Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-31

rather have q faith-healer than West.
lake, and she's another slice on r.
same bacon. What I can't underutanS
thOugh- S$..2ts VsI.
She waited, taut. 34
lis whatever po1asgad you Ii
let her pump YOU, bright q girl "a
you are. don't care what you told
and want to blow or steam. thasss
natural-buta II you wantedst 10 keAnEi IL
dark, why didn't o advertise IL Il
the Dauntless, or get q naeeAnkns,c
and stand on top of. the hotel and
hoIler, or do Anything besides spal- #
to her!" Z
ny woman vida ! becoros save ve
married and proprietary"
Well, next time you'll havs better
sense" 80
He patted her head. flumped dew
behind his Newspaper. said. nothing
more. MI "'e
Enemies 1eered through the win.
aows, stole on her from the hall. 81.
good mar Kennicott-he waa an Ala
er brother. It was Erik, he. Fellow
outcast, to whom d wanted to IN
for sanctuary. Through her 4stnrm
She was, to the eye, sitting unietiv
With her fingers between the narss /
OF q baby-biue book on home-dreu-
Ing. But her disn1ay ct ArH. Wem-
lakes treachery had risen { aetva
dread. What had the woman easd az .
her and Erik? What abe ala knovt
What had she seen? Who ehse wuuid
Join in the haying hunt? Who eLse
had seen her with Erik? What had
she to fear from the Dyerx CIV ~
CART, Juanita, Aunt Bessie? What
precisely had she answered to Mr.
Boga<tt Questioning?
All. next DAY she was too restless
to stay home. yet as she walked the
streets on fictitious errands She was
afraid OF every person she met. SHE
waited for them to speak: waited WITH
foreboding. She repeated, Il mustn't
ever see Erik again. But the woras
did not register. She had no ecstat1e
Indulgence in the Of guilt which
is, to the om Of Main Street. the
surest escape from blank tedtoumees
At five, crumpled In q chair in the
living-room, she started at the sound
Of the bell. Some one opened the
door. h waited, uneasy. Vida
Sherwin charged into the room.
Here's the one person I can truet!"
Carol rejoiced.
Vida was serious but sfectionate.
She hustled at Carol with ooh, there
o are, dearte, 20 CHAD t find yon in,
st down, want to LII to Won"
Carol rat, obedient.
Vida fussily tugged over q lArre
chair and launched out:
i've been hearing vague rumors
you were interested In this Erik VAL
borg. I knew you couldn't be guilty,
n I'm surer than ever Of it now.
Here we are. as blooming as a daisy
How does = respectable matron
fnnk whom RAA' fnAl- ~~S1<-N1A = .- --
Carol sounded 1esentful.
why Oh, it would show. Be-
sides! 1 know that you. Of all people,
are the one that can appreciate DR..
Will" =,
What have you been heArins9"
Nothing, really. I lust heard Mr..
Bogart say she'd seem you and Val
borg walking together = lot" vida's
chirping slackened. She looked It
do like valbors. Oh, I don't meen
in any wrong way. hut you're young:
you don't know what an innocent. INK
ing might drift into. You always
pretend to be so sophisticated and all,
u you're q baby. Just because you
are 80 innocent, you don't know
what evil thoughts may Turk in that
fellow's brain"
You don't suppose valborg could
me?"a gs
Her rather cheap sport ended
abruptly as Vida cried, with c~ontorted
Eface, What do you know about the
thoughts in hearts,! You Just play at
reforming the world Ypuadon't know
what it means to surfer" ~ s%
There are tive Orr Mnachsnos,ha-
man being will S1ndafAt6s asssttiSn|
that he hasn't d eenkeVaf hHraprasaM6s
the doubly imperinentaEsreion
he has never known tFa1hie CaHsE
said .furiously, 'ssYou think
fer? You think I've always had IT