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Big" (Dirk DeJong) In his In
fancy. And hla mother, Sellna
DeJong, (laughter of Simeon
Peake. gambler and gentleman
of fortune. Her life, to young
womanhood In Chicago In 1888,
has been unconventional, some
what seamy, but generally enjoy
able. At school her chum la Julie
Hcmpel, daughter of Auguat
Hempel, butcher. Simeon la killed
In a quarrel that la not hla own,
and Sellna, nineteen years old
and practically deatitute, aecurea
a position aa teacher at the High
Prairie achool. In the outakirta
of Chicago, living at the home
of a truck faruier, Klaas Pool.
In Koelf, tiyfclve years old, son
of Klaaa, Sellna perceives a kin
dred spirit, a lover of beauty,
like herself. Sellna heara goaalp
concerning the affection of the
"Widow l'aarlenberg," rich and
good-looking, for Pervus DeJong.
poor truck farmer, who Is Insen
sible to the widow's attractions.
For a community "sociable" Se
llna preparea a lunch box, dainty,
but not of ample proportions,
which is to be "auctioned," ac
cording to custom. The amallneas
of the box excites derlaion and
Sellna la heartbroken.
CHAPTER IV—Continued
Sellfrti's cheeks matched her gown.
Her eyes were wide and dark with the
effort she was making to force back
the hot haze threatening them. Why
had she mounted tills wretched soap
box! Why had she come to this hid
eous party! Why had she come to
High I'riilrle! Why! . . .
"Miss Sellna Peake, that's who.
Miss Se-11-na Peake!"
A hundred balloon faces pulled by a
single cord turned toward her as she
stood there on the box for all to see.
They swam toward her. She put up a
hand to push them back.
"What'm I bid! What'm I bid!
What'm I bid for this here lovely little
toothful, gents! Sturt her up!"
"Five cents!" pTped up old Johannes
Ambuul. with a snicker. The tittedng
crowd broke Into a guffaw. Sellna was
conscious of a little sick feeling
pit of her stomach. Through the haze
she saw the widow's face, no longer
sulky, but smiling -now. She saw
Itoelf's deur dark head. Ills face was
set, like s man's. He was coming
toward her, or trying to. but the crowd
wedged hlin In, small as he was among
those great bodies. She lost sight of
him. How hot It was! how hot. . . .
An arm at her waist. Someone had
mounted the little box and stood teeter
ing there beside her, pressed against
her slightly, reassuringly. Pervus De-
Jong. Her head was on a'level with
Ihe doorway, on the soap box, for all
High Prairie to see.
"Five cents I'm bid for this lovely
little mouthful put up by the school
teacher's own fair hands. Five cents!
Five—"
"One dollar!" Pervus DeJong.
The balloon faces were suddenly
punctured with holes. High Prairie's
Jaw dropped with astonishment. Its
mouth stood often.
There was nothing plain about Sellna
now. Her dark head was held high,
and his fair one !>eslde It made a vivid
foil. The purchase of the wine-colored
cashmere was at last Justified.
"\nd ten!" cackled old Johannes
Atnituul, his rheumy eyes on Sellna.
Art and human spltefulness struggled
visibly for mnstvry In Adam Ooms'
face—and art won. The auctioneer
triumphed over the tuan. The term
"crowd psychology" was unknown
to him, but he was artist enough
to sense that' some curious magic
process, working throggh tills room
ful of people, had transformed
the little white box. from a thing
despised and ridiculed. Into an object
of beauty, of value, of Infinite desir
ability. He now eyed it in a catalepsy
of admiration.
">ne-ten I'm bid for this box all
tied with a ribbon to match the gown
of the girl who brought It Gents, jror
get the ribbon, the lunch, and the girt
And only one-ten bid for all that.
Gents! Gents! Remember, it ain't
only a lunch—lt's s picture. It pleases
the eye. I>o I h -%r one—"
"Five bits!" Barend Deßoo. of Low
Prairie, in the Hals. A strapping young
Dutchman, the Brum Bones of the dis
trict. He drove to the Haymarket
with his load of produce and played
cards all night on the wagon under the
gas larches while the street girls of
the neighborhood assailed him In vain.
Six feet three, his red face shone now
like a harvest moon above the crowd.
A merry, mischievous eye that laughed
at Pervus DeJong and hla dollar bid.
"Dollar and a half!" A high clear
voice—a boy's voice. Roelf.
"Oh, no!" said Sellna aloud. Bui
she was unheard In the gabble. Roelf
bad once confided to Iter thst he had
saved three dollars and fifty cents in
the last three years. Five dollars
would purchase a set of tools that his
mind had been fixed on for months
past. Keliiiu saw Klaas Pool's look of
astonishment changing to anger. Saw
Maartje Pool's quick hand on his arm.
restraining him. *
"Two dollars!" Pervus DeJong.
"And ten." Johannes Ambuul's cau
tious bid.
"Two and a quarter.'* Barend De-
Roo.
"Two-fifty!" Pervus DeJong.
"Three dollars!" The high voice of
the boy. It cracked a little on the last
syllable, and the crowd laughed.
"Three-three-tliree-three-three - three
three. Three once—"
"And a half." Pervus DeJong.
"Three sixty." /
"Four!" Deltoo.
"And ten."
- The boy's voice was heard ao more.
"I wish they'd stop," whispered
Sellna.
"Five!" Pervus DeJong.
"Six!" Deßoo, his face very red.
"And ten."
"Seven!"
"It's only Jelly sandwiches," said
Sellna to DeJong, in a panic.
"Eight!" Johannes Ambuul, gone
mad.
"Nine!" Deßoo.
"Nine! Nine I'm bid! Nine-nine
nine! Who'll make It—"
"Let him have It. The cup cakes
fell a little. Don't—"
"Ten!" Mild Pervus DeJong.
Barend Deßoo shrugged his great
shoulders. • , •
"Ten-ten-ten. Do I hear eleven? Do
I hear ten-fifty. Ten-ten-ten tententen
tentententen! Gents! Ten once. Ten
twice! Gone—for ten dollars to Per
vus DeJong. And a bargain." Adam
Ooms mopped his bald head and his
cheeks and the damp spot under hla
chin.
Ten dollars. Adam Ooms knew, as
did all the countryside, this was not
the sum of ten dollars merely. No
basket of food, though It contained
nightingales' tongues, the golden apple
of Atalauta. wines of rare vintage,
could have been adequnte recompense
fcir these ten dollars. They represented
sweat and blood; toll and hardship;
hours under the burning prairie sun at
midday; work doggedly carried on
through the drenching showers of
spring; nights of restless sleep snatched
an hour at a time under the sky in
the Chicago market place.; miles of
weary travel down the rude corduroy
road between High Prairie and Chlca*
go, now up to the hubs In mud, now
blinded by dust and blowing sand.
A sale at Christie's, with a miniature
going for a million, could not have met
with a deeper hush, a more dramatic
babble following the hush.
They ate their lunch together In one
corner of Adam Ooms' hall t Sellna
opened the box and took out the
deviled eggs, and the cup cakes that
had fallen a little, and the apples, and
the sandwiches siloed very, very thin.
The coldly appraising eye of all High
Prairie. Low Prairie, and New Haar
lem watched this sparse provender
emerge from the ribbon-tied shoe box.
She offered him a sandwich. It looked
Infiniteslmsi in his great paw. Sud
denly all Sellna's agony of embarrass
ment was swept sway, and she was
laughing, not wildly or hysterically,
but Joyously and girlishly. She sank
her little white teeth into one of the
absurd sandwiciies and looked at him.
expecting to find him laughing, too.
But he wasn't laughing. He looked
very earnest, and his blue eyes were
fixed hard on the bit of bread In his
hand. and his face wss very red and
ciean-shsven. He bit Into the sand
wich and chewed It Solemnly. And
Sellna thought: "Why, the deal
thing! The great h«g dear thing! And
he might have been eating breast of
duck. . . . Ten dollars!" Aloud she
said, "Whst made you do It?"
He seemed not to hear her; bit
rumlnantly Into one of the eup cakes.
Suddenly: "I can't hardly write at
all. >nly to sign my name and like
thaL"
"Resdr
"Only to spell ont the words Any
ways I don't get time for reading. But
figuring I wish 1 knew. 'Rlthmetic.
I can flgger some, but those fellows In
Haytnarket they are too shsrp for me.
They do numbers In their head— like
that, so quick."
Sellna leaned toward him. "Til
teach you. Til teach you."
"How do you mean, teach me?"
"Evening*."
He looked down at hi* great oal
loused palms. then up at ber. "What
would you take for payT* 
"Pay! I doo't want an; pay." She
was genuinely shocked.
Hla face lighted np with a sudden
thought. "Tell you what I could
start for yon the Are, mornings. In the
arhool. And thaw the pump and bring
In a pall of water. Thla month, and
January and rebruary and part of
March, even, BOW I dont go to market
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on account It's winter, I could start
you the flra Till spring. And I
could come maybe three times a week,
evenings, to Pool's place, for lessons."
He lopked so helpless, so humble, so
liuge; and the more pathetic for his
, hugeness.
She felt a little rush of warmth
toward hlra that was at once Imper
sonal and maternal. She thought
again. "Why, the dear thing! The
great helpless big thing! How serious
he Is! And funny." She laughed, sud
denly, a gay little laugh, and he. after
a puzzled pause. Joined her companion
ably.
"Three evenings a week," repeated
Sellna, then, from *the deptlis of her
Ignorance. "Why, I'd love to. I'd —
love to."
Chapter V
The evenings turned out to be Tues
days, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Sup
per was over by six-thirty in the Pool
household. Pervus was there by seven,
very clean as to shirt, his hair brushed
till It shone; shy, and given to drop
ping his hat and humping against
chairs, and looking solemn. Sellna was
torn between pity and mirth. If only
he had blustered. A blustering big
man puts the world on the defensive.
A gentle giant disarms It
Sellna got out her McßrJde's gram
mar and Duffy's arithmetic, and to
gether they started to parse verbs,
paper walls, dig cisterns, and extract
square roots. They found study Im
possible at the oilcloth-covered kitchen
table, with the Pool household eddying
about It. Jakob built a fire in the
parlor stove and there they sat, teacher
and pupil, their feet resting cosily on
the gleaming nickel railing that encir
cled the wood burner.
On the evening of the first lesson
Roelf had glowered throughout sup
per and had disappeared Into the work
shed, whence Issued a great sound of
hammering, sawing, and general clat
ter. He and Sellna had got into the
way of spending much time together,
In or out of doors. The boy wor
shiped her inarticulately. She had
early discovered that he had a feeling
for beauty—beauty of line, texture,
color, and grouping—that was rare In
one of his years. The feel of a satin
ribbon In his fingers; the orange and
rose of a sunset; the folds of the wine
red cashmere dress; the cadence of a
spoken line, brought a look to his face
that startled her.
Since the gathering at Ooms' hall
he had been moody and sullen; had
refused to answer when she spoke to
"Gonsi—for Tsn Dollars to Parvus
DtJong."
him of his bid for her basket. Urged,
he would only say, "Oh, It was Just
fun to make old Ooms mad."
Now, with the ad rent of Pervus Ife-
Jong, Roelf presented that most touch
ing aud miserable of spectacles, a
small boy Jealous and helpless In his
Jealousy. Sellna had asked him to
Join the triweekly evening lessons;
had. Indeed. Inalsted that ( he be a
pupil In the class round the parlor
stove.
Roelf would not. He disappeared
into his woric-shed after supper; did
not emerge until after DeJong*s de
parture.
There w as something sbout the sight
of this great creature bent laboriously
over s slate, the pencil held clumally
in hia huge fingers, that moved Selina
strangely. Pity wracked her. If she
had known to what emotion this pity
was akin abe might have taken away
the slSte juid given him a tablet, and
the whole course of her life would
have been different "Poor lad," she
thought "Poor lail." Chlded herself
for being smused at his childlike eara
wtnesa
He did nof make an apt pupil, though
painstaking. Sellna would go over a
problem or a sentence again and again.
IMtlently. patiently. Then, suddenly,
like a hand paased over hi* face, hla
amlle would come, transforming It. He
would amlle like a child, and Sellna
should hare been warned by the warm
rush of Joy that hla smile gave her.
she would amlle, too. He waa aa
pleased as thongh he had made a fresh
and wonderful discovery.
"Its easy," he would say, "when yon
Know It once." Like a boy.
He usually went home by elght-thlr
ty or Bine. Often the Pools went to
bed before he left. After he had gone
Sellna was wakeful She would heat
water and wash; brash her hair vig
orously: feeling at once buoyant and
depressed.
Sometimes they fell to talking His
wife bad died In the second year
their marriage, when the child wai
born. The child, too, had died. ▲
girl. He was unlucky, like that. It
was the same with the farm.
Sellna's heart melted in pity. He
would look down at the great cal
loused hands; up at her. One of the
charms of Perrus DeJong lay In the
things that his eyes said and his tongue
did not. Women always Imagined he
was about to say what he looked, but
he never did. It made otherwise dull
conversation with hlra most exciting.
His was In no way a shrewd mind.
His respect for Sellna was almost rev
erence. But he had this advantage:
he had married a woman, had lived
with her for two years. She had borne
him a child. Sellna was a girl In ex
perience. She was a woman capable
of a great deal of p&ssion, but she did
not know that Passion was a thing
no woman possessed, much less talked
about. It simply did not exist, except
in men, and then It was something to
be ashamed of, like a violent temper,
or a weak stomach.
By the first of March he could speak
a slow, careful and fairly grammatical
English. He conld master simple
sums. By the middle of March the les
sons would cease. There was too
much work to do about the farm —
night work as well as day. She found
herseff trying no(t to think about the
time when the lessons should cease.
She refused to look ahead to April.
One night, late In February, Sellna
was conscious that she was trying to
control something. She was trying to
keep her eyes away from something.
She realized that she was trying not
to look at his hands. She wanted,
crazlly, to touch them. She wanted to
feel them about her throat She want
ed to put her lips on his hands —brush
the backs of them, slowly, molstily,
with her mouth, llngerlngly. She was
terribly frightened. , She thought to
herself: "I am going crazy. I am los
ing my mind. There is something the
matter with me. I wonder how I look.
I must look queer.'.'
At half-past eight she closed her
book suddenly. "I'm tired. I think
It's the spring coming on." She
smiled a little wavering smile. He
rose and stretched himself, his great
arms high above his head. Sellna
shivered.
"Two more weeks," lie said, "Is the
last lesson. Well, do you think I have
done pretty good—well?"
"Very well," Sellna replied evenly.
She felt very tired.
The first week In March he was 111,
and did not come. A rheumatic afflic
tion to which he was subject It was
the curse of the truck farmer. Sellna's
evenings were free to devote to Roelf,
who glowed again. She sewed, too;
read; helped Mrs. Pool with the house
work In a gust of sympathy and, found
strange relief therein; made over an
old dress; studied; wrote all her let
ters (few enough), even one to the
dried-apple aunts in Vermont She no
longer wrote to Julie Hempel. She
had heard that Julie was to be mar
ried to a Kansas man named Arnold.
Julie herself had not written. The
first week In March passed. He did
not come. Nor did he come the fol
lowing Tuesday or Thursday.
She was bewildered, frightened. All
that week she had a curious feeling—
or succession of feelings. She was
restless, listless, by turns. Period of
furious activity, followed by days of
Inertia. It was the spring, Maartje
said. Sellna hoped she wasn't going
to be 11L She had never felt like that
before. She wanted to cry. She was
Irritable to the point of wasplshness
with the children In the schoolroom.
On Saturday—the fourteenth of
March—he walked in at seven. Klaas,
Maartje and Roelf had driven off to
a gathering at Low Prairie, leaving
Sellna with the pigtails and old Jakob.
She had promised to make taffy for
them, and was In the midst of It when
his knock sounded at the kitchen door.
All the blood in her body rushed to her
head; pounded there hotly. He en
tered. There'slipped down over her a
complete armor of calmness, of self
possession ; of glib how do you do Mr.
DeJong and how are you feeling and
won't you sit down and there's no fire
In the parlor we'll have to sit here.
He took part in the taffy pulling.
Sellna wondered If Geertje and Jozlna
would ever, have done squealing. It
was half-past eight before she bundled
them off to bed with a plate of clipped
taffy lozenges between them. She
heard them scuffling and scrimmaging
about In the rare freedom of their
parents' absence.
Pervus DeJong and Selina sat at
the kitchen table, their books spread
oat before them'on the oilcloth. The
sweet, heavy scent of fruit filled
the room. Selina brought the parlor
lamp into the kitchen, the better to
see. It was a nickel-bellied lamp,
with a yellow glass shade that cast a
mellow golden glow.
"You didn't go to the meeting."
primly. "Mr. and Mrs. Pool went"
"No. I didn't go."
"Why notr
She saw him swallow. -I got
through too late. We're fixing to sow
tomato seeds In the hotbeds tomor
row."
Wall, It looks as if Parvus was
the man. Who does the propos
ing—Parvue or Selina?
(TO BB CONTINUED. >
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