Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-11-04

on they stopped short In the Ape,tisS'
timer"
you are the queerest boy" she COM
mented. IT ran over here just for a
minute to ask how your mother is, and
you won't tell ne"
I'm coming to that" he rejoined,
gravely. But I wanted to get this
other thing Strengthened out first Now
tell me this: did you pray for my moth
er last night, like you said you would?"
You can be so barbarously personal
when you try, Tom" she protested.
And then she added: but l did"
We'll, the miracle was brought.
Early this morning mother came TO
herself and asked for something to eat.
Doctor williams las been here, and
now he tells US all the things he
wouldn't tell US before. 1t was some
little clot In one of the veins or ar
teries of the brain, and nine times out
of ten there is nc hope"
20 Tom!-and h will get well
again?"
"She has more chances to-day Of get
ting we'll than she had last night Of
dying-so the doctor lays. But It's q
miracle, just the same"
I'm so glad! And now l really must
go home"
What's your rush? I'm not trying
to get rid Of o now"
IL positively must go back. We have
company, and / ran away without say
ing a word"
Anybody I know" inquired Tom.
Three s~omebodies whom you know,
or ought to know. very we'll: Mr.. Dux-
bury Farley, Mr.. Vincent Farley. Miss
Eva Farley"
"rd like to know how under the sur
they managed to get on your grand
fathers good side!" he grumbled.
why do you say that?' she retort-
ed. Eva was my classmats for year,
at Miss De Valle's."
He made a boyish face Of disap-
proval, saying bluntly: Il don't care l
she was. You shouldn't make friends
Of them. They are not At for o Il
wipe your shoes on"
you ought to be ashamed Of your
self, Tom Gordon! Less than an hou
ago, we were speaking Of you, and D
what happened at Beersheba. Mr.. Far
ley and his son both stood up for you.
And you took the other side, l reck
! on" he broke out, quite unreasonable
: 1t had not as yet come to blows be
: tween him and his fathers business as
sociates, but it made him immeasura
bly, dissatisfied to find them on socia
terms at Deer Trace Manor.
e Perhaps 1 did, and perhaps I di
not" she answered, matching his tart
= ness.
= We'll, you can tell them both tina
. I'm much obliged to them for nothing,
r he said, rising and going to the doc
with her. They would be mighty gla
to see it patched up again and me bac
Q in the Beersheba school,"
"Of course they would; SO would a
! of your friends
t But they are not my friends. The
" have fooled my father, and they'll To-
r your grandfather, II he doesn't waite
out. But they can't fool me-"
e THAT is the first downright coward
- ly thing 1 have ever known you
t. say!" she declared. And l wish W
It to know, Mr.. Thomas Jefferson Go
Ie don, that Mr.. Duxbury Farley and M
Vincent Farley and Miss Eva Farl'
IT are my guests and my %friends!" Al
with that for her leave-taking, 81
It turned her back on him and we
I swiftly across the two WINS to Il
great gray house on the opposite kno
10 For the first fortnighto f'his mother
lie convalescence Tom slept badly, al
1t his days were as the days Of the a
lie cused whose sentence a been su
Of pended. The time drew near when h
continued stay at home must be e
ID planned to his mother.
lie Ardea had gone back TO Carroll t
Saturday before New Years and the
ie was no one to talk to. But for tn
matter, he had cut himself out of h
n. confidence by his assault on the Fla
ey leys. Every morning for a week aft
st the Christmas-day clash, Scipio cal
as over with the compliments of Ma
Id steh Majah," Miss Euphrasia, and Nj
Dabney, and kindly inquiries touchi
the progress of the invalid. But af'
de New Years Tom remarked that the
ny were only the Major and Miss Euphr
STA to SEND compliments, and despi
set in. For out of his boyhood he h
,is brought up undiminished the longi
he for sympathy, or rather for a burde
,is bearer on whom he might unload
no troubles, and Ardea had begun
promise we'll.
no ITO be ~continued.)