Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-16

inc T. IT Jenny began to laugh. " An not.
ashamed t. tell tn truth, either. Eut, young
man. some lies get YOU a long Ways III this
bdrg. Don't forget that"
Tn green he confessed. SO Jenny was
on the stage? To which type did she belong?
Certainly not Nancy's. which was Voting
tons. sans 7eprochc. He wished he could do
something for her. He was going to like
Jenny. have lived nearly all my life in
the tNsp and among books. OF course, I'm
getting about all right; l haven't bought a
gold brick yet. But there's no telling. It's
all like q new people and a new language.
You two will laugh. but this is tho first time
l eyer drank tea With women, between
meals
Have you got any money!" asked Jenny.
seriously. ="
This surprised him. "Why a little"
well. III lend you Il s,ockin' an Ill show
you how t tie a. knot III it.
jenny said Nancy.
An how f hide it in your trunk" went
on the in~corrigible Jenny. But he says he's
green, Nancy; an his clothes show it, an his
tie an collar an %siloes!"
Aren't they all right" he asked, finger
ing the tie.
jeremiah. either you're the biggest liarI
ever saw. or you're q new kind Of hick. Come
uCiOoS INV, SiNS 10 III lGiil1ty I!SloIS. WE
gotta know"
I'm not a liar Jenny retorted
Bancroft. Wen say I'm a new kind Of
hick. These clothes are the result of a care
full study of advertisements in the news
papers. My department is also due to neHs-
paper study and many books. In fine, ! have
a college education without having gone to
college. If ! had any natural %sllyness,
months in a military camp knocked it out
of me. I have a talent for adaptation: that
: is, l can adjust myself to such novel situa-
tions as now daily confront me, l have
handled the pioW, hoed potatoes, helped
during harvest. ! can read and write and
speak Latin. 1 am twenty.four, and an
orphan; and I have HAD the toothache. the
earache, and the tulnmyache, like everybody
else; and I've had the heurtache, too. came
to the city because I could no longer stand
the loneliness. I wanted to see the world, to
become acquainted with fact instead Of
theory. Because l never had any friends.
Because my father was unjustly called a
niser, and the onus fell upon me. I don't
know as there is any other thing I want SO
much as the friendship Of you two"
Jeremiah, anywhere in tn world! said
the impulsive Jenny, Offering her hand.
mo, no! You mustn't kiss mel"
He blushed.
"well, for, tn love O. Mike! Nancy. did
: you get that blush? jeremiah, your fortune
is made. Flo Zegfeld will give you u thou.
sand per t. teach EN- how t. do it,"
wherever did you get those wonderful
Chinese vases?" asked Nancy. who thought
that Jenny had gone far enough.
They are beautiful, aren't they. Some.
5 thing my father picked up, I don't know
how. Some Of those books are priceless, SO
. I've been told"
Why don't YOU sell ti,em?"
- II hadn't thought of it.. But I don't think
I shall: There are three or four hundred
bottles Of Burgundy in the, cellar, too. Jus,
before you came ! had an odd visitor, and
we had a bottle between us. I had never
touched wine before, though I am in no wise
rabid against the stun. Maybe some day II
tell you about that visitor" =
why, you MUST be rich!t" said Jenny, will
enthusiasm.
If you mean that one can be happy witt
a little, why, then I'm rich" Now, If acct
dentally either fell upon the truth, they coult
not say that he had lied.
" SO you had been celebrating before I cam
in?n said Nancy, pleased that the history o
the tainted brath was %singularly innocuous
To he sure, It really didn't matter whethe
he drank or not; but II he were going to b
a neighbor of any duration she would prefe
him as a fteetotaler.
Well, Il shouldn't call 1t celebrating. H
had a queer proposition. and I believed
might get deeper into It II I save him some
thin 10 drink; but as I remember now I di
all the talking. l probably gave him m
history back to the Genesis II it only lastet