The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-10-13
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The Story Of Carol Kennes-.
ny SINCLAIR LEWIS
Copyright isso fsrvourL Brace Howe, Inc.
neutrality-suspicious.


mean isl don't want you TO think
I'm one OF these old salts and quinine
peddlcrs, but | moan: so many of my
patients are husky farmers that |
suppose set kind OF case hardened =
1T seems 20 me that doctor
could transform a whole community
II he wanted tc--if he saw IL He's
usually the only man In the neigh.
borhood who has any scientific
training. isn't her"
yes. that's SO. but guess most
Of US set rusty. We land In a rut
cf obstetrics and typhoid and busted
legs. What we need is women like
YOU 20 jump on us. TIA be you that
would transform the town"
mo. couldn't. Too fiighty. l
did used TO think about doing just
that. curiously enough. but seem
TO have drifted away from the idea.
oh. I'm fine one to be iooturing
your'
"Nol You're Just the one You
have ideas without having lost fcmi.
nine charm. say Don't you think
there's lot OF these women that 40
out for all these movements and so
ON that sacrifice"
After his remarks on suffrage he
abruptly questioned her about her.
self His kindness and the firmness
OF his personality enveloped her and
she accepted him as one who had
a right TO know what she thought
and wore and ate and read. lie was
positive He had grown from a
skctched-in.strangcr v friend.
whose gossip was Important news
she noticed tho healthy solidity Of
his chest His nose. which had
seemed Irregular and large. was sud
denly viriie.
She was Jared on, OF this serious
sweetness when Marhury bounced
over 10 them and with horrible pub
llcity hammered. Say. what do you
two think you're dolngf Telling
fortunes or making lover Let ME
warn you that the doc Is n frssky
bscheldore. Carol Come on now,
folks. shake a leg. Let's have some
stunts or a dance or something"
She did not have another word
with DR.. kennicott until their part.
ing:
Been q great pleasure TO meet
you. Miss Milford. May | see you
some time when come down
againT I'm here quite often-~taking
patients TO hospitals for majors. and
so on"
why
What's your address,
You can ask MIR. Marbury next
time you come down--lf you really
want 10 know
want to knowr Say. you wait,"
IN
OF the love making OF Carol and
WIN Kcnnicott there IL nothing to be
told which may not be heard on
every summer evening. on every
shadowy block
They were biology and mystery.
their speech was slang phrases and
flares OF poetry: their sllenccs were
hts arm took her shoulder. All the
beauty Of youth. FIRST discovered
when II r. passing and all the com.
monplaces OF a well.fo-do unmarried
men encountcring n pretty girl at the
time when che 81 slightly weary Of
her employment and sees no glory
ahead nor any man abe is glad to
serve
They liked each other honestly
they were both honest She was dis
appointed By hts devotion 20 making
money. but she was huge that he did
not lie 10 patients. and that he did
keep up with the medical magazines.
What aroused her to something more
than liking was his boyishness when
they went trapping.
They walked from 81. Paul down
the river TO MENDOZA. Kcnnicott
more elastic-seeming In a cap and
soft crepe shirt. Carol youthful In
a tam-o'shan,er OF mole velvet, a
blue serge suit with an absurdly and
agrecably broad tfrn-down linen col.
lar. and frivolous ankles above ath-
letic shoes. The High Bridge crosses
the Mississippi. mounting from low
banks 10 a paiisadc OF cliffs Far
down beneath II on the ST. Paul side.
upon mud flats. IL a wild settlement
OF chIcken.infested gardens and
shapties patched together from dis.
carded sign boards, sheets OF cor
rugated iron. and planks fished out
Of the river. Carol leaned over the
rail OF the bridge 20 look down at
this Yang tse village: In delicious i'm
aginary fear she shrieked that she
was dizzy with the height; and It was
an extremely human satisfaction TO