The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-21
Sinclair

Rachel" he said, twill you take
that much trouble to preserve the
good name of our institution"
He came a step nearer, and she
stammered Bunny, you don't
you don't mean that!"
81 don't see any other way
really"
Bunny
"Why not?
"Because-you don't want to
marry Jewess"
"Good Lordl"
Don't misunderstood me, I'm
proud of my race. But all your
friends would thing it was mis-
take"
"My friends, Rachel? Who the
devil are my friends-except in the
radical movement? And where
would the radical movement be
without the Jews?"
"But, Bunny-your sisterw
"My sister is not my friend.
Neither did she ask me to pick out
her husband"
Rachel stood, twisting her fin
gers together nervously. Bunny,
do you really-you aren't just
speaking on an impulse?"
"Well, | suppose it's an impulse.
seem to have to blurt it out. But
it's an impulse I've had a good
many times"
"And you won't be sorry?"
He laughed. at depends upon
your answer"
"Stop joking, please-you fright
en- me. | can't afford to let you
make mistake. It's so dread
fully seriousl'
But why take it that way?"
81 can't help it; you don't know
how woman feels. l don't want
you to do something out of gen
erous impulse, and then you'd feel
bound, and you wouldn't be happy.
You oughtnt to marry a girl out
of the sweat-shops."
Good God, Rachel, my father
was a mule-driver."
'Yes, but you're Anglo-Saxon;
away back somewhere your ances-
tors were proud of themselves. You
ought to marry a tall, fair woman
that will stay beautiful all her life,
and look right in a drawing-room.
Jewish women bear two or three
children, and then they get fat, and
you wouldn't like me-"
He burst out laughing. 81 have
attended the weddings of some of
those tall, fair Anglo-Saxon wo-
men; and the priest pronounces,
very solemnly, Into this holy es-
tate the two persons now present
come now to be joined If any
man can show just cause, why they
may not lawfully be joined togeth-
er, let him now speak, or else here
after forever hold his peace"
Bunny" she pleaded, "I'm try
ing to face the factsl.'
well, dear if you must be
solemn-it happens that l never
loved fair woman. The two l
picked out to live with were dark,
the same as you. 1t must be ma
lures effort 70 mix thirgs. sup
pose you know about Wee Tracy?"
Eyes"
"Well, Wee had the looks all
right, and she'll keep them-she
makes business of it. But you
see, it didn't do me any good, she
threw me over for a Roumanian
prince"
"Why Bunny?"
Because | wouldn't give up the
radical movement"
ooh, how l hated that woman!"
There was a note of melodrama
in Rachel's usually serene voice,
and Bunny was curious. "You did
hate herr"
II could have choked her!"
Because she struck you?"
"Nol Because l lnew she was
irving to take you out cf the move
meit; and { thought for sure she
would. She had everything I
didn't have"
Bunny was thinking-by golly,
it was queer! Wee had known it.
and he hadn't Oh, these women!
Aloud he said, politely, 'No. she
didn't have quite everything"
I'll tell you--I'm so tired Of
being quarreled with. You can't
have any idea-my whole life, since
| began to think for myself. has
been one wranglc with the people
who loved me, or thought they had
a right to direct me. You can't
imagine what sense Of peace
get when ! think of icing with
you; IFS like settling down into
nice soft cushions. I've hesitated
aoout IL, because Of :oars, I'm not
very proud Of the We, Tracy epi-
sode, and | didn't Nncw If you'd
take man second hand-or third
hand 1t really is, because there was
girl while was in high school
I'm telling you my drawbacks. to
balance your getting fatp'
Ito Be Continued).