Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-05
Love Reigns Supreme
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Lady Nab ran lightly down the steps
and got into the smart electric cab
waiting for her. The man evidently
had bis orders, for he started away
Immediately.
AS the cab started, Lady Nab leaned
forward suddenly and murmured:
''Good-by, my baby; shall 1 ever see
you againY
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 so unhap-
10y. 1t never seemed to strike her that
perhaps she had made him unhappy,
too, and that she was doing a 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
we'll as themselves-and Roy would do
all these thfngs.
She shut her eyes and lightly clasped
her hands in her lap and Struggled into
the soft cushions of the cab.
Suuutlllg SLiS oIsiA W hSsh " SfS
thatA surely, baby's hand had touch
ed her own! 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 tim{d, gentle
touch. The touch that is unmistaka-
BILE when once you have felt q baby's
hand hold your own!
"Ohr cried Lady Nab. what Is
It? Is any one sitting In front of me?"
And little baby voice replied:
"Yes, Lady Nab l am sitting in
front of you"
Heavens! she cried; for, sure
enough, sitting on the sea facing her
was little boy. Such curly headed
little baby with bright blue eyes and
n divine mouth. Yet the strange thing
was he had nothing but bit of silk
draped round him and culver OF az
rows shng over one shoulder!
You must be cold, DEAR she said,
and took him on to her lap and wrap
ned her cloak round him
do You like babiesT' he asked.
Eyes. love them very dearly she
said.
DO you? Then why are you leav-
ing yours alone 50 late at night?"
Lady Nab was too surprised to an
swer.
The baby went on:
You know, he isn't a bit happy with
his nurse. What Is he like; your little
boy, mean?"
HE Is such a dear little thing, and
I a1n 50 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 70 leave him at home
at nights when you are out enjoying
yottrSelfT'
81 have never seriously thought
about that" she said
Babies get 50 lonely, you know
they want such a great deal Of love.
Especially mothers love. There's real
ly nothing like 1t In all the world"
Lady Nab only held him closer, and
slowly, slowly, the tears ran down her
facA
"Are you sure babies can't do without
a mothers lover
well, they can do without II, 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 a terrible
thing she had almost done. She had
nearly left her little baby alone with
Is nurse and with IT'S father (whon
Lady Nab thought hated her baby and
herself. Its father, who was q stern,
unrehnting man, as she believed, and
who, when he found she had gone.
would surely have turned on that
dear, helpless little thing in hts rage,
and hated 1t more than ever!
70! my baby, my baby" she muir
injured.
And this time Cupid, for, Of course,
y was b. put his arms round her