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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-7-23, Page 6.APPEARAN.C.S.- jAY GELZDR, PART III, Cullen Beek, remembering more ex - eking amorous passages in his St. Louis days, sighed. Patty Jessup, lie told himself fret- fully, was thin, and he preferred plump girls, A.nd Patty manifestly lacked spirit. His heavy ehin sank upon his quilts a plenty l" breast, in the warmth of the blazing "Cullen," said Joel sternly, "char's Are, he drowsed comfortably, somethin' I want ter talk erbout: You Patty Jessup, her face flushed, and bin spendin' too much time down at her eyes bright with tears, slipped at. May Gowily's place Bence ye came length from the circle of his cardless back. Tain't fair ter Patty!" embrace and went out to where Joel Beck smoked stolidly outside, With a little sob she sank down be - aide him. Joel dropped his pipe, "Whar's Cullen?" "Asleep." folks'd starve," pointed out Joel rea- sonably. "We raise znore'n we need," declar- ed Cullen restlessly: "Thar's iieb ter ketch an' rabbita ter shoot an' honey ter find. An' Maw's got more quilts'n she kin ever use now, Paw worked hisself plumb out so 't Maw 'd hev "Patty's skinny," shrugged Cullen moodily. "An' I like 'ern fat an' sassy That May Gowdy—" he gesticulated inarticulate praise. A quietness invaded Joel's manner. "You an' Patty air tokened. An' Patty's waited three years now." "Cullen's jes' tired," consoled Joel "But how's a man goin' ter know at Beck gently. "Shouldn't wonder but twenty what kind o' female he'll want whut he's plumb tuckered out." "Hit's more than that," said Patty almost inaudibly. at twenty-three? "I'm twenty-five," said Joel. "An' I've known ever sence I kin remember - Remembering the candy produced that I wanted Patty Jessup." as an afterthought, Joel was silent. "Then whyn't ye marry her? May Gowdy suits me better." Joel Beck trembled, a haze blurred his vision. Cullen was scorning Patty Jessup, "Patty Jessup's got her mind set on you I" he returned thickly. "Reckon ye got ter keep yore word, Cullen." Their eyes caught and held. "Well," yielded Cullen, sulkily, mak- ing good his escape. Lacing a broken bit of harness to- gether with stout twine, Joel wonder - Together they watched an autumn moon rise above the mountain top and float in a pool of silver light. "Reckon I'll hev the last o' the cot- ton in shortly," hazarded Joel. Patty Jessup murmured something indistinctly. Joel sighed. Little Patty—so nearly his own wife! Days followed in which Cullen lounged contentedly in the sunshine upon the steps before the cabin, . col- ed if Patty knew of Cullen's etten- larless, unshaven, vest unbuttoned tions to May Gowdy. Likely she did, over what was quite frankly a paunch; news circulating freely in the Valley. or departed, a battered felt hat low Likely that was why Patty Jessup's over his eyes, with a fishing rod and a' eyes had frequently of late borne can of worms. Rapidly he reverted to traces of tears. the soft, slurring speech of the back- Maw would prefer May Gowdy. A woods mountaineer, strapping, broad -hipped, full -breasted Once, awkwardly, Joel tried to girl. May had a lively way with her. broach the subject of his prospective Patty Jessup, et seemed, did know return to Cullen. about Cullen and May Gowdy. He "When ye figger on goin' back, found that out that very evening, Callen?" he asked bluntly. when he encountered her outside the A slow, dark flush invaded Cullen's cabin, staggering under a load of fire- aveeted face. wood. "When I've wore out my welcome!" "Whyn't ye let Cullen tote that "Sao' now!" placated Joel. "I didn't wood?" he demanded hotly. "Cullen's mean no harm, Cullen." gittin' too lazy ter live! He's allers Cullen's resentment faded. Raptly bin lazy but he's worsen ever now." studying the twin mountainsides, he Patty allowed him to take the wood., proceeded to make a strange remark. "Cullen's a Beck," she returned, "Reckon Pap must hev had con- startlingly. "Only yore Maw cain't sid'ble of a time, with Maw forever see hit 'cause o' his looking like the hounding him," he observed negli- Keatings. But ye °ain't allers go by, gently. appearances. You—you're the ICeat-' Astounded by such blasphemy, Joel ing o' the family, Joel-" uttered a feeble defence of Maw's dill- Joel gulped astonishment. The Keating of the family!• "Somebody hem to drive Pap ---ter "Joel," said Patty Jessup suddenly.! genie. Chew It mer every _meal tt eltnsluudgm trppetltc end *ids IgliiestIOD. II Malmo your toed do you more a i pug& Note bow 1t rellewes !nal etnitty tee1111u0 atter blearty eating. Wahine teeth' rwe.etcaa bruin; and tqe the needy Lthat Ha "I hain't Garin'," she said, "Hit wee all a mistake, my bein' tokened ter Cullen. Livin's powerful hard fer ivimmin in the mountings, an' I hain't strong. Reckon I kinder flggexed Cul- len 'd be able ter give me an easy life, him lookie' so much like a Keating an' all; reckon hit's powerful hard fer a girl ter know jes' why she likes a man sometimes! But Cullen, he ain't goin' ter be able ter take care o' no buddy; he ain't Chet kind. An' besides" —her voice dropped to an excited whisper -"I'd rutber hev you, Joel!" It seemed to Joel Beek in that mo - Ment that he had not heard aright. Himself, with his lame leg and his lack of Cullen's charm and his re- semblance to the shiftless Becks? "Patty—?" he implored. Patty Jessup crowded closer, her face raised to his. "Joel—Joel! Were hit jes' the prom- ise ye made ter Pap " An immense tenderness wet his eyes as he dropped the wood and drew her close. "Oh, Patty, honey—" he whispered. He did not in the least resent her' previous preference for Cutlers. That 'was the natural, instinctive reaching' out of her weakness for security, and it was her very weakness which espe-i eially endeared Patty to him. Then with vexing distinctness the old problem of Cullen's return came' hack to fret him. He could not, he decided, endure waiting an instant longer to know the cause of that am- biguous return. !I Putting Patty aside almost sternly, he strode across the hard ground purposefully. To Cullen, lounging before the fire- place, he put insistent question, Maw coming to listen. a p ye didn't come back fee 'Patty Ceelen, whatever air ye hyar firm 4li<ain'tn 1 got .a ,right hyzir?" de- manded Cullen violently. Maw Bach interposed, ' quiet and forceful in her black caliec. "Answer Joel, Cullen," Cullen weakened. "I hain't never ,goin' hack!" he illtng at them. "Cltiea - I hate them- An' anyway:, Uncle Keating sent res back: lIe says ter tell ye ter send Joel et he ain't cut elf 'n the same piece o' cloth, „Ile says--" Cullen paused briefly, "Uncle Keating' soya I'm a Beck all through. He says there ain't no goin' by appearances!" There followed a brief ailencu dur- ing which it Seemed to Joel that Maw. aged before his eyes. "Uncle Keating said—that?" she in- quired at rest. Cullen nodded sulkily, "Reckon hit's 'true," he acknowI- edged. "I like dein' jes''whut Pap did .—huntin', flehin' an' jes' eettin'," Spectulatively she allowed her eyes to rent upon her older on, tho'image of his shiftless father. 'Joel's the Keating o' the family," informed Cullen suddenly. "Only ye never c'd see hit, Maw." "Joel's done right smart with the farm," brooded Maw aloud. "Mebby hit's true whut Uncle Keating said erbout appearances." Patty Jessup's hands fluttered up towarher throat in a gesture of agony, Instantly Joel knew what she was thinking. Another lover was to vanish over the thin strip of road leading to the outer world, this time never to return. But Patty needn't be afraid. He would never forget Patty! His eyes met Maw's imploringly. Would Maw give him his chance? Would Maw spare, him, knowing be- yond mistake that Cullen could never take his place on the farm? Maw spoke at last with surprising gentlenese, the old prejudice entirely wiped out of her tone. "Reckon ye better go, Joel. Ye've worked right spry on the farm and I reckon "hit's yore due, son." Instantly the deep -buried restless- ness came alive in Joel, all the old throbbing demand for new conditions of living and new problems to wrestle with. His whole being flooded with a mighty emotion of joy and release. He had no slightest sense of fear of the world outside which had worsted Cullen. Characteristically he choked down his emotidn, accepting his release casually. "I'm .takin' Patty with me," he ac- cepted quietly. 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The punishment.,nl,,, having no audience. "General Post" . Nowadays one bears a great deal about the League of Nations and its many defects. But in postal natters the world possesses a real League of Nations, which is working without -a hitch, This tele°. of the world is called the Universal Postal Union, and it was agreed to tomer the Convention of Madrid, dated November 3015, 1920, 'This Convention superseded that con• eluded at Rome, in 1900. The main idea al the U,P.U, i, to treat the different states as though they were, for postal .pnrpesee. one country. "The countries form a single . postal territory for the reciprocal ex• change of correspondence between their post offices." That is the official definition. The result of this arrangement is, of course, greatly to simplify the world's postal affairs. Instead .of hav- ing a moss of complicated accounts, containing charges and counter- charges for services rendered between the countries, the world becomes Frac. . ticalty one single postal state. This means that the services row dered by one country are automatical. ly set elf by sinritar postal servicBs rendered by the other countrles. bash country helps in the conveyance of nails, and in return benefits from the conveyance of Its own malls, under the 'U. P. U. . Certain transit and warehousing charges are permitted between the countries concerned, These are made on the basis of the gold franc,, and postage rates are Axed according to the relation of the currency to the gold franc Two clauses from the Convention will help to illustrate the methods adopted in this international accountancy work. Tho goueral accounting for these expenses is based on statements pre• Peek once In every three years.. , "When 'the annual balance of the aecoutrts for iransdt and warehtnesing charges between two Administretioue, dues not exceed 1,000 trances, the debtor administration le roliovoil et alt payment muter dile beading." } Wild Strawberries, A pari of sunitissed fields and frag- rant winds That stir the fairy tassels of the grass, 0f bending sky o'er which the light clouds pass, And children's laughter 10 green spaces heard, . A sweetness no'er forgot through crowding years, A luscious crimson store . of trea- sure rare, A feast, tiny rather any 'tie royal fare, 7'ite memory tllis my eyes with ariddeu Ceara. a�J