The Glenwood post., 1922-11-09
Miss
Lulu
Bett
By
Zona Gale
Illustrate n. by Irwin ny.r.
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Copyright by D. Appleton and Company

up, frowned, Lulu felt as If she herself
were the culprit. She said the first
thing that occurred to her:
81 don't believe mammaIl like your
taking her nice satchel."
WE'LL" said Di, exactly as If she
had been at home. And superadded:
MY goodness" And then cried rude
ly: what are you here for?'
"For you" said Lulu. "You-you-
you'd ought not to be here, Di."
"What's that to you?" Di cried.
why, Di, you're just little girl"
Lulu saw that this was all wrong,
and stopped miserably. How was she
to go on? "Di," she said, "if you and
Bobby want to get married, why not
let us get you up nice wedding at
homef' And she saw that this sound
ed rs If she were talking about tea
party.
"Who said we wanted to be mar
ried?"
well, he's here"
"Who said he's here?"
Isn't he?"
Di sprang up. Aunt Lulu" she said,
you're a funny person to be telling
me what to do"
Lulu said, flushing: II love you just
the same as if l was married happy,
In home"
"Well, you arentv' cried Di cruelty,
land I'm going to do just as l think
best"
Lulu thought this over, her look
nd Cu1 Sbn triad to find
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 wha, 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 lsr'
1T is to you"
"Dll 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"
ut isn't But they'd treat me
wrong. They'd make me stay at
home. And / won't stay at home-I
won't stay there. They act as If I
was ten years old.'
Abruptly in Lulu's face there came
light of understanding
"Why, Di" she said "do you feel
that way, tooT
Di missed this She went on:
I'm grown up. l feel Just as
grown up as they do. And I'm not al
lowed TO do a thing i feel. want to
be away-I will be awayl"
II 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 Dl 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. ''to be hushed up an laughed at
and paid no attention to everything
you say"
Don't ~ said Lulu. Don't II"
She was breathing quickly and look
Ing at Di. If this was why Di was
leaving home.
But, Dl,' she cried, "do you love
Bobby Larkln?"
BY this Di was embarrassed. "Tve
got to marry somebody" she said,
"and IT might MS well be him."
but is 1t him?"
Eyes, 1t is said Di. But" she
added, 81 know / 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
1t up somewhere and adopted it. or
else the terrible modernity and hon
esty Of her day somehow spoke
1t was as If something familiar turned
IT'S 1nce TO ne recognized.
"Di!" she cried
IT'S true. You ought to know
that" She waited for moment.
"Iou did it," she added. "Mamma
said so.''
AT this onslaught Lulu was stupe-
fed. For she began to perceive its
truth.
II know what want to do guess"
Di muttered, as II to try to cover
what she had said.
UP to that moment, Lulu had been
feeling intensely that she understood
Dl, but that Di did not know this
Now Lulu ft1t that she and Di actual
ly shared some unsupported sister
hood. 1t was not only that they were
both badgered by Dwight. It was
more than that. They were two wom-