Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-07-09

cashmere: four hundred and ninety
seven dollars; aud q gay. adventure
some spirit that was never 10 die.
and she often found. at the end. only
/ a trackless waste from which she had
to retrace her steps. painfully. But
always, to her. red and green cahhages
were to he jade and Burgundy. chrys-
Oprase and porphyry. Life has no
weapons against woman like that,
Klaas Pool was school director.
She was to live at his house Perhaps
she should not have said that about the
cabbages. So now she drew herself up
primly and tried to appear the school
teacher. and succeeded in looking as
severe as white pansy.
"AhHn." Cor nearly that). You
have three children, haven't you, Mr..
Pool? They'll all be my pupils?
Klaas Pool rurninated on this. He
concentrated so that a slight frOwn
married the serenity of his brow. In
this double question OF hers. an at
tempt to give the conversation a digni
fled turn, she had apparently created
some difficulty for her host. He was
trying to shake his head two ways at
the same time. This gave it a rotary
motion. Selma saw, with amazement.
that he was attempting to nod negation
and confirmation at once.
You mean you haven't-or they're
nOt?-Or-T
II have got three children. All will
not be your pupils" There was some
thing final. unshakable In his delivery
Of this
Dear me- Why not? Which ones
won't. Do tell me which ones will and
which ones won't"
"Geertie goes to school. Jozina goes
to school. Roelf works by the farm. -
How old Is RoelfT She was being
school teacherly again.
"ROelf is twelve"
Twelve And no longer at school
But why mott"
"Roelf he works by the farm"
Doesn't ROelf like SCHOOL,?
But sure"
Don't you think he ought to go tc
schOOl?"
But sure"
Having begun. she could not &c
back. Doesn't your wife want Roelt
to go to school any more?'
"Maartje? But sure
She gathered herself together =:
hurled herself behind the next ques-
ton. "Then why doesn't he go to
school, for PHYS sake?"
HAAS Pools pale blue eyes were
fixed on the spot between the horses
ears. His face was serene, placid, pa
tient.
"Roelf he works by the farm"
Selma subsidized, beaten.
Dusk was coming on. The lake mist
came drifting across the prairie and
hung, a pearly haze, over the frost
nipped stubble and the leat1eSS trees.
1t caught the last light in the sky and
held it, giving to fields, trees black
earth, to the man seated stolidly be-
side the girl, and to the face of the
girl herself an opalescent glow very
WOuueF1ul u STE. OeuIld, SccluS II,
opened her lips to exclaim again; and
then, remembering, closed them. She
had learned her first lesson in High
Prairie.
The Klaas Pools lived in typical
High Prairie house. They had passed
score like it In the dusk. These
sturdy Neutrality-suspicious. had built
here in Illinois after the pattern Of the
squat houses that dot the lOwlands
about Amsterdam, HARLEM and Rot
terdam. row of pollards stood stiff
ly by the roadside. Yard and dwelling
had a geometrical neatneSS like that
of a toy house in a set Of playthings.
Peering down over the high wheel
Selma waited for Klaas Pool TO assist
her in alighting. He seemed to have
no such thought. Having jumped down