The Washington times., 1931-05-27

WON'T ever see MIN again.
Rarick. Don't cry, sweet!
Mother will help you. Moth
ing has happened between
them: and for you to see Berry
would not only be absurd but
dangerous. Your answer to
Tom will only be the fact that
Jennifer won't ever see Berry
again. Isn't that right, Baby?"
Eyes, mother"
The Proposed Trip
We're going away for a little
while. Up to the Canadian
camp-to fish-and get we'll.
I'll wire we're arriving" IRA
mon could come up for a week.
Aren't we Jennifer?"
Eyes, darling"
''You hear, Rarick?" said
Jenny, always rocking, always
grooming. We're going to
camp-to rest-to get we'll"
He sat dumb in the pool Of
his defeat, glorying, in curious,
crooked way, in the power of
this angular, eccentric woman
he called wife, to mother his
children, yet filled with q crush
ing, impotent anger that baf-
fled and tortured him because
he could not define it.
"You go now, Rarick, while
Jenny puts Jennifer to bed and
gives her bromide to make her
sleep. Sh-h, my smeet-"
Put me to sleep, Mother.
Don't let me finish dressing to
go out and meet him."
"Shh-h! Now go, Rarick,
while Jenny puts Jennifer to
sleep.
With the sensation of having
no sensation at all, Rarick
pressed at the hand on his
daughter and went stumbling
from the room.
In the % years since her
brothers marriage, Hildegrade
Rarick, teacher in the primary
grades in the public schools
of Keokuk, had visited him
three times. Two of these
highly ceremonious occasions
had taken place before the mi.
grafton east.
Miss Rarick was as full Of
principles regarding her rela-
tionship to her brothers rise
to fortune, as porcupine is
full Of Quills. And, just so,
she bristled with them.
From the very start, when
rumor of Rarick's engagement
to quite a wealthy st. Louis
girl had come floating toward
her on wings of exaggerated
gossip, Miss Rarick had taken
her stand.
Nine years his senior, she
had never, to use her own
phraseology, been beholden to
him, and did not intend to be-
gin to be so now. At well past
SO she was teaching the same
grade in the same school, on
practically the same basis she
had taught at 20. The check
for $50 which had ultimately
enabled Rarick to leave the
farm for Keokuk, where he
had boarded in the same house
with his sister for two years,
had come from Hildegarde.
The Primrose One
He remembered this, and off
and on for years had tried to
ram down the resistance she
put up against largess from
him; but she not only con-
tinued to refuse the slightest
boon of any sort, but also vlgor-
ously resented any attempt on
his part to merge her narrow
path with what she was fond of
terming "the primrose one" of
his family.
Rarick was on hand to meet
her, and that fat Mr.. Hel1man,
who handed her a telegram
from Jenny. explaining Jenni-
fer's influenza and imperative
need of change, and which Miss
Rarick strongly suspected the
fat Mr.. Hellman of having
maneuvered to send himself, by
some such device as wiring a
friend in Buffalo to wire back
in Jenny'S name.
AS a matter of fact, the tele-
gram had actually come from
Jenny, due to sharp admoni-
tionS from Rarick, but nothing
could have suited Miss learick
better than this sudden and al
legedly imperative absence of
Jenny.
She was a strange and rather
dread person to Rarick. A cold,
remote older sister, whose atti-
tude had always been unspoken
grievance, and yet who never
would permit him, by deed, the
only gesture of which he seemed
capable, where she was con-