The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-03-20
THIS HAS HAPPENED

SALLY FORD. III. who for 4:
years EaS known no other home
hut t:ic state Orphnnage. IL
"fnrmed ont" for the summer to
cemeS regularly tO the orphan
nge TO get free servants from
among the little charity wards.
On the way out OF the office she
meets and hcEs MISS POND. Of
flee helper. to tell her something
10 learn that tho woman VIII"
called herself her mother left her
sat thr Orphannwe hut never re-
turned 10 see if the child lived
or died.
During the drive TO the fnrm
md Of his daughter. PEARL. who
IL 1.-THE apple of his eye" Cicm's
wife grects them ~ they drive
into the ynrd-n hard featured.
d0mlnccrtng woman. A. Sally
stands by the ear. accepting bum
d1ea which Glenn heaps In her
arms. she sees coming toward
her n handsome young man. She
hears him called David. and her
henri pounds strangely.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER V
IN the big kitchen, dominated by
an immense coal-and-wood lcook
stove. Sally found Mrs. Carson
busy with supper preparations
Her daughter. Pearl. drifted about
the kitchen. coughing at intervals
to remind her mother that she was
i'll.
Pearl Carson. In that first mo-
ment after Sally had bumped into
her at the door. had seemed to- the
orphaned girl to be much older
than she. for her plump body was
voluptuously developed and over
decked with iiuery. The farmers
daughter wore her light red hair
deeply marcelled. The natural
color in her broad. plump cheeks
was heightened by rouge. applied
Iavishly over a heavy coating OF
white powder.
Her lavender silk crepe dress
was made very full and short OF
skirt. so that her thickankled legs
were displayed almost to the knee.
It was before the day OF knee
dresses for women and Sally.
standing there awkwardly with her
own bundle and the parcels which
Carson had thrust into her arms
blushed for the extravagant dis
play Of unlovely flesh.
But Pearl Carson. II not exactly
pretty was not homely. Sally was
forced to admit to herself She
looked more like one Of her fathers
healthy. sorrel .colored heifers than
anything else. except that the hei
fer's eyes would have been mild
and kind and slightly melancholy.
while Pearl Carson's China blue
eyes were wide and cold. In an
insolent. contemptu0us stare.
II suppose you're the new girl
from the Orphans Home" she said
at last. "What's your name?"
"Sa Sally Ford" Sally STAN
mered. institutional shyness blot
ting out her radiance. leaving her
pale and meek.
"Pearl. you take Sally up to her
room and show her where to put
her things. Did you bring work
dress?" Mrs. Carson turned from
inspecting q great iron kettle OF
cooking food on the stove.
"Yes'm." Sally gulped. "But |
only brought two dresses = my
every day dress and this one. Mrs
Stone said you'd-you'd give me
some Of P.Pearl's,"
She flushed painfully. in humili
alton at having to accept charity
and In doubt as to whether she
was to address the daughter Of
the house by her Christian name
without q handle"
Pearl. switching her short. lav
ender silk skirts insolently. led the
way up steep flight OF narrow
stairs leading directly OF the
kitchen to the garnet. The roof.
shaped 70 tlt tho gables OF the
house. was 30 low that Sally's head
bumped itself twice on their pass
age OF the dusty. dark corridor to