The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
1anet's Reconciliation
stOry of Sweet Sentiment
 BYFLoRENcE SANDERS TURRENTINE. Athens

Janet stepped off at the little out of the way station, feeling very lonely and homesick. There seemed to be no one to meet here, and the group of Idlers around the little depot stared at her curiously. It was an unusual visitor. and they were interested.
 'Is this Miss Grayson?" asked a white haired old negro man. who had just come up.
 Janet answered "yes" rather timid- ly. She was not used to being called Miss Grayson, and the name sounded strange and unfamiliar to her.
 The old man touched his cap re- spectfully. "The carriage is waiting, Miss" he said, I'm sorry to have been late, but the roads arc dreadful bad' you know"
 Janet followed him down the rickety steps, across the muddy road to the carriage, glad to be rid of the curious gaze of the village people. It was a luxurious carriage into which the old man helped her, and when he tucked the great carriage robe about her, and drew the curtains tight to keep out the cold, Janet settled back in her seat. feeling more like a grand lady than she ever had in her life before.
 She was going to visit the grand father she had never seen. She had never seen him. because he had been displeased at her mothers marriage, and had refused ever to let her come home afterwards.
 At first, Mrs Grayson had hoped that time would soften her fathers displeasure, and so she wrote often, telling him how happy she was, and how She longed for his forgiveness But the letters were always returne 10 her unopened; and If the old man $ heart was very sore over the separa- ton. and if he longed for the sight Of the face that had once made sunshine in the old house, now grown so deso- late and dreary-his daughter never knew 1t.
 a letter, and out of 1t, dropped the picture of little child, baby with earnest eyes, and soft curling hair.
 Then, indeed, the old mans heart came very near to relenting, and ne kissed the place where, with the moth. CTS guiding fingers. the babys hano had written in scrawlings letters Your loving little Margaret"
 And then he hardened his heart, and burned the picture, because the baoy eyes, so like of those of his own llt' tie girl, hurt him--ana the daugntei waited anxiously for 'the letter thai did not come.
 After that, Mrs. Grayson was too dis couraged to write again. She did mol even tell or her husbands death. ant she had quite given up all hope or reconciliation, when one day lettel came asking for one of her daugh' ters to come to spend the winter witi him.
 It was a cold letter. for it had taker a hard struggle with his pri6e for hln to write at all. but the daughter reaf between the lines. all the Loneliness and longing in the old mans heart and she straightway wrote him tha Margaret or Janet should come.
 Margaret was the older, and 1t hat seemed best at first for her to go but she was to finish school that year and besides, though she did not care to admit 1t, she had secret resent ment against the old man who ha' been 50 unkind to her mother.
 But Janet was childishly glad a the prospect of visit She had n' unkirld feelings against her grand1a ther, and she was wild with delight at the thought of seeing her mother old home So it was arranged that sh' should go For week the house ha' been a hustle of hurry and prepara tion, and now almost before she real tsad it. she was at her grandfather