girls,
] suppose. But we all grow older;
and we ought to grow wiser. Besides.
the woman has the advantage OF the
man in n respect she has time to
think and plan and reason things out
as Il busy mar can't have. Your prob
EN- has seemed very simple to me.
from the very beginning. 1t asked for
a strong man and an honest one. You
We're 10 take charge of a piece of
property that had been abused and
Knocked about and used as a means
OF %extortion and oppression, and you
We're To make it good
Again. that Is a mans point of
view"
"0h, no. she protested quickly.
There is no sex in ethics. Women are
the natural house-cleaners, perhaps.
but that isn't saying that a man can't
be one, too, if he wants to be-
At this, the boss got up and began
to tramp up and down the room /
could hear him. / knew she'd been
having the biggest kind of a job to
keep him shut up in this o i of
abstract corral, when all the time he
was loving her at to kill, but app
parently she had been doing it, sue
cessfully. There wasn't the faintest
breath of sentiment in the air not
the slightest Whit. When she began
again, | could somehow feel that she
Y q Just in time to prevent his break
ing out into all sorts OF love-making,
1.-THE time has come, now, when you
must take another leaf out of my
hook. ! She said, With lust tl.e prppef
little cooling rang In lel yolcs. f1p
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