The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-01

Row are sc cGiidren:- I asked
I'VE lost :he baby boy while WIN
was at Montauk Another little girl
has come since then We call her
Sarah"
She waited q moment and then asked
hesitatingly:
"How's your Sarah. She didn't look
well when saw her last"
NO. she's been delicate some time
since our boy died last summer. She's
gone to Europe with the girls for .
change"
Then We were silent. There was not
much more we could say without
touching The quick. But 1t last burst
out:
MAY. Why wouldn't you take that
money I sent you while Will was away
at the war;"
I'VE could manage without It IL
was kind OF you. though. You have Al
ways been kind. Van-'
You might have known It would
make US happy to have you take Il IL
was only what I owed to the country.
too. seeing that ! was % placed
couldn't so to Cuba. I wanted then to
leave everything and enlist. But Il
wouldn't have been fair to otherA
sent some men in my place. though"
Perhaps II sounded u little like apol-
ogizing. May listened. with q smile o.
her lips that heated me.
You are just like that preacher!"
/ exclaimed. You can see NO good IN
folks unless it's your kind OF good
Don't you believe have got some real
patriotism In mes"
| Its hard to think Of Van Harrine-
ton. the new senator. As q patriot" she
laughed back. Those men you sent DO
the front must have come In handy tor
| the election-'
turned red at her little ding aboUe
the senatorship. My managers had
worked that company I equipped for
| all 1t Was worth.
II guess there are q good many
| worse citizens than I ann. ! wanted to
| fight for those fellows down In Cuba.
And you wouldn't let me do the little
could. help VIII to take my place"
after all that happened. Van. ~
couldn't take II"
| "And l suppose you don't want 10
touch anything from me now. See
here. May. I came over this morning TO
do something for you and Will Did he
tell you about my wanting him 10 60
down to my place In the country until
he got well and strongr'
| Hes much Interested In this paper
and thinks he can't get away" she Gai0
evasively.
Darn his paper! You don't believe
Win was cut out to be thinker Any
how. he ought to get his health hack
6rst and give you an easier time too"
| Il am all right Will - very much
in earnest about his ideas. You can't
| get him to think about himself"
well. don't mind his trying 70 ~
form the earth. II later on be wants .
paper to whack the rich with I'll buy
him one. Come. that's fair. isn't it1'
May laughed At my ODER. but made
NO reply.
can't get you to 60 down to my place.
I'll have to turn 1t into . school O.
something. A fellow I was talking
with ON the train the other day gave
me nm idea OF making It into sort Of
reform school for boys. What weuld
you think Of that? Sarah = taken
with the idea. She never liked the
place and WON'T want to 60 back now
that the baby died there"
That's q coed plan-turning philan-
thropist. Van? That's the right way to
get popular approval. senator"
She Knocked me. but her laugh rang
out good naturedly.
Popular approval never worried me
much. But. May, ] want your good
will. and mean 20 get 1t too"
For the more obstinate she was the
more she made me enger to win my
point to bring her and Will back % me.
She understood this. and dash oe her
old will and malice came into her thin
face. She got up to stir the clothes ON
the Ore, and when the water began to
run over l stripped on my coat and
put my hand to the job. Then ! step
ped over to the sink
do you remember how ! used to
wash while you wiped when We want
ed to get out buggy riding. Mayr
Yes, and you were an awful shift
less worker. senator" May retorted,
fetching dish towel from the rack and
beginning to wash while I wiped.
and you had the same smooth way
with you. though in those days you
hadn't 10 cents to your name. And
now, how much II it?'
'-Oh. say Q Quarter!"
Then 1t must have cost yo1 . sight
Of money to become senator"
1T did some. but ] kept beck q Ne.
tle."
Il (Continued.)
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