The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-10-24

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IM eral papers and blew out the
kitchen light. She stood In tho
~ middle Of the sitting room floor
for time aud then went into her
room aud closed the door. Sitting on
the edge OF the bed. she thought for
n few minutes and then suddenly bur.
fed her face In the pillow and again
heaved with laughter.
Down the road plodded Margaret and
Wesley slnton. Neither Of them had
words TO utter their united thought.
"Done!" Missed Wesley at last. Done
brownl Did you ever feel like bloom.
In. COMPOUNDED Donkey How did the
woman do itr'
"She didn't do itr' gulped Margaret
/ through her tears. "She didn't do any.
| thing. She Just trusted TO Elnora's
great big soul 10 bring her out right.
I and really she was right. and so II had
TO bring her She's n darling. Wesley.
I But she's got time before her. Did
you see Kate Comstock grab that mon
ey7 Before six months she'll be out
comblng the Limberlost for bugs and
arrow points TO help pay the tax. l
know her"
"wcll, don'tw exclaimed slnton.
"Shes too many for me. But there is
a laugh left In her yet. ! didn't s'pose
there was. Bet you dollar II we
could see her this minute she'd DO
chucklIng over the way we got left"
Both OF them stopped In the road and
looked back.
There's Elnora's light in her ROOM"
said Margaret "The poor child viii
feel those clothes and pore over her
books till morning. but she'll look de-
cent TO go TO school. anyway. Nothing
Is too big price 10 pay for that"
Eyes. II Kate let's her wear them
Ten TO one she makes her finish the
week with that old stuff"
"No. she WON'T" said Margaret. "she
don't dare Kate made some conces-
sions all right, big ones for her-if she
did get her way In the main. She bent
some. and II Elnora proves that she
can walk out barehandcd In the morn
ing and come back with that much
money IN her pocket. an armful OF
books and buy turnout like that she
proves that she Is OF some considera.
ton. and Rates smart enough. She'll
think twice before she'll do that Ell
nora won't wear a calico dress TO high
school again. You watch and see II
she does. She may have got the best
clothes she'll get for n time for the
least money. but she won't know II I'M
III she tries TO buy goods herself at
the same rates. Wesley. what about
those pricesl Didn't they shrink con-
siderablei"
"You began IT," said Wesley. Those
prices were all right. We didn't say
what the goods cost us; we said what
they would cost her. Surely she's mis-
taken about being able TO pay all that
Can she pick up stun OF that value
around the Lmberlosti Didn't the
Bird Woman see her trouble and Just
give her the money!
81 don't think So" said Margaret
Seems to me I've heard OF her pay
ing or Offering to pay them that would
take the money for bugs and butter
flies. and I've known people who sold
that banker Indian stun Once
heard that his pipe collection beat that
Of the government at the Philadelphia
centennial Those things have come
10 have a value"
"Well. there's about a bushel Of that
kind OF valuables piled up In the wood
shed that belongs to Elnora. At least
| picked them up because she said she
wanted them. Maggie. how the nation
did Kate Comstock do thatr
you will keep on harping. Wesley.
told you she didn't do It. Elnora
did It! She walked In aud took things
right out OF our hands. S'pose we'd
got Elnora, when she was a baby, and
we'd heaped on her all the love we
can't on our own. and we'd coddled,
petted and shielded her. would she
have made the woman that living
alone, learning to think for herself
and taking all the knocks Kate Com
stock could give have made OF herY'
You bet your llfer cried Wesley
warmly. Loving anybody don't hurt
them. We wouldn't have done any
thing but love her. You can't hurt
child loving II. She'd have learned to
work. be sensible. study. and grown
into woman with us, without suffer
ing like a poor homeless dog"
But you don't get the point. Wes-
ley. She would have grown into a fine
woman with Us, just seems as II FL
nora was born TO be fine, but as we
would have raised her. would her
heart ever have known the world as Il
does nowf Where's the anguish, Yves.
ley, that child can't comprehend See
Ing what she's seen OF her mother
hasn't hardened her. | guess we'd
better keep out Maybe Kate Com.
stock knows what she's doing. Sure
MS you live, Elnora has grown bigger
on knocks than she would ON love"
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