Barbour County index., 1905-12-20
'ou love me, you will give them to

you love me, you will give them to
me-
But it was sweet to hear him plead,
and the little maiden was desirous o.
prolonging the pleasure
IF ever l love you again. l will give
them to you,' was all she would say.
Just then neighEor's boy had hurried
up breathless with Importance.
John, John. Your mother has sent
for you to go home right away. She's
got telegram from your grandfather
Hes dead
1t was the last time she had ever
seen John Warren. Within an hour
he was speeding Oh the train to the
home that death had entered SO sud
denly. Then there had been sickness
and unexpected removal in her own
family. If John had written to her.
she had never received the letter. Her
own childish, misdirected epistle to
him had come back to her months aft
erWard from the dead letter office.
John had passed completely out of her
life. But put away among her most
-
mittens waiting to be given to him.
What had an old maid to do with
such mementOeS? How Juanita would
laugh if she knew her foolishness.
She would get out the mittens this
very Christmas and send them to her
brother Bob's boy-Bob's boy who was
always losing mittens.
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less words seemed to tinge everything
with bitterness. They sounded in her
imagination again as she sat wrappins
up the Christmas presents. A foolish
mist was in her eyes as she did the
stubby m1ttens up into a neat parcel,
wrapped them in white tissue paDer
and tied them with red ribbon. Just
then she was called away. The pres
ents lay out on her table as carefully
arranged as the specimens in a scien-
tltlc cabinet, hers on one side and
Juanltas on the other So they would
have remained had careless LITTLE
Susette kept out of the room. Rut
Susette wanted baby ribbon for her
own small concerns, and nobody but
helping herself to it, she knocked two
small packages from the table. Thev
were both about the same size. soft
and tied up with red ribbon. and the
envelopes 20 hold each had laid al
ready directed beside. Susette hastily
picking them up and trying to put
them back, exchanged the packages
The stubby red mittens in their dainty
wrappings laid beside the enveIope adj
dressed MIR. Walter Taylor" to whom
Juanita had meant to send an en-
broidered handkerchief.
Who is Mr.. Walter Tay,or?" Aunt
Annabel had asked, and Juanita had
replied. lightly:
oh, he's Jacks uncle" Jack was
the boy who carried the skates for
herr Hes lonely old gentleman and
thought it would please him to have
me send him something. He's wild
over, and he has lots of money and
Jack is his only nephew" And world
ly-wlse little Juanita smiled meaning
ly at the Unworldly little aunt who
would never. at her age or at anv asa
have thought of future prospects in
this way.
And so, by Susette's mistake Mr.
Walter Taylor received the stubbv ro,,
mittens instead of the handkerchief
that was designed for him. l. w.s
lonely man who opened the little red.
rlbboned package. though no one but
girl like Juanita would have thouobt
or calling him an old gentIem.,
When he unwrapped the package and
read the card that said in the small
dainty, old-fashioned "lady's hand"
with great deal of love for cbris+.
mas from Annabel Wilder" his faco
suddenly changed into the face of .
boy He whistled. Then ne laughed
Then he scrutinized the postmarL
snatched his hat and was off Iika !.
shot to find directory. But Miss An
nabel's name was not in the directorr
as she lived with her sister and sisters
husband. II was Christmas eyenino
before he traced her.
1t had been lonely day for Ann.
bel. JGanitas words had taken All tho
pleasure out of it. Sister Agnes and
Brother Char es and their children
were as kind as could be, but they he-
longed so thoroughly to each other
and were so absorbed in each Other
that she could not help a very sore
ieft-out feeling. She went to her roou