Nogales international., 1929-09-27
Second Instalment

Remember Steddon pretty, unsophis-
ticated girl, is the daughter of kindly
but narrow minded minister in a small mid
western town. Her father,
Rev. Doctor Steddon, violently opposed
TO what he considers worldly things, ac-
cepts motion pictures as the cause for
much of the evil of the present day.
Troubled with cough, Remember goes
to see
DR.. Bretherick, an elderly physician, who
is astonished at the plight in which he
finds her. Pressed by the doctor, Remen-
ber admits her unfortunate affair with
Elwood Farnaby, a poor boy son OF the
town sot. AS Remember and DR.. Breth-
erick discuss the problem telephone mes
sage brings the news that Elwood has been
killed in an accident. DR.. Bretherick ac-
cordingly persuades Remember to go West,
her cough serving as a plausible excuse; /;
to write home Of meeting and marrying a
5retended suitor-"Mr. Woodville"-and
sater to write her parents announcing her
husbands" death before the birth of her
expected child. Unable alone to bear her
secret, Remember goes to her mother with
She said little, she carressed much.
She confirmed Doctor Bretherick's S
prescription and joined the con-
spiracy, administering secret COM
fort to- the girl and to the father.
And at last Mem was standing on
the back platform of train bound
for the vast Southwest, throwing
kisses to her father and mother as
they watched the train dwindling
like telescope drawn into itself.
They turned back to their lives
as if they had closed a door upon
themselves.
But Mem, as she returned to her
place in the car, felt as if a port
cullis had lifted. Before her was
All-Outdoors.
\
The wheels ran with a rollicking
lit beneath the girls body, throb-
bing likewise with a zest of velocity.
Through her head an old tune ran:
! saw the boat go round the ben
Good-by, my lover, good-byl
The deck was filled with travelling
y men.
GOod-by, my lover. gOod-byl
She was on a train going round
bend after bend, and the train was
filled with travelling men. Some of
them, as they zigzagged along the
Risles, swept her face and her form
with glances like swift, lingering
hands that hated to let her go.
This was a startling sensation, a
new kind OF nakedness for her in
experienced soul.
The eyes of the women flung
along the aisle also widened and
tarried as they recognized in her a
something she had not yet found
out: that she was very, very pretty
attractive, compulsive.
She was plainly dressed and had
never been adorned. Only her neat
ness kept her from shabbiness. But
she had beauty and appeal. On the
train Mem had expected to find on
the journey leisure for contrition
and the remolding of her soul. But
the world would not let her alone.
Everything was new to her. Every
thing was crowded film of
novelty.
She knew the minimum of the
outside sphere possible to a girl
who had had any education at ali.
She had never been on a sleeping
car before.
She had read no novels except
such sweetened water as the Sun
day-school library afforded. She
had seen no magazines at home ex-
cept church publications. She had
never been to theatre or a moving
picture. She had never danced
even square dance.
She had never ridden q bicycle
or a horse, and had never been in
any automobile except some old
bone-shaker that drowned CONVEX
sation in Its own rattle.
She had never gamb1ed, or been
profane or even slangy or disre-
spectful to her parents. She had
never seen a cocktail.
She had never worn a 1ow-necked,
high-skirted dress. She had never
seen bathing suit or had one on.
Girls did not swim in the river at
Calverly. In fact, she had escaped
all the things that moralists point
to as the reasons why girls go
wrong.
Yet she had, as the saying Is,
gone wrong-utter1y, indubitabiy.
Yet no fast young men had led
her aStray, or so much as tried to
lead her astray. She had never
made the acquaintance of a fast
young man. Her betrothed lover
was slow and honorable and relig-
ious, everything a young man ought
TO be.
But, unfortunately, there seemed
to be volition in neither of them;
they had just foated together with
a mysterious bewilderment.
The clanking uproar of the en-
trance into Kansas City filled her
ears. Mem had never seen a great
city, and this metropolis had a
tremendous majesty in her eyes.
Remember, thinking to stretch
her legs on the station platform,
joined the passengers who choked
the straight corridor along the row
of compartments. One of the doors
opened and framed a tall and pow
erful young man with a peculiarly
wistful face. His eyes brushed
Mem and he lifted his hat as he
asked her pardon for squeezing past
her.
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