New-York tribune., 1906-12-16
Nj,
BY Pauline Darlington Bouve


rrated he serene silence Of the little room
where for twenty years Miss Mehitabe
had lived her unobtrusve, placid life
NOW and then peal O laughter or the -
catch OF a gay song made It's way the -
Young people dashed by through the
captain Kidd sat gazing into the deep
heart OF the rrc and he 100 reninis-
be gazed and twItched his whiskers
no" and then with an obviously retro
The Young people are gay tonight a
Captain Kidd Il beautiful to be Young So.
A sudden shower Of sparks cracked up As
the chimney. and Captain Kidd drew
Happiness and beauty are for the
Young. and old, YOU and / KIddv
Let me see-it's twelve wears since your
mother LETT YOU III the coal BIN IN the
cellar and II $ twenty years tomorrow
since / came here TO 1--we. No. not
Young any more. and il foolish Tor
- think or - talk about It. We Just
an old maid and her old cat aren't we:
But be useful enough still for all
that. only sometimes Captain Kidd |
wish we had conpany-a CHEEKY little
home with little 1eer patterlng over the
an old cat have dreams sometimes. don
chev Captain Kidd:-beautful dreams
that can never come true; but they hurt
nobody but lusr foolish Old woman and
Mss Mehieabels hand was stroking
Captain Kidd soft IL as she spoke, and
Captain Kidd was rubbing his head c.... ~, ,
against her knee with sympathetic and ~ ~
DO You know am forty years old
tonight. Forty old An old Isn't had n
i strange Captain Kidd that ism old unspol
she has husband and children treading her kiiiv
Bur i there husband. cilldren-If when
d'eSn belong 10 somebody why then she laughe
old DID, DID, hen forty wears have slipped by and h.
Pur-. You are al right as TO looks eNToStu- \
lated Captain Kidd There pInlIsh spots then
your checks and Your ewes have got soft trernb
SHINE them that makes that fghty Angora fl
The 1ee a1lale when look her.
Pain looking Dout talk nonsense. Or that Ar
what his pur-~ might have been translated
Miss Mehtatel understood for She knew his purr
language earliest klttenhOod " There Ar
upon when l might have believed YOU, do
but that long ageyears before you hand
le1t the coal b.u- talr-and have learned steadN
better" Ms Mehltaoe sighed she drew Cap T
hiids rusty black a through her thin fingers
He tall and broad shoulderei, hlddy. and
had honest that looked al straight the h
and c0u in't Tel. lies and 1t all hIddN
fault thought they sand something that pause
else and-and that all Nc
lie brave and all the l. was who
blind How could he help IT. was little and
-,aln and quiet. and Marian, EOu cousin
tall and alr and There WASH any body and "
blame l. Just according To nature. wagon
And night night lust Ike tins, hIddT-
with the coming down II great white swirl, asked
Uncle Abne- phibrlll by with his big hay ham,
wagon on N giving the young folks 4
. ride he called ID mother. Where's Mettet was 10
Nehi-abei i5e-,- much selglllng but Ia
II tel her Abrer. SAID mother. AL The time | said
WAS reeTlng through blinds and when saw and l
r41- broad shoulders loom up out Of the dark attic
ness as Uncle Abner held up his lantern, my heart
gave great thunlp YOU 10
Tell him ! n coming. mother / cried. and \
then with trembling fingers | put cloak and as $
hood nir-els the door Uncle Ahner my dl
Ilr with laugh You gel into Anson be pr