The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-16
By IONA GALE
Copyright BY d. Appleton , Company
vI-Continued.

"Oh. by the music houses. You go
BY the sales" For the first time 1t oc-
CURED to Cornish that this was ridic-
ulous. "You know, I'm really study
ing law he said, shyly and proudly.
Law! How very interesting, from Ina.
Oh, but won't he bring up some songs
some evening. for them to Try over?
Her and Dl? At this hi laughed and
said that she was out of practice and
lifted her glass of water. In the
presence of adults hi made one weep,
she was so slender, so young, so with
out defenses, so intolerably sensitive
to every contact so in agony lest she
be found wanting. 1t was amazing
how unlike was this Di to the Di who
had ensnared Bobby Larkin. What
was one to think?
Cornish paid very little attention to
her. To Lulu he said kindly, Don't
you play, Miss-Y' He had not caught
her name-no stranger ever did catch
1t. But Dwight now supplied 1t: Miss
Lulu Bett," he explained, with loud
emphasis, and Lulu burned her slow
answered by telling how a felon had
interrupted her lessons and she had
stopped 'taking'-a particlple sacred
to music, in Warbleton. This vignette
had been kind Of epitome of Lulus
biography. But now Lulu was heard
to say, serenely:
mo, but Pm quite fond Of 1t.
went to lovely concert-two weeks
ago."
They all listened. Strange, indeed
to think Of Lulu as having had expert
ences Of which they did not know.
"Yes," she said. ut was in Savan-
nah, Georgia" She flushed, and lifted
her eyes in manner of faint defiance.
"Of course" she said, II don't know
the names of all the different instru-
ments they played, but there were a
good many" She laughed pleasantly
as part of her sentence. "They had
some lovely tunes" she said. She knew
that the subject was not exhausted
and she hurried on. "The hall was
real large" she superadded, "and
there were quite good many people
there. And 1t was too warm"
~ see," said Cornish, and said what
he had been waiting to say: That he,
Lulu lit with pleasure. "Well! she
said And her mind worked and she
caught at the mon ent before 1t had
escaped. isn't i, pretty city?'
she asked. And Cor nish assented with
the intense heartiness Of the provincial
He, too, 1t seemed. had a CONVERSE
tional appearance TO maintain by its
own effort. He said that he had en-
joyed being In that town and that he
was there for two hours.
Il was there for week" Lulu's
superiority was really pretty.
Have good weather. Cornish Sc
lected next.
"Oh, yes. And they saw all the diff
ferent buildings-but at her 1--WE" she
flushed and was ellenced. She was
coloring and breathing quickly. This
was the first bit of conversation Of
this sort in Lulu's life.
After supper Ina inevitably pro-
posed croquet, Dwight pretended to
try TO escape and, with his irrepressl-
BILE Dien, talked about Ina, elaborate
In his insistence on the third person
"She loves 1t, we have to humOr her,
you know how 1t is. Or no! You don't
know But you will"-nnd more of
the same sort, everybody laughing
heartily, save Lulu. who looked un-
comfortable and wished that Dwight
wouldn't, and Mrs. Bett, who paid no
attention to anybody that night, not
because she had not been introduced,
an omission which she had not even
noticed, but merely as another form
of "tantrim''-a self-lndulgence.
They emerged for croquet. And
there on the porch sat Jenny Pillow
and Bobby, waiting for Di to keep an
old engagement. which Dl pretended
to have forgotten, and to be frlghtt
fully annoyed to have to keep. She
met the objections of her parents with
all the batteries of her coquetry, set
for both Bobby and Cornish and, bold
in the presence Of company" at last
went laughing away. And in the mi
mute areas of her consciousness she
said to herself that Bobby would be
more in love with her than ever be-
cause she had risked all to go with
him; and that Cornish ought to be
distinctly attracted to her because
she had not stayed. She was as prlml
tive as pollen.
Ina was vexed. She said so, pout-
ing in fashion which she should
have outgrown with white muslin and
blue ribbons, and she had outgrown
none Of these things.
"That just spoils croquet," she said
I'm veXed. Now we can't have
real game"
From the side door, where she must
have been lingering among the water
proofs, Lulu stepped forth.
"Ill play game" she said.
When Cornish actually proposed to
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