The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-06-01

| 0Nn Hat are you going to do with
| m that pa? Why do you take
| it downY'
Mr.. Bretman did not answer. For
the Arst time in his life he pushed his
child from him and called harshly for
the nurse to take him away. Little
Fred made no resistance, but his
gheved lip and quivering chin told
that he felt hurt and injured. And,
up In the nursery, he appealed to Mag
gle, the maid.
Maggie, why did papa look so
cross? Why didn't lie tell me what he
was doing with mammals picture ?
Twasn't any harm to ask"
"Och, 1 doubt he was ashamed. dar-
iin'," said Maggie. BE aisy; you are
not to blame"
And she took the widower's little
boy upon her knee and patted his
round head
why ought he be ashamed?" asked
Fred.
"You mustn't say 1 said So" cried
the woman. "Masther has the right
to do his own will. It's none O. my
business"
But why did he take the picture
DOWN." asked Fred again.
There's somebody coming that
wouldn't like to see the face of the
lady that was MISTRESS here but a
year ago." said Maggie. your pa is
after givin' ye step-mother, Fred
de-"
Whats that?" asked Fred.
"A new mother" said Maggie. -"Ah,
don't. be spakin' Of what I've said. or
she'll send me away, and there'il be
none to love ye. She'll turn your pa's
heart and have it all her own. It's
always SO, poor bairniew
And the old nurse went over the
child and with him.
Mr.. Bretman carried his first wife's
picture up to the great garrett, where.
truth to tell, he shed a few tears over
1t before he deposited it in its cor
ner. 1t was impossible for him to
have those sweet eyes looking down
upon him while living ones shone from
her chair and her place at the table
He loved the dead woman still, though
he also loved living one.
Maggie did not know this. She
thought as she said, that ''the missus
was forgotten quite" What she
thought she taught the child: and the
young lady who came smiling into the
parlor one bright morning and knelt
down when her husband said, Come.
kiss your new mamma, Freddie" look.
Ing so sweet and gentle and pretty
that, left to himself, the boy would
have liked her, was surprised by an
earnest slap on the face and the angry
words, Go away. You made papa
put dead mammals picture up garnet.
don't want you for a new mamma:
won't have you. Go away"
And at that the bride, almost a child
herself, started up, flushed and angry.
and returned to her husbands pro-
tecting arms, quite overcome by this
greeting, and the face Of the old nurse
In which she saw no pleasant greeting
but defiance and anger instead.
The father, stung by the child's
words. seized him. for the first time in
his life, roughly by the shoulder ana
turned him from the room.
go, sir" he said. land do not com.
back until you can behave decentlv.
It In that ignorant woman's fault" he |
Iaid to his young wife, and led the |
way to the dining-roon.
But the shock Of the brides recep. |
hon had robbed both Of any appetite,
md Helen even wondered whether she |
had been wise to break her resolution
md marry widower who had chill
iren."
mo one ever has any comfort with
Itep- children" she thought.
And who can say what was In thu
mans mindf They were silent beth
II them. And, after luach vaa nv..