Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-07-11

moment, pulling her up by TIE
hands, drawing her after them
through a gap in the hedge into a
sunken garden, exquisitely japanese
with a pool where f1oated mandarrns
With clipped wings. EVERYTHING was
|delicately perfect even the brown
bungalow of to the left was a de.
light
The children threw themselves
upon her, hugging her.
What's your name?" they asked
and she answered,
"Kittie, because l love soft places. y
and she threw off her big plumed hat.
David rose and began to stick the
pink hollyhocks into her crown OF
sunny hair, and time passed. Peace
came into Katharine's mind. Pres
emily the boy announced, with mas
cul1ne force, that he was hungry. She
saw that the noon hour had passed,
and rose. They pulled her back
through the hedge toward their own
cottage. She would have gone any
where
Uncle Dee has only beer in his
ice-box, and he borrows lemons from
u.s. said the girl quantity. "He don't
keep house-and he hasn't a wife at
all It's lonesome for him.
It's too bad" replied Katharine.
He might get one
He was going to, but she was too
'spensive," sighed the girl.
Kit thought of David Robertson,
and the humor died out of her ewes.
Had she condemned him to a life Of
loneliness? The boy rambled on ex-
planning
Spens1ve means what you cant
afford to buy, like wife, or a pony, >.
be sighed ecstatically
At the door Of the cottage they met
Aunt Bess. She stared, and then she
and Katharine flew into each others
arms.
Elizabeth Norton! Where did you
spring from?"
May and Tom imported me to
guard the Riddles while they go round
the globe thought you were going.
too? Haven't seen you in years,
Heaven must have sent you today
The nurse was called away, and Mrs
Scott, next door, is ILL., I must go back
and help. Will you go in and feed
Yourself and the babies and prom
Use to stay all night with me?" Kat1l-
arine promised. eco in and get into
one of Mays house dresses and keer,
house-though I'll wager you neve.
lifted cup! I must CO."
Katharine entered her old friends
room, and presently came out radiant
in a pale blue wash-dress to plaY
with her friends children She re.
membered wistfully that she might
have married their uncle and been
their real aunt. Where was DaviI
now? She did not even know -p~o2,-
ably gone ''to the end of the world
also
Then she lost herself in simple ser.
vice, a luxury she had never known,
the sweetness of feeding little chil-
dren. Her past society life seemed
suddenly futile, empty. And while
t',a babes slept away the late after
noon she came to her real, sweet, true
self. She knew where happiness was
to be found, and if David Robertson
had been in her world she would
have swallowed her pride and sent
for him.
Presently it was after s, and she
was eating bread and milk with the
Riddles when she heard whistle.
The children ran like wild things,
and came back dragging in big,
deep-voiced, handsome man with
young eyes and dark hair gray at
the temples.
Here's Uncle Dee, Kittie!" they
shrieked. Here he isl" She stood
white and overcome before David
Robertson. Her eyes burned like blue
flame, and then fell before his de.
vouring glance.
20 David" she faltered, 20 David!
II am so-sorry-"
In that second she had seen all his
hurt and loneliness; and something
melted the hardness of her heart. She
flung her arm up around her eyes
with a childlike movement. Then she
began to cry in his arms while he
kissed her. The children, overawed.
held tightly to one another. It was
long before they even remembered
the children. Then Uncle Dee
stopped and gathered them into his
arms.
Nov I'm going to have wife he
explained grandly, waving a hand at
katherine.
Little David looked her over doubt
fully. Amt you, spensive?"
he queried.
"Not-any more!' she declared
joyously. 1T costs me too much to
i've without the only thingsI really
want"
Relic Of the Wesieys.
3. The Rev. J. H. Wicksteed, vicar Of
3exley, Kent, has presented to the
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