Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-08-26
90, Doubleday, Page & Coz
WNu Service.
CHAPTER XV-Continued
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Paula - pretty, clever, moneyed,
shrewd-often emerged from these
cous ests the winner. Her latest catch
was Emile Goguet-Gen. Emile Co
guet, hero Of Champagne-Goguet of
the stiff white beard, the empty left
coatsleeve, and the score Of medals.
de was coming to America ostensibly
TO be the guest of the American d.
vision which, with Goguet's French
troops, had turned the German on
alaught at Champagne, but really, 1t
was whispered, to cement friendly re-
latlons between his country and
somewhat diffident United States.
And guess" thrilled Paula, "guess
who's coming with him, Dirk! That
wonderful Roelf Pool, the French
sculptorw
"What d'you mean-French sculp-
tor! He's no more French than am.
He was born within a couple Of miles
OF my mothers farm. His people were
Dutch truck farmers. His father lived
IN High Prairie until a year ago, when
be died Of a stroke"
When he told Selma she flushed like
q girl, as she sometimes stiH did when
she was much excited. "Yes, 1 saw 1t
In the paper. 1 WONDER" she added,
quietly, "if shall see him."
That evening you might have seen
her sitting lingering the faded shabby
time-worn objects the saving of which
Dirk had denounced as sentimental.
The crude drawing Of the Haymarket;
the wine-red cashmere dress; some
caded brittle flowers.
Paula was giving a large-but not
too large-dinner on the second night.
She was very animated about it, ex-
cited, gay. "They say" she told Dirk,
that Goguet doesn't eat anything but
hard-boiled eggs and rusks. Oh, well,
the others won't object to squads and
mushrooms and things. And his hobby
Is his farm in Brittany. Pools stun
ning-dark and somber and very white
teeth"
Paula was very gay these days. Too
gay. it seemed to Dirk that her
nervous energy was inexhaustible-
and exhausting. Dirk refused to adj
NIT to himself how irked hes was by
abe sallow heart-shaped exquisite face,
the lean brown clutching fingers, the
air Of ownership He had begun to
dislike things about her as an unfaith-
ful spouse Is initiated by quite lnno-
cent mannerisms of his unconscious
mate She scuffed her heels a little
when she walked, for example. 1t
maddened him. She had way of bit
Ing the rough skin around her carefully
tended nails when she was nervous.
Don't do that !" he said.
Dallas never irritated him. She rest
ed him, he told himself. He would arm
himself against her, but one minute
after meeting her he would sink CRATE
fully and resistlessly into her quiet
depths. Sometimes he thought all this
was an assumed manner in her.
This calm of your-this effortless-
ness" he said to her one day, sis
pose, isn't It'll" Anything to get her
notice.
Partly" Dallas had replied, amiably.
tits nice pose though, don't you
Ghink2"
What are you going to do with
girl like that
Here was the woman who could hold
aim entirely, and who never held out
a finger to hold him. He tore at the
smooth wall of her indifference, though
he only cut and bruised his own hands
Ia doing it.
rs it because I'm a successful bust
ness man that you don't like me?"
but 1 do like you. I think you're
an awfully attractive man. Danger
GUS that's wot."
"Oh, don't be the wide-eyed ingenue.
You know id well what l mean
You've got me and you don't want me.
II I had been a successful architect
instead of a successful business man
would that have made any difference|
Good Lord, no! Some day I'll prob
ably marry Il horny-handed son Of toll,
and If I do It'll be the horny hands
that will win me. If you want to know,
I like 'em with their scars on them
There's something about q man VINO
has fought for i'll don't know what
II is-a look In his eye-the feel OF
his hand. He needn't have been sue
eessful-though he probably would be.
I don't know. 1 only know newell,
you haven't mark on you. Not a
mark. I'm nor criticizing you. But
you're all smooth. like 'em bunny.
That sounds terrible. 1t isn't what
mean at all. II isn't"
"Oh, never mind" Dirk said, YEARLY.
Il think know what yoV mean. LIS
zen, Dallas If Thoughtful go back
20 Hollis & Sprague's and begin all
over again at forty a week II ] thought
you'd"
Don't"
Chapter XVI