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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Putnam Tradition + +Author: Sonya Hess Dorman + +Illustrator: Schelling + +Release Date: October 1, 2008 [EBook #26743] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PUTNAM TRADITION *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figleft"> +<img src="images/001.png" width="175" height="500" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="p1"><i><b><big>Through generations<br /> +the power has descended,<br /> +now weaker, now stronger.<br /> +And which way did the<br /> +power run in the four-year-old<br /> +in the garden, playing<br /> +with a pie plate?</big></b></i></p> + +<h1><big><i>the<br /> +putnam<br /> +tradition</i></big></h1> + +<h2><small>By S. DORMAN</small></h2> + +<p class="p2"><small>Illustrated by SCHELLING</small></p> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">It</span> was an old house not far +from the coast, and had descended +generation by generation +to the women of the Putnam +family. Progress literally went +by it: a new four-lane highway +had been built two hundred +yards from the ancient lilacs at +the doorstep. Long before that, +in the time of Cecily Putnam's +husband, power lines had been +run in, and now on cold nights +the telephone wires sounded like +a concert of cellos, while inside +with a sound like the breaking of +beetles, the grandmother Cecily +moved through the walls in the +grooves of tradition.</p> + +<p>Simone Putnam, her granddaughter; +Nina Putnam, her +great-granddaughter; the unbroken +succession of matriarchs +continued, but times the old +woman thought that in Simone +it was weakened, and she looked +at the four-year-old Nina askance, +waiting, waiting, for some +good sign.</p> + +<p>Sometimes one of the Putnam +women had given birth to a son, +who grew sickly and died, or +less often, grew healthy and fled. +The husbands were usually +strangers to the land, the house, +and the women, and spent a lifetime +with the long-lived Putnam +wives, and died, leaving their +strange signs: telephone wires, +electric lights, water pumps, +brass plumbing.</p> + +<p>Sam Harris came and married +Simone, bringing with him an +invasion of washer, dryer, toaster, +mixer, coffeemaster, until the +current poured through the walls +of the house with more vigor +than the blood in the old woman's +veins.</p> + +<p>"You don't approve of him," +Simone said to her grandmother.</p> + +<p>"It's his trade," Cecily Putnam +answered. "Our men have been +carpenters, or farmers, or even +schoolmasters. But an engineer. +Phui!"</p> + +<p>Simone was washing the dishes, +gazing out across the windowsill +where two pink and white +Murex shells stood, to the tidy +garden beyond where Nina was +engaged in her private games.</p> + +<p>She dried the dishes by passing +her hand once above each +plate or glass, bringing it to a +dry sparkle. It saved wear on the +dishtowels, and it amused her.</p> + +<p>"Sam's not home very much," +she said in a placating voice. +She herself had grown terrified, +since her marriage, that she +wouldn't be able to bear the +weight of her past. She felt its +power on her and couldn't carry +it. Cecily had brought her up, +after her father had disappeared +and her mother had died in an +unexplained accident. Daily she +saw the reflection of her failure +in the face of her grandmother, +who seemed built of the same +seasoned and secure wood as the +old Putnam house. Simone looked +at her grandmother, whom she +loved, and became a mere vapor.</p> + +<p>"He's not home so much," +Simone said.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Her</span> face was small, with a +pointed chin, and she had +golden-red hair which she wore +loose on her shoulders. Nina, too, +had a small face, but it was neither +so pale nor so delicate as her +mother's, as if Sam's tougher +substance had filled her out and +strengthened her bone structure. +If it was true that she, Simone, +was a weak link, then Sam's +strength might have poured into +the child, and there would be no +more Putnam family and tradition.</p> + +<p>"People don't change that easily," +the old woman said.</p> + +<p>"But things—" Simone began. +The china which had a history of +five generations slipped out of +her hands and smashed; Sam's +toaster wouldn't toast or pop up; +Simone couldn't even use the telephone +for fear of getting a +wrong number, or no number +at all.</p> + +<p>"Things, things!" her grandmother +cried. "It's blood that +counts. If the blood is strong +enough, things dissolve. They're +just garbage, all those things, +floating on the surface of our history. +It's our history that's deep. +That's what counts."</p> + +<p>"You're afraid of Sam," the +young woman accused.</p> + +<p>"Not afraid of any man!" +Cecily said, straightening her +back. "But I'm afraid for the +child. Sam has no family tradition, +no depth, no talent handed +down and perfected. A man with +his head full of wheels and +wires."</p> + +<p>Simone loved him. She leaned +on him and grew about him, and +he supported her tenderly. She +wasn't going to give him up for +the sake of some abstract tradition—</p> + +<p>"—it's not abstract," her +grandmother said with spirit. +"It's in your blood. Or why don't +you sweep the floors the way +other women do? The way Sam's +mother must?"</p> + +<p>Simone had begun to clean the +house while she was thinking, +moving her hand horizontally +across the floor, at the height of +her hip, and the dust was following +the motion of her hand and +moving in a small, sun-brightened +river toward the trash basket +in the kitchen corner. Now +Simone raised her hand to her +face to look at it, and the river +of dust rose like a serpent and +hung a foot below her hand.</p> + +<p>"Yes," she agreed, "at least I +can clean the house. If I don't +touch the good china, and look +where I'm going."</p> + +<p>"Phui," the old woman said +again, angrily. "Don't feel so +sorry for yourself."</p> + +<p>"Not for myself," Simone +mumbled, and looked again toward +the garden where her +daughter was doing something +with three stones and a pie plate +full of spring water.</p> + +<p>"I do despair of Nina," Cecily +said, as she had said before. +"She's four, and has no appearance. +Not even balance. She fell +out of the applerose tree, and +couldn't even help herself." Suddenly +the old woman thrust her +face close to her granddaughter. +It was smooth, round, and sweet +as a young kernel of corn. The +eyes, sunk down under the bushy +grey brows, were cold and clear +grey.</p> + +<p>"Simone," the old woman said. +"You didn't lie to me? You did +know she was falling, and couldn't +get back in time to catch +her?"</p> + +<p>A shudder passed through Simone's +body. There was no blood +in her veins, only water; no marrow +in her bones, they were +empty, and porous as a bird's. +Even the roots of her hair were +weak, and now the sweat was +starting out on her scalp as she +faced her grandmother and saw +the bristling shapes of seven +generations of Putnam women +behind her.</p> + +<p>"You lied," the old woman +said. "You didn't know she was +falling."</p> + +<p>Simone was a vapor, a mere +froth blowing away on the first +breeze.</p> + +<p>"My poor dear," the old woman +said in a gentle voice. "But +how could you marry someone +like Sam? Don't you know what +will happen? He'll dissolve us, +our history, our talents, our +pride. Nina is nothing but an +ordinary little child."</p> + +<p>"She's a good child," Simone +said, trying not to be angry. She +wanted her child to be loved, to +be strong. "Nina isn't a common +child," she said, with her head +bent. "She's very bright."</p> + +<p>"A man with his head full of +wheels, who's at home with electricity +and wires," the old woman +went on. "We've had them before, +but never allowed them to dominate +us. My own husband was +such a man, but he was only allowed +to make token gestures, +such as having the power lines +put in. He never understood how +they worked." She lowered her +voice to a whisper, "Your Sam +understands. I've heard him talk +to the water pump."</p> + +<p>"That's why you're afraid of +him," Simone said. "Not because +I'm weak, and he might take +something away from me, but +because he's strong, and he +might give us something. Then +everything would change, and +you're afraid of that. Nina might +be our change." She pointed toward +the garden.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Following</span> the white line of +her granddaughter's finger, +Cecily looked out into the garden +and saw Nina turn toward them +as though she knew they were angry. +The child pointed with one +finger directly at them in the +house. There was a sharp crackle, +and something of a brilliant and +vibrating blue leaped between +the out-stretched fingers of mother +and daughter, and flew up like +a bird to the power lines above.</p> + +<p>"Mommy," Nina called.</p> + +<p>Simone's heart nearly broke +with wonder and fright. Her +grandmother contemptuously +passed through the kitchen door +and emerged on the step outside, +but Simone opened the door and +left it open behind her. "What +was that?" she asked Nina. +"Was it a bluebird?"</p> + +<p>"Don't be silly," Nina said. +She picked up the pie plate and +brought it toward them. Cecily's +face was white and translucent, +one hand went to her throat as +the child approached.</p> + +<p>Brimfull of crackling blue fire +with a fluctuating heart of yellow, +the pie plate came toward +them, held between Nina's small, +dusty hands. Nina grinned at +them. "I stole it out of the +wires," she said.</p> + +<p>Simone thought she would +faint with a mixture of joy and +fear. "Put it back," she whispered. +"Please put it back."</p> + +<p>"Oh Mommy," Nina said, beginning +to whine. "Not now. Not +right away. I just got it. I've +done it lots of times." The pie +plate crackled and hissed in the +steady, small hands.</p> + +<p>Simone could feel the old woman's +shocked silence behind her. +"You mustn't carry it in a pie +plate, it's dangerous," Simone +said to her child, but she could +see Nina was in no danger. "How +often have you done this?" She +could feel her skirt and her hair +billow with electricity.</p> + +<p>"Lots of times. You don't like +it, do you?" She became teasing +and roguish, when she looked +most like Sam. Suddenly she +threw back her head and opened +her mouth, and tilting up the pie +plate she drank it empty. Her +reddish gold hair sprang out in +crackling rays around her face, +her eyes flashed and sparks flew +out between her teeth before she +closed her mouth.</p> + +<p>"Nina!" the old woman cried, +and began to crumple, falling +slowly against Simone in a complete +faint. Simone caught her in +trembling hands and lowered her +gently. She said to her daughter, +"You mustn't do that in front of +Grandy. You're a bad girl, you +knew it would scare her," and to +herself she said: I must stop +babbling, the child knows I'm +being silly. O isn't it wonderful, +isn't it awful, O Sam, how I love +you.</p> + +<p>"Daddy said it would scare +you," Nina admitted. "That's +why I never showed you before." +Her hair was softly falling into +place again, and she was gazing +curiously at her great-grandmother +lying on the doorstep.</p> + +<p>"It did scare me," Simone +said. "I'm not used to it, darling. +But don't keep it secret any +more."</p> + +<p>"Is Grandy asleep?"</p> + +<p>Simone said hastily, "Oh yes, +she's taking a nap. She is old, +you know, and likes to take +naps."</p> + +<p>"That's not a nap," Nina said, +leaning over and patting the old +woman's cheek, "I think she's +having a bad dream."</p> + +<p>Simone carried her grandmother +into the house. If that old, +tired heart had jumped and floundered +like her own, there must be +some damage done to it. If anything +happened to her grandmother, +the world would end, +Simone thought, and was furious +with Nina, and at the same time, +full of joy for her.</p> + +<p>Cecily Putnam opened her eyes +widely, and Simone said, "It +does change, you see. But it's in +the family, after all."</p> + +<p>The old woman sat upright +quickly. "That wicked child!" +she exclaimed. "To come and +frighten us like that. She ought +to be spanked." She got up with +great strength and rushed out to +the garden.</p> + +<p>"Nina!" she called imperiously. +The child picked up one of the +small stones from the pie plate +now full of spring water, and +came to her great-grandmother.</p> + +<p>"I'll make something for you, +Grandy," she said seriously. She +put the stone in the palm of her +hand, and breathed on it, and +then held out her hand and offered +the diamond.</p> + +<p>"It's lovely. Thank you," the +old woman said with dignity, and +put her hand on the child's head. +"Let's go for a walk and I'll +show you how to grow rose-apples. +That's more becoming to +a young lady."</p> + +<p>"You slept on the step."</p> + +<p>"Ah! I'm old and I like to take +little naps," Cecily answered.</p> + +<p>Simone saw them disappear +among the applerose trees side +by side. She was still trembling, +but gradually, as she passed her +hand back and forth, and the +dust followed, moving in a sparkling +river toward the trash +basket, Simone stopped trembling +and began to smile with +the natural pride of a Putnam +woman.</p> + +<p class="tnd"><b>THE END</b></p> + +<div class="trn"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b> +This etext was produced from <i>Amazing Stories</i> January 1963. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. 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