Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-30
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carrying on with the grocery boys
Mrs. Bogare! Id trust Bea as 1
would myself"
oh. dearie, you don't understand
me! I'm sure she's a good girl. l
mean she's green, and l hope that
none Of these horrld men hat there.
are around town will got her into
trouble! It's their parents fault, let.
ting them run wild and hear evil
things. If had H. way there
wouldn't be none Of them, not boys
nor girls neither, allowed to know
anything about-about things till they
was married. It's terrible the bald
"a that some folks talk. 1t just
shows and gives away what awful
thoughts they. got inside them, and
there's nothing can cure them except
coming right to God and kneeling
down like l do at praycr-meeting ey-
cry Wednesday evening, ad saying, %
God, I would be- a miserable sinner
except for thy grace
I'D make every last one Of these
brats go to Sunday school and learn
to think nice things stead of about
cigarettes and goinss-on-and these
dances they have at the lodges are the
worst thing that ever happened to
his town, lot of young men Squeezing
girls n finding OUT Oh, It's
dreadful. I've told the mayor he
ought to put a stop to them and
There was one boy in this town. l
don't want to be suspicious or unchar-
escaped.
She stopped on her own porch and
thought viciously:
If that woman is or the side ofSthe
angels. then ! have no choice; I must
be on the side Of the devil. But
isn't she like me? She TOO wants to
reform the town! She too criticizes
everybody! She too thinks the men
arc vulgar and limited! Am l like her?
This is ghast'y!"
That evening she did no merely
consent to play ~criDbage with Kenni-
colt; she urged him to play; and she
worked up a hectic interest in land
deals and Sam Clark.
Viii.
In courtship days kennicott had
shown her a photograph Of Nels Erd.
strom's baby and log cabin, but she
had never seen the Erdstroms. They
had become merely patients of the
DOCTOR. Kennfcott telephoned her
on a mid-December afternoon, Want
to Erdstrom's with me? Fairly warm.
sNels got the jaundice."
"Oh yes!" She FASTENED to put on
WOODEN stockings. high boots, sweater,
muffler, cap. gmittens.
The snow was too thick and the
ruts frozen too hard for the motor.
They drove out in a clumsy high car
riage. Tucked over them was a blue
WOODEN cover, prttkly to herN wrists,
and outside Of II a buffalo robe.
humble and moth-eaten now, used
ever since the. bison herds had
streaked the prairie a few miles to
the west.
The scattered houses between
which they passed in town were small
and desolate In contrast to the Z
panse Of huge snowy yards and wide
street. They crossed the railroad
tracks, n instantly were in the farm
snorted clouds Of ssedm, and started
to trot. The carriage squeaked IN,
rhythm. Kenh.cott drove. with
clucks Of There boy. take 1t easy!!''
He was thinking. Hc,paid no attention
to Carol. Yet It was he who com.
mented. Pretty nice, over there as
they approached IN oak-grove where
shifty winter sunlight quivered IN the
hollow between two snow drifts. u y
10 q cleared district which twenty
years ago had been forest. The coun-
try Seemed to stretch unchanging to
the North Pole: low hill, brush-scrag-
gly bottom. reedy creek, muskrat
mound. fields with frozen brown clods
thrust UP through the snow
Her ears and note were pinched;
her breath frosted her collars her
sastting colder" she ..id.
"Ynp.n
That was all their conversation for