Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

turning the leaves of a magazine. while
her maid brushed and arranged her hair
Glanclng into the long mirror in front
OF her, she saw the dimples at the cor
leTs OF Nate mouth, that broke into
iaugn as she caught her mistress eve.
We'll, WELL kater' Ii must be con-
iessed Mrs, Brewster spoke trife sharp
~ Tor the Thanksgiving feel in the air
mace her the more conscious Of her own
loneliness, What AZ sou laughing atl
Nothin, marm," said Kate, soberly
etioush TINS time. Il was just thinkin
o. somethin' Brother Tom told me last
night Hes letter carrier, YOU know
ana yesterday there came TO the Office
the cutest letter from a small boy who
wants somebody to come 10 his house on
thanksgiving day. | think Tom said his
name was Jack DunStan, and-oh, what
i me matter, marmT for Mrs. Brewster
had turned suddenly very white.
Nothing, Kate, nothing whatever. Go
on with your story"
=, mere isn't anything more to tell. only
iom says he's awful sorry for the moor
iltt!e chap, for they can't find out where
lht Iettef belongs, cause it was only il
rected to Sister Susan, Boston, Is il
the new silk or the satin today. marm?"
he satin, answered Mrs. Brewster
shortly, and thea there was silence until
ahe SAID; DO you suppose l could see
that letter, Kate? / used to know
JACK buhstan ana my name is Susan. II
IS ni<t possible that it is for me"
49,, don know, marm," answered Kate
but Toms comm up here tonight. and
for YOU nc N'''
There the matter dropped. but the next
day, between laughter and tears, Mis-.
brewster road, in big childish scrawl:
Defe SISTER Susan: Won't you pieSe
come to my house Thanksgiyin' to din
|
Dad, ana my mother says you're the only
one got. DO com, the turkeys awful
Iat an you can have my saucer pie.
19mr little friend, Jack Dunstan.
Nv nat nad come over Jack that bright
thanksgiving morning? He wandered
ailliessIy about from one window TO all
other, ana not even the fine coasting
Sonid tempt him away from the house.
towards noon his parents heard him
shouting: Sister SuSan's comet Sister
Susan's Gomez and rushing to the win
DOW, they saw, TO their amazement. 81
stately lady just alighting from the
well! well, wellr' was all Farmer
Dunstan could say, as he strobe down
the path: but his voice shook as he
grasped the hands of the lady, who
I looked at him sharply and said briskly:
30 you haven't forgotten Sister Susan,
AFTER all? That sgood Now where's
Here ] is, Sister Susani Here is"
plped Jack from the doorstep, where ne
was hopping about first on one leg and
then on the other. "Oh, rs so glad you's
Gomez
Such a merry, happy THANKSGIVING
DAY as they had: and when the fun and
frolic were all over. and Jack had been
tucked M in his little white bed for the
night, there was a quiet tall. in the coy.
iirelit kitchen.
Il IN not Il woman of many words
John" Mrs Brewster said ''hut I've
had my share of trouble, and-I see
things different from what did thirty
years ago. Suppose we let bygones be
bygones, and I'll pay off the mortgage
on the old place, and you give me a right
to share in Jacks love and happy boy
lSh life. There. there don't thank me.
It's all that blessed boys doings. He's
So exactly like what you were. John.
at his age, when mother died. Do you
remember. john" the brisk voice trem.
bled and broke. Then. turning t. Mrs.
DUnstan: DO Won suppose, Mary. it
would disturb Jack If / were 10 SID in
and give him another goodnight kiss?"
Not a hit said Mrs Dunstan hear
lilly; hut Jack opened his eye at the
touch of his aunt's warm lips on his fore
head, and murmured drowsily "Oh. Is
so glad you've come. Sister Susan! Is
so glad you've come, cause now rs got
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