Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-03-03

could. But it's twenty years" she went on laughing
ton ~ Twenty years ss I've seen mother or
But she is still alive, and we're going Tas father and
mother are both dead now, but he wouldn't 80 without
We'll, couldn't he said, as he folded up the long
bae tickets and put them in wcl.worn purse WHO
when 70 get off the train if mother wasn't there: Ana
she couldn't 60 without me, for might set SEX play
with the fire do something
They laughed dclghtedly Ike two chiidre,--te vcars
had fallen from thstn Ike garment They going
The people will be taking you folks for the bridal
party if you don't look out, station agent remarked
as he shoveled more coal into the dirty little stove
Is there a wedding today Mrs. Moore asked
Yes, ma Am, the first real church wedding in Mill
brook jim Brown has just back from Prince
ilbeft to marry the eldest Taylor girl IT., going be
osGf N me me new cnIrcn ara Ger Pony gong am
along The trail, won't be here until dark
Mildred looked Up with sudden interest. A weddngi
That would be something to tell Edith about The bride
will probably be drc ed in that dreadful hot pink and
have paper roses in her hair, and say Yes, sir the
minister
There has been great times getting ready for it,"
Mr. Greene was saying My wife has been theirs
nearly all day, 1t beats ali how interested
Half hour later Mildred found herself in the little
new church, with its Imprinted walls and seats and its
looking women with here and there apoogetic-ook-
ing man
Evergrccrs banked at the windows and wreathed
around the aar-ral and them punches Of roseberrcs
81 1T IS pretty" Mildred murnurcd to herself az
wonder who thought Of the color scheme! But the bride
The behind her talking. MARY won't
see, white woman until the spring anyway, and they
it all right Mary will She's good stuff, like her
mother She may get lonesome but nobody will know
Poor Nary Mildred thought. This isn't we'd
Suddenly silence fell, and one was going down
the narrow aisle. very small and Young and
Mildred saw that she was dressed in brown, and theu
she no more for her eyes blurred with sud-
den rush of tears Poor Mary! Poor MARY!
They were passing her now. Mildred looked
the bride, but at the face Of the Young husband
1t honest face strong, invincibe and it
could tight the world and bear its prosperity its de-
feat with equal calmness because there would be at
his side who believed in him. trusted him loved him
sire. The hail and the frost might blight his crops
The storm might overwhelm his focNs, poverty and
distress might overtake him. but Alarys love would
:" sickness in health for better or for worse TIL
death us do part the air was still resonant with the
words that carry them much of lfes meningitis
uutterabe pain and sorrow its richest JOY and bless
edness.
A strange feeling stirred in AIldreds heart The
glory in the young mans face smote her with sense
of loss, OF disappointment and defeat Toms face had
gowed like that on the morning 50 long age when they
could smell the crysanthcmums she heard again
from the little orean-oit above her the wedding march,
that had seemed then to breathe them in pillows Of
her; now ITS sweetness stabbed ier heart r,
me people around her WGTc ha'tiy preparing 10 19-
low me bridal party nut Mild!ed sal no,or4eSS me
Sho"nakes sited aeaiS me WINDOWS ana t"e Sudows
deepensu IN me h'te chofch Ou'Sde mere werT 'I.h
iie ana ausnter ana merry !a'e.t 81 ou
me orea'st Piayeu on -'na' oeaIHc'' s'o'y VI 'o'e
never . e,1i iJe loIious' Ila'pl1 a.. ~ ~
Mnen MILDRED Went back TO me Statoh me STOW Vas
wnIl' asouao 'ne eeva,9rs inc Wlrfs sang aoose et
t che love M TO fee i m spT h ' cbee '
p1 sne aoseu o. 10 zee. II on het not eheekS
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Don't be AFRAID !lttle girl she said gently You
will be lonesome sometimes. and homesck and tired