The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-01

tent VINO mad deScended yearnlng her mother. She
felt numb and little SICK but there brassy fare
in her brain that made her know things never under
stood before during all the eight years of her life
She selected the most uncomfortable place she could
hndhe hard, ropey mat by the back hall door, under
which the cold crep-and there, hugging her knees,
she herself her misery. She loaed
She not aUdnted Her parents gone, bearing
Genevieve to glory and pleasure, the servants were
cross but of all, Her Own Mother had suggested
the visit to Emmy to have her, the undesired and
loved child, we'll out of the way!
She wept long the would come By the
time her eyes dry and burning she hardened
"a little Ishmael. If nobody loved her, why should she
love any one2 1t very evident that if she died
would Even the thought that they would all
be stricken with remorse they gazed at her in her
fower-trimmed coffin had cold comfort in it.
She began to look for the which went to the
making of this situation. Why did her parents love
Genevieve better than they loved her.? Why was she
adored Emmy Woods adored by her mother?
Thinking OF Emmy made her remember the green bottle
and that she had been seeking sympathetic confessor
tell of its ruin when the knowledge of her unloved
condition had come upon her. She the
thought of this disaster into the questions prompted by
her Of injury
If Emmy had broken the bottle, Emmy, the pampered
pet, who loved and guarded both by her mother
and her German governess-would Emmy be scolded3
No.
If Geneveve had broken it-Genevieve aged 6ve
No.
If her brother Bob had broken it-Bob, aged eleven
off at boarding. school, whose homecomings were
feasts for whom the best of everything kept-vvould
he be punished? Hoydl-nothing speak Of certainly
He would hear few regretf words and be dispatched
to apologize to Mrs Woods.
This was injustice and Susy recognized it as such
She began to understand it in her way: Emmy
Only Child. Genevieve Youngest Child Her
brother Bob Eldest Child. But she had been
possble-she in the middle. She began to think
that the fairy stories wrong and that Cinderella
must have been Middle WE'LL what would happen
Middle when she quite by accident broke
green bote She would be taken sadly by her mother
quiet library where her father would sit sernly
waiting and after lot of talk about how awful she was
and what disappointment to her parents, various pun
ishments that she did not dwell upon, in
fancy, would be arranged for her.
At this point the instinct of sef-defense brought her
decision:
"If say nothing about the bottle no one zuiH knou"
Her face frightened. Why not? Why confess and
be punished? -she, the Cinderella, the unloved Middle
Child? Mrs. Woods would fancy that Emmy had broken
the bottle. Very we'll, let Emmy who had everything
made pleasant for her, bear the blame She, Susy Gil
varry had trouble enough in her dark life without both
erng about a nasty little bottle that have been
very cheap to break easily. So, from stumbling
sinner she became exultant When she Gene
We've come back from her drive zvith balloon she al
did not mind she wicsedly happy in having
put the of her fault upon Only Child. Her
eyes red, but silence eloquent OF dark things
wrapped her about.
Susy, DEAR" her mother asked, whats the mat
ter? and she drew her to her plating her hair afresh
after the tender busy of mothers. "Were you
disappointed because you weren't taken driving to-day?
I'm sorry, but there wasn't room for you in the
rage"
Susy wrgged from her. Words! Words! Words,
"On Saturday week, if it's fine, you shall and
Geneveve shall stay at home. Geneveve won't mind,
will you-nr SWEET"
Cenevieve paused in her baloon-t1yin She looked
dubious
what would do while Susy away in the ham
som?" she asked cautiously.
"Why. Margaret could take you to Central Park to
see the lions
"Oh then wouldn't care if Susy went" cried Gene
We've
"You dear, generous, sweet mte and Mrs. Gilvarry
caught her and smothered her with kisses.
Susy had retreated to corner and her set mouth
her folded arms, unlike those of the exled
Napoleons in the famous painting The little scene
had borne out her previous logic only too we'll OF
when she taken driving, something equally
charming provided for the Youngest Child. She
to bed that night rebel, ripe soil for de-
ception if by it she could champion the Cause OF the
great army OF unappreciated Middle ones.
But is usual when is eight all this almost
entirely forgotten long before four days had passed So
many new and really pleasant things had happened that
dark reflections had been crowded On Tuesday, she
had praise in school for her realistic rendition of
The Charge of the Light Brigade, and she liked to
remember hush after she had cried in her best chest
Theirs but to do and die
Noble SIX hundred
Also new girl had said it was shame to plat such
curly hair Susy had and this had led to friendship
sealed and signed with many marshrellow drops and
other CONNECTIONS so dear to the childish heart 1t
not s.r-nc. therefore, that Thursday, when Susy