Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-11-02
CHAPTER XIv-Continued

erlck would say something about an
immediate marriage, and now he
was saying it.
t'Oh," she told him, earnestly,
''you promised I might wait until
Judy could come on. In June"
81 know. But it will be very
hot, and you'll have whole life
tim in which to see judy"
But not at my wedding. She's my
only sister,
II see," but his voice showed his
annoyance; 'but it seems as if your
family have demanded enough of
you. Can't you think a bit about
yourself me?"
She pressed her point. "Judy is
like my mother. I can't be mar
ried without her and the babies"
eff the babies come, you'll be
looking after them until the last
moment, and it will be great strain
on you, sweetheart
''Oh, it won't be. l adore babies"
His quick jealousy hared. 81
DON'T he said, with a touch of
sulkiness. "I'm not fond of chill
dren."
She ate in silence. And presently
he said repentantly, "You must
think me great boor, Jane. But
you don't know how much I want
you"
He was like a repentant boy. She
made herself smile at him. 81 think
you are very patient, Mr.. Towne."
II am not patient. I am most
impatient. And when are you 60
ing to stop calling me Mr.. Towne?"
"When l can call you-husband.
"But I don't want to wait until
then, dearest"
"But Frederick is so long, and
Fred is so short, and 'Ricky'
sounds like a highball." She had
thrown off her depression and was
sparkling.
Nobody calls me 'Ricky' but Ad
elaide. always hated it."
"Did your" She was demure. 81
might say my love- like the ladies
in the old-fashioned novels"
He laughed delightedly. 'Say it,"
She acquiesced unexpectedly. "My
love, we are invited to a weekend
with the Delafield Simms, at their
new country place, Grass Hills"
''Are WEI" Then in sudden ar
dent rush of words, "Jane, I'd kiss
you if the world wasn't looking on"
"The reporters would be ecstatic.
Headlines"
81 am tired of headlines. And
what do you mean about going to
Delafeld Simms?"
"They are asking lot of his
friends. It is his wife's introduction
to his old crowd. Much will de-
pend on whether you and Edith will
accept. And it was Edith who
asked me to-make you come"
He leaned towards her across the
table. "Ask me, prettily, and I'll
do it,
Really" She laughed, blushed
and did it. "Will you go-my love?"
''Could I say mo- to that?" He
radiated satisfaction. "Do you know
how charming you are, Jane?"
"Am I? But it is nice of you to 60.
I know how you'll hate it,
"Not if you are there. And now,
who else are asked?"
ooh, Mrs. Laramore and Eloise
Harper and a lot of others. Lucy
says she'll be like a fish out of
water, but Delafeld has made up his
mind that his friends shan't think
that he's ashamed of her."
When their ices came and their
coffee, Frederick said, GIVE got to
spend a half-hour in a committee
room. Shall I take you up to the
Senate Gallery?"
"No-there's nothing interesting,
is there? I'll wait in Statuary Hail."
Jane loved the marble figures that
circled the Hall. Years ago there
had not been so many. They had
been, then, perhaps, more distinc-
tive. AS a child, she had chosen as
her favorites the picturesque Colo
malls, the frontiersmen in leather
tunics and coonskin caps. She had
never liked the statesmen in stiff
shirts and frock coats, although she
had admitted their virtues. Even
the homogeneous classic draperies
were more in keeping with the CLAM
our which the past flung over the
men who had given their best to
America.
But it was Fulton who had cap
tured her imagination, with his little
ship, and Pere Marquette with his
cross, the peace-loving Quaker who
had conquered; adventurer, pioneer,
priest and prophet-builders all of
the structure of the new world.
She wondered what future genera
tons would add to this glorious COM
pany Would the Anglo-Saxon give
way to the Semitic? Would the HUI
guenot yield to the Slav? And would
these newcomers hold high the ban
ner of national idealism? What
would they give? And what would
they take away?
There were groups of sightseers
gathered about the great room-a
guide placing them here and there
on the marble blocks. The trick
was to put someone behind mottled
pillar far away, and let him speak.