The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

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in the white house with the
green shutters on Third street. in
Wautuska. The reason she lived
there was because Fla F e was an or
phan, which means that your papa and
mamma have gone away and viii
never come back. But some day you
viii see them again-when the An
gel takes you
Aunt Lou was Uncle Chad's sister.
and Uncle Chad was the best man in
the whole world. He worked in the
bank where the bright pennies are, and
he laughed a great deal. Aunt Lou
did not laugh SO much-in fact, she
hardly ever laughed-but she was
dear Auntie.
Il am afraid" said Aunt Lou. a
great many times, to Uncle Chad, that
Fla Eye is not a normal child. She is
so serious, and never heard OF such
a good child. She is almost uncanny.'
This was before Fla Eye learned the
advantages of sin.
Fla Eye was rather uncanny in some
things. Her eyes We're too large. Peo-
pie always said:
"Oh. yes, I know Fla Eye. She is
/ that Williams child with the big eyes
I Her eyes were blue, with a great
amount of white around them, and
great black pupils, and she could look
and look and look without winking-
4 She would stand before a person and
stare for minutes at time. Aunt
4 Lou said it was very rude, but Fla Eye
I WAS OIlty Trying TO solve Things. 4 At'
Eye felt that she was q small body Of
! girl surrounded by a vast mysterious
world, and she wanted to know She
asked visitors question that were some
times very rude, and then the visitors
4 would kiss her and say:
Fla Eye, you are dear, dear child.
I wish you belonged to me-.
Aunt Lou said that Fla Eye thought
AtOo much, that she would be happier
/ if she played more, as the other chill
dren played, but Fla Eye was quite
/ happy in her own way. There were
] only two things that worried her
4 two terrible mysterious things that she
! learned about as soon as she came to
live with Aunt Lou.
There was God who could see in
/ the dark and who was everywhere
and there was the Angel who stood
night after night by Fla Eyes bed
/ comprehensive but the Angel was the
most terrifying thing in the world The
| Angel was all in white and you could
not see it in the dark or in the light.
and yet it was always there Aunt
Lou said the Angel was there to watch
and guard Fla Eye, but Fla Eye had
another idea Of the Angel. She hated
the Angel. It was the Angel that had
first taken away Fla Eyes papa. and
then her mamma, and there was no
telling whom the Angel would take
next.
Fla Eye always slept with one hand
! claSplng the White iron rods OF the
/ head of her crib, so that if the Angel
/ tried to carry her away she might be
able to resist. 1t would need pow
/ erful Angel to carry away Fla Eye and
the heavy iron crib too.
Sometimes she would awaken with
a start to find herself far down in the
crib with her hands empty, and Fla
Eye would scramble, panic stricken, to
! the head of the bed and grasp it with
both hands, while her heart would
beat tumultuousIy. And all the while
she knew God and the angel We're
there in the dark room watching her
4 No wonder Fla Eye had great serious
/ eyes. After all she was only a fright
ened baby So she was a very good
girl because God and the angel liked
good girls. She hoped to conciliate
/ them.
one day Aunt Lou decided that Fla
/ Eye was old enough to go to Sunday
school. Miss Grace, who lived in the
brown house across the street, had
/ been talking to Aunt Lou. and Miss
I Grace taught the infant class at Sun
day school She wanted Fla Eye. She
! loved Fla F'ye-as everybody loved her
and she promised to let Fla Eye sit
/ right next to her and hold her hand
/ The next Sunday Fla Eye, in her pref
/ test dress, went to Sunday school.
/ Miss Grace did not teach her little
girls from a Ieafletor from a book.
/ She sat in the midst of them and told