Garber Sentinel. (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1922 Page: 3 of 8
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THE GARBER SENTINEL. CARKER. OKLAHOMA
Miss Lulu Bett
By ZONA GALE
Copyright by D. Appleton A Company
STUFFY M'INNIS IS SUPERIOR
FIELDER AND TIMELY HITTER
/
NINIAN
SYNOPSIS—General factotum In
the house of her sister Ina, wife of
Herbert Deacon, In the small town
of Warbleton, Lulu Bett leads a
dull, cramped existence, with which
she Is constantly at enmity, thougli
apparently satisfied with her lot.
She has natural thoughts and aspi-
rations which neither her sister nor
her brother-in-law seemingly can
comprehend. To Mr. Deacon comes
Bobby Larkin, recently graduated
high-school youth, secretly enam-
ored of Deacon's elder daughter,
I>iana, an applicant for a "Job"
around the Deacon house. He is
engaged, his occupation to be to
keep the lawn In trim. The family
is excited over the news of an ap-
proaching visit from Deacon's
brother Ninian, whom he had not
seen for many years. Deacon Jokes
with Lulu, with subtle meaning,
concerning the coming meeting.
some secret gift, lmd seen a cocoon | had opinions, contradicted, their eye*
open or an egg hatch. She wua think- j were bright,
ing: m '
"How easy she done It.
II
May.
.-3—
I.ulo was dusting the parlor. The
parlor was rarely used, but every
morning It was dusted. By Lulu.
She dusted the black walnut center
table which was of Ina's choosing, and
looked like Ina, shining, complacent,
abundantly curved. The leather rocker,
too, looked like Ina, brown, plumply
upholstered, tipping back a bit. Real-
ly, the davenport looked like Ina, for
Its chintz pattern seemed to bear a de-
sign of lifted eyebrows and arch, re-
proachful eyes.
Lulu dusted the upright piano, and
that was like Dwight—in a perpet-
ual attitude of rearing back, with paws
out, playful, but capable, too, of roar;
lng a ready bass.
And the black fireplace—there was
Mrs. Bett to the life. Colorless, fire-
less, and with a dust of ashes.
In the midst of all was Lulu herself
reflected in the narrow pier glass,
bodiloss-looking In her blue gingham
gown, t>ut somehow alive—natural.
Tliis pier glass Lulu approached
with expectation, not because of her-
self bnt because of the photograph on
its low marble shelf. A large photo-
graph on a little shelf-easel. A photo-
graph of a man with evident eyes, evi-
dent lips, evident cheeks—and each of
the six were rounded and convex. You
could construct the rest of him. Down
there under the glass you could imagine
lilm extending, rounded and convex,
with plump bands and curly thumbs
and snug clothes. It was Ninian
Deacon, Dwight's brother.
Every day since his comlne; had
been announced Lulu, dusting the par-
lor, had seen the photograph looking
at her with its eyes somehow new. Or
were her own eyes new? She dusted
this photograph with a difference, lift-
ed, dusted, set it back, less as a process
than as an experience. As she dusted
the mirror and saw his trim sem-
blance over against her own bodiless
reflection, she hurried away. But the
eyes of the picture followed her, and
she liked it.
She dusted the south window sill
And saw Bobby Larkin come round the
house and go to the woodshed for the
lawn mower. She heard the smooth
blur of the cutter. Not six times had
Bobby traversed the lawn when Lulu
saw Di emerge from the house. Di
had been caring for her canary and
she carried her bird bath and went to
the well, and Lulu divined that Di had
deliberately disregarded the handy
kitchen taps. Lulu dusted the south
window and watched, and in her
watching was no quality oP spying or
of criticism. Rather, she looked out
on something in which she bad never
shared, could not by any chance im-
agine herself sharing.
The south windows were open. Airs
of Mny bore the soft talking.
"Oh, Bobby, will you pump while I
hold this?" And again: "Now wait
till I rinse" And again: "You needn't
be so glum"—the village salutation sig-
nifying kindly attention.
Bobby now first spoke: "Who's
glum?" he countered, gloomily.
The iron of those days when she had
laughed at him was deep within him,
and this shfe now divined, and said ab-
sently :
"I used to think you were pretty
nice. But I don't like you any more."
"Yes, yon used to!" Bobby repeat-
ed derisively. "Is that why you made
fun of me all the time?"
At this Di colored and tapped her
foot on the well-curb. He seemed to
have her now, and enjoyed his tri-
umph. But Di looked up at him shyly
nnd looked dowa. "I had to," she ad-
mitted. "They were all teasing me
about you."
"They were?" This was a new
thought to him. Teasing her about
Mm, were they? He straightened.
"Huh!" he said, in magnificent eva
sion.
"I had to make them stop, so I
teased you. I—I never wanted to."
Again the upward look.
"Well I" Bobby stared at her. "I
never thought it was anything like
that."
"Of course you didn't." She tossed
back her bright hair, met his eyes full.
"And you never came where I coyld
tell you. I wanted to tell you."
She ran into the house.
Lulu lowered her eyes. It was as
Hhe hud witnessed the exercise of
Got him
right over. But how did she do thnt?"
Dusting the Dwight-llke piano, Lulu
looked over-shoulder, with a manner of
speculation, at the photograph of
Ninian.
Bobby mowed and pondered. The
magnificent conceit of the male In his
understanding of the female character
was sufficiently developed to cause
him to welcome the Improvisation
which he had Just heard. Perhaps
that was the way it had been. Of
course that was the way it had been.
What a fool he had been not to un-
derstand. He cast his eyes repeatedly
toward the house. He managed to
malte the Job last over so that he could
return In the afternoon. He was not
conscious of planning tills, but It was
in some manner contrived for him by
forces of his own with which he
seemed to be co-operating without his
conscious will. Continually he glanced
toward the house.
These glances Lulu saw. She was a
woman of thirty-four and Di and
Bobby were eighteen, but Lulu felt for
them no adult indulgence. She felt
that sweetness of attention which we
bestow upon May robins. She felt
more.
She cut a fresh cake, filled a plate,
called to Di, saying: "Take some out
to that Bobby Larkin, why don't you?"
It was Lulu's way of participating.
It was her vicarious thrill.
After supper Dwight and Ina took
their books and departed to the Chau-
tauqua circle. To these meetings Lulu
never went. The reason seemed to be
that she never went anywhere.
When they were gone Lulu felt an
instant liberation. She turned aim-
lessly to the garden and dug round
things with her finger. And she
thought about the brightness of that
Chautauqua scene to which Ina and
Dwight had gone. Lulu thought about
such gatherings In somewhat the way
that n futurist receives the subjects
of his art—forms not vague, but
heightened to intolerable definiteness,
acute color, and always motion—mo-
He Straightened. "Huh!" He Said, In
Magnificent Evasion.
tlon as an integral part of the desir-
able. But a factor of all was that
Lulu herself was the participant, not
the onlooker. The perfection of her
dream was not Impaired by any long-
ing. She had her dream as a saint her
sense of heaven.
"Lulle!" her mother called. "You
come out of that damp."
She obeyed, as she had obeyed that
voice all iier life. But she took one
last look down the dim street. She
had not known it, but superimposed
on her Chautauqua thoughts had been
her faint hope that It would be to-
night, while she was In the garden
alone, that Ninian Deacon would ar-
rive. And she had on her wool chally,
her coral beads, her cameo pin. . . .
She went into the lighted dining
room. Monona was in bed. Di was
not there. Mrs. Bett was in Dwlglit
Herbert's leather chair and she lolled
at her ease. It was strange to see this
woman, usually so erect and tense,
now actually lolling, as if lolling were
the positive, the vital, and her ordi-
nary rigidity a negation of her. In
some corresponding orgy of leisure
nnd liberation, Lulu sat down with no
needle.
"Inle ought to make over her de-
laine," Mrs. Bett comfortably began.
They talked of this, devised a mode,
recalled other delaines. "Dear, dear,"
said Mrs. Bett, "I had on a delaine
when I met your father." She de-
scribed It. Both women talked freely,
with animation. They were Individuals
nnd alive. To the two pallid beings
nccessory to the Deacons' presence,
Mrs. Bett and her daughter Lulu now
bore no relationship. They emerged,
Toward nine o'clock Mrs. Belt an-
nounced that she thought she should
have a lunch. This was debauchery. I
She brought in bread and butter, and j
a dish of cold canned peas. She was
committing all the excesses that she j
knew—offering opinions, laughing, eat-
ing. It was to be seen that this worn- !
an had an Immense store of vitality,
perpetually submerged.
When she had eaten she grew sleepy j
—rather cross at the last and inclined
to hold up her sister's excellencies to
Lulu; nnd, nt Lulu's defense lifted an
ancient weapon.
"What's the use of finding fault
with Inle? Where'd you been if she
hadn't married?"
Lulu said nothing.
"What say?" Mrs. Bett demanded j
shrilly. She was enjoying It.
Lulu said no more. After a long i
time:
"You always was jealous of Inle,"
said Mrs. Bett, and went to her be 1.
As soon as her mother's door had
closed, Lulu took the lamp from its
bracket, stretching up her long body
nnd her long arms until her skirt lift-
ed to show her really slim and pretty
feet. I.ulu's feet gave news of some
other Lulu, but slightly Incarnate.
Perhaps, so far, Incarnate only In her
feet nnd her long hair.
She took the lamp to the parlor nnd
stood before the photograph of Ninian
Deacon, and looked her fill. She did
not admire the photograph, but she
wanted to look at It. The house was j
still, there was no possibility of inter- j
ruption. The occasion became sensa-
tion, which she made no effort to ]
quench. She held a rendezvous with |
she knew not what.
In the early hours of the next after- ]
noon with the sun shining across the j
threshold, Lulu was paring something
at the kitchen table. Mrs. Bett was
asleep. ("I don't blame you a bit, j
mother," Lulu had said, as her mother j
named the Intention.) Ina was asleep. J
(But Ina always took off the curse by j
calling it her "sl-esta," long I.) Mo-
nona was playing with a neighbor s
child—you heard their shrill yet love-'
ly laughter as they obeyed the adult
law that motion is pleasure. DI was
not there.
A man came round the house afid
stood tying a puppy to the porch post.
A long shadow fell through the west
doorway, the puppy whined.
"Oh," said this man. "I didn't mean
to arrive at the back door, but since
I'm here—"
He lifted a suitcase to the porch,
entered and filled the kitchen.
"It's Ina, Isn't it?" he said.
"I'm her sister," said Lulu, and un-
derstood that he was here at last.
"Well, I'm Bert's brother," said
Ninian. "So I can come in, can't I?"
He did so, turned round like a dog
before his chair and sat down heavily,
forcing his fingers through heavy, up-
springing brown hair.
"Oh, yes," said Lulu. "I'll call Ina.
She's asleep."
"Don't call her, then," said Ninian.
"Let's you and I get acquainted."
He said it absently, hardly looking
at her.
"Ill get the pup a drTnk if you can
spare me a basins" he added.
Lulu brought the basin and, while
he went to the dog, she ran tiptoeing
to the dining room china closet and
brought a cut-glass tumbler, as heavy,
as ungainly as a stone crock. Tills,
she filled with milk.
"I thought maybe ..." said she,
and offered It.
"Thank you!" said Niijian, and
drained it. "Making pies, as I live,"
he observed, and brought his chair
nearer to the table. "I didn't know
Ina had a sister," he went on. "I re-
member now Bert said he had two of
her relatives—"
Lulu flushed and glanced at him piti-
fully.
"He lias," she said. "It's my mother
nnd me. But we do quite a good deal
of tiie work."
"I'll bet you do," said Ninian, nnd
did not perceive that anything had
been violated. "What's your name?"
he bethought.
She was in an Immense and obscure
excitement. Her manner was serene,
her hands as they went on with the
peeling did not tremble; her replies
were given with sufficient quiet. But
she told him her name as one tells
something of another and more re-
mote creature. She felt as one may
feel in catastrophe—no sharp under-
standing. but merely the sense that the
thing cannot possibly be happening.
"You folks expect me?" he went on.
"Oh, yes!" she cried, almost wllh
vehemence. "Why, we've looked for
you every day."
" 'See," lie said, "how long have they
been married?"
Lulu flushed as she answered: "Fif-
teen years."
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for the trophy, we find a candidate in Stuffy Melnnis. Mclnnls disputes
With George Sisler, of the Si. Louis 1! rowns, the light to be classed the best
first baseman in the American league,
timely hitter.
REALLY NOTHING TO IT
Knotty Lee of the Toronto In-
ternationals is no lover of root-
ball, nnd it is one of the games
which lie refuses to watch, espe-
cially since the McGlli univer-
sity team played in Toronto a
few years back. Knotty was in
the corridor of the King Edward
hotel, talking to Frank Sliaugh-
nessy, when the McGill team re-
turned from the scene of battle,
Three of the players were car-
ried in on stretchers, four others
had to, be assisted by their team-
mates, and the majority of the
other players were limping
badly.
"Looks as though yo>J had a
hard game," said Lee <ro Shag, as
he looked over the array of
wounded.
"Hard nothing," replied
Shaughnessy; "they quit cold."
CLINGS TO BASEBALL TERMS
Veteran Manager Shocks Devotees of
the Game of Golf by the Language
He Employs.
Clark Griffith, head of the Washing-
ton baseball team, plays a really good
game of golf; lie has been an enthusi-
astic follower of the game for the past
year. Griffith, however, cannot forget
baseball when on the links, and his
baseball training will crop up upon
every occasion. For Instance, instead
of speaking of the greens he usually
Melnnis is the perfect fielder and a
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"And Nin into—say, Nin, what
are you, anyway?"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Verging on Bootlegging,
"The air around here Is like wine.'
"Then I guess we'd better not jnrnit
any into our tires."
designates them as the "lawns," the
same being baseball nomenclature.
Whenever he misses n stroke lie al-
ways says that lie "fumbled ; likewise
when his putt goes wrong lie says that
lie "muffed," and when lie tops a ball
lie generally says, "that one was a
spltter." When lie makes an unusual-
ly long drive on the tee involuntarily
he pipes out, "Well, there goes a home
run." What's bred in the bone, etc.
NO STAR IN THE KITCHEN
Mrs. Hornsby Says Rogers Makes Any
Number of Fumbles When
Drying the Dishes.
Rogers Hornsby, star player on the
St. Louis Nationals, besides being one
of the leading home-run hitters in the
National league, is "a wonderful home
man," so his wife said. Mrs. Hornsby
Is in San Francisco en route to Los
Angeles with lingers 11, twenty-two
months old, to visit her mother.
"In fact," continued Mrs. Hornsby,
"he does housework once in a while
when we're having company, but ills
record drying dishes isn't as good as
ills record for handling chances oil the
ball field, lie drops too many at home."
Rogers only talks of baseball at
home when lie Is asked, Mrs. Hornsby
said, ills replies are short, she said,
"for Ills whole time at home seems to
be spent playing with lingers U."
Baseball
Notes
The Paducah team of the Kitty
league has a new manager, Hoke Dll-
llnger having been named to the job.
Jim Bagby, Cleveland pitcher, is in
the hospital after an operation for ap-
pendicitis and will not be able to pitch
again this year.
♦ # •
The Kvansville club of the Three-I
has sold First Baseman Dick Reichle,
former University of Illinois athlete,
to the Boston Americans.
• * •
The Syracuse club has obtained an-
other pitcher from the St. Louis own-
ers, in Sidney Benton, a collegian who
lias been in the Texas league.
• • .
A1 Demaree having been declared
ineligible to manage or play with Port-
land, what will become of the games
he pitched for the Portland team?
• •
Tom Moran, football star arid son of
Charley Moran, the National league
umpire, has been signed by the Cleve-
land Americans for a trial as a
pitcher.
• • •
Trace the spurt of the Pirates,
among some other elements, to the re-
turn of Catcher Schmidt, if you must,
but consider the' work of Iteb Russell
in the Pirates' outfield.
. . •
During the season of 1921 Louis
North, one of the St. Louis Nationals'
pitching staff, was credited in the
records nilli having hurled in 40
games and in each he acted as relief
man.
• •
Frank Smith, pitcher of the Dan-
ville Tliree-I team, submitted to a se-
vere surgical operation in a Danville
hospital and probably is out for the
season, lie belongs to the St. Louis
Browns.
« • •
Hock ford refused to accept Harry
iirant's resignation as manager and
the fans rose up and promised lo give
the team better support if lie would
stay, so he decided to withdraw ids
resignation.
• . •
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