The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-18
Love Reigns Supreme


Lady Nab ran lightly down the steps
and got into the smart electric cab
waiting for her. The man evidently
had his orders, for he started away
Immediately.
AS the cab started, Lady Nab leaned
forward suddenly and murmured:
"Good-by, my baby; shall l ever see
you againT'
Then she leaned back and thought of
the man to whom she was going, away
from her home and little boy and her
husband, who had made her 80 unhap-
py. 1t never seemed to strike her that
perhaps she had made him unhappy,
too, and that she was doing very
wicked thing In leaving her home. Her
one thought was to get away some
where where she would be happy and
where some one would think of her as
well as themselves Roy would do
all these things.
She shut her eyes and lightly clasped
her hands in her lap and snuggled into
the soft cushions OF the cab.
Suddenly she started-what was
that7-surely, baby's hand had touch
ed her ownl Yet there was no one in
the cab with her, only there seemed to
be a peculiar haze in front of her.
She leaned back again and closed her
eyes and gave herself up to pleasing
thoughts.
There 1t was again! A timid, gentle
touch. The touch that Is .unmistaka-
BILE when once you have felt baby's
hand hold your own!
''Oh!" cried Lady Nab. "What is
It? Is any one sitting in front Of me2"
And little baby voice replied:
"Yes, Lady Nab, am sitting in
front Of you"
Heavens" she cried for, sure
enough, sitting on the sea facing her
was a little boy. Such curly headed
little baby with bright blue eyes and
a divine mouth. Yet the strange thing
was, he had nothing but a bit Of silk
draped round him and CULVER Of ar
rows slung over one shoulder!
"You must be cold, DEAR" she said,
and took him on to her lap and wrap
ped her cloak round him.
do you like bables7" he asked.
"Yes, love them very dearly" she
said.
do you? Then why are you leav-
ing yours alone 30 late at night?"
Lady Nab was too surprised to an
swer.
The baby went on:
"You know, he isn't bit happy with
his nurse What is he like; your little
boy, 1 mean?"
He Is such dear little thing, and
/ am so fond of him."
She took everything for granted, and
never wondered how this strange child
should know all about her and the boy.
She seemed TO have forgotten, too, that
she would never see her baby again.
Don't you hate to leave him at home
at nights when you are out enjoying
yourself?"
81 have never seriously thought
about that" she said
Babies get 80 lonely, you know
they want such great deal Of love.
Especially mothers love. There's real
ay nething like 1t in all the world"
Lady Nab only held him closer and
slowly, slowly, the tears ran down her
face
"Are yon sure babies can't do without |
q mothers lover"
"Well, they can do without It, but |
they don't make such good men and |
women, and they never know how to
love properly themselves when their
mothers haven't loved them"
Then she understood what terrible
thing she had almost done She had |
nearly left her little baby alone with
its nurse and with its father (whom
Lady NAB thought hated her baby and
herself). Its father, who was stern,
man, as she believed. and
who. when be found she had gone, !