Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-09

like they always say: being in. a Fam
lily Way does make the grille so love-
~. just like a Madonna. Tell me"
Her whisper vas tinged with sala-
ciousness-"does 90 feel the dear itsy
stirring. the pledge of love? I
remember with Cy, of course he was
so big"
II do not look lovely, Mrs. Bogart.
My complexion Is rotten, and my hair
is coming out, and I look like a
potato-bag, n l think my arches
are ia ling, and he isn't a pledge OF
love, and I'm afraid he will look like
us, and 1 don't believe in 1nother-de-
~votion, and the whole business is a
COMPOUNDED nuisance Of a biological
process" remarked Carol.
Then the baby was born, without
unusual difficulty: a boy with straight
back and strong legs. The first day
| and hopeless fear he had caused; she
resented his raw ugliness. After that
she loved him with all the devotion
and instinct at which she had scoffed.
She marveled at the perfection of the
miniature hands as noisily as did
kennicott: she was overwhelmed by
the trust with which the baby turned
to her; passion for him grew with
each unpoetic irritating thing she had
to. do for him.
He was named Hugh, for her father.
Hugh developed into a thin healthy
child with a large head and straight
delicate hair of a faint brown. He
a thoughtful and CASUAL Ken
nicott.
: For two years nothing else existed,
She did not, Is the cynical matrons
had prophesied. '"give up worrying
about the world and other folks ba.
bies soon as she got one Of her owr
to fight for. The barbarity of thai
wi, lingness to sacrifice other children
81 that one child might have toe
much was impossible to her. But she
would sacrifice herself. She under
stood consecration-she who answer
ed Kennicott's hints about having
suit my baby and myself by asking
an ignorant young mar in a frocl
coat to sanction him, to permit nj
to have him! I refuse to subject hin
to any devil-chasing rites! If I dldn'
give my baby-my baby-enougl
specification in those nine hours o
hell, then he cant get any more GU
of the Reverend MIR. Zitterel!"
We'll Baptists hardly ever chrisel
kids. I was kind of thinking NOR,
about Reverend Warren" said Ken
'nicott.
Hugh was her reason for living
promise of accomplishment in the fu
ture, shrine Of adoration-and a III
verting toy. II thought I'd be
dilettante mother, but I'm as dismay
ing y natural as Mrs. Bogart," sh,
boosted.
For two years Carol was a part o
the town; as much one of Our Youn,
Mothers as Mrs. McGanum. He
o~pinionation seemed dead; she ha,
no apparent desire for escape; he
brooding centered on Hugh. Will
she wondered AT the pearl texture O
old woman. with a skin like sandpa
per, beside him, and Tn glad of it! H
is perfect. He shall have everything
He sha'n't always stay here in .Gophe
Prairie. I wonder Which i
really the best Harvard or Yale o
Oxford ~
The people who hemmed her il
had been bri liantly reinforced by MI
and Mrs. Whittier N. Small-kenni
colts Uncle Whittier and Aunt Bes
sic.
The true Main STREET.-THE defines
relative as a person to whose nous
you go unlimited, to stay as long a
you like. II you hear that Lynn Cas-
on his journey East has spent a.
his time visiting in Oyster Center
it does not mean that he prefers tina
village to the rest of New England
but that he has relatives there. ]
does not mean that he has written t
the relatives these many years no
that they have ever given signs OF
desire to look upon him. But ''yo
wouldn't expect, a man to go an
spend good money ut a hotel in Bos
ton, when his own third cousins liy
right in the same state, wou d you?
When the Smails sold their cream
cry in North Dakota they visited Nj
Smairs sister. Kennicott's mother, a
Iac-qui-Meurt then plodded on
Z. Gopher Prairie to stay with thei
nephew. They appeared unannouncet
before the baby Was born, took thei
welcome for granted. and immediate
ly began to complain Of the fact tha
their room faced north.
Uncle Whittier and Aunt Bessie al
sumed that 1t was their privilege a
relatives to laugh at Carol, and the1
duty Al Christians to let her kno,
how absurd her notions" were. The
objected to the food, to Oscarina'
lack Of friendliness, to the wind. tn
rain, and the immodesty Of Carol
maternity gowns. They were stron
and enduring; for an hour at a tim
they could &C ON heaving question
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