Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-19
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told me so little and kept me hunger
 ing to see them"
 Tt must have been awful to leave
 them again. I said, and in the dark
 I took again the little hand which had
 lain in mine.
 They were 50 fond of me-" said
 Mrs. Jefferson, still in the same halt
 ing fashion, like one who speaks an
 unfamiliar language. T mean when they were little things. I do not think quite tiny children could ever nave been more fond of their mother. And she hesitated for a moment, and said. with so much difficulty that it seemed almost like cruelty to allow her to proceed-"I always thought they would remember me, although they were so little" She paused again, and went on: You mustn't think that I was silly about them, or that l expected too much. l always thought at first they might be a little bit shy of me. But they didn't even knew me, and they were certainly disappointed in me. One of them was five years old when said good-by to her. Now she is a schoolgirl of 13. Her only photograph of me was taken long ago, so it IS no wonder that she dilnt know me"
 I did not fill in the pause by any banal remark.
 They have been brought up in a very prim household" went on the gentle voice, in which love, l fear, is not thing that is reckoned with or encouraged. They rather despised me for laughing and crying over them when We met, and-it is only natural, of course-all their little confidences were for the people who brought them up, and all their ways of thinking are their ways. and not mine. One of my little girls. found, is not a very truthful child. and the other, when 1 asked her what she would like best to do seemed more content at home"
 But you made friends and got over all that before you left?" I said, en- couragingly.
 If only I had had a little more time." said Mrs. Jefferson.
 IL would have been so much better for her if she could have wept. She locked her thin hands together, and said with a sort of vail in her voice: If only had had a little more time."
 After awhile she went on quite ou.e;ly, and told me that her husband had sent for her to return to him, and she had been obliged to leave the children.
 Of course a man wants his wife in solitary life like ours" she went on, e1cusingly. And 90 I said good-by to them. I don't think any one was very sorry when I came away"
 The decks were quite deserted now. they would be alive with passengers preparing 10 leave the snip. and friends meeting friends from BOm- bay. and ships officials. and hurrying agents and perspiring stewards To- night they were quite deserted save for Mrs. Jefferson and me
 We live quits an isolated life st the tea garden" she said, presently, but I left a little dog there of which I am very fond I am afraid you will think me very morbid and imaginative, she added in her depreca- tOrv little way. but think have based all ny possibilities of bearing things upon the question of whether or not my dog knows me again and is glad to see me
 I still held Mrs- JezersonIs hand ia mine. and nOw I raised it to my lips and kissed il- You viIl Ist me knoz.- I said. huskily. and fOyad to my szr- prise that could roL say more
 Yes. will let yOz know.- said Nrs. Jefferson
 And one day got z little rots from her uhiea said The dog krer me and thai was zlL-TeusIe Bar.