Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-05
SYNOPSIS.

CaIoi hil1ord, after finishing college,,
spending a year in Chicago. and three
years as a librarian in st. Paul. marries
Or. Will Kennicott. Of Gopher Prairie.
Through college, and her years in the
library she has been ambitious 20 live
in a smaller community, where she
might be an influence for culture. She
tinds Gopher Prairie the usual mail
y with its people very much salts.
they are not approving Of her. Any
movement for ''uplift" work which she
ina~ugurates, invariably fail. Vida Sher-
win, village school teacher, tells Carol
she Is a dreamer, and not practical.
A son is born to Carol. and for three
or four years Che devotes all Of her
time caring for him. War is declared,
and Vida and Raymie Wutherspoon.
town hero. and song-bird are married.
lie goes into service.
Carol retains her friendship for Bea
Sorenson. a Norwegian housemaid whom
marries Miles BjoFnstam, a Village h
acter. When Isea and her son Olaf are
stricken with typhoid, Carol nurses
them. Both die.
Erik Valbors, a dapper tailor, whom
The village christens Elizabeth. zones
to Gopher Prairie. He interests Carol.
SO does a young school teacher, Fern
Mullins.
Erik develops a 'loverlike interest in
Carol. and she encourages him, though.
at the same time trying to repel him.
Vida tells Carol that o. gossipe Of tho
village are linking ne. name and Erik.s.
The pious MRS. Bogart succeeds in
arousints the town over Fern Mullins
alleged immortality. when she goes TO =
dance with young Cy bogart, and the
Fern is fired BY the school, in spite Of
Carols effort to prevent it. Carol ad-
nuts to herself that she loves Erik.
CHATTER XXXIII.-Continued. :.
Yes! I'm terribly grateful" And
she was grateful-whlle she imper-
sonally noted how bad a verse it was.
She vas aware CT the haggard
beauty in The lowering night Mon
strous tattercd clouds sprawied round
a forlorn moon; puddies and rocks
glistened with inner light. They yer
passing q grove of scrub p0plars.
feeble by DAY but looming now like
q menacing wall. She stopped. Taey
heard the branches dripping, The wet
leaves suilenly plumplns on The sogsy
earth.
"Waiung-waiting - everything is
waiting" she whispered. She drew
her hand from his, pressed her clench-
cd fingers against her lips. Sne was
lost in the solnberness. II am happy
we must go home before we have
time to become unhappy: But can't
We sit on q log for a minute and just
listen?'
mo. TOO wet. But 1 wish we could
build a lire, and you could sit IN my
builder! My cousin Lars and me spenl
a week one time in Il cabin way up in
the Big Woods, showed In. The tire
place was filled with a dome OF Ice
when we got there, but W chopped
it out, and. damned the thing full
Of pine-boughs. Couldn't we build u
fire back here in the woods and sit
by it tor L while3"
She %pondered. halfway between
yi.iu.ne anu refusal. Her head acned
family. She was in allegiance. Every
thing, the night, his silhouette, the
cautious treadlng future. was as UNI
distinguishable as though she were
drifting bodiless in q Fourth Dimen-
zion. While her mind CROPPED, the
lights OF q motor car swOoped round
a bend in the road, and they stood
farther apart, What ought I to do ?"
she unused. II think Oh. I won't
shaved that I can't sit by the fire with
a man and talk, then I'd better be
dead"
The lights Of the thrummins car
grew m~asicaliy: were upon thern; abb
ruptly stopped. From behind the
dimness OF the windshield q voice,
annoyed. sharp: Hello there!"
Shefreaftzed that it was Kennicott.
Tho irritation in his voice smoothed
out. Having a Walk"
They made s~choolboyish sounds OF
assent.
.Pretty wet, isn't It? Better ride
back. Jump up in front here, VAL
borg"
His manner Of swinging open the
door was a command. Carol was
conscious that Erik was climbing IN,