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SO BIG I Y y t "I # By ED.NA FERBER s, D«»ubleUy. Pair* St Co.) WNU 3«rvlct. CHAPTER XV—Continued —2o— Shore hostesses vied fur the honor of entertaining these notables. I'ttuiu pretty. clever, moneyed, shrew d—often emerged from these contests the winner. Iler latest catch Was Klnile (ioguet—Gen. Ktilile Go guet, hero of (Tutmpngne—(ioguet of Hie stiff white heard, tlte empty left mai sleeve, and the score of medals, lie was coming to America ostensibly to he the guest of the American di vision which, with (ioguet's French troops, tiuil turned the German on slaught at Champagne, but reufly, it was whispered, to cement friendly ro tations between his country und a somewhat diffident l T nlted States. *LlDii guess," thrilled I'aula. "guess »i*'s coming with him. Dirk! That wonderful Itoelf Pool, the Freuch sculptor!" , "What d'you mean—French sculp tor ! He's no more French than I am. Hp wits b»rn within a couple of mlies >f my mother* farm. Ills people were I»utcli truck fanners. His father lived In 11 ifrti I'rairle until o year ago, when lie died of u stroke." When he told Scl'nii she flushed like :i girl, us she sometimes still did when she was much excited. "Yes. I saw It ID the paper. I wonder." she added, quietly. "If I slmll see him." That evening you might have seen her sitting, fingering tiie faded shabby time-worn ohlect* the saving of which l*trk hud denounced as sentimental. The crude drawing of the Hayiuarket; the wine-red cashmere dress; some fmled brittle flowers. I'aula was giving a large—but not too large—dinner on the second night. She was very unlimited shout It, ex cited. guy. "They say." she told Dirk, "that Gognet doesn't eut anything but hard-boiled eggs an-J rusks. Oh. well, the others won t object to squabs and mushrooms and things. And his liohby Is his farm In Krittqny. Pool's stun ning—dark snd somber and very white teeth." I'uula was very gay these days. Too guy. it seemed to Ulrk that tier nervous energy wus Inexhaustible— snd exhausting. Dirk refused to nd mit to himself how irked he was by the sallow he.irt-shn|>ed exquisite face, the letin brown clutching fingers, the air of ownership. He hud begun to dislike things about her us nn unfaith ful siiouse Is Irritated by quite inno cent mannerisms of hit unconscious tuHte. She scuffed her heels a little when she walked, for example, it maddened hlra. She had a way of bit ing the rough skin around her carefully ttnded nails when she was nervous. "Don't do that!" he said. Dull as never Irrituted him. She rest ed hlin. he told himself. He would arm himself agslnst her, but one minute after meeting her he would sink grate fully and reslstlessly Into her quiet depths. Sometimes he thought all 'his was nn assumed manner In her. "This calm of. jour—this effortles*- nen«," he said to her one day, "Is a |M>«e. isn't It T" Anything to get her notice. "Partly," Dallas had replied, amiably. "It's a nice i>«>*«• though, don't you think r Whut are you going to do with a girl like that'! Here wjs the woman who could hold hhn entirely. and who never held nut « tinker to hold liliu. He tore at the smooth wall of her indifference, though he only rut and bruised his own hands In doing 11. "U It because I'm a successful htisl se*a man that you don't like me?" "Hut 1 d» like yotj. I think you're an awfully attractive man. Danger ous. that'a wot." "Oh. doa'l be the wide eyed Ingenue. Y»u know d—d well trliat I mean. You've got me and you don't want me. If I had l>een a successful architect Instead at a successful business man would that have made any difference?" "Good Lord, no! Some day I'll prob ably marry .t horny handed son of toll, sad If I do It'll he the horny hands that will win ute. If you want to kiio* I like 'em with their s.tirs on then. There's anmetlttng shout a man wh.i has fought for It—l don't know wh»t It Is—s look In Ills eye- the feel of his hsnd. He needn't have been suc cessful—though he probably woald be. I don't know. I only know he—well, you haven't a mark on ynu. Not a mark. lui not crlllclxlng you. Rut you're all smooth I like em bumpy. That sounds terrible. It isn't what 1 mean at all. It Isn't—" "Oh. never mind." Dirk wearily "I think I know what you mean. Lis ten. Dallas. If I thought —l'd go back ta Mollis k Sprague's and begin all ever again at forty a 'week If I thought jrimd-" "Don't." Chapter XVI General Goguet and Roelf I*ool had beait la Chicago eae night and part of a day. Dirk had not met them—was to meet them at I'uula's dinner that evening. He was curious about i'ool but not particularly Interested In the warrior. Restless, unhappy, wanting to see Dallas (he admitted It, bitterly) lie dropped into her studio at an un accustomed hour almost Immediately \fter luncli and heard gay voices snd llugK'-er. in a grimy smock and the scuffed kid slip|>ers was entertaining two truants from Chlcugo society— Gen. Kmile Goguet und Itoelf I'ool. They seemed to be enjojlng themselves immensely. She introduced Dirk as casually as though their presence were a natural and expected thing—which It was. She had never mentioned them to him. Vet now: "This Is Dirk De- Jong—»en. Kmile Goguet. We were campaigners together in France. Itoelf I'ool. So were we. weren't we, Itoelf?" (len. Kmile (ioguet bowed formally, hut his eyes were twinkling He ap peared to he having u very good time. Itoelf Pool's dark face hud lighted up with such u glow of surprise and pleas ure as to transform it, He strode over to Dirk, clasped his hand. "Dirk De- Jong! Not—wliy. say, don't you know me? I'm Itoelf I'ool!" "I ought to know you," said Dirk. "(Hi, hut I mean I'm—l knew you when you were a kid. You're Sellna's IMrk. Aren't you? My Sellna. I'm driving out to see her this afternoon. She's one of my reasons for being here. Why, I'm—" He was laughing, talking excitedly, like a boy. Dalian all agrln, was enjoying It Immensely. They've 'run away," she explained to Dirk, "from the elaborate program that was arranged for them this after noon. I don't know where the French got their reputation for being polite. The general is a perfect boor, aren't you? And scared to death of women He's the only French general In cap tivity who ever took the trouble to learn Kngllsh." "We're all going," announced Dallas, und made n dush for the stuffy little bedroom off the studio. Well, this was u hit too Informal, "doing where?" inquired Dirk. The general, too, appeared bewildered. Hoelf explained, delightedly. "It's a plot. We're all going to drive out to jour mother's. You'll go, won't you? You simply must." "Go?" now put In General Goguet "Where Is It that we go? I thought we stayed here, quietly. It Is quiet here, und no reception committee*. His tone was wlstfr.l. Hoelf attempted to make It clear. "Mr. DeJong's mother Is a farmer. You remember I told yon all about her In the ship coming over. She was wonderful to me when I was s kid She was the first person to tell me what beauty was—ls. She's magnlfl cent. She raises vegetables." "Ah! A farm! But yes! I, too, am a farmer. Well!" He shook Dirk's hand a#iin. He appeared now for the first time to find him Interesting. "Of course I'll go. Does mothtr know jou're coming? She has been hoping she'd see you, but she thought you'd grown so grand—" "Walt until I tell her about the day I landed In Paris with five francs In my |Kx-ket. No, she doesn't know we're coming, hut she'll be there, won't she? I've a feeling she'll be there, exactly the same. She will, won't she?" "She'll he there." It was earty spring; the busiest of seasons on the farm. They were down the stalra and off in the powerful car that seemed B> be at the visitors' disposal. Through the loop, up Michigan avenue. Into the Mouth aide. Chicago, often lowering and gray In April, wss wearing gofd and blue today. The air was sharp, but beneath the bruaqueness of it wax a gentle promise. Dallas and I"tool were much absorbed iu Paris plaits, I'aris reminiscences. "And do you re member the time we . , . only seven franc* among the lot of at and the dinner was . . . you're surely coming over in June, then . . . oils . . . you've got tlfc thing. I tell you . . . you'll he great. l>alla* . . . remember what Vlbray wild . . atudy .. . work . . Dirk was wretched. He pointed gut objects of Interest to General Goguet. Sixty utiles of boulevard. Park ays tern. Finest in the country. Grand boulevard. Drexel boulevard. Jack son phrk- Illinois Central trains. Ter rible. ye*, but they were electrifying. Going to make "em run by electricity, you know. Things wouldn't look so dirty, after that. Halated street. Longest street In the world. And. "Ah, yea," said the general, po litely. "Ah. yes. l)ulte so. Most in terestlng." » The rich blsck loam cf High Pral | rie. A hint of fresh green things Just peeping out of the earth. Hothouses. C-»tdframee. The farm. * "Rut I thought you aald It was a small farm!" said General Goguet. as they descended from the car. He looked about at the acreage. "It Is small." Dirk assured him. "Only alMNit forty acres." "Ah. well, you Americana. In France we farm on a very small scale, you understand. We have not the land. The great vaat country." He waved Ids right inn. You felt that tf the left sleeve had not t-een empty he would have made a large and sweep ing gesture with IM>HI arms. Sellna was not In the neat, quiet house. She was not on the porch, or In the yard. Meetia Bras, phlegmatic und uutli-.steied. came In from the kitchen. Mis' Dejong was la the fields. She would cell her. This she proceed ed to do by. blowing three powerful bleats snd sgsln three oa a horn Which she took from a book on the wall. She stood in the kitchen doorway, facing the fields, blowing, her red cheeks puffed outrageously. That brings her." Meena assured them; and went back to her work. The* "ajse out on the porch to await Sellna. She was out OD the weat alxteA—the west sixteen that used to be unproHftc, half drowned muckland. Dirk felt a little uneasy, and ashamed that he should feel so. Then they saw her coming, a small dark figure against the background of sun und sky and fields. She came swiftly, yet ploddingly, for "the ground was heavy. They stood facing her, the four of them. As she came nearer they saw that she was wearing a dark skirt pinned up about her ankles to protect it from the wet spring earth, and yet it was spattered with a bor der of rnud spots. A rough, heavy gray sweater was buttoned closely about the straight, slim body. On her heud was a battered soft black hat. Her feet, in broad-toed sensible shoes, she lifted high out of the soft, cling ing soil. Her hair blew a little in the gentle spring breeze. Her cheeks were faintly pink. She was coming up the path now. She could distinguish their faces. She saw. Dirk; smiled, waved. Her glance went Inquiringly to the others—the bearded man In uniform, the tall girl, the man with the dark, vivid face. Then she stopped, sudden ly, and her hand went to her heart as though she had felt a great pang, and her lips were parted, and her. eyes enormous. As Roelf came forward swiftly she took a few quick, running steps toward him, like a young girl, lie took the slight figure in the mud spattered skirt, the rough gray sweater and the battered old hat Into his arms. • •••••» They had had tea li\tbe farm sitting room and Dallas had made a little moaning over the beauty of the Dutch luster set. Sellna had entertained them with the shining air of one who is robed in silk and fine iinea She and General Goguet had got on fa mously front the start, meeting on the common ground of asparagus culture. "But how thick?" he liad demanded, for lie, too, had Ills pet asparagus beds on the farm In Brlttanj*. "How thick at the base?" Selina made • circle with thumb and forefinge*. The general groaned with envy and despair. He was very com fortable, the general. He partook largely of tea and cakes. He flattered Sellna with his eyes. She actually dim pled, flushed, laughed like a girl. But It was to Roelf she turned; It was on 1^ He Picked Up BsUna's Rough toerk. Worn Htnd and Kissed It Roelf that her eyes dwelt and rested. It waa with him site walked when stie was silent and the others talked. It waa as though he were her one son, and had come home. Her face was. radiant, beautiful. Seated next to Dirk. Dallaa said. In a low voice: "There, that's what I mean. Tbat'a what I mean when I say I want to do portraits. Not por traits of ladles with a string of pearls and one Illy band half bidden to the folds of a aatln skirt. I mean char acter portraits of inen and women who are really distinguished looking—dls tlngulsbedly American, for example— like jrour mother.'* Dirk looked np at ber quickly, half smiling, as though expecting to find her smiling, too. But she was not smiling. "My mother!" "Tea. if she'd let me. With thst fine splendid face all lit up with the light that comes from Inside; and the Jaw line like that of the women who came over In the Mayflower; or crossed the continent In a covert wagon; and her eyes! And that battered funny gor geous bum old hat and the white shirt waist—and her hands! She's beauti ful. She'd make me famous at on* leap. You'd see!" "Dirk stared at Iter. It waa aa though be could not comprehend. Then he turned la his chair to stare at hit mother. Sellna was talking to Roelf. "And you've dona all the famous men of Kurope, haven't you. Roelf! To think of It! You've seen the world, and you've got It In your hand. Little Koelf Pool. And you did It all alone. Ila spite of everything." R>«lf leaned toward ber. Re put hla band over ber rough one. "Cab bages are beaatlful." be said. Then they both laughed as at some exquisite joke. Then, seriously: "What s line life you've bad. 100, Sellna. A full life, and a rich one and successful." "1 r exclaimed Sellna. "Why. Roelf. I've been here all tbeee years. Just where you left me when you were a boy. 1 think the vary bat and dress ta wearing might be the aame I were then. I*ve been nowhere, done noth ing, seen nothing. When I think of ell the places I was grilng ta seel All the things I was going to #»r THE AT.AMANCE OT KAN'ER, GRAHAM. N. C. "Tou've been everywhere in tha world." said Koelf. "Tou've seen all the places of great beauty and light. You remember you told me that your father had once said, when you were a little girl, that titers? were only two kinds of people who really mattered In the world. One kind was wheat and the other kind emeralds. You're vtaat, Sellna." "And you're emerafd," said Sellna, quickly. The general was interested bat un comprehending. He glanced now at the watch on his wrist and gave a little exclamation. "But the dinner! Our hostess Madame Storm! If Is very fine to run awly but' one must come back. Our so beautiful hostess." He had sprung to his feet. "She Is beautiful, isn't she?"' said Sellna. "No," Roelf replied, abruptly. "The mouth is smaller than the eyes. When the mouth Is smaller than the eyes there Is no real beauty. Now Pallas here —" "Yes. me," scoffed Dallas, all agrln. "There's a grand mouth for you. If a large mouth Is your notion of beauty then I must look like Helen of Troy to you, Koelf." "You do," said Koelf, simply. Inside Dirk something was saying, over and over, "You're nothing but a rubber stamp, Dirk DeJong. You're nothing but a rubber stamp." Over and over. "These dinners!" exclaimed the gen eral. "I do not wish to seem ungra cious. but these dinners! Much rather would I remain here on tills quiet and beautiful farm." At the porch steps he turned, brrfbght his heels together with a sharp smack, bent from the waist, picked up Seilna's rough work-worn hand and kissed It. And then, as she smiled a little, un certainly, her left hand at her breast, her cheeks sink, Koelf, too, kissed her bnnd tenderly. "Why," said Sellna. and laughed a sftft tremulous little laugh, "Why, I've never had my hand kissed before." She stood on the porch steps and waved at them as they were whirled swiftly away, the four of them. A slight stralgh; little figure in the plain white blouse and the skirt spattered with the soil of the farm. "You'll come out again?" she had said to Dallas. And Dallas had said yes, but that she waa leaving soon for Paris, to study and work. "When I came back you'U let me do your portrait ?" ' "My portrait!" Sellna had exclaimed, wonderingly. Now as the four were whirled back to -Chicago over the asphalted Halsted road tliey were relaxed, a little tired. They yielded to the narcotic of spring that was in the air. Roelf Pool took off his hat. In the cruel spring sunshine you saw that the black hair was sprinkled with gray. "On days like this I refuse to believe that I'm forty-five. Dallas, tell me I'm not forty-five." "You're not forty-five," said Dallas In ber leisurely caressing voice. Roelfs lean brown hand reachei over frankly and clasped her strong white one. "When you say It like that, Dallas, It sounds true." "It Is true," said Dallas. They dropped Dallas first at the shabby old Ontario street studio, thea Dirk at his smart little apartment, anc went on. Dirk turned his key in the lock. Sakl, the Japanese houseman, slid silently Into the hall snaking little hiss ing noises of greeting. On the correct little console in the hall there was a correct little pile of letters and invita tions. He went through the Italian living room and Into his bedroom. The Jap followed hire. Dirk's correct eve ning clothes (made by Peel the English tailor of Michigan boulevard) were laid correctly on his bed—trousers, vest, shirt, cost; fine, lmmftculate. "Messages, Sakl?" "Missy Stlom telephone." "Oh. leave any message?" * "No. Say s'e call 'gain." "All right, SakL" He waved him awsy and out of the room. The man went, and closed the door softly be hind him as a correct Jap servant should. Dirk took off his coat. Ids vest, and threw them on a chair near tlie bed. He stood at tbe bedside look ing down at his Peel clothes, at the glossy shlrtfront that never bulged. A bath, he thought, dully, automatically. Then, quite suddenly, he flung himself on tlte fine silk-covered bed, face down, and lay there, his heed In his arms, very still. He was lying there half an hour later when be heard the tele phone's shrill Insistence snd Saki's gentle deferential rap at the bedroom door. ITHE END ] G«*m on Coord Wild geese are extremely wary, u take nothing for granted. While feed ing they have a perfect system of aas triea. Not content with this, every BOW and then two or three will fly round high up to see that aothlfcg la eves approaching them from a dis tance. Their hearing la very acute, and It la aald their aenae of smell la also. Cer tainly. If they are approached down wind, they are up and away at oaea, even If the greatest care haa how taktn to keep oat of tight. They have a cry like a pack d bounds, which may have given riae to ma ay of tbe legends of ghostly packs that are aald to hunt aa equally ghast ly fox at night. Only Rmml Grmwtk Some aMB grow. thers juft awed op. It most frequently happens that Ibe tetter swell la the heid rather than Heewhere. and a llttte money largely ooairtbataa ta this. Traa growth la BUM toy tamnyaat of mtaO, bean, and -ml— Qftt. TOGGED IN BLACK AND WHITE; PARIS FINERY FOR LITTLE FOLKS tJt/OMEN may have been more * * beautifully clad than tbey are this summer—Jo some prehistoric age, or- some unrecorded and wholly forgotten era—they may have been. But mankind la unanimously Inclined to give them a vote of confidence. In case they choose to challenge all other periods of recorded history, to com parisons. The clothes of today are j\. unburn * 1 II ■■MSHpML w ■ft K i«k ■ &• V^L u • DESIGNED FOR MIDSUMMER WEAR simple, comfortable, elegant and, above all, beautiful, and, by way of proof, the costume pictured above, de signed for midsummer wear, is offered as "exhibit A." Nothing more unusual than black, crepe-back satin and white crepe de chine, which can be purchased any where, are required for this fine bit of artistry In dressmaking and one of the most gratifying things about pres ent-day modes and materials is that anyone who chooses may have them. It takes very little fabric to make a frock and styles are not difficult for the home dressmaker to copy. The model pictured is a stralghtllne pat tern varied ty plaited godets set in at each side at the hlpllne of the skirt portion. This gives the dress the fashionable flare besides added grace of line and freedom in walking. The undersleeves and shirt-bosom front of the crepe de cblne are prettily adorned" with small, ->ak-leaf design, cut from the black satin and outlined with narrow black braid. The neck finish Is unique and beautiful. Long ties made of satin are knotted at the PARIS DESIGNS FOR THE YOUNG end and finished with many falling loope of narrow ribbon. The ensemble idea has taken root In the minds of discriminating women and ie net forth In all the detalla of this toilette A feat of white georgette has tba simplest eort of trimming— merely folds of the material coached down orer the crown and a brim btnd ng of black valvac There Is a abort strand of pearls about the neck, aid the ahoeo—their wearer points with pride to. them aa really the moat orig inal la design of any Item In her coa tnme. They ara made of aoft Mack kid. piped with white, and have diag onal Instep and ankle etrapa. No feet wen ever more exqolaltely dad/ Thla Is the end of ■ perfect ensemble and Its owner may go on her way. entirely satisfied with It. Paris sends over a few pictures of Its small aristocrats, much dressed np. and among them -are two of tlay boys clad in allk, as pictured here. Upon rare occasions, even the small boy must be ceremoniously clothed— so let us consider how the French dla- • pose of an uncomfortable half hoar or so for the youngsters—and have It over with. Afterward time can be more profitably given to the excellent'models designed for little girls. _ At the left of the picture nothing less magnificent than marine blue satin makes the straight coat and very short pants with a vest in white with small red buttons. The smaller boy at the right Is almost more resplendent in a suit of red crepe, "With jabot at the «eck and frills in the sleeves, of fine white batiste. % In little girls' summer clothes Paris reveals its partiality for the ensemble idea and presents pretty frocks of sheer materials, very simply made and adorned with drawn work. These frocks have, usually, short yokes and are sleeveless. The dresses, gathered to the yokes, are very short and have narrow hems; it is just above these hems and on the yokes, that the drawn work appears, in different designs. A small hat to match has the same sort of adornment. Pastel colored voile* offer about the best medium for frocks of this kind. A touch of colorfnl em- broidery may be substituted for the drawn work and In colors orchid, blue, maize and pink are favored. Even little tots have ensemble suits In which two colors are used. Oat model consists of a plaited frock of ciepe de chine In biae worn under a pongee coa* In tan. piped with Mae. The coat Is three Inches shorter than the drees (which does not quite reach the knees) and la entirely plain. It has narrow turned-hack cuffs and the ham Is turned upon the right side both finished with the piping. A plaid frock and plata coat are united into aa eneembie by aaeana at plaid cuSa oa the coat sleeres and plaid pocket Ha pa JBLIA BOTTOMLEY. * IW. 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