Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-11

GaH oiAoSS POilUne0 TO sluSeYT..
There wac Z recent cut on his chin
just before coming into Washington.
It was pleaNsnt to feel howsssssNSsrysr.
tant h was; how many pegnIeaIaste
recognized, ,ns she took hinafrs"*h"
Capitol. as she told him Che asked and
she o~bligtngly guessed) how inasy'
feet it was to fhe top OF the dome, sas
she pointed out Senator LAFollette;
and the vice president, and At lunch
time showed herself an habitue by
leading him through the cafacombs
to the senate restaurant.
She realised that he was slightly
more bald. The familiar way in
which his hair was5parted on the left
side agitated her. She looked down
1t his hands, and the fact that his
nails were as ill-treated:A ~ everStouch-
ed her more than !. his pleading shoe
You'd like to motor down to Mount
Vernon this afternoon, wouldn't your"
she said. - (,
1t was the-on thing he had plan
ned. He was delighted that 1t seem
ed to be perfectly we'll bred and Wash.
in.toni"n thing to do. ~
He shyly held her hand on the way,
and told her the news: they were ex-
cavating the basement for The new
school building, Vida made him tired
the way she was always looked at the
MAZE" poor Chef Dashaway had been
killed in a motor accident out on the
Coast. He did no OAK her to like
him At Mount Vernon he admired
the paaeled library and W~ashington's
dental tools. s4a.... s...3- r.
she knew that he would want oy
sters, that he would have heard oil
Harvey's apropos Of Grant and Blaine.
an7 she took him there. At dinner
his hearty voice. his holiday enjoy
ment Of everything, turned into ner-
vousness in his desire to know a num-
Der of interesting matters, such as
whether t;1ev still were married. Bul
he did not ask questions. and he said
nothing about her returning. H.
cisa.td his throat and observed, "Oh
say. been trying out the old camera
Don't you think these are pretty
good:"
= He, tossed over to her thirty prints
about. Without defense, she was
thrown into 1t. She remembered that
he had lured her with photographs
in courtship days; she made a note
of his sameness. his satisfaction with
the tactics which hadgaproved good
before; but h forgot it in the famil-
lar places. She was seeing the SUM
speckled ferns among birches on the
shore Of Minniemashie, wind-ripple.,
own house where Hugh had played,
Nam Street where she knew every
window and every face. i
She handed them back, with prals.
for his photography and he talk.u
of lenses and time-exposures. /;
Dinner was over and they were Cos
siping Of her friends at the flat, but
an intruder was with them, sitting
bask, persistent. inescapable. 4 She
It had you check your bag at the
fistation because I wasn't quite sure
where&syou'dsstay I'm dreadfully sor-
Try weshavenstsgrdDm to put you, up at
] the flat. We oughtato have seen about
a room for you before. Don't you
think you better call UP the Willard
or the Washington now?"
He peered at her cloudily. Withou,
words he asked, without speech she
answered. whether she was also going
to the Willard or the Washington.
But she tried to look as though she
did not know that they were debating
anything of, the sort. She would have
hated him had he >been meek about
it. But, he was neither meek nor
angry. However impatient he may
have been with her blandness he said
readily:
Yes guess I better do that. Excuse
me a second. Then@how about grab
bling a taxi Gosh, isn't it the limit
the way these taxi shutters skin
around a corner? Got more nerve
driving than I have!) and going up
to your flat for a while? Like to NEE,
your friends-rhust be fine women
n I might take a look and see how
Hugh sleeps. Like to know how he
breathes. Don't think he. has ade-
noids, but I better make sure, eh?''
He patter her shoulder.
At the flat the yfound her two
housemates a2dNa girl who had been
to Jail for suffrage. Kennicott fitted
In surprisingly. He laughed at the
girls Astory Of the .humors of a hun
ger-sttike: he told the secretary what
to dosWher her eyes were tired from,
typing;saAd the teacher asked him
not as the husband of friend but
as a Observation-Disclosures there was
anything to this incubation for
colds"
His colloquliaisms Seemed to Carol
no more lax than their habitual slang
Like an older brother he kissed her
good-ighnt in the midst of the COM
pany.
He's terrible NICE. said her house
mates, and waited for condolences,
They got none, nor did her heart.
She could find nothing definite to
agonize about. Shefelt thai she was
no longer analyzing and controlling
forces, but swept on by them.
He came to the flat for breakfast,
and washed the dishes. That was
her only occasion FOR spite. Bacls
home he never thought OF washing
dishes!' ~
Con%su.o1 ro~>o~.o~, ruors-. ~