Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-24

saying and playing In New York 2"
She pictured. and groaned over. the
expression Of Kennicott II she should
say, why wouldn't it b. reasonable
for you, my soul. to ask that ON
plste stranger in the brown jersey coat
to come to supper tonisht?"
She brooded. not looking back. She
warned herself that she was probably
e~xaggerating: that no young man
Wasn't he too obviously. smart, too
glossy-new? Lake a movie actox.
Probably he was a travelling salesman
who sang tenor and fancied himself
in limitations of Newport clothes and
spoke of 'the SWEETEST business propo-
eition that yer came down. the pike.
In a panic she spec-ed at him. No!
This was no ,hustling salesman. this
boy with the curvtng Grecian lips and
the serious eyes.
She rose after the service, carefully
Kennicott's arm and smiling
at him in; a mute assertion that she
was devoted. to him no matter what
happened. She followed the Mys-
tery's soft brown jersey shoulders out
of the church. /.
Fatty Hicks. the shrill and puffy
son Of Nat. tapped his hand at the
beautiful stranger and jeered. "How.s
LAl0 A4us 49, u NOAlCO w 4AAc d plu6kl
horse today. Amt. wei"
Carol was exceeding sick. Her her
AID from the outside was Erik VAL
borg. Elizabeth" Apprentice tailor!
Gasoline and hot goose! Mending dirty
jackets! Respectfully holding a tape
measure about a paunch! j
And yet. she insisted. this boy was
also himself
III,
X eSh4sv hAx5 cSS,~So,r' Ss~~~- -skA 49,
Smails, in q dining room which CEN
tered about q fruit flower. piece and
a ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF. Uncle Whit
tier. Carol did moi heed Aunt Bes.
sizes fussing in regard to Mrs. Robert
b. Schminke's bead necklace and
Whtttter's error in putting on the
striped pants, day like this. She did
not taste the shreds Of roast pork.
She sale vacuously:
man in the white flannel trousers, at
church this morning. was this Val
borg person that they're all talking
about?"
"Yump. That's him. Wasn't that
the darndest get-hp he had on" Ken
nicott scratched at a white smear on
his hard gray sleeve.
TT wasn't 70 bad. I.wonder where
he comes from? He seems to have
III ASNNE AL SSSAN<o q 60VA VSAls 45 ~ lEOLll
the East?"
The East? Him :? Why. he comes
from Alarm right UP north here. j,~
this side of Jefferson. / know has
father .sltghtly-Adolph vaIborg-typ-
ical cranky old Swede farmer"
"Oh, really?' blandly. /.
Believe he has lived In Minneapo-
lis for quite some time, though.
Learned his trade there. And I will
/ 0oU hAsN hr{Oht IL -Nrno IN "a, D>~A~
a. lot Pollock. says he takes more
books ont of the library than anybody
else in~town. H0h! He's kind Of like
you In that"
The, smaik and Kennicott laughed
very much at this sly jest. Uncle
Whittier seized the conversation
That fellow that's working 70,
Kicks? Milksop. that's what he is
Makes me tired to see a young fellow
that ought to be in the war, or any.
way out in the fields earning his iv-
Ing honest; like l done when ISwas
young, doing Il woman's work and
then come out and dress up IKE q
sho1-actor: Why, when was his
Carol reflected that the carving
knife would make an excellent dag.
II would slide In casiiy4g The head.
lines would BIO terrible.
Kennicott said judiciousiy. "oh, |
don't want to be unjust to him. II be-
lieve he took his physical .cxamination
tfor military servicf. Got var1oose
~veins-not bad. but enough TO dis.
quality him. Though I will say he
doesn't lobk like . fellow that would
be 80 awful darn crazy to poke his
bayohet into a Huns quits"
will! Please!''
well. he don't Looks soft to mo
And they say he told Del 6naffiin
when he vas getting q haircut Oh
Saturday, that he wished no could
fsplay the piano"
isn't u wonderful how mach ~
] Al know about I'M another Ia 9 {oWn
like this" raid Carol i~nnocontly.
Kennicott wns suspicious, but Aun,
Besste. serving the Floating Island
] pudding, agreed, "Yes, &c ~ wonder.
iful. Folks cnh ret away With Ill sorta
OF meAnneasNs and sins In the TORI.
bio cities, hut they can't here. { ~
noticing this tailor feliowathln sInJln.
tng and when MrA Hlegp soSeee6 NJ
share her hymh.hook With HIM ~
lshoOk hls head, and Ill tho while NJ
wMA singing no juts stood there itks
a bump on ~ Tor ma nexer sOpene6
his mouth. EvefYbody says hNss kol