Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-02
And he's coming here.


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And he's coming here. . Shall
| go out and leave you two to talk.
dear?" At this Grannie positively
dilnpled and blushed as il it were a
g!:ri of my own age that I had been
leasing.
Julia, you ridiculous child. I wish
you TO help me to entertain him, of
course, and ! should LIVE to have your
10 me'-she hesitated for second
to me, Of course, he is 80 e%xtraordi-
narily like -. Someone"
looked at Grannie; she wasn't
looking at me. Her face, W9iich was
suddenly all different somehow re-
minded me of an old photograph of
herself in q. porkpie hat with a feath-
err. She was gazing at that big STEEL
engraving of Juliet" on my wall, but
perhaps she wasn't seeing that either.
She was miles Away. .
1 reminded her, gently. You say
he was like someone you know, Gran
! nie?"
Someone I met" Grannie said, all
| absently. 1T must have been in SIX
ty-weil, never mind. It was someone
l didn't know at all well. In fact /
only saw him once" Then She added
this paralyzing remark. He a the
only man / ever saw whom I could
have cared for like that"
I was, much surprised to say a
word, so thank goodness I did not
blurt out, But o always say that
you and Grandpapa were the most
devoted rouple.-in .Carnarvonshire!'
/ Just held my breath, trying not to
cape, while Grannie went on rominisc-
ing softly, Tor the first time since I'd
known her about something that I'd
never heard, Of before.
"1>was about a year older than you:
Julia, and l was taken to Primrose
League Subscription Dance. In Beau
mans it My first dance. White
was very becoming to me then, and
o n a spray of lilies-of-the-valley,
and, l danced the lahcers in the same
dance he secured an introduction. Mr.
s1nythe his name was. He
was only In Anglesey for fishing; an
Engllshman. A perfect stranger to ev-
erybody . dear. dear ~
Her voice was as altered as her face.
She said, "Dyou know, l sometimes
think what a wonderful expression
that is A Perfect Stranger for it is
only the stranger who remains per
feet I think. Into every woman's
life. he seeTns to come. TO come-and
to go. Only he Eve goes"
What do you mean, Grannie?"
l. I don't know if she heard me. +
Grannie said softly, Dear me, yes.
Perfect memories. One perfect waltz;
an evenings talk. He told me women
could be divided into two classes:
Charmers and Bores. So can men,
think. The love who goes away before
you've come 10 an end; that's the real
Charmer. That's what you remem-
Der. 1t one back in music, it comes
in dreams. Ii ome sometimes when
the trees sway in the wind and the
birds call. Sometimes 1t comes to you
1T did to me this very afternoon,
talking to that young mar vino nigh,
, have been my grandson" =,
Imagine, I ask you. all this from
the mos conventional OF little old
| Welsh ladies who ever kept a sp.ig OF
lavender in her prayer-book to mark
her place for the Epistle. Do you
wonder that 1 was madly inquisitive
about the young nan who's raked up
those memories Of perfect waltzes
with perfect strangers in Grannie?
1 asked, What colored eye had
he-the one this afternoon, I mean?"
Ceramic said, II don't know. One
doesn't notice. I think they all have
those eyes; those men with that
! Charm. Or is 1t the way
they have with them? They make
you wonder for the rest of your life.
what they might have said or done or
been. ;"
Then she cleared her throat and put
her toque straight and spoke firmly,
looking at me again. Those are Just
| IN nDtao nf mi 9rco m " Aaor rCho -
er people -. Of course they are
your life. They're the better thing.
You are much fonder OF them; devet-
ed. Remember that there Is nothing
in the world, Julia, that comes up to
| being the wife OF a good man, and OF
doing your duty by him and! of having
nothing to reproach yourself with in
after years"
q. know. Grannie."1 agreed, hastily.
drag in David Lewis. And besides,
what she was o being was tust
Grannie-AlwayA. not that hint OF
Grannie-Long-A Ago which was somuch
more interesting. I longed to ask
questions.
But she wouldn't 60 back again:
why won't people? Just because
they've been doing other things for
forty-five years? Grannies and
Srown-upe ike that complain that
young people won't listen" to them,
But wouldn't they, to, some Of the for
ty-five-year-oh stories with which
the young ones might even compare
notes? Wouldn't It make a much
more wonderful relation between the
generations than that Of the frog who
said, 'Ianever had a TAIL to the tad
pole who retorted, II thought 90; ! al
Ways knew you never were a. tadpole!"
Or am ! wanting the frogs-I mean
the Granntes-to do Impossible
things?
ANYHOW, ! shall neyer feel a shut
Up before my Grannie again. Not
after these oonfidencGa! Not after hcr
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