Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15
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an ability to compress the of,ces Of
stepmctherhood Into the functions Of
the lecture platform Ina was foun-
tain Of admonition. Her idea Of q
daughter. step or NOT, was that Of .
manufactured product. strictly, which
you constantly pinched pnd nodded
Bhe thought that q moruo preceptor
had the right to secrete precepts. Di
got them all. But Of course the crest
Of Ina's responsibility WAS to marry
M This verb should be transitive
only when lovers are speaking Of each
other. or the minister OF magistrate
10 speaking Of lovers. Il should never
Be trnnsitive when predicated Of par
ents or any other third party. But Il
iA Ina was quite agitated by its
transitiveness n she took to her hus-
band her incredible responsibility.
~You know. Herbert." said Ina. IF
this Mr.. Cornish comes here very
much. what we mag expect"
"what may we expectr' demanded
Dwight Herbert. crisply.
Ina always played his games. an-
swered what he expected her to an
swer. pretended to be intuitive when
che was not %. said II know" when
she didn't know at all. Dwight Her
bert. on the other hand, did not even
play her games, when he knew per-
fectly what she meant. but pretended
not to understand, made her repeat.
made her explain. Il was - u Ina
had to please him for. say. . living;
bot as for that dentist, he had to
please nobody. In the conversations
-of Dwight and Ina you saw the his
: toricai home forming In ciots in the
6uid wash Of the community.
SHe1l fail In love with d." said
"And what OF thatf Little daughter
win have many . man fall In love
with her. should say."
"YeA but. Dwight, what DO you
think Of himf"
"what do think Of himf Ny
dear Ina. have other things to think
Of"
"But We don't know anything about
him. Dwight stranger So"
~On the other hand" said Dwight
with dignity. II know . good deal
about him."
With great air Of having done the
fatherly and found out Gbcut this
stranger before bringing him Into the
home, Dwight now related q number
Of stray circumstances dropped By
Cornish In their chance talks.
sHe has q little inheritance coming
to shortly" Dwight wound up.
IAN Enthusiastically How much.
Dwight"
-Now isn't that like . woman. Isn't
itf'
Il thought he was ~from 4 good
family" said Ina.
MY mercenary little pussy"
WELL" she said with a sigh, ~
shouldn't be surprised II Di did really
accept him. A young girl is awfully
finttered when good-looking older
man pays her attention. Haven't you
noticed thatT"
Dwight Informed her. with an air
Of immense abstraction. that he left
all such matters to her. Being mar
ried to Dwight was like perpetual
rehearsal, with Dwight's self-impor-
tahce for audience.
A few evenings later. Cornish
brought up the music. There was
something overpowefing in this brown
haired chap against the background
of his negligible little shop. his whole
capital In his Few pianos. For he
looked hopefully ahead, woke with
plans. regarded the children In the
street as II. conceivnbly. children
might come within the confines Of his
life as he imngined II. A preposter
GUS little man. And preposterous
store empty. echoing. bare Of wall.
the three pianos near the front, the
remainder OF the floor stretching away
like the corridors Of the lost. He was
going to get a dark curtain. he cx-
planned. and furnish the back part Of
the store as his own room. whni
dignity in phrasing, but how mean
that little room would look-c0t bed
washbowl and pitcher. and little mir
r0r--nlmost certainly a mirror with a
wayy surface, almost certainly that. I
and then. you know" he always
added I'm reading law"
The Plows had been asked in that
evening. Bobby was there. They
were, Dwight Herbert said, going to
have sing.
Di was to play. And Di was now
embarked on the most dlnicult feat Of
her emotional life, thesfeat Of remain
ing to Bobby Larkin the lure, the be-
loved lure. the while to Cornish she
instinctiveiy played the role Of wom-
anly little siri.
Up ~ the festive lamp. every
.bodyf* Dwight Hefbert cried
~ tho4 gath1Eed about The upstSht
piaaes thet stnrs1eA Dwfghtdsh sinstru-
nseak st91tng n NJ ATTITUDE Il M
rest Lalp eane 10 with smother lamp.
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