Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-11-23

III sprang up. "Aunt Lulu" she said.
you're funny person 10 be telling
me what to do
Lulu said, flushing: 81 love you just
the same rs if | was married happy.
in home"
"Well, you aren't" cried hi cruelty,
"and I'm going to do just as ! think
best" -
Lulu thought this over, her look
grave and sad she tried TO find some
thing 10 say. what do people say TO
people" she wondered, when it's like
thist"
Getting married IS for your whole
life" was all that came TO her.
Yours wasn't" hi flashed at her.
Lulu's color deepened, but there
seemed to he no resentment in her.
She must deal with this right-tliat
was nhat her manner seemed TO say.
And how should she deal?
"Df' she cried "come back with
mc-and wait till mamma and papa
get home"
That's likely They say I'm not tc
be married till I'm twenty one
"Well. but how young that is"
III is to YOU"
"Di! This is wrong-it is wrong.
There's nothing wrong about get
ting maTied--if YOU stay married"
We'll. then 1t can't be wrong to let
them know"
1T isn't. But they'd treat me
wrong. They'd make me stay at
home and ! won't stay at home-I
won stay there They act as if l
WAS ten years old
Abruptly in Lulu's face there came
light OF understanding.
"Nhy. III" She said, do you feel
that way too;'
III missed this. She went on:
I'm grown up. | feel just rs
grown up as they do. And I'm not al
lowed 10 do a thing | feel. | want TO
be away will be away
81 know about that part" Lulu said.
She now looked at hi with atten.
ton. Was il possible that hi was
suffering in the air of that home as
she herself suffered? She had not
thouvht of thar. There hi had seemed
SO 4oung, SO dependent. so--asquirm
Here by herself. waiting for Bobby,
I'm the Hess house at Milton, she WAS
curiously adult Would abe be adult
"a she were let alone?
You don't know what it's Ike" d
cried ito I've hustled up an laughed st
and pad no attention to everything
YOU shy"
"Don't II" said Lulu. Don't -
she was breathing quickly and look
ing st Di. II this was why hi was
leaving home
"Bat Di," She cried, "do you love
Bolby Larbin!"
BY this III was embarrassed. Eve
got to marry somebody" she said
and it might as well be him."
But is it him?"
"Yos, it is" said hi. But" she
added. Il know ! could love almost
anybody real nice that was nice to
me-" md this she said. not in her
own right. but either she had picked
it UP somewhere and adopted it. OF
else the terrible modernlty and hon
csiy of her day somehow spoke
through her. for it's own. But to Lulu
/, WAS as If something familiar turned
It's face to be recognized.
"Di," she cried
"It's true You ought to know
That" She waited for a moment
"You did it, she added. "Mamma
said So"
At this onslaught Lulu was stupe
fed. For she began to perceive IFS
truth.
Il know what | want TO do, ] guess,
hi muttered. as If to try to cover
what she had said
Up To that moment, Lulu had beer
. feeling intensely that she understood
hi, but that III did not know this
Now Lulu felt that she and III actual
~ shared some unsupported sister
hood. II was not only that they wei
both badgered by Dwight. 1t wa
more than that. They were two WON
cn. And she must make hi know tina
she understood her.
"Di," Lulu said. breathing hard
what YOU just said is true, | guess
Don't You think don't know. Ant
now I'm going TO tell YOU
she might have poured il all out
claimed her kiuship with Di by vlrtu,
NJ that which had happened In Savan
! nah. Georgia. But hi said:
,, "IIere come some ladies. And good
ness look at the way you look!"
Lulu glanced down. 81 know" she
said. but I guess you'll have to put
up with me-"
Tha two women entered, looked
about with the complaisance of those
who examine hotel property, find
criticism incumbent, and have No
errand. These two women had out
| Dire their occasion. I'm their pres
enc pi kept ST &c t~"ncd away hei
he; e. ave tacm To knuN TIA, She had
| no ue to do viii ihis blue cotton
| person beside her Wien they ha,
zone on. "What do you mean by m!
having to put up with your hi aske,
sharply.
Il mean I'm going to stay witt
you"
Isl laughed scornftlly-she was
again the rebclious child. ~ cues