The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-11-30

work. Mr.. Verricker has been fore
ed to leave his. His wife has been
up night and day with me for weeks.
And you yourself tell me the hom
is upside down because YOU have
not been able tc see to it. | seem
to be source of trouble to every
body"
Mary finished up with pathetic
little ghost of a smile Tanta left
her so much time to fill up with
thought.
Il don't say your words are wrong
only your readin Of en-" Tanta
said. with a worried shake of ner
heai It's on'y for folk with clever
heds that can explain to you. But
you seem just now like them as
reads the good words in the Book,
and ha'n't got the proper under
standing of 'em. | doubt but you
couldn't have KEEP Mr.. Verricker
back if you'd lashed him to his
chair with rimpjes. And as for Mrs
John, you couldn't have drove her
out of this house at the point OF
the gun; and as for my work why
it does one good to let the master
see what husses and blocllhea's the
Tottie vrouws are. It's Tanta does
that IN thig
don't you do the same with him
till ! Just feel glad As for him,
just look round you. There's flow
ers on the table there, and fruit by
your elbow. There's books from the
store in Vryburg. There's wine that
cost am int of money. There's not
wish you could think yourself but
what he's thought OF it first. Him
that's crazy for you to get right
And then you go right against the
word of the Book and wish you were
dead"
Mary avoided the bright angry
eyes that looked so large through
their spectacles, and turned to the
window.
dy kindness was still there; that
you don't understand" she said
helplessly watching Kaffir child
through the window playing with
currish yellow dog on the other side
of the road
The Afrikander precipitatel her
needlework into the large basket
at her side, and drawing her chair
with her in the manner of a snail
drawing up its shell, came close to
the couch and picked up one of
the almost transparent hands lying
limpY in the young woman's lap
Maybe | understand a lot, mis-.
sic" she said, bending forward mean
ingly. Maybe I'm understanding
more than you do. AMI maybe if
tod you all understood you'd |
say, Tanta, you're a meddling old !
fool who hasn't any right to think
of nothing but your pots and your
Kitchen"
Mary tried to draw her hand
away from the others warm clasp,
but the effort was feeble
There's nothing to understand
she said contradicting herself in
tone she tried to make COLI, but
which was only miserable.
Nothing to understand? Nothing?"
Tanta raised her brows till her eyes
were distended to ludicrous proper
tions. We'll maybe not; maybe !
there's no use in trying to under
stand things that amt understand |
able. 1t was things like that that
set Eve eating the apple. I only
understand those things you and |
the master want me to understand |
She shook her head knowingly, ana |
Mary felt her warm hand give a
gentle additional pressure.
There was short silence; then
she turned languidly from her con
temptation of the niger boy and
the dog.
Your husband, Tanta' she SAL, |
lis he living?"
The question came so abruptly
that the other dropped the hand |
she was holding and sat upright |
But her feminine wit to d her that
she had struck the right chord, and
she answered promptly
"No, missile"
Marys sympathies were touched .
and she said, on and renamed