Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-09

don't havo to leave 1t be altogether, Abe" he added. turning to his son, T don't feel fur workin' this after. You'll have to git along without me. Pm goin' to lay. Eunice she can go along to the field over and help you"
 T need her here, pop" Mrs. Morn ingstar quickly objected, a jealous anxiety in her voice. Tt ain't right, her and our Abe bein' out there to- l gether by theirselvesw
 The woman's tone expressed a dis trust of the girl which brought the blood to Kinross' face and made Georgiana and Daisy cast their eyes upon their plates. ".
 Kinross glanced across the table at Eunice. Not even a quiver of her lashes betrayed any effect upon her of the woman's insinuations. Her self control or indifference, whichever it was, seemed to him passing strange, almost blameworthy.
 Its market tomorrow" Mrs. Morn ingstar went on querulously, "and 1 there's all the churnin' to be did. It comes wonderfully onhandy, pop, your gittin' cold just before market day. And the weller cow gives such poor milk still this while past it'll hardly churn fur body. Doc he says feed her chop feed and it'll hearten her up, he says. and make the milk better"
 ''He says, does he!' sneered Mr. Morningstar in a tone freighted with sarcasm. "Yes, guess a feller would feed his COWS chop feed yet! That would pay, ain't it? It takes towners to have the dumm ideas about a cow"
 'Towners" Georgiana questioned with lift of her fine eyebrows.
 "Och, mean body'd think Pete he was a towner, recommendin' such a dunn thing like that there"
 Mir Morningstar received a dollar a week extra on Dr. Kinross' board for aiding and abetting his disguise.
 "Ain't you leavin' Eunice stay and help usT" Mrs. Morningstar persisted.
 Her and Abe needn't be together Her husband obstinately stuck to his will. "She can work in the upper field and him in the lower. Do you hear, Abe?" he sharply questioned his son.
 Abe growled an affirmative under his breath. He was afraid of his father
 "Yes." cried Mr. MorningstM sar- castically, they'll both mind you, too, when they're out of eyesight in the fields over."
 ''I'll be strollin' over there some time this after" Mir Morningstar said warningly, "to see how things is goln'."
 Georgiana, with queenly lift of her dark head and look of disgust, rose from the table.
 | Kinross so thoroughly shared the feelings which her manner ana look expressed and he felt such strong dis approval of Eunice's apparent lack of sensitiveness to the shame of this talk that sudden warm liking for Georgi- ana stirred in him. Forgetting his role, he rose instinctively to stand while she passed from the room. But the act was so entirely out of character that neither of the young ladies recognized it for what it was though Georgiana's glance did for an instant rest upon him uncertainty with vague surprise which quickly brought him to himself and to his chair. A little while later as he fingered in the kitchen after dinner to get word alone with Mrs. Morningstar and (as Providence favored him by keeping old Morningstar indoors) with Mir. Morn ingStar as well he saw Eunice and Abe start out together for the fields. While Mrs. Morningstar and Ollie cleared off tho table he seated himself by the kitchen window and watched the youth and the maiden as long as they were in sight. The incongruity of Woicott working in the fields like a peasant and along with a fellow like Abe Morningstar struck him afresh.
 "Now. you see"-Mrs. Morningstar turned to him as her husband stretched himself out on the settee and Ollie de- parted with pile of dishes to the out CT kitchen-"how crazy that there girl is after our Abe-her not havin' a word to say agin workin' in the fields out such hot afternoon"
 "But she never does say a word against anything she's asked to do, does she?" questioned Kinross, averse to this interpretation of Eunice's si- lence and acquiescence.
 "Well. I'd like to see her oncet! What right would she have. I'd ike to know? Pop he won't even leave Ollie and Abe speak back. What fur would he leave her?"
 Well, I guess anyhowr' hoarsely echoed MorningStar from the settee.
 Kinross saw that his opportunity had come.
 But it's different with Eunice," he began. She's not your own child and does not owe you a daughters respect and obedience"
 Mrs. Morningstar set down the plat ter she was scraping and stared at him, and Mir MOrning5tar sat upright on the settee and fixed him aggressive ly with his little sharp eyes. "She owes us more'n what our own children owes us" the latter affirmed. ''us raIsin' her like our own and her not bein' ourn." But you have not raised her as your own. She was taken out of school at a younger age than Ollie was, and she has never been clothed as your daughter has been. For years she has been doing the work of two women and has got nothing for it but