Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-12
CHAPTER XxxIx.

what her sensations would be. She
wondered about it so much that she
had every sensation she had imagined.
She was excited BY each familiar
flattcred4to be. for a day. the most
important news Of the community.
She hustled about, making calls. Juan
ita Haydock dubbed over their Wash
inSton encounter, and took Carol To
her social, bosom. This ancient OPP.
-ponent seemed likely to be her most
intimate friend, for Vida Snerwin.
though shc was cordial, stood back
and watched for imported hefesies.
In the evening Carol went to the
mill. The mystical o1n-om-Om Of
the %dynarnos In the electric-light plant
behind The mill was louder in the
darkness. Outside sat the night
watchman. Champ Perry. He held
up his stringy hands and %squeaked,
We've all missed you terrible"
VINO in Washington would miss
her1
Who in Washington could be de-
pended upon like Guy Pollock? When
she saw him on the street, smiling
as always. he seemed an eternal thing,
a part Of her W self.
After a week she decided that sh3
was>neither glad nor sorry to be back.
She entered each day with the mat
ter-of-fact attitude with which she
had gone~to her office in Washington.
1t was her task: there would be me-
chanical details and meaningless talk;
what of it?
The only problem which she had
approached with emotion proved in
significant. She had. or the train,
worked herself up to such devotion
that she was willing to give up her
oxs,1 "a To NV - oh n p oil ~ Nav
life with Kenficott.
He mumbled, ten minutes after She
had entered the house. Say, I've kept
your room for you like it was. I've
kind of com round to o way OF
thinking. Don't see why folks. need
to get on each others nerves just be-
cause they're friendly. Darned If ]
haven't got SOL like a little privacy
and mulling things over by myself
II.
She had left a city which sat ur
nights to talk of universal transition;
of European revolution, guild social
ism, free verse. She fancied that al
the world was changing.
She found that it was not.
In Gopher Prairie the only ardent
new topics were prohibition, the place
jim Minneapolis where you could gel
whisky at thirteen dollars quart
recipes for home-made beer, the 'higf
cost of living" the presidential cleo.
ton, Clark's new car, and not very
novel foibles of Cy Bogart. Thei,
problems were exactly what they hat
been two ears ago. what they hai
been twenty years age, and what the,
would be for twenty years to come
With the world 4 possible volcano
the husbandmen were blowing at thu
| fo 90 Nf tho rNn11efoi, A xy0loono ANoI
occasionally drop a river of lava or
even the best of agriculturists, tt
their establishment and considerabl,
injury, but their cousins inherit tn:
farms and q year or two later go bacl
to the blowing
She was unable to ~rhapsodize mucl
over the seven new bungalows and tn,
two garages which Kennicott hae
Lmade to seem SO important. Her in
t%ensest thought about them a "Ot
yes, they're all right I suppose" 9TH,
change which she did heed was tn
erection Of the school building: will
it's cheerful brick walls, broad win
dows, gymnasium, classrooms for agri
culture and cooking. 1t indicated
Vida's triumph, and it stirred her t,
activity-any activity. She went t.
Vida with a jaunty, Il think ! shall
work for you. And I'll begin at tn
bottom" :
She did. She relieved the attend
day. Her only innovation was paint
ing the pine table a black and orang
rather shocking to the Thanatopsis
She talked to the farmwivcs an,
soothed their babies and was happy
Thinking of them she did not thinl
Of the ugliness of Main Street as sh
hurried along it to the chatter Of tn
jolly Seventeen.
She wore her eyeglasses on til
street now. She al beginning to as|
Kennicott and ,Juantta if she didn'
ty-three. The eyeglasses pinche
her nose. She considered spectacle.
They would make her seem older, an,
hopelessly settled. No! She would no
wear spectacles yet. But she tried o
a pair at Kennicott's office. They re
ally were much more comfortable.
III.
DR.. Westlake, Sam Clark. Nat Hfck
and Del SnaffliD were talking in Del
barber shop.
We'll, 1 see Kennicott's wife is tax
fling a iwhirl at the restroom now,
said DR.. Westlake. He emphasize
the now"
Del interrupted the shaving Of Sa,
and. with his brush dripping lathel
he observed jocularly:
). "What'n sne be up to next? The
say she used to claim thislburg WASH
swell enough for a city girl like he
and would We please tax ourselve
about thirty-seven point nine and II
it all up pretty, with tides on the h3
drants and statoos on the lawns
Sam irritably blew the lather frol
his lips, with milky small bubble
and snorted, BE a good thing "a
most Of US roughnecks II we did hay
a smart woman to tell us how to ii
UP the town.. Just as much to he
kicking as there was to Jim Blami
ser's gassing about factories. An
you can bet Mrs. Kennicott is snar
even if she is skittish. Glad to se
her back"
DIR. Westlake hastened to play SAT
s was i! So was Il! She's got a mic
way about her. and she knows q goo
deal about books-or fiction anywa!
OF course she's like all the rest I
not scholarly-doesn.t know anythin
about political economy-falls fore,
cry new idea that some windtammin
crank puts out, Bue shs'sa nice won
an. She'll probably tx up the RESI-
room, and the restroom is a fin
thing, brings a lot on business to cow
And now that Mrs. Kennicott's bee
away. maybe she's got over some {
herr fool IDEAS. Maybe she realize
that folks simply laugh at her Whe
she tries to tell us how TO run every
thing!M AZ