The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-05
CHAPTER XLVI.
Erecslom.


For days Margaret wandered
about like a lost soul.
can't stand 1t. Hannah" she
SAID more than once. 81 shall have
10 give up and go to New York"
But Miss Joan didn't want you
to do that"
Il know--but I am so lonely. The
house is so qulet.'
Margaret, after Joan had decided
TO go to New York, had proposed
going with her, taking a small apart-
inent and keeping house-thus maxi
ing Joan a day scholar. Joan object
ed strenuously She said: mo
Mumsie! / don't want you. I want
to be alone, dependent upon myself
want to meet the students, not as
your daughter, but as Joan Hayden.
Then i shall probably do many
things that would make you unhap-
py IL you were with me"
II don't understand, dear. What
things?"
."oh, everything the people do
who want to learn. who want to try
out things for themselves. expect
| shall be n socialist, perhaps an an
archist II i feel like Il. / am sure
| shall be quite unconventional. ]
want to visit all the queer out OF the
way places. Greenwich Village, the
italian restaurants one reads about.
the gay resorts. oh, ] know you
| would be in n continual state of
! shock!"
Your studies will not give you
time to do all you are planning"
Margaret returned. smiling and un-
| afraid. Joan was TO be trusted. Had
she not proved It In all the years
that had passed?'
but alone, all these things Joan
had said recurred 10 her. Would
Joan become enamored of the Bohe
| mian life of the metropolis ?
Things new and strange often held
an unaccountable fascination for the
young. Joan, while SO literally al
| lowed her freedom, had never before
| left an environment of refinement.
She knew absolutely nothing of the
views of the extremists whom she
might meet, cave what she had
| CLEANED from books.
She was an anomoly. A girl who
having never been reproved. never
as far as she knew-influenced, yet,
as innocent. and in some ways as ig-
norant. as baby
| "The foundation Is there. She
never will go far wrong. Margaret
/ salu 10 ntTStils ittulHb NpliilbIls
| But as the days passed and letters
came from Joan, bright gay letters
describing her new environment, the
people she met. Margaret grew more
reconciled. Then there followed q
feeling which she fought daily--a
| tense OF freedom ,he had never be-
| fore experienced. For the first time
In her life Margaret could do exactly
| as she wished without question OF
argument.
| This feeling went to her head. II
was like wine to one needing a stim-
ulant.
At first old Hannah was amazed
almost frightened. Had her mistress
become Just a bit weak In the head
because of Joan's departure4 Their
she commenced to understand, and
approve. She loved Margaret only
next to Joan. Perhaps more thar
any other had she realized Mar
garet's unseltishness. Joan's de
mands. Then she had had a glimps'
of Margarets longings when sh'
dressed for Craig Forester. Sh'
had beeen delighted when her mis-
tress changed her manner of dres
which was still modest and simple
but always becoming. She had hoped
Craig Forester would return. Mar
garet was too young to live out he
life alone, and Hannah had Imagined
she might have cared for Forester
SO when she observed Margare
before her mirror studying her face
saw her trying her hair in the new