Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-13

and if Mr.. Haverford does not like
this arrangement we'll. he can lump
it? Have some more tea? No? Well,
then. let us go up to the children.
CHAPTER. VII.
For a second time Katherine Gran
iger Law awake late into the night
watching the fire-glow CLINT the walls
and throw fantastic shadows on the
ceiling
She had been sent to bed very
early.
"You look so tired. you poor thing"
! Camilla had said as they had sat at
dinner.
She herself was going out to
bridge party, but she had insisted on
Agnes Brenton and Katherine shar'
ing dainty little dinner with her.
or course 1t was at her suggestion
that Miss Granger was sleeping with
the children.
"As you are going to stay with me-
she had said, when she tarr1ed nt-
tie while in the nursery after Mrs.
Brenton had gone downstairs, j
think we had better start as we in
tend to go on. Agres, l know, wants
to carry you home again with ner TO-
night, but Betty and Babsy want you
don't you, darlings?'
Katherine asked for nothing bet
ter, except. indeed, that she was d.
vided in her desire to show Difference
to both these women who were so ex-
traordinarly kind to her.
81 only hope shall do" she said
earnestly.
Camilla had laughed at this.
Her baby had climbed on her knee,
and was cuddling her very tightly.
"This is not what frightens me.
she said. 81 am only afraid you won't
stand our ways. This is very funny
sort of household-isn't 1t, Betty?"
The child nodded her head wisely
| She looked SO pretty with her bright
hair screwed up in curl rags.
. 1t was Katherine who Introduce
the subject of Rupert Haverford.
81 fancy Mrs. Brenton thinks
, ought to have referred things to Mr.
: Haverford," she had said, little hes
9 itatingly.
t 81 know" Mrs. Lancing had answer
Q ed quickly, "but | don't In the leas
see that. or course you went to Mr.
i Hayerford last night because you dit
SN~s
l. ly that does not entitle him to orde
i all your ways? | shall be awfully dis
e appointed IL you don't stay with me-
Q she finished; and Katherine nat
laughed softly at this.
II Then you shall not be disappoln'
e ed" she had answered.
y And so everything had been arrans
ed, and when Mrs. Lancing had whisl
" ed away for a long-and late-ever
n ing at cards, Mrs. Brenton had kisse
:, the girl, and told her to go to rest.
=, Camilla is right; you do look yer
tired" she said.
n. ooh, am always pale. but al
n not really tired-I am only happy.
IL don't think I could explain to you e:
l. actly how feel. Just little viii!
ID ago I seemed to have nothing give
to me, that nothing was possible an
q now | feel almost rs if I had foun
o. everything that had been lacking a
le these years."
ed "Only because you have settled
rv be the governess to two children WI
OF are bound to be naughty and tireson
s. sometimes, you know .
at mo, not entirely because of that
IN Katherine answered.
y. There was something familiar
=. her to find herself occupying sma
II bed in room with children, but tn
was the only element that was fam
az lar; all the rest was so new and
!. sweet.
at AS she lay on the pillows and loo
ed from one little sleeping form to II
on other her eyes filed, and she had
he fluttering sensation at her heart
LIZ, After so many barren years the
!. last few hours seemed over full wi
ne sympathy and kindness, and with tn
lat recognition from others that almo
no amounted to kinship.
~ She found herself endowed with
r;s personality all at once.
1t was very strange to realise tn
,od she had some defined standing; ne
that the oppression of dependen
:. had been lifted she marvelled tn
ITO she could have endured the burden
off long.
But it is too good to last" S
said tn herself once or twice.
lat know something will happen and
&c shall go ont into the cold again.
of vi course Sne C0ulQ not steep,
Cd thought of dozen things at the sal
as time.
lin The spell Of Camilla magnetic p
sonality the calm strength woman
ing ness of Agnes Brenton, the. cha
and prattle of the children. held
in sway alternatively and kept al
or that new sense of warmth that
been kindled in her heart.
nd. Every now and then, too Rup
OF Haverford would come into
thoughts.
in s g
= Mrs. Brenton's lodgings addressed
herself, and given to her just as
was going upstairs. In this Ha'
= ford had written that he regret
that he was called north on very