CHAPTER XIX

I

IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences chronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly Seventeen, but the event unchronicled, undiscussed, and supremely controlling, was her slow admission of longing to find her own people.

II

Bea and Miles Bjornstam were married in June, a month after "The Girl from Kankakee." Miles had turned respectable. He had renounced his criticisms of state and society; he had given up roving as horse-trader, and wearing red mackinaws in lumber-camps; he had gone to work as engineer in Jackson Elder's planing-mill; he was to be seen upon the streets endeavoring to be neighborly with suspicious men whom he had taunted for years.

Carol was the patroness and manager of the wedding. Juanita Haydock mocked, "You're a chump to let a good hired girl like Bea go. Besides! How do you know it's a good thing, her marrying a sassy bum like this awful Red Swede person? Get wise! Chase the man off with a mop, and hold onto your Svenska while the holding's good. Huh? Me go to their Scandahoofian wedding? Not a chance!"

The other matrons echoed Juanita. Carol was dismayed by the casualness of their cruelty, but she persisted. Miles had exclaimed to her, "Jack Elder says maybe he'll come to the wedding! Gee, it would be nice to have Bea meet the Boss as a reg'lar married lady. Some day I'll be so well off that Bea can play with Mrs. Elder--and you! Watch us!"

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. Bea and Miles Bjornstam
2. "The Girl from Kankakee"
3. criticisms of state and society
4. roving as horse-trader
5. wearing red mackinaws in lumber-camps
6. gone to work as engineer
7. Jackson Elder's planing-mill
8. Carol
9. Red Swede
10. no
11. chase him off with a mop
12. hold onto her Svenska
13. no
14. yes
15. three
16. herself
17. Carol's experiences
18. Carol's slow admission of longing to find her own people
19. yes
20. yes

Numbered questions:
1. Who was married in June?
2. Who was married a month before?
3. What did Miles give up?
4. Anything else?
5. And?
6. What did he do instead?
7. Where?
8. Who was the patroness of the wedding?
9. Who did Haydock call a sassy bum?
10. Did Haydock like him?
11. What did she recommend Carol do to him?
12. Anything else?
13. Is Haydock planning to attend the wedding?
14. Did the other matrons agree with Juanita?
15. How many years was Carol in exile?
16. From what?
17. What was recorded as important by the Dauntless?
18. What event was not chronicled?
19. Did Jack Elder say he might come to the wedding?
20. Did Elder approve of Bea's wedding?