Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-04-04
Eyes, Mabey shall have her tongue

"Yes, Mabey shall have her tongue
tied" cried one of the boys. }.-.-.
"You little telltale," said the other,
and Mabey subsidized into tears and
Sibyl's lap.
Mr.. North watched her as she
soothed the little things distress
How gentle she was!
'Oh, my grill" he said to himself
suddenly. Her goodness seemed re-
vealed to him in that moment.
"There's spring tide tonight" said
Arthur. "Jack and are going to Teth-
er's Point to see it. Old Tremlin says
it will be one of the highest ever
known, and there's a splendid sea on
already"
The younger children clamored to be
allowed to go too.
"No," said Sibyl. "You, Willie and
Mabey must stay with me. Tether's
Point is too far for you to walk, be-
sides it will not be high tide before
your bedtime. Elsie, you can go with
them if you like, but you must put
on your strong boots, and tell nurse to
tie my wooden scarf across your chest"
Willie and Mabey began to protest.
Mr.. North returned to his severe
manner and silenced them.
"Sibyl says no, and that is enough"
he said. "Not another word"
Their mouths turned down.
II think they might come down to
the beach, SIR" said Sibyl, seeing their
disappointment. ut is only Tether's
Point that is too far. Mabey, be good
and ask father if you may come down
with me for quarter of an hour be-
fore going to bed"
Mabey shrank back behind her elder
sisters skirts.
"But sibyl meant to go to Tether's
Point herself" said Elsie, you know
you did, Sibyl. You told me so. You
wanted to see the waves"
/ II can see them just as we'll on the
| shore here" said Sibyl.
''Why should you sacrifice yourself
to these children?" said Mr.. North.
testify. "Why can't their governess
take them?"
"She is lying down with headache,
sir, and nurse has cold, and can't
send one of the other servants out to-
night. Besides, I like to go with the
children"
swell, just as you like" said Mr..
North, Grossly. He went to his study.
The wind was roaring round the
house and the waves Numbered on the
choro Ho cof%1o<7 b;r,eo1f - b;e ,rvor1~
He dipped his pen in the ink and looked
at the ruled paper before him. He
wrote a sentence, read it over, altered
a word, and finally Cancelled the whole
with line. Then he began once more.
The house shook in the ierceness of
the gale. A draft came from the chin
ney. Presently he heard the boys and
Elsie starting. He heard their boots
on the hall, and Elsie's "strong pair"
creaked. Arthur ungallantly told her
that they made his head ache. Mr..
North smiled dryly as he heard Elsie
retort that they had been Arthur's be-
fore they were hers, and that they
would be his still only that they ceased
to fit him.
'And I'm not surprised" she added,
Though they're miles too big for me-. -
The door slammed on the argument.
Then he heard the pattering of Ma
hey and Willie and their excited voices
calling for Sibyl.
Coming, coming, coming!" sounded
in her voice from upstairs. He heard
her bounding lightly down with jump
at the last four steps. Then it struck
him that he had spoken Grossly to her
even though it had been on her own
behalf-and as she passed the study
door he called to her.
''What is it, father?"
Nothing. want to kiss YOU, that's
ALL"
Dear old father!"
II am bear sometimes"
''Never, father. Never bear to me"
"sibyl?"
Eyes, dear"
do the children love me?"
Eyes, father. You are a little bit
sharp with them sometimes"
She laid her face against his.
TRY to be gentle with them. They
are children. They don't understand"
How good you are, Sibyl!"
After that he moved as if he would
go on with his work. The children had
opened the hall door and they had adj
mitted the four winds of heaven.
snow must be off," she said,
He never knew what impulse moved
him, but he followed her to the door,
and there he kissed her again. When
he went back to his writing table there
were tears in his eyes.
Half an hour passed. It was filed
in the study by the sound of the
scratching of pen. The vicar wrote
that night a sermon that he never
preached. The text was taken from the
thirty-frst chapter of Proverbs and
the twenty-ninth verse.
He heard the children come in and
he called to them.
"Where is your sister, dear?' he
asked of Mabey.
"She sent us in because it was time
for us to go to bed, and she has stopped
because she wanted to see the sea, and
SO we're to go to NURSE
''And oh, the seas so rough" said
Willie, land there are big enormous
waves as big as-oh, ever so big! And
Mabey's hat nearly blew away, and our
coats are quite wet"
''Go and take them off, my boy.
Goodnight, little man. Goodnight,
Mabey. Run along"
Sibylstood on the beach and watched
the sea. Her clothes were twisted