Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-29

scopyrsshs By Evelyn Campbell,

Linda found watching him ire
sistible. He actually seemed 10
enjoy the effort OF dragging the
great horses about. She had al
ways hated snow; It reminded her
OF a particularly d~lsagreeable
period OF her life. But this snow
uas different. There was some
thing crude and pristine about It.
IL was not a theatrical snow, where
one may break ones neck on n
neatly constructed slide; N was
homelike. making one think OF
warm fires and pipes and neecy
blankets. Not that Linda knew
any OF these things from personal
experience, but they had their
nook I'm her imagination with other
fancies.
AL he helped her from her seat,
she asked him why he had come,
and his answer brought swift, un-
expected color 10 her face.
To look after you. or course
He spoke 80 simply that she was
ashamed or her s~ubterfuge.
The hotel was ms crude as the
Nebraska snowfall.
you have been SO kind-you will
dine with me;" she murmured at
the foot of the stairs.
He laughed. "Td love 10, only
Il will be supper In this place.
There will be ham and eggs and
four kinds Of bread and I hope you
won't be III from the experience"
She felt a little shock. He was
laughing at her. In a second she
realized how she must look 10 him
exotic. s~uperluous, too fine for
rude contacts. She managed to
make her mouth look tremuIous
and sweet as she answered gaily:
"Anything-so that IL is warm! :"
The other women did not like
Linda. They eyed her fur coat
and her ankles with equal disap-
proyal, and when she found that
she was TO share a room with one
Of them she protested In such a
way that the proprietor az once
gave her another.
Naturally you'd want To be with
your husband" said the discarded
roommate with embittered sweet
ness, and Linda, or guard, repeat
ed blankly, MY husband7"
The other simulated confusion.
"Oh, isn't her 7 thought"
As Linda sat beside Brian at
their corner of the long table she
said to him indifferently They're
gossiping already. SO you must not
Be a. nice 10 me II gossip annoys
you"
The women crowded together nc
the other end or the table as III
they feared contact with other
diners were all OF the kind that are
TO be seen In pullman cars and no
where else. Comfortably dressed
but you wondered where they
bought their clothes. In every big
department store in the country.
hundreds like them mllled like cat
tie from nine TO four every day the
year around, yet Il was only at a
time like this that such faces stood
out; such personalities became OBJ
vious. They were all terribly
frightened at the publicity sudden
~ trust upon them. They objected
while they secretly swelled with
Importance. But they were deter
mined TO remain completely virtu-
Gus and upright in the face Of IN
conventionality.
Brian Anstey glanced at them.
and then smiled at Linda.
"It's their chance to air their
opinions and be listened TO-" he
said, and she added in a drawling
cold voice that did not suit her
glowing. gfrlish face, "and their
opportunity 10 make n show OF
their morality"
Don't be severe. They are alI
home women. bound % be a little
narrow. I'm a simple life this must
be an adyenture-cl0se quarters
with unknown nelghbOrs.r
THAT ~ why you cannot really
admire simplicity or naturalness
1T is NH 90 hateful just under the
surface"
do you think so?r he frowned.
He looked much older when he was
serious she decided she did not
really care what these women
thought she would never see one
one OF them again, but she meant
J to teTse hfn n little nsvreL -You