, 1925-05-06
CHAPTER IX-Continued

II want to stay here, and work the
farm, and make 1t pay. l can. I'm
not going to grow just the common
garden stuff any mOre-not much. any
way. Pm going to specialize in the
fine things-the kind the South Water
street commission men want / want
to drain the low land. Tile it. That
land hasn't been used for years. 1t
ought to be rich growing land by now,
If once It's properly drained. And /
want Dirk to go to school. Good
schools. l never want my son to go
to the Haymarket. Never. Never.
"My life doesn't count, except as
something for Dirk to use. I'm done
with anything else. Oh, l don't mean
that I'm discouraged, or disappointed
In life, or anything like that. l mean
l started out with the wrong idea. ]
know better now. I'm here to keep
Dirk from making the mistakes /
made"
Aug Hempels tone was one of medi-
tation, not Of argument. ut don't
work out that way, seems. About mis-
takes it's funny. You got to make your
own and not only that, If you try to
keep people from making theirs they
get mad" He whistled softly through
his teeth following this utterance and
tapped the chair seat with his finger.
Its beauty" Selma said then, al
most ~passionately. Aug Hempel I'M
Julie plainly could make nothing of
this remark, so she went on. eager. ex-
planatory. 81 used to think that if
you wanted beauty-if you wanted 1t
hard enough and hopefully enough-,t
anne to you. You just waited, and
lived your life as best you could,
knowing hat beauty might be just
and then it cane"
Beauty 7" exclaimed Julie, weakly.
She stared at Selma in the evident be-
lief that this work-worn haggard
woman was b%emoaning her lack of per-
sonal pulchritude.
ayes. All the worthwhile things in
life. Work that you love. And growth
growth and watching people grow.
Feeling very strongly about things
and then developing that feeling to
to make something fine come of IT,"
She threw out her hands In a futile
gesture. ''That's what 1 mean by
beauty. I want Dirk to have it."
"For PHYS sake" pleaded Julie, the
literal, lets stop talking and do some
thing. Pa, you've probably got 1t all
fixed in your mind long ago. It's time
we heard 1t. Here Selma was one of
the most popular girls in Miss listers
| school anI IAtS 80 rna.I. tl-..-ts -
~prettiest. And now just look at herr
A flicker of the old flame leaped up
In Selma. "Flatterer |" she murmured.
Aug Hempei stood up! "If you think
giving your whole life to making the
bo, happy Is going to make him happy
yon ALT sc srmrt as | took you for.
You 90 trying to live somebody else's
life for them"
I'm not going to live his life for
him. / want to show him how to live
II so that he'll get full value out Of
it,
Keeping him out Of the Haymarket
II the Haymarket's the natural place
for him won't do that. How can you
telt! Monkeying with what's to be.
=. Vah ~ ~ . tftlN hdlt III uiiu
out of the cattle pens, talking to the
drcvers and herders. mixing In with
the buyers. can tell the weight OF n
hog and what he's worth Just by n look
ut him, N a steer. too. My son-in-
law, Michael Arnold. sits up In the Of
hce all day in our plant, debating let
tiers. His clothes they never stink OF
the pens like mine do. #. . Now
Amt saying anything against him.
Julie. But l bet my grandson Eu-
gene'-he repeated It.. stresslng the
name so that you sensed his dislike of
lt-"Eugene. II he m into the busI-
ness ut all when he grows up. won't go
within smelling distance OF the yards.
His office. / bet, will be In a new Office
building on. say Madison street, with
a view OF the lake. Lifel You'll be
hoggln' II all yourself and not know
It."
"And / suppose" retorted Selma.
spirltedly. that when your s~on-in-law.
Michael Arnold, is your age he'll be
telling Eugene how he roughed It In
an Office over al the yards In the old
days. These will be the old days"
August Hempel laughed good-humor-
ediy. THAT can be. Selma. That can
be-" He chewed his cigar and settled
to the business at hand.
"You want 10 drain and tile. Plant
high-grade stun. You got to have n
man on the place that knows what's
what. not this Rip Van Wrinkle we snw
In the cabbage field. New horses. A
wagon. will get you the horses. a
bargain, ut the yards" He took out n
long Nat check book. He began writ.
Ing In II with n pen that he tool from