The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-11-25
THANKSGIVING n
The gold is on the pumpkin
Il aglow with yellow glory,

Soon there was quick step and q
laughing Hello, Uncle Law as Ger
trude came forward with greeting
that for its simplicity and heartiness
and but for the ripened flower OF wo-
manhood before him might have car
ried him back u half dozen years.
Lawrence Greer was not one easily
too evidently In the air this time even
TO disguise the fact cleverly.
"But | say. Gertrude. how on earth
did II all happeni" looking her over
from head TO foot
Years, Uncle Law, just years and
the getting into touch with new kinds
Of life You said II would be just as
I've found 1t aud also that ! would
some day forget my Uncle Law and
that be told me so. But, you see,
haven't forgotten either" And she
smiled as frankly as in the days when
be told her. sitting on his knee. of the
world that she would go into through
the gateways OF school and experience
and OF the society. whose doors had
not then opened to her.
That she hadn't forgotten him and
those talks to the child Gertrude gave
Lawrence thrill Of real pleasure
That afternoon and evening was a
rare day 10 Lawrence's experience OF
life. The storm ragged furiously. and
La wrence. relieved OF duty. gave him
self up to the spell OF a renewal OF ac-
qualntance that had all the novelty.
piqunncy and delight OF rare aud
agreeable discovery
What asronished Lawrence most
were the frequently recurring and fiat
terlngly delightful evidences that
wherever she had been and however
occupied during these intervening
years Gertrude had kept close tab on
his own career and. furthermore, had
found certain inspiration therein. To
be sure. that career had not been hid
den under bushel. for he was already
sufficiently In public life to make him
marked man among influential men.
Gertrude's discriminating illusions
TO his work as commissioner delegate
or president OF the board. to his work
In correcting civic evils and In his
other public activities betokened a pc
culiarly personal interest such as Law
renee had not before met and such as
he least expected In any woman. His
own mother and sisters had shown no |
such Intelligent interest In his work, |
and even his brother. be was willing to |
wager, knew far less OF his career |
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terday. as 1t were, he had amused as a
child. but child that he loved
Was II possible that In shaping the 4
ideals OF life for child he had unwit- l
tlngly offered himself as an ideal to
the heart OF that child? II so would |
she find him worthy or not now that
the years had proved him? Was her
only admiration? IL more
than that might II not yet be that
some one else already forestalled him
in her affections? How was he to
know?
IL was near the close OF the second
day and drifting winds had made nee
essary still further delay in breakin,
out the roads that opportunity ofTere(
llselt 10 ishNtehVt " gam Souhe iiSh
on the ever more tantalizing question
OF possible rivals In Gertrude's affet
tons. AS for himself. Lawrence fe
that his entire world was already RI
around this one young woman
Gertrude was showing him some pho
tographs accumulated during the years
Of hor girlhood.
but where is his plcture?' asked
Lawrence. interrupting BIER description
Of the photographs
81 have never asked him Tor one.-
why soY