The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-12-01

unmarried. Try everything Don
listen 20 Nat Hicks and Sam Clark
and be steady young man-in or
der TO help them make money
You're still "a blessed innocent. &c
and play I'LL the Good People capture
youf'
"Ru, I don't just want to play |
want 10 make something beautiful
God And don't know enough. De
you get IT. DO you understand
Nobody else ever hasl DO you un.
dcrrsandy"
"Yv~."
and NO. Bu, here's what both
crs me; like fabrics; dinky things
like that; little drawings and eicgan,
words. But look over there AZ those
fields. Bigi Newt Don't Il seem
Kind OF "A shame 20 leave this and
go back 10 the East and Europe. and
do what all those people have bern
doing 10 long, Being careful about
words. when there's millions Of bush,
el- % wheat h.rc' Reading this fei
low pater. when I've helped Dad "a
clear ficidxr'
= ITS good 10 clear fields. But It's
not for you. It's one OF our favorite
American myths that broad plains
necessarily make broad minds. and
high mountains make high purpose
I thought tina, myself. when first
came to the prairie. 'Tiig new Oh.
I don't want 10 deny yne prairie fu-
ture II will be magnificent. But
equally I'm hanged N I want 10 be
bullied by H. so TO war on behalf
OF Main Street. h~ buliied and hullicsi
by thu faith that the future r. al.
ready here In the present. and tina,
all 90 us must stay and worship
wheat.staeks and insist that this Is
Gods Country'--and never. Of
course. do anything original or gay.
eoiorcd that would help TO make that
futurel Anyway. you don't belong
here. sam Clark and Nat Hicks.
that's what our big newnesH has pro
duced. CO. Before IT'S too late. as
II has been for-for some Of us.
Young man. 20 East and grow up
with the revolution Then perhaps
you may come back and tell sam
and Nat and me what TO do with
The land we've been clenring--lf wen
listen--if we don't lynch you fIrstv'
He looked ne her reverentiy. She
could hear him saying. "f'vc always
wanted 20 know a woman who would
talk TO me like that"
Her hearing was faulty. He was
saying nothing OF the sort He was
saying:
why aren't you happy with your
husband7"
'T--you--"
'Tre doesn't care for the blessed
innocent part OF you. does neF'
Erik. you mustn't"
FIRST you tell me 10 go and be
free. and then you say that l
'mustn't'r'
He giowered al her like downy
young owl. She wasn't sure but she
thought that he muttered, I'm
damned N will" She considered
with whoiesome fear the perils OF
meddling with other peoples dcs-
TIMES. and she said timidly. Hadn't
we better start sback now7"
He unused. You're younger than
! am. Your lips are for songs about
rivers in the morning and lakes ut
twilight. don't see how anybody
could ever nurt. you. Yes. We
better go"
He trudged beside her. his eyes
averted. Hugh experimentally took
his thumb. He looked down at the
baby seriously. He burst out, IAN
40 I'LL ~ harn
year. Save. Not spend 40 much
money on clothes. And then III go
East. to art-school. WORK. on the
side-taiior shop. dressmaker's. III
learn what I'm good for: designing
clothes. stage. settings. Illustrating.
or selling collars 10 fat men. All
settled" He peered at her. unsmil.
ing
Can you stand II here in town for
a Year,
with YOU 10 look at?"
"Pieasel I mean: Don't the people
here think you're an odd bird? fThey
do me. ! assure youy'
IT don't know. never notice
much. Oh. they do kid me about not
being In the army-especislly the old
warehouses;, the old men that aren't
going Themselves And this Bogart
boy. And Mr.. Hicks son--he's n
horrible brat But probably he's
licensed 10 say what he thinks about
his fathers hired man.
He's bcastlyr'
They we're In town. They passed
Aunt Bessie's house. Aunt Bessie
and Mrs. Bogart were at the window.
and Carol saw that they were star.
ing 30 intently that they answered
her wsve only with the stiffly raised
hands Of sutomatons. In the next
block Mrs. Dr. westlske was gaping
from her porch. Carol said with an
embarrassed quaver;
81 want TO run In ana see Mrs.
weqtlskc. I'll say Food.by here"
SHE avoided his eyes.
Mrs. Westlake was affable. Carol
fou that she was expected to OK
main: and while she was mentally
asserting that she'd be hanged "
she'd explain. she was explaining;
Hugh captured that Valborg boy