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?"
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"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
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• .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.
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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
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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."
Mr. Munsberg jerked himself
right irascibly and _broke forth ,
(Continued on paid 6) • •
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