THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE
X
MARY
MARIE
A
2ty Eleanor H. Porter
A
Illustrations by
H. Livingstone
0,rrtM kr Ktauxr a. r.tUe
CHAPTER V Continued.
It was after supper, and I had gone
Into the library. Father had gone out
t-. tho observatory as usual, and Aunt
Jane had gone upstairs to hor room as
usual, and as usual I was wandering
'round looking for something to do. I
wanted to play on the piano, but I
didn't dure to not with all thoso
dead-hair and wax-flower folks In tho
parlor watching me, nnd the chanco of
Father's coming In as he did before.
' I was standing In the window star
ing out nt nothing It wasn't quite
dark yet when again I had that queer
feeling that somebody was looking at
me. I turned and there was Father.
He had come In and was sitting in the
big chair by the table. But this time
he didn't look right away as usual and
give mo a chnnce to slip quietly out
of the room, as I always had before.
Instead he said:
"What are you doing there, Mary?"
"N-nothlngl" Father frowned and
hitched In his chair. Father always
hitches In his cliatr when he's Irritat
ed and nervous. "You can't bo doing
.nothing. Nobody but a deud man does
nothing and we aren't so sure about
him. What are - you ddlng, Mary?"
"Just Mooklng out the window."
"Come here. I want to talk to you."
"Yes, Father."
I went, of course, nt once, and sat
down In tho chair near him. Ho
hitched again In his seat.
"Why don't you do something read,
sew, knit?" ho demanded. "Why do I
always And you moping around, doing
nothing?"
Just like that he said It; and when
ho had just told me
"Why, Father I" I cried; and I know
that I showed how surprised I was.
"I thought you Just said I couldn't do
nothing that nobody could I"
'"Eh? What I Tut, tut I" He scorned
very ungry nt first; then suddenly he
looked sharply Into my face. Next, If
you'll believe It, he laughed the
queer little chuckle under his breath
that I've heard him give two or three
times when there was something he
thought was funny. "Humph I" he
grunted. Then he guve me another
sharp look out of his eyes, and said:
"I don't think you meant that to bo
quite so Impertinent as It sounded,
Mary, so we'll let It pass this time.
I'll put my question this way: Don't
you over knit or read or sew?"
"I do. sew every duy In Aunt June's
room, ten minutes hemming, ten min
utes seaming, and ten minutes basting
patchwork squares together. I don't
know how to knit."
"How nbout reading? Don't you
care for reading?"
"Why, of course I do, 1 love ItP I
cried. "And I do rend lots at
homo."
"At homo?"
I knew, then, of course, thut I'd
niado another awful break. There
wasn't any smile around Father's eyes
now, and his Hps came together hard
' and thin over thut lust word.
"At nt my home," I stammered "I
moan, my other home."
"Humph 1" grunted Father. Then,
after a minute : "Hut why, pray, can't
you road hero? I'm sure there are
books enough." He flourished his
hands toward tho bookcases all
around the room.
"Oh, I do u little; but, you see,
I'm so ufruld 111 leave some of them
it when I'ln through," I explained.
"Well, whnt of It? Whut If you do?"
he demanded.
"Why, Father 1" I tried to show by
the way I said It that he knew of
course he knew. But he mado mo toll
lUm right out,that Aunt Jane wouldn't
like It, and that tho books always had
to bo kept exactly where they be
longed.
.
-.'Well, 'why not? Why shouldn't
they? Aren't books down thero In
Boston kept where thoy belong,
pruy?"
It was tho first time slnco I'd como
that he'd over mentioned Boston; and
I "almost Jumped out of my chair when
I heard him. But I seon saw It wasn't
gtflng to be the last, for right then
and thero ho began to question me,
even worse man Aunt Jano had.
Ho wanted to know everything,
everything; all about tho houso. with
Its cushions and cozy corners and cur
tains 'way up, and books left around
easy to get, and magazines, and Baby
Lest'ep, and tho fun wo had romping
with him, and everything. Qidy, of
courso, I dldu't mention Mother, Aunt
Jano had told mo not to not any
whore; nnd to bo spoclully cureful be
foro Father. But what can you do
when ho asks you himself, right out
plain 7 And that's 'what ho did.
ITe'd been up on his feet, tramping
up and down .tho room all tho tlrao
I'd been talking; and now all of a
sudden, he wheels around and stops
short.
"How Is your mother, Mary?" ho
asks. And It was Jus. fl& Lt hejcj
opened the door to anothor room, ho
had such a whole lot of qucstlsns to
ask afler that. And when he'd fin
ished he knew everything: whnt time
we got up and went to bed nnd what
we did all day, and the parties and
dinners nnd nuto rldos, and the folks
that came such a lot to see Mother.
Then all of a sudden he stopped
nsklng questions, I mean. He stopped
Just as suddenly ns he'd begun. Why,
I Was right In the middle of telling
about a concert for charity we got up
Just before I came away, and how
Mother had practiced for days and
days with the young man who played
the violin, when all of a sudden Fa
ther Jerked his watch from his pocket
and said:
"There, there, Mary, It's getting
late. You've talked enough too
much. Now go to bed. Good night."
Talked too much, Indeed I And
who'd been making me do nil the
talking, I should like to know? But,
of course, I couldn't sny anything.
Thnt's tho unfair part of lt. Old folks
can say anything, anything they want
to to you, but you can't sny a thing
back to them not a thing.
And so I went to bed. And tho
next dny all that Father said to me
was, "Good-morning, Mary," and
"Good-night," Just as he had ever
since I came. And that's all he's said
yesterday and today. But he's looked
at me a lot, I know, because at meal
times and others, when ho's been In
the room with me, I've looked up and
found his eyes on mc. Funny, Isn't lt?
TWO WEEKS LATER
Well, I don't know as I have any
thing very special to say. Still, I sup
poso I ought to write something; so
I'll put down what little there Is.
Of course, there doesn't so much
happen hero, anyway, as there docs at
home I mean In Boston. (I must stop
calling It home down to Boston as If
this wasn't home at all. It makes Aunt
Jano very, very angry, and I don't
think Fathor likes lt very well.) But,
ns I was saying, thero really doesn't
so much happen hero ns thero does
down to, Boston ; and lt Isn't nearly so
Interesting. But, theroj I suppose I
mustn't expect lt to be Interesting. Tm
Mary now, not Marie.
There aren't any tons and dinners
and pretty ladles nnd music and soul-ful-oyed
prospective suitors here. Myl
Wouldn't Aunt Jane have four fits?
And Fnthor, too. But I'd Just like tv
put one of Mother's tens with tho little
cakes and flowers and talk nnd tink
ling laughs down In Aunt Jane's par
lor, and then watch what happened.
Oh, of course, the party couldn't stand
lt long not In there with the hair
wreath and the collln plute. But they
could stand lt long enough for Father
to thunder from the library, "Jane,
what In Heaven's name Is the mean
ing of all this?" And for Aunt Jane to
give one look at the kind of clothes
real folks wear, and then flee ' with
her hands to her cars and her eyes up
raised to the celling. Wouldn't It be
fun?
But, there I What's the use of imag
ining perfectly crazy, impossible
things like that? We haven't had a
thing here In that pnrlor since I enmo
but one missionary meeting nnd one
Ladles' Aid Sewing circle; and after
tho last one (tho sewing circle) Aunt
Jane worked a whole day picking
threads off .the enrpet, and smooth
ing down tho linen covers because
they'd got so mussed up. And I
heard her tell the hired girl that she
shouldn't have that sewing circle here
again in a hurry, nnd when she did
have them they'd have to sew In tho
dining room with a sheet spread down
catch the threads. My! but I would
like to seo Aunt Jane with one of
Mother's teas In her pnrlor!
I can't seo us Father has changed
much If any these last two weeks. He
still doesn't pay much of any attention
to me, though I do find him looking at
me sometimes, Just us If ho was trying
to mnke up his mind nbout something.
He doesn't suy hardly anything to me,
only once or twice when he got to
asking questions again about Boston
and Mother.
The hist time I told hlin all about
Mr. Harlow, and ho was so Interested 1
I Just happened to mention his name,
and he wanted to know right away If
It was Mr. Carl Harlow, and If I know
I Do Find Him Looklna it Me Some
timet, Just at If He Was Trying to
Make Op Hit Mind About Something.
whother Mother had oyer known him
before. And of ri t told Mm right;
nvay that lt was the same ono sno
was engaged to before she was en
gaged to him.
Father looked funny and kind of
grunted nnd snld, yes, yes, he know.
Then he snld, "That will do, Mary."
And ho begnn to read hla book again.
But he never turned n page, and It
wasn't five minutes before he got up
nnd walked nrouud the room, picking
out books from the bookcases and put
ting them right back. Then he turned
to me and asked with a kind of of-courso-I-don't-cnre
nlr:
"Did you say you saw quite a little
of this Harlow fellow?"
But he did care. I know ho did. Ho
was real Interested. I could see that
he was. And so I told him everything,
nil about how he came there to tho
teas, and sent her flowers and candy,
and was getting a divorce himself, and
whnt he said on the sofa that day, and
how Mother answered. As I said, I
told him everything, only I was care
ful not to call Mr. Harlow a prospec
tive suitor, of course. I remembered
too well what Aunt Uattle had said.
Father didn't say anything when I
got through. He just got up and left
the room, nnd pretty quick I saw hlra
crossing the lawn to the observatory.
I guess there aren't any prospective
suitors here. I mean, I guess Father
Isn't a prospective suitor anyhow,
not yet. (Of course, It's the man that
haB to be suitor.) He doesn't go any
where, only over to tho college and
out to the observatory. I've watched
so to see. I wanted specially to know,
for of course If he was being a pro
spective suitor to any one, she'd be
my new mother, maybe. And I'm go
ing to bo awfully particular about any
new mother coming Into the house.
A wholo lot more, even, depends on
mothers than on fathers, you know;
and If you're going to have ono all
ready-mado thrust upon you, you are
sort of anxious to know what kind
she Is. Some way, I don't think I'd
like a new mother even as well as I'd
like a new father ; and I don't believe
I'd like him very well.
Of course, there are quite a lot of
ladles here that Father could have.
There are several pretty teachers In
the schools, and some nice unmarried
ladles In the church. And there's
Miss I'nrmella Snow. She's Professor
Snow's sister. She wears glasses and
is terribly learned. Maybe he would
like her. But, Mercy I I shouldn't.
Then there's Miss Grace Ann San
born. She's fat, and awfully Jolly.
She cdmes here a lot lately to see
Aunt Jane. I don't know why. They
don't belong to the same church, or
anything. But she "runs over," as
she cnlls It, almost every afternoon
Juet n little before dinner I mean
supper.
Mrs. Durllng used to come then, too,
when I first came; but she comes
over evenings now more. Maybe it's
because she doesn't like Miss Grace
Ann. I don't think she does like her,
for every time she saw hor, she'd say :
"Oh, you? So you're here!" and
pretty quick she'd get up and go. And
now she comes evenings. She's Ax
ing over her house, nnd she runs and
asks Aunt Jane's advice about every
little thing. She asks Father's, too,
every chnnce she gets, when she seos
him In the hall or on the front steps.
I heard her tell Aunt Jane she consid
ered Professor Anderson a man of
most excellent tnsto and Judgment
I suppose Mrs. Darling could be my
new mother. Sho's a widow. Her hus
band died last year. She Is very well
off now that her husband Is dead, I
heard Aunt .Tnnc say one day. She
meant well off In money quite a lot
of lt. you know.' I thought she meant
well oft because he was dead and iho
didn't hava to live with him any
moru, and I said so to Aunt Jane.
(He wns a cross muu, nnd very stern,
as evorybody knew.) But, dear suz
me! Aunt Jane wns awfully shocked,
and snld certainly not; that she
meant Mr. Darling had left his wife a
great deal of money.
Then she tnlked very stern and sol
emn to me, and said that I must not
think Just becausu my poor dear fa
ther's married life had ended In such
a wretched tragedy that every other
home had such u skeleton In tho
closet.
I grew stern nnd dignified and sol
emn then. I knew, of course, what
she meant. I'm no child. She meant
Mother. She mount that Mother, ray
dear blessed mother, was the skeleton
In their closet. And of course I wusn't
going to stand there and hear that,
and not say a word.
But I didn't say just a word. I
said a pood many words. I won't try
to put them all dowu here: but I told
her quietly, In a firm voice, and with
no temper (showing), that I guessed
Father was Just as much of a skele
ton In Mother's closet as she was In
his; nnd that If she could see how
perfectly hojipy my mother wns now
she'd understand a little of what my
father's skeleton had dono to her all
thoso years she'd hudto live with it
I said a lot more, but before I'd got
half finished with what I waued to
say, I got to crying, so I just had te
run out of the room. ,
TO BE CONTINUED.
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REGISTRATION NOTICE TO
VOTERS
Tho law requires that all voters In
cities of 7,000 or moro register at the
offico of the City Clerk. At the last
city election an opportunity was given
to register at tJhe polling places nnd
most of those voting registered. There
was, however, less than half of the le
gal votors of tho city who voted at
tho city election, all of whom will
want to vote at the primaries in July.
In order to accomodate them the city
will be prepared to register voters
during all of tho month of May at tho
office of tho City Clerk. It only re
quires two or three minutes and wo
ask all voters to register who did
not at tho last election.
Thomas F. Healey and A. "W. Shilling,
Commissioners of Registration.
O. E. Elder, City Clerk.
NOTICE FOR BIDS
Notice Is hereby glvon that the
Board of County Commissioners ot
i'ncu'i County, Nobraska, will on the
5th day of Juno 1922 receive sealed
bids for tho care of tho County Poor
for the balanco of tho year 1922, as
por specified bidding forms on fllo in
tho County Clerk's office.
All bids must bo fllod with the
County Clerk on or boforo 12 o'clock
noon of tho 5th day ot Juno 1922, and
will bo publicly opened in the offico
.f the (.unt) ConimI'-!nvH'r;j at 2 P.
M. of tho same day.
Dated at North Platte, Nebraska,
this 16th day of May, 1922.
(Seal) A. S. ALLEN, County Clerk.
NOTICE OF TAKING UP ESTRAY
Taken up by tlu undersigned at
2100 East Sixth street, County of Lin
coln, Stato ot Nobraskt.; on tho 9th
day ot May 1922: Ono whito-facod
3-year old heifer; brand on loft side.
H. V. Pastued, on F. J. Broemer's
placo.
Dated this 16th day ot May 1922.
Signed: "W. D. CRAIG.
NOTICE)
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who deslro treo high school privileges
for tholr children for tho noxt school
year, should mako application to this
offico for free high school tuition be
fore tho annual mooting.
AILEEN G. COCHRAN,
County Suporintendont
NOTICE OF TAKING UP ESTRAY
Taken up by tho undersigned on
tho old Edls placo, 2 mllos south of
Ntown, County ot Lincoln, Stato of
Nobraska; on tho 10th day ot May,
1922; One black mule, about 3 years
old, weighing $1100 pounds.
Dated this 15th day of May, 1922.
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Wo hnvo stored in a public ware
house In North Platto a now high
grado player piano which for quick
Bale, will bo sold at a tromendoiis
sacrifice. Terms to any responsible
parrty. ir interested wrfte quicK ror
'particulars to
1 Tho Denver Music Company
Denver, Colorado.
OFFICE OF MUTUAL BUILDING &
LOAN ASSOCIATION
To the ' Shareholders
of Said Association:
At a mooting of tho state taxing
authorities held in Lincoln April 26,
it was decided, that in arriving at the
valuation to bo placed on shares of
stock in domestic Building & Loan
Associations for tho purpose of taxa
tion, tho same rulo of arriving at the
, taxable valuation' of such shares, with
tho samo deductions, as is applied to
the shares of stock of aft other domes
Mo corporations.
Tho law provides: . "Tho value of
tho shares of stock of corporations or
ganized under the laws of this state
shall be determined for tho purpose
of tills section by deducting from tho
actual value of tho paid up capital
""stock surplus and undivided profits,
the actual value of tho property of the
corporation both tangible and intan-
glblo listed and taxed in this state,
and tho actual value of tho property
of the corporation outside of the
state."
Following up this ruling and apply
ing tho samo to the taxablo value of
tho shares of this Association, it lias
been decided that only throo per- cent
'of tho actual value of said shares
shall bo returned for taxation; that
is, for each ono hundred dollars of
actual value of such share three dol
lars shall bo returned as intangible
(and only one-fourth of that amount
shall bo assessed against tho share
holder. 1 Shareholders can ascertain tho ac
tual value of their shares by applying
to the secretary.
T. C PATTERSON, President.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids wjll be received at the
offico of tho Stato Department of Pub
' lie Works, fourth floor Brownoll Block
at Lincoln, Nebraska, until 12 o'clock,
noon, on Juno 12, 1922, for gravel, sur
, facing, culvorts and Incidental work
on the North Platto-Vroman Crossing
'Project No. 170, Federal Aid Road.
1 Bids will bo opened and contracts
let in tho Senate Chamber, Capital
Building as fast as practicable after
tlmo for filing bids is closed. County
I Boards are hereby requested to bo
present or represented. Bidders are
I invited to be present.
I Tho proposed work consists oLcon-
atructlng 26.326 miles of Gravel road.
The approximate quantities are:
.18,500 Cubic yards earth excava
tion. 1,191.04 Sta. Blade grader construc
tion. 17,500 Cu. Yds. Clay excavation
for Binder. .
100 Cu. Yds. Special excavation
Class A Grading.
100 Cu. Yds. Special excavation
, Class B Culvert
6,000 Cu. Yds. Sta. overhaul.
14,500 Cu. Yds. MI. Hauling clay
for bindor.
27.25 Cu. Yds. Concrete for Head
wiills
552 Lin. ft. Wood Guard rail.
78 Lin. ft. 18 In. Corrugated
pipe.
40 Lin. ft. 24 In. Corrugated
plpo.
26 Lin. ft. 36 in. Corrugated
plpo.
280,711 Sq; Yds. 4x20 Gravel surfaa
ing.
21,627 Sq. Yds. 3x20 Gravel sur
facing.
6,333 Sq. Yds. 2x20 GraTCl sur
facing.
Certified chock for 5 por cont of tho
Class B, Grading.
200 Cu. Yds.- Special oxcavatlon
amount ot tho bid will bo required
with each and ovory bid received.
Plans and specifications for the
work may bo seen and information
and proposal forms secured at tho of
fico of tho County Clork at North
Platto, Nobraska or at tho office of
tho State Department of Public Works
at Lincoln, Nobraska.
The Stato and County resorvo the
rigm to waive an tecnnicauues anu
reject any or all bids.
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County Clork, Lincoln County,
GEO. E. JOHNSON,
Secretary.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estato No. 1884 of Louis Rayomo, de
ceased in tho County Court of Lla
coln County, Nobraska. J
Tho Stato of Nebraska, ss: Credit- m
ors ot said estate will take notice that
tho tlmo limited for presentation and
filing of claims against said aatatn
Is Sept 13, 1922, and for settlement
of said Estato is May 9, 1923; that
I will sit at tho county court room
in said County on Juno 13th. 132!
at 10 o'olock a. m. and on Bept 14jT
1922 at 10 o'clock a. nv, to TewHvIL
oxamino, hear, allow, or artw .111
claims and objections dulr ffind
Dated May 9, 1922.
T. 9. Blankenburg,
Acting County Judge
J.