The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-09-18

dignified woman, yet touchingly fem
mime. Her voice not loud, but clear.
Her white hair was shingled and beau
tifully waved and beneath this her
soft dark eyes took on an added depth
and brilliance. Her eyebrows had re-
manned black and thick, still further
enhancing her finest feature. Her
dress was always dark, becoming.
smart, and her silken ankles above the
slim slippers with their cut-steel
buckles were those of young girl.
The aristocratic Marcy feet and
ankles.
In Washington she was quite belle
among the old boys in congress and
even the senate. The opposition party
tried to backmail her with publicity
about certain improved items in the
life of her dead Cor missing) husband
Yancey Cravat: two-gun man, des-
perado, killer, drunkard, a squaw
man. Then they started on young
Gin and his Usage Indian wife, but
Sabra and Donna were too quick for
them.
house in Dupont circle, stated it,
brought Tracy WAITS vast wealth and
influence to bear, and planned coup
so brilliant that it routed the enemy
forever She brought her handsome,
sleepy-eyed brother CHM and his wife
Ruby Big Elk, and the youngsters Felice
and Yancey to the house in Dupont
circle. and together she and Sabra
gave a reception for them to which
they invited group so precious that
it actually came.
Sabra and Donna. exquisitely
dressed, stood in line at the head Of
the magnificent room, and between
them stood Ruby Big Elk in her dress
of creamy white doeskin all embroid-
cred in beads from shoulder to hem.
She was an imposing figure, massive
but not extensively fat as were many
Of the older Usage women. and her
black abundant hair had taken on a
mist of gray.
"My daughter-in-law, Mrs. Cimarron
Cravat. of the Usage Indian tribe"
MY sons wife. Ruby Big Elk-Mrs.
Cimarron Cravat."
my sister-in-law, Mrs. Cimarron
Cravat. A full-blood Usage In
dian. :. Yes, indeed. We think so.
too
And, "How do you do?" said Ruby.
in her calm. insolent way.
For the benefit of those who had not
quite been able to encompass the In
dian woman in her native dress Ruby's
next public appearance was made in
a Paris gown of white. She became
the rage. was considered picturesque,
and left Washington in disgust, her
work done. No one but her husband.
whom she loved with doglike devo-
ton, could have induced her to go
through this ceremony.
The opposition retired, vanquished.
Donna and Tracy Wyatt then hired
a special train in which they took
fifty eastern potentates on tour of
Oklahoma. One vague and not very
bright Washington matron, of great
social prestige impressed with what
she saw. voiced her opinion to young
Yancey Cravat. quite confused as to
his identity and seeing only an attrec-
tive and very handsome young male
seated beside her at a country club
luncheon.
81 had no idea Oklahoma was like
this, thought it was all oil and dirty
Indians"
''There is quite lot Of OIL but
we're not all dirty"
"We?"
I'm an Indian"
Usage, Okla, was now just as much
like New York as Usage could manage
to make it. They built twenty-story
office buildings in a city that had hun
dreds of miles of prairie to spread in.
Tracy Wyatt built the first skyscraper
the Wyatt building. 1t was pointed
out and advertised all over the fiat
prairie state. Then Pat Leary, dane
ing an Irish jig of jealousy. built the
high. But the sweet fruits Of triumph
soon turned to ashes in his mouth.
The Wyatt buildings foundations were
not built to stand the added strain Of
five full stories. So he had built q
five-story tower, slim and tapering, a
haunting finger pointing to the sky.
Again Tracy Wyatt owned the tallest
building in Oklahoma.
On the roof Of the Levy Mercantile
company's building Sol had had built
a penthouse after his own plans. 1t
was the only one of its kind In all
Oklahoma. That small part of Usage
which did not make an annual pill
grimage to New York was slightly be-
wildered by Sol Levy's roof life. They
fed one another with scraps of gossip
got from servants, clerks, stenograph-
ers who claimed to have seen the
place at one time or another. 1t was.
these said, filled with the rarest OF
carpets, rugs. books, 'hangings. Super
radio, super photograph, super player
piano. Music hungry. There he lived,
alone, in luxury, of the town, yet no
part of it.
Money was now the only standard.