New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-11

must leave this package at the
dressmaker's, and then well. there's
really nothing else you can do, thank
you
You are going to see Mrs Green2
| Well, I'm going too
From the dressmakeTs they walked
/ down the beach road to the humble
house Of mourning. Excited voices
welcomed them. Frowzy neighbors
We're gathered on the front porch. Mrs.
/ Green was bordering on hysteria. Tom
watched in interested fashion while
Grace brought order out of chaos.
One by one the useless nelghbors took.
/ their departure Tile children We're
coaxed into the shadow OF an upturn
ed boat to play store with real cookies,
candies and raisins which Grace pro-
duced from the depths OF her Boston
bag, and Mrs. Green. eolnfortea with
i a banaage around hel. aching head and
/ many kind words. WAS Induced to lie
| down. Then Grace picked #,lp the baby
and carried him around to the shady
side Of the house. Tom followed. drag
i ging q big rocking chair in which he
/ Insisted size should sit. while he sprawl
/ ed in the sand at her feet. Ia the little
room whose shutters were closed lust
behind them lay the man who had of
/ ten risked his life that they might
make merry. in the water A sorrow
that was not personal fell upon them,
and the man lay quite still looking out
/ across the dancing water and thinking
of many things.
Suddenly above his head sounded
the soft, melting 7coo' Of a baby's
voice Without shifting his position,
lest he should break the charm, Tom
took in the picture. The laughing
eyes of the girl were LIQUID and ten
/ der as she watched the baby on her
knees. The dimples had disappeared
and the lips were curved in a serious
sweetness. This was not the girl who
had been such a jolly. good comrade
On fishing and sailing jaunts This
i was the woman he had been looking
/ for all these years. And to think that
he had not recognized her at oncei
Her slender white hand was so
close to his that he could hardly keep
from clasping it. He pulled himself
1 together and asked in voice that
sounded rather harsh by reason Of his
effort at self control:
IF you will do all this, why won't
you help with the benefit up at the
/ hotel?'
! Grace started. She had been won
dering whether the little mite in her
lap would some day grow up and fight
against the sea for human lives.
! "Oh. they're such silly things, you
know! Everybody hates you for ask
/ ing them to pay two or three times
what things worth, and by the time
you have paid all the expenses the
beneficiary doesn't get very much: be-
sides it would be two weeks before
the thing came off and Mrs. Green
needed the clothes and the money now
| suppose a great many people think
it's very queer. but father has always
insisted on my keeping inside my al
lowance. and-weI-I couldn't help
with the benefit and help Mrs. Green
today She was foundering along al
most blindly under the fierce light that
gloWed in Toms eyes. And so-and
So
Tom had utterly forgotten what she
was talking about. Her hand was ca
ressing the baby's face. The man rose
on one knee and drew her hand away
from the chubby cheek, holding it firm
/ sly in his own.
Grace. dear, I'm not half good
enough for you, but do you think you
could love me just little?'
She looked at him tenderly. Il think
/ could love you a great deal" And
the baby ''cooed'' and dimpled as he
looked at the two heads so close to-
/ gether above his own.