The St. Johns herald., 1922-12-14
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AuO6G WAO OlSICSOAu luO NOAA4AOAS VI other people," he enunciated, "cannot expect consideration for themselves in the future"
 He did not say on what ethical tenet this dictum was based, but he deliV- cred it with extreme authority. Ina caught her lower lip with her teeth, dipped her head and looked at Di. And Monona laughed like little demon.
 As soon as Lulu had all in readiness, and cold corned beef and salad had be- gun their orderly progression, Dwight became the immemorial dweller in green fastnesses. He began:
 "This is ideal. I tell you, people don't half know life if they don't get out and eat in the open. It's better than any tonic at a dollar the bottle. Natures tonic-eh? Free as the air. Look at that sky. See that water. Could anything be more pleasant2"
 He smiled at his wife. This mans face was glowing with simple pleasure. He loved the out-of-doOrs with a love which could not explain itself. But he now lost a definite climax when his Wife's comment was heard to be:
 "Mononal Now it's all over both ruff1es. And mamma does try so hard.
 After supper some boys arrived with a boat which they -beached, and Dwight, with enthusiasm, gave the boys ten cents for a half hours use of that boat and invited to the waters his wife, his brother and his younger daughter. Ina was timid-nOt be- cause she was afraid, but because she was congenitally timid-with her this was not a belief or an emotion, 1t was a disease.
 Dwight, darling, are you sure there's no danger"
 "Why, none. None in the world. Whoever heard of drowning in a riverT"
 ''But you're not so very used" ,,
 Oh, wasn't he? Who was 1t that had lived in a boat throughout youth, if not he?
 Ninian refused out-of-hand, lighted a cigar, and sat on a log in perma- nent fashion. Ina's plump figure was fitted in the stern, the child MonOna affixed, and the boat put of, bow we'll out of water. On this pleasure ride the face of the wife was as the face of the damned. It was true that she revered her husbands opinions above those of all other men. In politics, in science, in religion, in dentistry, she looked up to his dicta as to revelation. And was he not magistrate? But let him take oars in hand, or shake lines or a whip above the back of any horse, and this woman would trust any other woman's husband by preference. It was a phenomenon.
 Lulu was making the work last, so that she should be out of everybody's. way. When the boat put off without Ninian, she felt kind of terror and wished that he had gone. He had sat down near her, and she pretended not to see. At last Lulu understood that Ninian was deliberately choosing to remain with her. The languOr of his bulk after the evening meal made no exclamation for Lulu. She asked for no explanation. He had stayed.
 And they were alone. For Di, on a pretext of examining the fiocks and herds, was leading Bobby away to the pastures a little at time.
 The sun, now fallen, had left an even, waxen sky. Leaves and ferns apneared drenched with the light just withdrawn. The hush, the warmth, the color, were charged with some in- fluence. The air of the time communi- cated itself to Lulu as intense and quiet happiness. She had not yet felt quiet with Ninian. For the first time her blind excitement in his presence ceased, and she felt curiously accus- toned to him. To him the air of the time imparted itself in a deepening of