The Bozeman courier., 1926-09-24

way, where are you going to live after you
ment"
Kenneth was bland. Couldn't find any
But Ellen's face had gone scarlet. When
Kenneth had tucked her in the automO-
pie OF which he was still so proud, she
did not speak. After a little he became
conscious Of her silence.
Whats the trouble, EllenP
O,why do you let those people make fun
or your she burst out. "Why don't you
neiP them with their university club and
But don't think" he began
Don't think. Do it because / want ycu
to" she laid her hand on his arm.
They'd all be cheering for you. You'd
be the most popular young man in town
sake"
''You don't see that the principle is all
wrong. Those young fellows ought to have
place they can pay for themselves. I'd
help TO set the old place on its feet
but they're led by a bunch Of spenders.
It's the principle of the thing, ELLEN.
just to get a handr'
''It's not principle" she said stonily, 'its
something different. Kenneth, we may as
well give up. Our minds don't track. Wen
just never hit it off. You just want to
hoard and believe in spending"
Don't let that worry you. Wen fix
that al right" he answered cheerfully.
Il know we're different. But"
but you're so sure you're right and also
that you don't worry" she told him "No
I'm done, Kenneth. I can't stand this
any longer. Here's your ring. Take ii
back and get your money back. I had
ashamed Of you. couldn't marry you
I've been trying to face it, but I can't. ]
don't, even like you. 1 can't stand stingi-
ness"
cbo boI5 - A.. -. - - l.. s.a -,
take she dropped it in his loose coat
pocket.
"Tbere it is"
"And you're not going to marry me
You really don't like me2."
I'm living refutatiOn of all your prin.
ciples. I'm a bankrupt's daughter and
have several hundred dollars worth of bills
that l can't meet. Take me back to thai
last night. Tomorrow I've got to find some
thing cheaper-and l hope less virtuOus.'
He did exactly what she bade. He tool
| her back to Mrs. Davis. For a moment
they confronted each other as she stepe(
x"YOu mean it? You don't like meP"
| He looked so pathetic, so lost, that it wai
hard to think of him as the pOssessOr of ;
| had an absurd rush of feeling and mer
les OF all the times he had been kind tt
her; Then she looked away.
| I'm sorry, she said, Il suppose l an
no gOOu. but q sooner De no gOOu Jnal
ungenerOus. I can't struggle with you fo
every expenditure I haven't anything o
my own. I like useless, bright, surround
ings. 1 don't care what they cost. I lik
atmosphere that means money. We'd b
fighting in a month. I like-overhead." !"
She laughed so she wouldn't cry, ant
/ went in the house, and Kenneth got in hi
car and drove away, a pale, spectacle
young man driving through the autumn
mist as if ne saw nothing. Once befOr
he had haG this horrible pain of lOSS-th
day when he was a boy and they ha
known the farm was lost, seen the broad
beautiful acres with their familiar, love
places passing into the hands of credi
tors. The sick, empty shock brought
all back again-how he had suffered
losing the place, how his father had sui
fered, how they had come to hate to spea
of it. He hadn't owned anything sine
, then that anyone could take away-hadn
wanted to own anything. This car-the