Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-18

your list ofsthe town intelligentsia.?''
II guess maybe She, does belong in
it. From all an hear she's in v
erything ana hshind %eysrything that
most folks realizes: She lets Mrs.
Reverend Warren, the president of
this-here ~Thanatopsis club, think
she's running the works, but Miss
Sherwin is the secret boss, nags
all the easy-going dames into doing,
something. But way figure it out
- You see, I'm not interested in
these dinky reforms. Miss Sherwin's
trying to repair tho holes in this
barnacle-covered ship of q. town BY
keeping busy bailins out the water.
And Pollock tries to repair it by reai-
ing poetry to the crew! Me, r want
to yank ut up on the way, and. fire
the poor bum Of n shoemaker that
built it so it sails crooked. and have
1t rebuilt right from the keel UPS
"Yes-that-that would be better.
But I must run home. Ny poor nose
is nearly frozen"
Say, you better come in and get
warm, and See what an old bach's
shack Is like
She looked ioubtfully at him, at
the low shanty, the yard that was lit
tered with cord-wood, moldy blanks.
q. hoopless wash-tub. She was dis
quieted, but Bjornstam did not give
her thesopportunitN to be delicate. He
flung out his handfin a welcoming gts-
ture which. assumed that She. was
her own counselor. that she was not
a Respectable married. Woman but
full Y q huamn being. With a shaky
We'll, JUS. a moment, to warm nv
nose" she galnced down the street to
make sure that She was not spied on,
and bolteds toward the shanty.
She remained for one hour, and
naVpr had Sho4 L. NJ uy,s % o...,l
crate host than the Red Swede.
He had but oneSSroom: bare pine
floor, small workbench, wall bunk
with amazingly neat bed. frying-pan
and ash-stipplei coffee-pot on Ythe
shelf behind the, pot-bellied annon
ball slower Fbackwoods chairs-one
constructed from ha.f~a barrel, one
from a tolted plank-and a. row Of
books incredibly assorted: Byron and
Tennyson n Stevenson, a. OF
gas-engines. a book by Thorstein Web
len, a spotty treatise on The
Care, Feeding. Diseases, and Breed
ing of Poultry and Cattle"
There was but one picture-a mag
azine color-plate, of a ~steep-roofed VII
lage In the Harz Mountains which
suggested kobolds and maidens with
golden hair.
Bjornstam did not fuss over her.
He suggested. Might throw open
your coat and put your feet up on
the box in front of the stove" He
tossed his dogskin coat into the bunk,
lowered himself into the barrel chair.
and Ironed on: .ts. -
"leh, I'm probably a yal1oo, but by
gum | do keep my independence by
doing. d jobs, n hat more n
these pc lite cusses like the clerks in
the banks do. When, I'm rude to
some slob. 1t may be partly because
l 6nT'f -Ennpy g1,o<fo~ - -
I'm not no authority on trick forks
and what pants . wear with q
Prince Albert). but. mostly it's be-
cause I mean something. I'm about
the only man in johnson county that
remembers the joker in the Declara-
ton OF independence about Americans
being supposed to have the right to
life, liberty, n the pursuit Of hap
piness.' y. AZ - NJ" a,
i Il meet old Ezra Stowbody on tie
street. He looks at me like he wants
me. to remember he's a. highmucKa-
muck. and worth Two hundred thou
sand dollars, and he says 'Uh, Bjorn-
lquist-' '.@
- "'Bjornstam's my. name, Ezra T
says. he knows my name, all right.
Well; whatever your name is he
says I understand you have a Raso-
line saw I want You to come around
Il and saw up four cords Of maple for
! me. ne says. 70
l 80 you like my looks. eh p T sava
kind of innocent.
What difference does that make?
Want you to saw that wood before
saturday he says. real sharp. Com
mon workma going and getting fresh
with a fifth OF a million dollars all
. walking around in a hand-me-do#n
fur coat! ts
Here's the difference it makes
ga vA ilcf - 1~-,SI - wv. =,
you know 1 like your looks?' Mavbe
he didn't look sore! Nope I says,
thinking it all over. 1 don't like your
, application for a loan. Take il to
another bank only there amt any
says and I walks off on him.
Sure. Probably 1 was surly-and
FOOLISH But l figured there had to
enough to ASS the Danker!"
He hitched u Of his chair, made
conee, gave Carol a cup and talked
on: half defiant and half apologize.
. half wistful for friendliness and half
= amused by her surprise at the dis
: !, covery that there was a p%roletarian
At the door. she limited:
MI. Bjornstam, if you were I,
: would you worry when people thought
!, you were affected 2"
; Huh? Kick EN- in the face! Say
u were a sea-gull,s and all over
; silver. think I'd care what a. pack IL
dirty seals thought about my flying?'
: 1t was not the wind at her back II
was the thrust Of Bjornstam'a scorn
; which carried her through town. She
!. faced Juanita Haydock, cooked her
: head at Maud Dyer's brief nod, and
came home to Bea radiant. She tele-
! phoned Vida Sherwin to run over
this evening" She Justify played
Ischaakowsky-.the virile chords an
echo Of the red Laughing philosopher
= OF the tar-paper shack. =
. When h limited to Vida, Isn't
there a man here who amuses him
SELF by being irreverent to the Village
: gods-Rjornstam, some such "a
- name?' the reform-leader said
: b1ornstam? Oh yes, Fixes things.
He's awfully impertinent.') :"
Continued Tomorrow Evening.