THE BEGINNING OF A STORY
It was the farewell to Claire and Jeff Saxton, a picnic in the Cascades,
near Snoqualmie Falls--a decent and decidedly Milt-less fiesta. Mrs.
Gilson was going to show Claire that they were just as hardy adventurers
as that horrid Daggett person. So she didn't take the limousine, but
merely the seven-passenger Locomobile with the special body.
They were ever so rough and wild. They had no maid. The chauffeur was
absolutely the only help to the Gilsons, Claire, Jeff, and the
temporarily and ejaculatorily nature-loving Mrs. Betz in the daring task
of setting out two folding camp-tables, covering them with a linen
cloth, and opening the picnic basket. Claire had to admit that she
wished that she could steal the picnic basket for Milt. There were
vacuum bottles of hot coffee. There were sandwiches of anchovy and _pate
de foie gras_. There were cream cakes with almonds hidden in the suave
cream, and there was a chicken salad with huge chunks of pure white meat
wallowing in a sea of mayonnaise.
When the gorging was done and the cigarettes brought out (the chauffeur
passed a spirit lamp), they stretched on rubber blankets, and groaned a
little, and spoke well of nature and the delights of roughing it.
"What is it? What's wrong? They're so--oh, so polite. They don't mean
what they say and they don't dare to say what they mean. Is that it?"
worried Claire.
She started. She discovered that she was looking at a bristle of
rope-colored hair and a grin projected from the shelter of a manzanita
bush.
"For the----" she gasped. She was too startled to be able to decide what
was for-the. She spoke judiciously to Jeff Saxton about Upper Montclair,
the subway, and tennis. She rose to examine the mountains, strolled
away, darted down a gully, and pounced on Milt Daggett with:
"How in heaven's name----"
"Found out where you-all were going. Look! Got a bug! Rented it. Come
on! Let's duck! Drive back with me!" At the end of the gully was a new
Teal bug, shinier than the ancient lost chariot, but equally gay and
uncomfortable.
"Can't. Like to, but---- Be awfully rude to them. Won't do that--not
more than is good for their souls--even for you. Now don't be sulky."
"I won't. Nev' be sulky again, because you're crazy about me, and I
don't have to be sulky."
"Oh, I am, am I! Good heavens, the inconceivable conceit of the child!"
She turned her back. He darted to her, caught her hands behind her,
kissed her hair, and whispered, "You are!"
"I am not!"
"Well then, you're not. Lord, you're sweet! Your hair smells like
cinnamon and clean kittens. You'd rather go bumping off in my flivver
than sailing in that big Loco they've got there."
"Yes," defiantly, "I would, and I'm ashamed of myself. I'm a throw-back
to my horrid ancestor, the betting hostler."
"Probably. I'm a throw-back to my ancestor the judge. I'll train you to
meet my fine friends."
"Well--upon--my--word--I---- Oh, do stop being idiotic. We talk like
children. You reduce me to the rank of a gibbering schoolgirl. And I
like it! It's so--oh, I don't know--so darn human, I suppose. Now
hurry--kiss me, and get out, before they suspect."
"Listen."
"Yes?"
"I'll accidentally meet your car along the road. Invite you to ride. All
right?"
"Yes. Do. Oh, we _are_ two forlorn babes in the woods! G'-by."
She sauntered back to the picnic, and observed, "What is that purple
flower up on the mountain side?"
The big car was sedately purring back when it was insulted by an
intermediate host of a machine that came jumping out of a side road. The
vulgar driver hailed them with uncouth howling. The Gilsons' chauffeur
stopped, annoyed.
"Why, hello folks," bawled the social bandit.
"Oh. How do you do," refuted Mrs. Gilson.
Jeff Saxton turned a ripe purple.
"How do you like my new bug, Claire? Awful little object. But I can make
fifty an hour. Come and try it, Claire, can't you?"
"Why----" Claire was obviously shocked by the impropriety of the
suggestion. She looked at Mrs. Gilson, who was breathing as though she
was just going under the ether. Claire said doubtfully, "Well---- If you
can get me right back to the house----"
"Sure," agreed Milt.
When the Loco was gone, Milt drove the bug to the side of the road,
yanked up the emergency brake, and carefully kissed the girl who was
snuggled down into the absurd low tin-sided seat.
"Do we have to get back soon?" he begged.
"Oh, I don't care if we never get back. Let's shoot up into the
mountains. Side road. Let's pretend we're driving across the continent
again."
Firs dashing by--rocks in the sunshine--clouds jaunty beyond the
inviting mouth of a mountain pass--even the ruts and bumps and
culverts--she seemed a part of them all. In the Gilsons' huge cars she
had been shut off from the road, but in this tiny bug, so close to
earth, she recovered the feeling of struggle, of triumph over
difficulties, of freedom unbounded. And she could be herself, good or
bad, ignorant or wise, with this boy beside her. All of which she
expressed in the most eloquent speech she had ever uttered, namely:
"Oh, _Milt_----!"
And, to herself, "Golly, it's such a relief not to have to try to be
gracious and aphoristic and repartistic and everything with Jeff."
And, "But I wonder if I am aphoristic and subtle? I wonder if when she
gets the rice-powder off, Claire isn't a lot more like Milt than she
thought?"
And, aloud again, "Oh, this is----"
"Yump. It sure is," Milt agreed.
They had turned from a side-road into a side-side-road. They crossed an
upland valley. The fall rains had flooded a creek till it had cut across
the road, washed through the thin gravel, left across the road a shallow
violent stream. Milt stopped abruptly at its margin.
"Here's where we turn back, I guess," he sighed.
"Oh no! Can't we get across? It's only a couple of feet deep, and gravel
bottom," insisted the restored adventurer.
"Yes, but look at the steep bank. Never get up it."
"I don't care. Let's try it! We can woggle around and dig it out
somehow. I bet you two-bits we can," said the delicate young woman whom
Mrs. Gilson was protecting.
"All right. In she goes!"
The bug went in--shot over the bank, dipped down till the little hood
sloped below them as though they were looping the loop, struck the
rushing water with a splash which hurled yellow drops over Claire's rose
jersey suit, lumbered ahead, struck the farther bank, pawed at it
feebly, rose two inches, slipped back, and sat there with the gurgling
water all around it, turned into a motor-boat.
"No can do," grunted Milt. "Scared?"
"Nope. Love it! This is a real camp--the brush on the bank, and the
stream--listen to it chuckle under the running-board."
"Do you like to camp with me?"
"Love it."
"Say! Gee! Never thought---- Claire! Got your transportation back East?"
"My ticket? Yes. Why?"
"Well, I'm sure you can turn it in and get a refund. So that's all
right."
"Are you going to let me in on the secret?"
"Oh yes, might's well. I was just wondering---- I don't think much of
wasting all our youth waiting---- Two-three years in engineering school,
and maybe going to war, and starting in on an engineering job, and me
lonely as a turkey in a chicken yard, and you doing the faithful young
lady in Brooklyn---- I think perhaps we might get married tomorrow
and----"
"Good heavens, what do you----?"
"Do you want to go back to Brooklyn Gilsonses?"
"No, but----"
"Dear, can't we be crazy once, while we're youngsters?"
"Don't bombard me so! Let me think. One must be practical, even in
craziness."
"I am. I have over a thousand dollars from the garage, and I can work
evenings--as dear Jeff suggested! We'd have a two-by-four flat----
Claire----"
"Oh, let me think. I suppose I could go to the university, too, and
learn a little about food and babies and building houses and government.
I need to go to school a lot more than you do. Besides auction and the
piano--which I play very badly--and clothes and how to get hold of
tickets for successful plays, I don't know one single thing."
"Will you marry me, tomorrow?"
"Well, uh----"
"Think of Mrs. Gilson's face when she learns it! And Saxton, and that
Mrs. Betz!"
It was to no spoken sentence but to her kiss that she added, "Providing
we ever get the car out of this river, that is!"
"Oh, my dear, my dear, and all the romantic ways I was going to propose!
I had the best line about roses and stars and angels and everything----"
"They always use those, but nobody ever proposed to me in a bug in a
flood before! Oh! Milt! Life is fun! I never knew it till you kidnapped
me. If you kiss me again like that, we'll both topple overboard. By the
way, _can_ we get the car out?"
"I think so, if we put on the chains. We'll have to take off our shoes
and stockings."
Shyly, turning from him a little, she stripped off her stockings and
pumps, while he changed from a flivver-driver into a young viking, with
bare white neck, pale hair ruffled about his head, trousers rolled up
above his straight knees--a young seaman of the crew of Eric the Red.
They swung out on the running-board, now awash. With slight squeals they
dropped into the cold stream. Dripping, laughing, his clothes clinging
to him, he ducked down behind the car to get the jack under the back
axle, and with the water gurgling about her and splashing its
exhilarating coldness into her face, she stooped beside him to yank the
stiff new chains over the rear wheels.
They climbed back into the car, joyously raffish as a pair of gipsies.
She wiped a dab of mud from her cheek, and remarked with an earnestness
and a naturalness which that Jeff Saxton who knew her so well would
never have recognized as hers:
"Gee, I hope the old bird crawls out now."
Milt let in the reverse, raced the engine, started backward with a burst
of muddy water churned up by the whirling wheels. They struck the bank,
sickeningly hung there for two seconds, began to crawl up, up, with a
feeling that at any second they would drop back again.
Then, instantly, they were out on the shore and it was absurd to think
that they had ever been boating down there in the stream. They washed
each other's muddy faces, and laughed a great deal, and rubbed their
legs with their stockings, and resumed something of a dull and civilized
aspect and, singing sentimental ballads, turned back, found another
road, and started toward a peak.
"I wonder what lies beyond the top of this climb?" said Claire.
"More mountains, and more, and more, and we're going to keep on climbing
them forever. At dawn, we'll still be going on. And that's our life."
"Ye-es, providing we can still buy gas."
"Lord, that's so."
"Speaking of which, did you know that I have a tiny bit of money--it's
about five thousand dollars--of my own?"
"But---- That makes it impossible. Young tramp marrying lady of huge
wealth----"
"No, you don't! I've accepted you. Do you think I'm going to lose the
one real playmate I've ever had? It was so lonely on the Boltwoods'
brown stoop till Milt came along and whistled impertinently and made the
solemn little girl in frills play marbles and---- Watch out for that
turn! Heavens, how I have to look after you! Is there a class in cooking
at your university? No--do--not--kiss--me--on--a--turn!"
This is the beginning of the story of Milt and Claire Daggett.
The prelude over and the curtain risen on the actual play, they face the
anxieties and glories of a changing world. Not without quarrels and
barren hours, not free from ignorance and the discomfort of finding that
between the mountain peaks they must for long gray periods dwell in the
dusty valleys, they yet start their drama with the distinction of being
able to laugh together, with the advantage of having discovered that
neither Schoenstrom nor Brooklyn Heights is quite all of life, with the
cosmic importance to the tedious world of believing in the romance that
makes youth unquenchable.
THE END.
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