The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-14
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Rachel Seymours face. It --as odd, awakened ex, prsssion that changed swiftly to utmost sdisrnay. "Im wickedi" Rachel Seymour uttered with th. emphasis of conviction. She caught the other yoman's arm. q must go home at once I-I had shall runi Good-bye-good-bye." She was off with out further loss of time On the she sat review ing the awful thing she had done. It grew steadily thing?
 And he isn't mner sine n1oaned inwzrdfv. She was convinced that it because he was not hers To shut her little son in a dark closet and then forget to let him out would be bad enough. but this He might thinl.-poor child poor child, what might he not and had he notsa right to think! Shut in there, in that horrible dark-but Rodney would not be afraid, she remembered proud y: The darkness had terrors for his stout little mind He would only hate her-hate her. Her heart in it's arms. In her and pity she failed her self unreraittingy-had mercy. Those sitting near her wondered at her and glanced. each other with She had not dared to look st her watch, but she saw with renewed dasnlay that the full Of business men going home to supper It had been very early in the afternoon when she put Rodney into the closet Dismouniing from the at the home, her troubled thoughts seeming to pant and gasp with her breath
 Tn sight of the house she began,to run An awful fear grpped her. The closet was not very large and if the door fitted tightly-She flew up the steps, through the halL up the stairs Her heart pounding, door.
 "Rodney Rodneyl" she cried, but vaer voice made
  figure and ran with it in panic of fear. It Rod- ney himself who stopped her. His eyes opened and he regarded her with the soft bewildermeDt of wakened child
 "Rodneyi RodneyP
 was not quite back yet "T didn't expect to come ba-' He stopped suddenly as his. vision cleared and he saw the great trouble in her face. He could up, chivary-born within him His mind ignored sn- perbly her responsibility for his woes.
 Don't feel bad," he nurmured. But She went on feeling bad.
 @I forgot Is. Rodasy n: she noaned "oh, Rodney T did," simply, "but it's all right You were per fectly welcome-l mean 1t wasn't soAvery bad. I'd most as lieves It was nce an'-an' quiet in there. Hurriedl She caught him to her in an eager pas sion of tenderness and re!noTse With those birth bangs was ushered into life Rachel Seyn1ours love for the lhtle boy that was not hers:
 x"Dear-dlssar-yo are so good How can you Why forgot too," he explained grave1y yet throbbing with vague. new joy. Ifs very easy to mind m e1 mite kw account nte5'y e9"
 Her Sin was a. brother his own,-he could derstand forgetting. He felt newborn kinshp with the clear eyed woman who brooded over him in this ship in shining He was glad She had forgotten, .Oo But I didn't forgive you punished you. Rod aoh, that's all rightw he laughed out from his looked up suddenly, ha1f-naschievous, half-sy. ~Pn glad" he added, because it kind of joins us" For he did not know the name, only the essence of part nership.
 She nodded with quick understanding. It made them co-sinners. Bending, she kissed his neck, his ears his eyes,-his rough hair and the hollow of his little white throat
 But you have right---Rodney, don't you want to put me in the closet! NowCI'm ready
 "Oh, no,-oh. no, indeedf He first little startled then the mischief again: You don't need to be punished for such little thing as mel"
 The big clock appeared to be holding up its hands in wonderrnent at this thing that going Then the two of them, if they had listened, might have heard the new thing 1t said:
 Mother and-son Mother and-so0! Mother and-sOuw