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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-05-06, Page 7• (Continued from. last week) VHe thought too much of himself and too little of other people," Little Ann summed him up in her unsevere, reasonable voice. "That's so silly." Tembarom tried not to look at her affectionately, but his voice was af- fectionate as well as admiring, despite him. "'Yhe way you get on to a thing just in three words!" he said. "Daniel Webster ain't in it." "I dare say if you let the people in the shops know that you come from a newspaper,. it'll be a help," she went on with ingenuous worldly wisdom. "They'll think it'll be a kind of advertieement. And so it will. You get some neat cards printed with your name and Sunday Earth on them." "Gee!" Tembarom ejaculated, slap -- ping his knee, "there's another! Yqu think of every darned thing, don't you?" She stopped a moment to look at bim. "You'd have thought of it all your- self after a bit," she said. She was not of those unseenly women whose intention it is manifestly to instruct the superior man. She had been born in a small Manchester street and trained by her mother, whose own training had evolved through af- fectionately discreet conjugal man- agement of Mir. Hutchinson. "Never you let a man feel set down when you want him to see a thing ieasonable, Ann," she had said. "Yeti never get on with them if you do. They can't staind it. The Almighty seemed to make 'em that way. They've always been masters, and it don't hurt any woman to let 'em be, if she can help 'em to think reasonable. Just you make a man feel comfort- able in his mind. and push him the reasonable way. But never you shove him, Ann. If you do, he'll just get all upset -like. Me and your father have been right -dawn happy together,. but we never should have been if I hadn't thought that out before we was married two weeks. Perhaps it's the Almighty's will, though I never was as sure of the Almighty% way of thinking as some are." Of course Tembarom felt soothed and encouraged, though he belonged to the male development which is not automatically infuriated at a su- spicion of female readiness of logic. "Well I might have got on to it in time," he answered, still trying not to look affectionate, "but I've no time to spare. Gee! but I'm glad you're here!" "I sha'n't be here very long." There was a shade of patient regret in her voice. "F'ather's got tired of trying America. He's 'been disappointed too often. He's going back to England." "Back to England!" Tembarom cried out forlornly, "Oh Lord! What shall we all do without you, Ann?" - "You'll do as you did before we came," said Little Ann. "No, we sha'n't. We can't. I can't anyhow," He actually got up from his chair and began to walk about, with his hands thrust deep in his pockets. 1 Little Ann began to put her first stitches into a red B. No human being could have told what she thought. 'We mustn't waste time talking DENTACLOR TOOTH PASTE WHITENS CLEANSES \ PRESERVES RELIEVES PYORRHEA ; • ,,r qp- For sale by C. ABEIWART: - BRAY°. a= "'a ' about that/ she ;114 '‘Si' 414 about the Raga. ThertiftreOso. makera, you ;know % PIM *Muhl ma1te,. friends with. Is 4rtuantaker or tyro, they'd tell you whet the wedding things were really made of. Want do like their elothes'te be dem • .CHAPTER III ' His work upon the page began the following week. When the first ntorn- ing, of his campaign opened with a tumultous blizzard, Jim Bowles end Julius Steinberger privately sym- pathized with thhn as they dressed in company:but they heard him whistl- ing in his own hall bedroom as he put on his clothes, and to none d the three did H occur that time crinld be lost hecause the weather Was inhu- ,man. Blinding snow which had bel- lowed across the bay, and torn its *ay howling through the streeta, maltreating people as it went, snatch_ ng their breath out of them, arid leaving them gaspingly clutching at Mats and bending their bodies before it. Street care went by loaded from ' front to back platform, and were forced from want of room to whiaz heartlessly by groups waiting anx- iously at street corners. Tembarorn saw bwo or three of them pass in this way, leaving the waiting ones desperately huddled. to- gether behind them. He ,braced him- self and whistled louder as he but- toned his celluloid collar. "I'm going to get up to Harlem all the same," he said. 'The 'L' will be just as jammed, but there'll be a place somewhere, and I'D- get it." His clothes were the outwardly de- cent ones of a young man who must perforce seek cheap clothing stores, and to whom a ten -dollar "hand-me- down" is a source of exultant rejoic- ing. With the aid of great care and a straight, well-forrned young body, he managed to make the best of them; but they were not to be counted upon for warmth even in ordinarily cold weather. His overeat was a specious covering, and was not infrequently odorous of naphtha. "You've got to know something about first aid to the wounded if you live on ten per," he had said once to Little Ann. "A suit of clothes gets to be an emergency -case mighty often if it lasts three years." "Going up to Harlem to -day, T. T.?" his neighbor at table asked him as he sat down to breakfast. "Right there?" answered. "I've ordered the limousine round, with the footiwarmer and fur rugs." "I guess a day wouldn't really mat- ter much," said Mrs. Bowse, good- naturedly. "Perhaps it might be bet- ter to -morrow." "And perhaps it mightn't," said Ternbancen, ','breakfast -flood" with a cheerful appetite. "What you can't be stonecold sure of to -morrow you drive a nail in to -day." He ate a tremendous breakfast as a discreet precautionary measure. The dark dining -room was warm, and the food was substantial. It was com- fortable in its way. "You'd better hold the hall door pretty tight when you go out, and don't open it far," said Mrs. Howse as he got up to go. "There's wind enough to upset things." Tembarom went out in the hall, and put on his insufficient overcoat. He buttoned it across his chest, and turned its collar op to his ears. Then he bent down to turn up the bottoms of his trousers. "A pair of artics would be all to the merry right here," he said, and then he stood upright and saw Little Ann coming down the staircase hold- ing in her hand a particularly ugly tartan -plaid woolen neck -scarf of the kind knawn in England as a "com- forter,""If you are going out in this kind of weather," she said in her sehene, decided little voice, "you'd better wrap this comforter right round your neck, Mr, Tembarom. It's one of Father's, and he can spare it because he's got another, and, besides, he's not going out." Tembarom took it with a sudden emotional perception of the fact that he was being taken care of in an ab- normally luxurious manner. "Now, I appreciate that," he said. "The thing about you, • Little Ann, is that you never make a wrong guess about what a fellow needs, do you?" "I'm too used to taking care of Father not to see things," she an- swered. ''What you get on to is how to take care of the whole world—initials on a fellow's socks and mufflers round his neck," His eyes looked re- markably bright. "If a person were taking care of the whole world' he'd have a lot to do," was her sedate reception of the remark. "You'd •better put that twice round your neck, Mr. Tembarom." She' put up her hand to draw the end of the scarf over his shoulder, and Tembarom stood still at once, as though he were a little hoy being dressed for school. He looked down at her round cheek, and watched one of the unexpected dimples reveal it- self in a place where dimples are not usually anticipated. It was coming out because she was smiling a small, observing smile. It was an almost exciting thing to look at, and he stood .very still indeed. A fellow who did not own two pairs of boots would be a fool not to keep quiet. "You haven't told me I oughtn't to go out till the blizzard lets up," he said presently. I haven't, Mr. Ternbarorn," she answered. "You're one of the kind that mean to do- a thing when they've made up their minds. It'll be a nice bit of money if you can keep the page." "G-alton said he'd give Inc a chance to try to make good," said Tembarom. "And if it's the hit he thinks it ought to be, he'll raise me ten. Thirty per. Vanastorbilts won't be in it. I think I'll 'get anarried," he added, showing all his attractive teeth at once. "I wouldn't do that," she said. "It wouldn't be enough to depend on. New York's an expensive place." She drew back and looked him °ter. "That'll keep you much warmer," she decided. "Now you can go. I've been looking in the telephone book for confectioners, and I've written down these addressee' She handed al of piipe,. ' .. u ;1.70oirrie,tex. heraimbrutho,uka' er' never ,Were two of you made! One need 41) all there trais of How en am I going to thank you, anyhow!" ribed 41 do hope you'll be able to keep 1 the page,",she said. "I do that. Mr. If there had been- • a touch of coquerty in her earnest, sober, round, little face she would have, been Jess distractingly 'alluring, but there waa no shade of anything but • sort of softly -motherly anxiety in the drop- ped note of her voice, and it was al. most more than flesh and blood at twenty -live could stand. Tembarommadeabasty, made a hasty, involuntry move toward her, but it was only a slight one, and it was scarcely percpptible before he had himself in hand and hurriedly twisted his muffler tighter, showing his teeth again cheerily. "You keep on- hoping •it all day without a let-up," he said.' "And tell Mr. Hutchinson I'm obliged to him, please. Get out of the way, Little Ann, while I go out. ,The wind might blow you and the hat -stand up -stairs." He opened the door and dashed down the high steps into the full blast of the 'blizzard. He waited at the street c.rner while three overcrowd- ed carp .whizzed past him, ignoring his signals because there was not an inch of space left in them for another passenger. Tben he fought his way across two or three blocks to the near- est "L" station. He managed ,to dvatAigiaavoiktgw,1 i‘re4S" rishi'therL t,"heno•ht On,bie.way. was; t Ma 'and fast,''Imit throngit all. i‘li,(41MInlat the *Ms ling "Of ;Joe: tatito‘:ePzi3f*rter rou Ma neck kept 41070:• na neer biM He had been -Virg j11ful for' the additional war** .ce the whirling snow and wind ,bad,wrouglit their Will *With Mai he waited for the cars 4 the street corner. On the "IP train he saw her serious eye• and ,heard the motherly drop in ler voice as she said, ,q do hope you'll be able to keep.the page. I do that, Mr. Tembarom." It nude him shut his hands hard as they hung in his overcoat pookets,.for warmth., and it made him shut,his sound teeth strongy"Gee! I've got *41" his thonghts said for him. "If I make it, perbmie my luck will have started. When a man's luck gets 'Started, every darn- ed thing's to the good." The "L" had dropped most of its crowd when it reached the up -town station among the •hundredth streets which was hi a destination. He tight- ened his comforter, tucked the ends firmly into the front of his overcoat, and started out along the platform past the office, and down the steep iron steps, already perilous with freezing snow. He had to stop to get his breath when he reached the street, but he did not atop long. He charged forth again along the pave- ment, looking' closely at the shop - windows. There were naturally- but few passers-by and the shops were etreet. '.He could lied' • Ile 191 the yeet bet: SY had 'Up side of- the Week '11:t.b0i4 renting 4W on it confectionefil H. created the corner and turned back on 'the other side Presently lie 03W that 9 light Yen was stand*ge 'before GAO Place, backed up against the sidewalk to receive parcels, its shuddering horse holding its head down and biasing itself with it forelegs againi3t the wind. At any rate, something wait going on there. and he hurried for- ward to find out what it was.- The air was ao thick with myriads of mad- ly flying bits of snow, which seemed whirled in all direction a in the air, ',that he could not see anything definite even a few yards away, When he reached the van he found that he had also reached his confectioner. The sign over the window read " M.'Dtinn- aberg, Confectionery. Cakes. Ice - Cream. Weddings, gall and Recep- tions." "Made a 'start, anyhow," said Tem- barom. He turned into the store, opening the door carefully, and thereby barely escaping being blown violently against a stout, excited, middle-aged little Jew who was bending over a box he was packing. This was evidently Mr. Munaberg, who was extremely busy, and even the modified shock upset his temper. "Vhere you goin'?" he cried out. 5. • ot. NIL Every little teal Vrill $1eltt, generous 4geadnese.' swab's "Can't you look where you'rb goin'T" Teinbarom knew this was not is good beginning, but his natural men- tal habit of vividly seeing the other men's point of view helped him after its 'urinal custom. His nice grin show- ed itself. "I wasn't going; 1 was coming," he said. 'Beg pardon. The wind's blowing a hundred miles cisc hour.". A good-looking young woman, who was probably Mrs. Munsberg, was packing smaller box behind the counter. Tembarom lifted hia hat, and she liked it. "He didn't do it a bit fresh," she said ltIter. "Kind o' nice," She • 4 • 41' • 't spoke to kiln With Piet "Is there suithing'yyn. asked. , ' Terobarom glanced at, and packages standitre Munsberg, who had bent 'at' packing again. Here was.1!..r.0 for practical tact. ' "I've blown in at the igrongc4 he said. "You're busy getting„t out on time, Ili Just wait.. m glad to be iludde. Want °iis speak to Mr. Munsberg." 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