The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-12-16
CONTINUED From Yesterday
CHAPTER NNNIN

CHATTER NNNl\
she wondered all the way home
What her sensations would he. she
wondered about Il so much that
she had every sensation she had
imagined. She was excited by each
familiar porch. zach hearty Well.
Welt and fiattercd 10 be. Tor day.
the most important news of the com,
niunliy. She hustled about. making
calls. Iuanlta Ilaydock huhblcd over
their Washington encounter. and
~ Carol 10 her social bosom. This
ancient opponent seemed likely TO he
her most Intimate friend. for Vida
Sherwin. tho she was cordial. stood
hack and watched for imported
hercsies.
In the evening Carol went 20 tho
mill The mystical ON onion OF
the dynamos in the cieetric,ilxht
plant behind the mill was louder In
the darkness. Outside sat the night
Waterman. Champ Ferry He held
up his strtngv hands and sdueakcd.
We've all. missed YOU terrible"
Who in Washington would miss
her.
Who In Washington could be dc.
pended upon like Guy Pollock when
she saw him on the street, smiling
as always. he seemed an eternal
thing. a part ~ her own self.
After week she decided that she
Was neither glad nor sorry to be
AlGk. She entered each day with
fhe matter-of.fact attitude with
which she had gone 10 her office
m Washington. II was her task:
there would be- mechanical details
and meaningless talk: what OF itff
The only problem which she had
approached with emotion proved In.
significant. She had, ON the train.
worked 1erseif M 70 such devotion
that she was willing 20 give up her
o@n room 20 try 20 share ali OF her
hfe with kennicott.
lie mumbled. trn minutes after
she had entered the house. SAY. i've
kept your room for you like I, was.
I've kind OF come round 70 YOUR way
% thinking. Don't see why folks
need To get on each others nerves
Just because they're friendly. Darned
" haven't got so I like n little
privacy and muliing things over by
myself"
she Ind left city which sat up
nights to talk Of universal transi-
ton. Of European revolution. guild
socialism. free verse. She had fan
eied tina; all the world was chang
Eng.
She found that u was not
In Gopher Prairie the only ardent
res topics were prohibition. the place
IN Minneapolis where YOU could get
whisky az thirteen dollars a quart.
recipes for home made beer. the
high cosf OF living" the presidential
=. lection. Clark's new car. and not
TNy novel foibies OF c. Bogart.
Their problens were exactly what
they had been two years ago. what
they had been twenty years ago. and
what they would be for twenty years
10 come. With the world n possible
volcano. the huSbandmcn were piow-
Ing at the base Of the mountain. a
volcano does occasionally drop a river
% lava on even the best OF arricul-
turists. 10 their RStonishment and
considerable injury. but their cousins
irherit the farms and year or two
later 20 back 70 the plowing.
She vas unable to rhapsodlze much
over the seven new bungalows and
she fwo garages which Kennicotf had
'nrade to seem 50 important. Her in
fensest thought about them was. "Oh
yes. they're all right. suppose" The
change which she DID heed was the
erection Of the schooibuiiding. with
sts cheerful brick wallis. broad win
dows. gymnasium. ciassrooms for
agriculture and cooking. n indicated
ylda's triumph. and II stirred her
TO activlty--any activity. she went
20 Vida with a iaunty, II think !
shall work for you. And III begin
at the bottom"
She did. She relieved the at
sendant at she restroom for an hour
q day. Her only innovation was
painting the pine table a black and
-n0nge rather shocking 20 the
Thanatopsis. She talked TO the farm.
wives and soothed their babies and
was happy.
Thinking OF them she did not think
OF the ugiiness Of Main street az she
hurried along IL 20 the chatter OF
the Jolly Seventeen.
She wore her eyeglasses on the
street now. she was beginning TO