Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-05-26

wilkes. I c.n't. I've had my heart ser SO
long ON GOVERN The graves this DecoratioH
day.
II thought likely you wouldn't want 70.
Poor Sallie, And III never see ner again.
Mrs. Wilkes turned away with a hopeless
air. and went slowly back To her room.
Mrs. Pell hastily prepared to go 70 the
florists 10 select and order her Covers.
She felt very sorry for Mrs. Wilkes, Sat
of course she could not LEND her mat
money. IL she had saved TX for any otlet
purpose but mat, She had tried Tor 80
many years 10 be able TO cover those
graves with roses, and now when she nag
the money-to give IL all up.
She hoped Mrs. Wilkes did not think
her mean. She would have been glad 10
do anything else for her.
And IL was a pity that she could not
see her sister before she died. She was
the only relative she had, too.
IL IL had only not been that money And
If 1t were not Decoration day. She wanted
10 put flowers on their graves at the Time
that other people were remembering their
dead.
Mrs. Pell's steps became slower and
slower and slower, and as she came IN
sight of the florists shop, she stood still,
and remained in deep thought for some
minutes. Then she turned suddenly and
walked back TO the tenement and into
Mrs. Wilkes room. She found the Latter
sitting with her face in her hands and cry
ing.
Mrs. Pell put her precious s16S in her
hand.
There" she said, Just take IL. Hurry
and get ready, and III go 10 the train with
you. i do hope you'l find Sallie alive"
oh" cried Mrs. Wilkes, sure and /
always knew you were a good woman.
Poor Sallie. I'll be seem her again"
Mrs. Pell did not sleep well that night.
IL hurt her TO think of those two graves
being fiowerless another Decoration day.
They were in such a remote part of the
cemetery that they never shared in the
general decoration Of graves. She decided
that she would not go 10 the cemetery at
all. She could not bear 10 think of seeing
others carrying their flowers while her
hands must be empty.
But i'm the morning she changed her
mind. TX seemed unkind to leave her
graves unvisited. She would go in the aft
ernoon when the services were over and
the cemetery would be comparatively de-
serted. 1t was u a lovely day. The
ride in the cars would do her good.
Mr.. Graham, his wife and Berta and
Tom drove out to the cemetery, their car
riage filled with baskets of roses. They
had almost stripped the many bushes in
hlltAt 6dIuStl.
After their grandfather's and grand
mothers and Aun Edith's graves had
been piled high with odorous blossoms
there was still a large basketful of~ueau-
tiful white roses left,
l. e US drive around and see if there
are any graves without any flowers, said
Berta.
Yes said Mrs. Graham, II like that
thought
But there did not seem to be any graves
undecorated until they reached a more
distant part of the cemetery. There two
sunken graves with weather-worn wood
markers at the head, were fowerIess.
How lonely they look!" said Tom.
Yes" sad Mrs. Graham, II think that
you must empty this basket on them"
Let Tom and me do it, said Berta. So
she and her brother jumped out OF the
carriage and went over to the two grave
There were enough roses to completely
cover them both.
Now they don't Jock so lonely" said
Berta, with a backward glance, as she
drove away.
And SO il was hat when late in the aft
ernoon Mrs. Pell came tc the lonely spot
where lay her husband and son, she found
the two mounds a mass Of exquisite roses.
And they looked like the roses she had had
In ner little country home in those long
past days-the white roses that Teddy
had so loved.