Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-27
If WINTER
COMES
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is George in his den.'' and OF hoard
lng-house females peering over the
wires shoulder and smiling fatouely
at the denizen who, in an old shooting
3acket and slippers; ,grinned vacuous-
a horrible and unspeSkable vision.
The matter of the den and another
matter, touching the servants, came
up between them in h very earliest
days of their married life. Mabel
had been busy settling things
n she took him around the house
with delicious pride and happiness,
Mark, sharing both. had his arm
linked in hers. When they came to
the fourth sitting Mabel announced
saily, And this is your den!"
lord, not dent"
not?"
Il absolutely can't stick dem" He
glanced about. WHO on earth's left
those fearful old slippers there
They're q pair Of fathers. l took
tten specially for you for this room.
You haven't got any slippers like
that"
he gazed upon the heels downtrod-
den by her heavy father. He did not
much like her heavy father. "No,
! haven't" he said, and thought grinlly,
Thank God!".
Mabel opened the kitchen door.
THE masters come to see how nice
the l.itchen looks"
Iw;o maids an black dresses and an
extraordinary amount of stiffly
starched aprons and caps and stream
ers rose awkardly and bobbed awk-
ward little bows. One was very tall,
the other rather short. Mabel looked
from the girls to Mark and from Mark
to the girls, precisely as il she were
exhibiting rare specimens to her nus
band and her husband to her rare
specimens. And in HI tone of one
exhibiting pinned dried, and complete
~ impersonal specimens, she an
nouncedr They're sisters. Their
name is Jinks."
Mark examining the exhibits, had
been feeling like r. fool. Their name
humanized them and relieved his awk-
ward feeling. Hal! links, Ell ?
High Jinks and Low Jinks, What?'
He laughed. 1t struck him as rather
comic; and High links and Low
Jinks Uttered broadly, losing in the
most astonishing way the one he,
severity and the other her guinness
Mabel seemed suddenly to have
lost her interest in her exhibits and
their cage. She rather hurried MARI
through. the kitchen premises and
moving into the garden, replied rath.
er abstractedly to his plans Tor the
gardens development.
Suddenly she said. Mark, I do wish
you hadn't said that in the Kitchen
He caught his arm around her anc
gave her Il playful squeeze. "Abou,
High JinRs and Low links? Ha
Dashed funny that, ont you think ?
mo, I don't. 1 don't think it's
bit funny.
He stared. puzzled. He had tried
to explain the absurd thing, and she
simply could not see it. II ampl,
| don't"
And again that vague and transIcn1
discomfort shot through him.
Sabre awoke in the course of thai
night and lay awake. The absurd
incident came Immediately into his
mind and remained in his mind
High links and Low .Jinks was comic
No getting over it. Stupid, of course
but just the kind Of stupid thing thai
tickled him irresistibiy. And she
couldn't see it. Absolutely could no,
see it. But if she were never going
to see any of these stupid little thing.
that appealed to him?
A night-light, her wish, dimly il,
lumined' the room. He raised him.
self and looked at her fondly, sleep,
ing beside him. He thought, "Dasf
it, the things been just the same
from her point of view. That del
business. She likes den, and I can
stick den. Just the same for her a!
| for mo that Hiph TSn1rs orA ~
links tickles me n doesn't tickle
her"
He very gently moved : with hi
finger a tress of her hair that hae
fallen upon her face 80. Mabel
His wife! How gently be
meath her dflmy bedgown her bosom
rose and fell! -. How utterly calm
her face a How at peace, how sc
cure, she lay there. He thought
in the terrific privacy of her owr
room, and here she is come to me II
mine. Cut off from everything ant
everybody and ON hereto me-"
His thoughts continued: One life
One life out Of two lives; one natur,
out Of w natures! Mysterious anc
extraordinary metamorphosis. Sht
had brought her nature to his, ant
he his nature to hers, and they wer'
to mingle n become n mature
Absurdly and inappropriately hi
mind picked up and presented to hin
the grotesque words. High links ant
Low Jinks." A note Of laughter wal
irresistibly tickled out Of him.
She said very s%leepily, Mark, ar
you laughing. What are you laugh
ing at?''
He patted her shoulder. "Oh, moth
Ing"
One nature?