Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-29

you're a funny person to be telling
me what to do
Lulu said, flushing: 81 love You just
the Same as If / was married happy,
In home"
'WeIl, you arent" cried Di cruelty
"and I'm going to do just as think
best"
Lulu thought this over, her look
grave and sad. She tried to find some
thing to say. "What do people say to
people" she wondered, "when it's like
this?"
Getting married is for your whole
life" was all that came to her
''Yours wasn't" Di flashed at her.
Lulu's color deepened, but there
seemed to be no resentment in her.
She must deal with this right-that
was what her manner seemed to say.
And how should she deal?
''Di," she cried, "come back with
me-and wait till mamma and papa
get home"
"That's likely. They say I'm not to
be married till I'm twenty-one."
"Well, but how young that isw
'It is to you"
"Dil This is wrong-it is wrong"
There's nothing wrong about get
ting married-if you stay married"
"Well, then it can't be wrong to let
them know"
"It isn't. But they'd treat me
wrong. They'd make me stay at
home. And l won't stay at home-I
won't stay there. They act as If /
was ten years old"
Abruptly in Lulu's face there came
Hight of understanding.
"Why, d." she said, do you feel
that way, toO?"
Di missed this. She went on:
I'm grown up. feel just as
grown up as they do. And I'm not al.
lowed to do a thing feel. want to
be away will be awayw
81 know about that part" Lulu said.
She now looked at Di with atten-
ton. Was it possible that Di was
suffering in the air of that home as
she herself suffered? She had not
thought of that. There Di had seemed
so young, so dependent so-asquirm.
Here, by herself, waiting for Bobby,
in the Hess house at Milton, she was
curiously adult. Would she be adult
If she were let alone?
you don't know what it's like" Di
cried, ito he hushed up an laughed at
and paid no attention to everything
you say"
Don't II" said Lulu. Don't IT.
She was breathing quickly and look
ing at Di. If this was why Di was
leaving home.
But. Di," she cried, do you love
Bobby Larkin?-
BY this Di was embarrassed. 1--WE
got to marry somebody" she said.
land 1t might as well be him."
But is II him?"
Eyes, it is" said Di. But" she
added, II know l could love almost
anybody real nice that was nice to
me-" And this she said. not in her
own right, but either she had picked
it up somewhere and adopted it, or
else the terrible modernity and hon.
esty of her day somehow spoke
through her, for its own. But to Lulu
il was as If something familiar turned
its face to be recognized
"Di!" she cried
"It's true. You ought to know
that" She waited for a moment
"Yon did H." she added Mamma
said So"
At this onslaught Lulu was stupe-
fed. For she began to perceive Its
truth.
81 know what want to do, 1 guess, y
Di muttered, as IL TO try to cover
what she had said.
Up to that moment, Lulu had beer
feeling intensely that she understood
Di, but that Di did not know this
Now Lulu felt that she and Di actual.
ly shared some unsupported sister.
hood. 1t was not only that they were
both badgered by Dwight 1t was
more than that. They were two won
en-. And she must make Di know that
she understood her.
"Di," Lulu said, breathing hard
what you just said is true, / guess
Don't you think l don't know. And
now I'm going to tell you"
She might have poured 1t all out
claimed her kinship with Di by virtue
Of that which had happened in Savan
nah, Georgia. But Di said:
"Here come some ladies. And good
ness. look at the way you looki"
Lulu glanced dowa. 81 know" she
said, but 1 guess you'll have to put
up with me-"
The two women entered, looked
about with the complaisance of those
who examine a hotel property, FIND
criticism incumbent, and have nj
errand These two women had out
dressed their occasion. In their pres
ence Di kept silence. turned away hel
head, gave them to know that she had
nothing to do with this blue cotton
person beside her When they haC
/ gone on, what do you mean by my
having to put up with your" Dl asked
sharply.
II mean I'm going to stay will
you"
Di laughed scornfully-she wa,
again the rebellious child 81 CUES
Bobby1l have something to say about
that" she said insolently.
''They left you in my charge
"But I'm not baby-the idea, Aun