Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-03

"oh, No." Lulu Dsclaimed 1t. She
Looked Up, Flushed, Smiling.
Bett listened, sang, ii may be, with
them; for when the singers ceased
her voice might be heard still hum
ming q loud closing bar.
"Wellp Cornish cried TO Lulu; and
then, in the formal village phrase:
you're quite musician
"Oh, no" Lulu disclaimed it. She
looked up, flushed, smiling. I've never
done this in front Of anybody" she
owned. 81 don't know what Dwight
and Ina'd say. :" She dropped
They rested and. miraculously, the
siY of the place had stirred and quick
ened, as If the crippled hating melody
hao some power of its own, and
poured this forth, even thus trampled.
81 guess you could do most any
thing you set your hand to-" said
Cornish. /:
."oh, no., Lulu said again.
Sing and play and cook"
But / can't earn anything. I'd like
to earn something" But this she had
not meant to say. She stopped, rather
frightened.
You would! Why, you have it fine
here, l thought"
"oh, fine, yes. Dwight gives me
what have. And do their work"
81 see" said Cornish. II never
thought of that" he added. She
caught his speculative look-he had
heard tale or two concerning her re-
turn, as who In WarbletOn had not
heard?
You're wondering why l didn't
stay with him." Lulu said recklessly.
| This was no less than wrung from her,
but it's utterance occaSioned in her an
unspeakable relief.
"Oh, no." Cornish diSclaimed, and
c0lored and rocked.
Yes, you are" she swept on. 1.-THE
whole towns wondering. Well, Ia like
'em 10 know, but Dwight won't let me
tell"
Cornish frowned, trying to under
stand.
"Won't let you =" he repeated. u
should say that was your own affair"
mo. Not when Dwight gives me all
l have"
"Oh, that" said Cornish That's
not right"
NO. But there it is. 1t puts me
you see what 1t does to me. They
think-they all think my-husband
left me-
1t was curious to hear her bring out
! that wOrd-tentatively deprecatlng-
ly, like some one daring foreign
phrase without warrant.
Cornish said feebly: "Oh, well.
Before she willed it, she was telling
him:
HE didn't. He didn't leave me-"
she cried with passion. "He had an
other wife" Incredibly it was as If
she were defending both him and her
self.
Lord sakes!" said Cornish.
She poured it out, in her passion to
tell some one, to share her news or
her state where there would be neither
hardness nor censure.
"We were in Savannah, Georgia"
she said I'VE were going TO leave for
Oregon-going to 90 through Califor-
mia. We were in the hotel, and he
was going out to get fhe tickets. He
started to go. Then he came BACK. L
was sitting the same as there. lie
opened the door again-the same as
here. | saw lie looked different -and
he said quick: There's something
you'd ought to know before we co.
And. Of course, / said, What? And he
said it right outflow he was married
eighteen years ago and in two years
she ran away and she must be dead,
but he wasn't sure. He hadn't the
proofs. So, of course, l came home.
But it wasn't him left me-
"No, no. OF course he didn't.
Cornish said earnestly. "But, Lords
sakes-" lie said again. He rose to
walk about, found it impracticable
and sat down.
That's what Dwight dah't want me
to tell--he thinks it isn't true. lie
thinks-he didn't have any other wife.
He thinks he wanted" Lulu locked
up at him. You see" she said,
Dwight thinks he didn't want me-"
"But why don't you make your hus-
band-I mean, why doesn't he write
to Mr.. Deacon here, and tell him the
truth" Cornish burst out.
Under this implied belief, she re-