The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 21, 1921, Page 13

MAIN SYNOPSIS OF OPENING INSTALLMENTS CAROL MILFORD, young, ve: small Minnesota coi! | Deautifying the ugly t the St. Paul library. A DR. WILL KENN? ef Gopher Prairie. In due time they are ma © Gopher Prairie, When ghe sees the town Wing there Carot Gade Keanioe Car thought of unattractive, but decides to make And finds it dull and hope! Street. To her it seems live BAM CLARK, hardware ¢ * marie, She ts bored by the! st the boarding house where © % ereurees @ maid, Carol meets The Story of Carol Kennicott BY SINCLAIR LEWIS Copyright, 1920, Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Inc. je best of It. She explores Main street uated from a \ mission in lite ts ures @ position tn . enthusiastic, ts phyatetan ott takes ed at the * home mid- Victorian and 9 hee ideas fwedish far RAYMIB WUTHERSPOON, shoe saleeman at the Mon Ton store, and Qn admirer of poetry and drama the town. Vida in GUY POLLocK Carol discovers a personality, BEA SORENSON, the 4 (Continaed From Yesterday) CHAPTER VI re3) ‘When the first dubious November jow had filtered down, shading With white the bare clods in the fire had been started in the furnace, whichis the shrine of a Gopher Prairie home, Carol began to make the house her own. She dismissed the parlor furniture—the golden oak table with brass knobs, the moldy Doctor." She went to Minneapolis, to scamper thru department stores and small Tenth Street shops de Voted to ceramics and high thought. She had to ship her treasures, but she wanted to bring them back in ber arms. Carpenters had torn out the par- Ution between front parlor and back parlor, thrown it into a long room en which she lavished yellow and deep bive; a Japanese obi with an intricacy of gold thread on stiff ultramarine tissue, which she hun; ‘as a rane! against the maize wall; & couch with pillows of sapphire velvet and gold bands; chairs which, Gopher Prairie, seemed flippant. é. hid the sacred family phono- graph in the diningroom, and re Placed its stand with a square cabi- met on which was a squat biue jar between yellow candies. Kennicott decided against a fire- Place. “We'll have a new house in ‘& couple of years, anyway.” “@he decorated only one room. The ‘Fest, Kennicott hinted, she'd better lene till he “made a tenstrike.” “The brown cube of a house stirred And awakened; it seemed to be in Motion; it welcomed her back from ‘Shopping; it lost its mildewed re. Bression. ‘The supreme verdict was Kenn. Scott's “Well, by golly, I was afraid the new junk wouldn't be so com- fortabie, but I must say this divan, or whatever. you call it, ix a lot better than that bumpy old sofa wo ‘had. apd when I look around—— ‘Well, it’s yworth all it cost, I guess.” Every one tn.town took an inter est in the refurnishing. The car _ penters and. painters who did not actually assist crossed the lawn to peer thru the windows and exclaim, Looks swell™ Dave Dyer at the drug store, Harry Haydock and Raymie Wutherspoon at the Bon ‘Ton, repeated daily, “How's the good “work coming? I hear the house is from the rear of Carol's house. She ‘was a widow, and a prominent Bap- tist, and a Good Influence. She had #0 paint reared three sons to be ‘Christian mtlemen that one of them wel become an Omaha bartender, one & professor of Greek, and one, Cyrus NN. Bogart, a boy of 14 who was still ‘at home, the most brazen member of the toughest gang in Boytown. Mrs. Bogart was not the acid type of Good Influence. She was the soft, sighing, indigestive, cling- Also Carol finds a friend in VIDA BHIERWIN, « teacher in the hi t Carol mu ie bachelor | sehool, They plan to beautify meet yer of the town. Im Pollock / a pulpy hand, sighed, glanced sharp ly at the revelation of ankles as Carol crossed her logs, ulghed, inapected the new dlue chairs, smiled with a coy sighing sound, and gave voice: “I've wanted to call on you so long. plowed fields, when the first amail | dearie, you know we're neighbors, but T thought I'd wait till you got settled, you must run in and see me, how much did that big chair cost ?* “Seventy-seven dollars!" “Sev-——— Sakes alive! Well, t sup pose it's all right for them that can brocade chaira, the picture of “The | ford it, tho I do sometimes think | Of course, as our pastor said once, at Baptist Churech-— By the way, we haven't seen you there yet, and of course your husband was raised up a Baptist, and I do hope he won't drift away from ‘the fold, of course we all know there isn't anything, not cleverness or gifts of gold or any thing, that can make up for humility and the inward grace and they can say what they want to about the P. BE. church, but of course there's no church that has more history or has stayed by’ the true principles of | Christianity better than the Baptist Church and—— In what church wore you raised, Mrs, Kennicott?’ TOM, LET'S GO SOME PLACE “TONIGHT - WE HAVEN"T ' BEEN OUT TOGETHER FOR OVER A WEEK-~ NO. NOT TONKG "™ KIND OF TIRED - | HAD A STRENUOUS | SUPPOSE THAT WAS SOME OF YouR HOPE ALL BLEW UP CORN T WANT A QUAQT OF VINEGAR IN WERE, MISTER allowance and be business-like and Rut it was too much trow ble to explain to Kennicott's kindly “Wewhy, I went to Congregational as a girl in Mankato, but my college was Universalist.” “Well———- But of course aa the Bible says, is it the Bible, at least I know I havp heard it in chureh and everybody admits it, it's proper for the little bride to take her husband's Vessel of faith, s0 we all hope we shall see you at the Baptist Church and——— As 1 was saying, of course I agree with Reverend Zitterel in thinking that the great trouble with this nation today is lack of spiritual faith—eo few going to chureh, and people automobiling on Sunday and heaven knows what all. But still 1 do think that one trouble is this ter rible waste of money, people ferling that they've got to have bath-tubs and telephones in their houses—— I heard you were selling the old furni ture cheap.” “Year “Well—of course you know your own mind, but I can't help thinking, when Will's ma was down here keep ing house for birn—she used to run in to pte me, real often}—it was good enough furniture for her. But there, there, I musn’t croak, I just wanted to let you know that when you find you can’t depend on a lot of these gadding young folks like the Hay docks and the Dyers—and heaven only knows how much money Juanita Haydock biows in in a year—why then you may be glad to know that slow old Aunty Bogart is alway: right there, and heaven knows—~— A portentous sigh, “—I hope you and your husband won't have any of the troubles, with sickness and quar reting and wasting money and all that so many of these young couples do have and———~ ButT must be run ning along now, dearie, It's been such a pleasure and——- Just run in and see me any time. I hope Wil! is well? 1 thought he looked a wee mite peaked. It was 20 minutes later when Mrs. Bogart finally oozed out of the front | door. Carol ran back into the living stone. “Oh,” cried the Twins to Mr. Fub- | |they came to a slanty place, deep, | deep under the sea, and sure enough, | there lay a sack propped against a bon Fish. “We thought you were the end of the rainbow.” THE SACK 0 room and jerked open the windows. | “That woman has left damp finger prints in the air,” she said ap Carol was extravagant, but at least she did not try to clear herself of | blame by going about whimpering “I know I'm terribly extravagant but 1 don't seem to be able to help 1t" Kennieott had never thought of giving her an allowance. His mother | had never had one! As & wage-earn ing spinster Carol bad asserted to her fellow librarians that when she was married, she was going to have an GOLD Sure enough, there lay a sack propped against a smooth So off they all started. Pretty soon “Humph!’ exclaimed Mr. Ribbon jsmeoth stone, and looking, as the Fish, wriggling bis beautifully color. ed but ever-sothin body in surprise. “and why were you following me} just because you thought that I was} the end of the rainbow?” “We want the bag of gold that the gnomes stole from the Fairy Queen,” answered Nick, “and they are known |Ribbon Fish said, most awfully full lof something. “Ho, hot’ eried out Nick, ‘This certainly looks like the Fairy | yours Queen's bag of gold, Mr. Fish, Only I don’t see any rainbow.” making @ lasso out of hi to have buried it where the rainbow |and then untyin it again, “you only ends, One end.came down into the sea and we thought you were It” “Gold!* said the Ribbon Fish oughtfully. “And you say it was in ‘a bag. Jl do believe I can help you see a rainbow when it's wet.” Nobody thought that he'd said anything queer. “I'll take one end and you take the other, Nancy,” said Nick, “and Only this morning I saw a sack lying | we'll take the bag of gold to the around somewhere, and it looked awfully full of something. Let me) nee, Where was it? Oh, yes, now I remember. It was away out in the ocean where tl slants down into the water. Come} along and I'll show you.” ues | Fairy Queen at once,” But, lo! and behold, wasn’t the sack | | won't again | swimming away as hard as it could go! It had unfolded a most beauti he side of an island | ful pair of swimming fins. stubbornness that she was a practical housekeeper as well as a flighty play She bought a budget-plan ac: | count book and made her budgets as | budgets are Jkely when they lack budgets. For the first month it was a han-/ eymoon jest to beg prettily, to con- fess, “I haven't a cent in the house, be told “You're an extravagant little rabbit.” budget book made her realize how | inexact were her finances, She. be came self-coriscious; oceasionally she! she should al-| ways have to petition him for money Evee@e>ltt !— WANT A NICS CrcTCS caught herself critictzing hia belief} at, since bis joke about trying to keep her out of the poorhouse had once been accepted as admirable hu it should continue Tt was a nuisance to, have to run down the street after him because, she ask him for money at breakfast. | “hurt his feel | He liked the} daily bon mot. had forgotten to she reflected lordliness of giving largess. | She tried to reduce the frequency of begging by opening accounts and having the bills sent to him. had found that staple groceries, su- could be most cheaply Axel Egse’a rustic She said sweetly to) "I think I had better open a charge | account here.” “I don’t do no business except for) cash,” grunted Axel. She flared, “Do you know who I am?” | I know. The doc t# But that’s yoost a rule I make low prices. | business for cash.” She stared at bie red impasnive face, and her fingers had the undig- | i — = nified desire to GAVE AWAY A HANGING LAMP, TWO iD A SOLID SILVER WATCH WHEN A WOMAN TEL - By RUTH AGNES ABELING (Oupyright 1931 by Beattie Mar) CHAPTER LXVII—JOHN AMES RETURNS HOME “He said he didn’t think anyone You shouldn't your rule for me."* Her rage had not been lost. It had to her husband, | She wanted 10 pounds of sugar in| a hurry, but she had no money, she ran up the stairs to fice, On the door was a sign tising a headache cure and stating, “The doctor is out, back at—" Nat urally, the blank space waa not filled | She stamped her foot down to the drug store—the doctor's} SStor hook” PRISONERS AGAIN How daddy did laugh over the story of the escape of the young saflors! The sympathy and kindli- As she entered she heard Mrs. Dyer demanding, “Dave, I've got to have some money.” | Carol saw that her husband waa| there, and two other men, all listen. | ing in amusement. | Dave Dyer snapped, “How much! Dollar be enough?"| “No, it won't! I've got to get some underclothes for the kids.” | “Why, good Lord, they got enough now to fill the closet so I couldn't find my hunting boots, last time 1| wanted them.” wouldn't awaken something; scent of the roses dotting the green foliage which bat side of the house, wouldn't x some mid-summer memory. Bi all of it he visioned without Mechanically, John Ames walked down the stairs with us, “Can't he talk?” jasking the physiclan in an under- 1 thought of the evening before the party, when I heard John Ames talking to bimself and then of his mumbling while he sat beside me at the table. I remembered I had won- dered if he were quite well, and I blamed myself for not having paid more attention. 1 could have spared him the toneli- ness of going away without thought or word from his family. It was like him to do that, even when he was not laboring under a condi tion which made him not wholly It was just as he had done all along, effaced himself. As TI thought the thing over seemed that had been John Ames’ ‘Though he had become a gigantic figure in the financial world, thru the assertion of his will, in his own home he had been too gently retiring, too willing to slip out of the picture if he thought it would mean a little passing amuse- ment for Lila, Mrs. Ames was do you want? “He can, but he doesn't,” was the could get out, unless he had help from the outside, but— “Tl tell you about it. “It was cold down thereon the Once more Lila and I climbed into the back seat of the car, while Tom guided Ames to the front seat with | ness and common sense of the Mechanically he followed the steps, across the veranda of own home, and then was led in sitting room, where, hat in hand, sank down into one of the We had gone several miles when Lila broke the silence, “I wonder if ho used to feel as shut out as I do now," she said. wasn't so much a question as simply | 4 statement of her thought. As we rode on, Tom made several attempts to talk to Mr. Ames, but without result, nodded if he then turned a sand spit, wind blew strong off the bay, and as I told you, when the Uttle building stood right out in the water and that made it sort of damp. “So we put in a strong box stove and plenty of wood anf kindling and matches so anybody locked up there could be com- They're in rags.| first policeman pleased him You got to gWe me ten dollars to this indignity ‘You weren't much tangled up She pereetved that the men, particu-| larly Dave, regarded it She waited~ with red tape In those days, were The ride had evidently tired When Tom took his hat , man made no effort to keep it Hii seemed to have lost all of his “Would you like to lie ‘Tom's voice was gentle. Ames nodded. “TW take him to his LU had thrown her coat and hat of She put her arm ‘ husband's shoulders and her che against his, He looked up with a new ii (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star you?’ he asked, hoping to get an- Ames simply nswered at all, in to watching the yelped, “Where's that ten dollars I gave you last year?” and be looked to the other men to laugh, first policeman answered him, “No, we weren't. ‘L think if he goes on this way I shall go crazy--yet I must keep possession of my senses if I am to ever bring him back and know that is forgiven,” 1 again, wistfully. Yd he tell Tom why he didn’t let anyone know of his illness?” 1 Cold and still, Caro! watked up to|| MY other two prisoners got away Kennicott and commanded, “I want to see you upstairs.” —something the matter?” from me, though, and It wasn’t) ... 14.1 was the wood that made thru any fault of mine. “They really ought been shut up; they were not the see some sign of recognition as we turned into the drive of the Ames mansion. dered if the little vine-covered sum- prisoners waited then carefully, a time, they burned away @ part four inches thick, They burned a square hole, right in front of the stove big enough for them to drop down thru, “Smoke must have beep sucked He clumped after her, stairs, into his barren office. he could get out a query she stated; | “Yesterday in front of a saloon 1 heard a German farmwife beg her husband for a quarter, to get a toy and he refused. of that floor, town where people live and have - thru supper he ate his bread cause he felt that shé would ti him common if he said, “Will y1 hand me the butter?" (Continued Tomorrow) lively, if nothing else, I'l make "em stop regarding partics as committee halr like black glass; she had the fragility and costliness of a Viennese goblet: and her eyes were intense, He was etirred to rise from the table and to hold the chair for her; and all a right to feel safe. for the baby those two fellows and them up good and I didn’t mind carrying them their food and I never forgot the Kennicott usually considered him- self the master of the house, hig. desire, she went hunting, which was his symbol of happiness, and she ordered porridge for breakfast, which was his symbol of morality, home on the afternoon before the housewarming | he found himself a slave, an intrud, Carol wailed, “Fix |the furnaée so you won't have to thru the same humiliation I'm in the same position! beg you for money, just been informed that I couldn't} haye any sugar because I hadn't the} money to pay for it?” | “Who said that? stove, and they didn’t key to the jail. “That jail was a good strong built solidly of clever, I think, don't you? was sorry that pair got away, No, I never arrested any- served four UG By God, I'll kill}] box of a place, fourinch boards, only one room It wasn’t his fault. I now humbly beg you to give me the raoney with which to buy meals for you to cat “Oh, as for that,” said the fish| And hereafter to remember it, ng tail! next time IT sha'n't beg simply starve I can't go on being a slave her enjoymént She was sobbing against his overcoat, How can you shame me #07 and he was blubber. er, a blunderer, didn't seem as if a man PERCY SLs, ) heaven's sake old door mat off the porch, put on your nice brown and white Why did you come home so mind hurrying? Here it is almost supper time, and those fiends are just as likely as not to come at seven instead of eight. PU IIISIPTAAEASS RSI) Wises a |have a stated amount—be business- I must do sometning And daily she didn't do | anything about it Do you understand? But she was a deliberate and joy- ous spendthrift in her preparations | | for her first party, the housewarm. | She made lists on every envel ope and laundry slip in her desk. | “Pape's Cold Compound” is Quickest Relief stops nose running; relieves ache, dullness, fever ‘ Mrs. Bogart had, by the simpering I meant to give| viciousnes# of her comments on the ear| new furniture, stirred Carol to econ: She spoke judiciously to Bea She read the cook: to| book again and, like a child with a picture book, Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blow ing and snuffling! A dose of “Pape's i taken every two hours until three doses are taken usually breaks up a cold and ends all grippe misery, | you some, and I forgot it “fancy grocers.” unreasonable as an terns and sewed, She was irritated] amateur leading woman on a first night, and he was reduced to hamil- When she came down to sup- per, when she stood in the doorway, She was as 4 ; Cold Compound’ “Pape's Cold Compound” is | quickest, surest relief known costs only a.few cents at drug It acts without assistance, ‘Ty By golly 1 won't He pressed fifty dollars upon her, | about left-overn. and after that he remembered give her money regularly. when Kennicott was jocular about “these frightful big doings that are She regarded the affair as an attack on (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1,21, by Seattle Star) gram of the beef which gallantly con- Daily she determined, “But I must! tinues to browse tho it is divided She was in a silver The first dose opens . clogged-up sheath, the calyx of a lily, her piled, timidity in pleasure. “1'll make ’em nostrily and air passages. 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