The St. Johns herald., 1922-11-23

perpetually submerged.
 When she had eaten she grew sleepy rather cross at the last and inclined to hold up her sisters excellencies to Lulu; and, at Lulu's defense lifted an ancient weapon.
 What's the use of finding fault with Inie? Where'd you been if she hadn't marriedT"
 Lulu said nothing.
 "What say?" Mrs. Bett demanded shrilly. She was enjoying 1t.
 Lulu said no more. After a long time:
 ''You always was jealous of Inie." said Mrs. Bett, and went to her bed.
 AS soon as her mothers door had closed, Lulu took the lamp from it's bracket, stretching up her long body and her long arms rntil her skirt lift ed to show her really slim and pretty feet. Lulu's feet gave news of some other Lulu, but slightly incarnate Perhaps, so far, incarnate only in her feet and her long hair.
 She took the lamp to the parlor and stood before the photograph of Ninian Deacon, and looked her fill. She did not admire the photograph, but she wanted to look at 1t. The house was still, there was no possibility of inter- ruption. The occasion became sensa- tion, which she made no effort to quench. She held rendezvous with she knew not what.
 In the early hours of the next after noon with the sun shining across the threshold, Lulu was pairing something at the kitchen table. Mrs. Bett was asleep. CT don't blame you bit, mother" Lulu had said, as her mother named the intention.) Ina was asleep. (But Ina always took of the curse by calling it her "si-esta," long L) Mo mona was playing with neighbours child-you heard their shrill yet love ly laughter as they Obeyed the adult law that motion is pleasure. Di was not there.
 A man came round the house and stood tying puppy to the porch post. A long shadow fell through the west doorway, the puppy whined.
 "Oh," said this man. q didn't mean to arrive at the back door, but since Pm here"
 He lifted a suitcase to the porch, entered and filled the kitchen.
 'It's Ina, isn't it?" he said.
 'Tm her sister," said Lulu, and un- derstood that he was here at last.
 "Well, I'm Bert's brother" said Ninian. "So can come in, can't IF"
 He did so, turned round like a dog before his chair and sat down heavily, forcing his fingers through heavy, up- springing brown hair.
 "Oh, yes," said Lulu. "Pll call Ina. She's asleep"
 Don't call her, then" said Ninian. ''Let's you and I get acquainted"
 He said it absently, hardly looking at her.
 'Tn get the pup a drink if you can spare me a basin," he added.
 Lulu brought the basin and, while he went to the dog, she ran tiptoeing to the dining room china closet and brought cut-glass tumbler, as heavy, as ungainly as stone crock. This she filled with milk.
 q thought maybe =. ." said she. and offered it.
 "Thank your said Ninian, and drained it. Making pies, as live" he observed, and brought his chair nearer to the table. 'T didn't know Ina had sister," he went on. .''I re- member now Bert said he had two of her relatives"
 Lulu flushed and glanced at him piti- fully.
 "He has," she said. 'It's my mother and me. But we do quite good deal of the works
 "Pn bet you do," said Ninian, and did not perceive that anything had been violated. "Whats your name?" he hethOught. | She was in an immense and obscure excitement. Fer manner was serene, her hands as they went on with the peeling did not tremble; her replies were given with sufficient quiet But she told him her name as one tells something of another and more re- mote creature. She felt as one may feel in catastrophe-nO sharp under standing, but merely the sense that the thing cannot possibly be happening.
 "You folks expect mel" he went on.
 "Oh, yesl" she cried, almost with vehemence. "Why, we've looked for | you every day."
 "'See," he said, "how long have they been married"
 Lulu flushed as she answered: "Fif- teen years"
 "And Min into-say, Mn, what are you, anyway"