The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-17
One side OF Aunt Doris's red mouth

pose IL | went away for time ant
then came back quite unexpected,
they would call me renegade
Aunt Doris glanced at the twins ant
had placed a finger upon her lips JUS
as Grandmother Pollard came in a.
the back door.
Where's your mamma?" she asked
OF Narcssa.
Papa came and took her in a buggy
over the mill. They're going tc
have sugar-pull and stay all night
at papa's bssss house" Narcissa
dropped into a chair, winding one
slim leg round the other.
I've been acrost to Mis- Crosier's tc
see about the rug. It's nearly done
grandmother said. Mary Crosier
thinks it's the prettiest she's wove
since young Mis- Spencer was mar
rled, and that was too bright"
The twins clapped hands and
Jumped up and down. Through the
winter evenings they had helped sew
the rags that pieces saved from each
new dress in the family made, for the
rag-rug. Every spring the Pollards
had new one. And from the time
the brightly colored balls were wound
until they came out of Mary Crosiers
loom, a beautiful rug, the waiting kept
one in a quiver of anticipation.
"Will it be done By time the addi.
tion is?" they asked.
Grandmother Pollard nodded, her
eyes cleaned a streak of blue between
the rims of her very black lashes.
The black lashes were so beautiful
with her snow.white hair.
I'M stir up a few drop.cakes long
as you've got good fire." she said to
Aunt Doris, land you can have them
with lemonade for your company to-
night"
Aren't you too tired?" Aunt Doris
said, but her mother only hurried
away to take off her shawl
The pink chambray was finished
and Aunt Doris beckoned the twins
into the little wash-room and began
upon Valora's hair
1T doesn't matter dear" she said,
what anybody says about your
mamma, whether she ran away or
walked away; anyhow she came back,
and that is all you care about, isn't
it?"
Valera nodded violently.
You aren't either of you old enough
TO understand, but some day you will
be and that is more than the neigh
bors round here ever can" Aunt Doris
went on. "One day your mamma got
a funny notion she could EYe without
your papa and her little girls, so she
went away and tried. She found out
that she couldn't, very soon, and then
she came back"
Il remember the day" Valera
cried.
THE same day she came back" 4"
chimed Narcissa, jumping into the
place of Valera. whose hair hung in
a short, flaXen mop from huge pink
bow
SO feel kindly towards people who
use words incorrectly" Aunt Doris
went on, and who speak of others un-
Justly, think to yourselves-'they
don't understand Leah, you see, only
repeated what she'd heard, poor
child"
She didn't really say renegade"
Valera admitted.
She said her father owned our gate,
though" breathed Nsrcissa.
He owns good many peoples
gates, but not ours" Aunt Doris said,
and added very low, any more"
That evening Mr. Calvin. Barry
walked UP Main Street in a new, light
spring suit and overcoat. He hur-
ried aloag eagerly, tke young ladies
bowed who knew him, and those who
did not dropped their eyes II his
pointed tan toes as he passed them.
The young men, anybody could see,
wondered why he did not stay in his
own town or choose some other than
theirs to start in business. He turned
east toward the street the Pollard
twins lived in.
The Pollard twins-it was quite an
odd thing how subordinate everybody
was TO then. Their dear grandmoth-
er, living years and years before they
were born, since then was nearly al
ways spoken of as the Pollard twins
grandmother. Young Mr. Dan Pol,
lard was known as the father OF the
Pollard twins, instead of as the fore
man of Murphy's Mill, as Mrs. Dan
Pollard was known as their young
mamma instead Of just as her pretty
self. and the teacher of great big
country school was just the Pollard
twins auL,, Doris Pollard, and now
wise ones were saying she will marry
Cal Barry and make him the Pollard
twins uncle.
He arrived and rang the front door
he'll, and while the twins scrambled
over opening the door, Mr.. Barry
gazed at the addition. Narcissa le,
him in. he seized twin under each
arm. whirled completely round with
them and as he set them down he bent
and whispered:
Call me Uncle Cal and see what
you get"
Uncle Cal. Uncle Cal, Uncle Cal"
they shrilled, jumping round him.
lie drew big paper bag from his
pocket, filed with every kind OF
andy. Just as Aunt Doris came in
smiling. She stopped in the centre
OF the room as shy little girls do.
Why Cal. she gigsled, aren't YOU
The great one to. teach them that"
Grandmother Pollard came in in her
liark alpaca with her human hair
chain. aud Mr. Barry hurried to shake
her hand and seat her. with a foot.
Stoo,