The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-01-26

Inc cniId ON the steps regarded tneil
approach with unsmiling eyes, nor die
she move except to draw aside her darl
stuff skirts and close her knees unit
they touched.
Hello there! Moping again, eh
Get up Didn't l tell you not to lei
me catch you out playing or help
ing Cloonan around? Say howdy to
this lady. She's coming out here to
live. Come here and say howdy to
her.
The child shrank to the newel-post,
her little face overtaken with an agony
of shyness.
"Cat got your tongue? Say howdy.
Quit breathing through your mouth
like a fish. Say howdy, that's a good
girl"
Don't force her, Jerry. She's bash
full. Amt you, dearie? Amt you,
Maisie?'
"Moping, you NEAR n it al her
month in the dirty Harlem fiat she'd
be spry enough. She knows what /
mean when / say that, and she knows
she better cut out this pouting. Quit
breathing through your mouth or I'll
stick a cork in it,
saw, Jerry, she can't help that!"
"Cat got your tongue? Where's
Cloonan?"
"Aw, Jerry-you-you scared her
Come here. darling; ONE here to me,
Maisie; come, dearie."
But the child slid past the extended
arms, down the wooden steps, and
around a corner of the house, her arm
held up across her eyes.
Jaw, Jerry, honest, you can be awful
mean !"
'I1l get that out of her or know the
reason why. They've poisoned her
against me, that's about how it is in a
nutshell. I'll get that pouting to be in
that dirty Harlem hole with her moth
er and grandmother out of her or know
the reason why"
She
Look, this is the front hall. Guess
this amt got that sty in Twenty-third
street beat some. Look How do you
like 1t? This way to the parlor and
dining room"
Sadie Barnet smiled through the
shadows in her eyes.
Jerry Say, amt this beautiful
A upright piano and gold chairs and
Why, Jerry! why, <Jerry!"
"And look in here, the dining room.
Her and her mother shopped three
weeks to get this oak set, and see this
fancy cabinet full of china. Slick,
amt it,"
Her fingers curled in a soft clutch
around her throat as If her breath
came too fast.
Jerry, tits just grand"
He marshaled her in all the pride of
ownership.
Look, buffers pantry, exposed
"Oh! Obi"
Kitchen"
ooh! Ohi'
Here, CloOnan. / told you l was
going to bring somebody out to take
hold and sit on you and your bills,
didn't 1? This lady's coming out here
bag and baggage. Hand
over your account book to her and /
bet she does better with it. See that
you fix us up in honeymoon style,
Bag and baggage we're coming.
Savvy?"
The figure beside the ill-kept stove,
bowl in lap and pairing potatoes with
the long fleshless hands of a bird,
raised a still more feshless face.
"Howdy !"
"Cloonan's been running this She
Bang for two years now, Peachy, and
amt nothing much she can't
earn you about my ways. They amt
hard. Look Porcelain-lined sink. It's
got Twenty-third street pea sons
amt it?"
Eyes, Jerry"
Fix us a beefsteak supper, Cloonan
n femme weigh them groceries
sent out and femme see your book
afterward. Come, Peachy, here, III
these stairs. This is the second floor
Pretty neat, amt it? Her and hei
mother shopped three more weeks or
oak bed-set. Some little move on
here from T~wenty-third street for
little rooming-house queen like you
Ell? Neat little bedroom, Ell, Peachy.
His face was close to her and clarel
red with an expression she did not
dare to face.
CHAPTER vi.