Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-08

"Evei ybody's got somebody to he
nice to them," she thought naw, sit
ting by the kitchen window, adult yet
Cinderella.
She thought that some one would
come for her-her mother or even
Ina. Perhaps they would send Mo
mona. She waited at first hopefully,
then resentfully. The gray rain
wrapped the air. ;'qt
Nobody cares what becomes of me
after they're fed" she thought, and
derived an obscure satisfaction from
her>phFaslng, and thought 1t again.
Nlniap Deacon, came, into the
kitchen. 1, :.
Her first impression was that he
had come to see whether the dog had
been fed. ~,
'T fed him." she said, and wished
that she had been busy when Ninian
entered.
"Who me2" he asked you did
that all right Say, why in time don't
you GONE in the other room?"
"6h, don't know" h-. ..'t
"Wel,, neither do l. I've kept think
ing, why don't she come along Then
/ remembered the dishes" He glanced
about. 81 come to help wipe dishes"
oh" she laughed so delicately, so,
delightfully."-, one wondered where ashe
got 1t. They're washed" she caught
herself at 'long ago.,
"Well then, what ara you doing
here?" .,....,'..s,, .s,.,.t; a., .s..,
Resting" -, -a..
"Rest In there. He bowed, crooked
his arm. "Senora," he said-his Span
ish matched his, other assimilatlons of
travels Sonora, allow me-" y
Lulu rose. On his arm she entered
the .parlor. Dwight was narrating and
did>not observe that entrance To the
Plows 1t was sufficiently normal. But
Ina looked up and said:
"Well"-in two notes, descending,
curving. 'iA.s So.
Lulu did not look at her. Lulu sat
in q low rocker. Her starched white
skirt, throwing her chally In ugly
lines, revealed peeping rim of white
embroidery. Her lace front wrihkled
when she sat, and perpetually. she ad-
justed 1t. She curled her feet side
wise beneath her chair, her long
wrists and veined hands lay along her
lap In no relation to her. She was
tense. She rocked.
When Dwight had finished his mar
ration, there was a pause, broken at
last by Mrs. Bett:
"You tell that better than you used
to when you started In telling It," she
observed "You got In some things I
guess you used to clean forget about.
Monona, get off my rocker"
Monona made little whimpering
sound, in pretense to tears. Ina said,
'Darling-quietw w-chln a little lifted,
lower lip revealing lower teeth for
the words completion; and she held
1t.
The Plows were asking something
about Mexico. Dwight was wondering
II 1t would let up raining at all. Di
and Jenny came whispering into the
room. But all these distractions MIN !
ian Deacon swept aside.
'Miss Lulu" he said, Il wanted you
to hear about my trip up the Amazon,
because 1 knew how Interested you
are In travels"
He talked, according to his lights
about the Amazon. But the person
who most enjoyed the recital could
not afterward have told two words
that he said. Lulu kept the position
which she had taken at first, and she
dare. not change. She saw the blood
I'm the veins Of her hands and wanted
to hide them. She wondered II she
might fold her arms, or have one hand
to support her chin, gave It all up and
sat motlonless, save for the rocking.
Then she forgot everything; For
the first time in years some one was
talking and looking not only at Ina
and Dwight and their guests, but at
her