The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-09

these mothers always are 50 prone to
see ghosts in broad daylight.
He picked up the letter to finish read
ing 1t, but light steps we're heard on
the garden patch, and he saw his wife
hurrying toward the house.
"She need not know that have been
reading her mothers letter, he
thought. Undoubtedly she will read
it to me, and then we can talk it over
he thought as he put 1t down on the
table again.
But all day he waited in vain for her
to mention it. She never said word
about it until the next morning, when
she said: ooh, forgot to tell you;
had a letter from home. Mother sends
her love to you. There was nothing
else in the letter. They are all well at
home, She asks me to send her some
samples of worsted."
WAS that all"
| Yves; there was nothing else" o
There it was, he thought. Where
was now the thorn? For that there
was one he no longer doubted, or she
would have mentioned her mothers
foolish worries.
Now he knew. Every day he ex-
amined the letters she gave him to mail
until he found one addressed to her
mother. How heavy it was! And she
had written so much without telling
him word.
When he came to his office he care
fully opened the letter and read
you have no idea, dear mother. how
often I have thought over your letter
before l knew just what to answer, l
will confess everything frankly so that
you may perhaps help me to do every
thing to make Gustav happy.
You ask me if I am haooy. In
. deed. / am mother, and I still believe |
: understand what you mepa when you
write of the little thorns. l often fee
= that piercing pain, but 1 am not quite
! clear whether it is only my vanity
: which is wounded or my heart # you
) viii help me find where the thorn Is
l will do my best to remove it.
you know that 1 have never known
y Gustav's mother. l am very sorry a.
> this, because 1t would then be easier
for me to talk with him about her. H'
VERY OlItH E bGehh VI llIl3 ettAA hAANAi
l. feel as if I shall never be able to do tn
Y: things as she does them. Very often
u feel as if / have fallen short Of his ex
a pectations, and that he is not quit
,. satisfied because I manage the house
is hold affairs differently from the wa.
Q his mother does Whenever he want
l. to praise me he always says that
q have done this or that just as hi
Is mother would have done it, and he ex
ID poets that such praise shall make m
d feel happy l wish it did.
Answer my letter as soon as yo
can dear mother and have no fear tina
81 I shall not follow your advice. Gusta
l. does not even know that I write YOU
1 send you the worsted you asked m
es for
~ He read no further, but feeling Q
If sadness came over him. Poor, dea
s. Elsiel She was quite right He fold
Cd the letter together and put it i
le his pocket determined that he himse
y, would answer all Elie's questions.
r $50
1t was a beautiful summer evening
Of Else was sitting on the plaza with he
$, embroidery, as he softly closed the gal
I'd behind him, that she should not hea
Dix him come. Then he tiptoed to the larg
y bed of roses and broke off one litt
thorn which he pressed In under
Sc fingernail before he walked up to tt
at house,
i'd "Good evening. darlingr'
". Good evening, dear! You are earl
ct to-day Now will hurry up Dime
I'd and we will have coffee out here"
he While they were slipping their coffe
in she noticed that Gustav did not seel
quite himself,
he Are you tired, dear?" she asked.
nd No love, but I have pain in m
er finger, and 1 do not know what cause
ty' it"
LET me look at it. Why, of cours
al you have got a splinter under that mai
es / shall soon get it out"