Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-08-08

By MARIA THOMPSON
DAVIESS
Copyright. 1912. ~ the Bobbs-MerrDi
Company


you see my bankbaok Everybody is
1 talking about ne and that dinner par
~ Tuesday night. and Aunt Adeine
says she can't live in house Of mourn
ing so desecrated any longer She 5
/ going back to the cottage Aunt Bet
1 tie Pollard says that If want TO get
married I ought to do it 70 Wilson
! Graves because Of the seven children.
and then everybody would be so re
! lieyed that they are taken care of that
! they would forget that Mr. Carter
hasn't been dead quite one year yet
! Mrs. johnson says | ought TO be de
clared a minor and put as a ward 70
you. can't help Judge Wade's send
ing me flowers and Toms sitting on
my front steps night and day. I'm
not strong enough to carry him away
and murder him. l am perfectly mis-
cradle. aud I'm
Now. that'Il do Molly; just hush for
! half minute and let me talk to you.
said DR. John as he took my hand in
his and drew me near him. mo won
der your heart hurts If it has got all
that load of trouble on it. and well
/ just get little of that scare off You
put yourself in my hands. and you are
to do Just as I tell you. and say-for-
get it. Come with me while make a
call 1t is long drive. and Pm-Im
lonesome sometimes myself"
saw the worst was over. and |
breathed freely again. but had talked
/ so much truth in that fiction that felt
Just as said did. which is a slightly
unnatural feeling for a woman. There
was nothing for II but TO go with him.
! and / wanted to most awfully.
To my dying day I'll never forget
that little house. way out on the Cane
Run pike. ne took me to in his shabby
little car Just two tiny rooms. but
they were clean and quiet and girl
with the sweetest face | ever saw lay
in the bed with her eyes bright with
! pride and tiny, tiny little bundle close
/ beside her. The young farmer was red
with embarrassm ent and anxiety.
shes all right today. but she wor-
ries because she don't think l can tend
to the baby right" be said, and he did
look helpless. Her mother had to 20
! home for two days, but is coming to
morrow dasn't undress and wash
the youngster myself. Il won't hurt
him to stay bundled up until granny
/ comes. viii il, Doc|
Not a bit" answered Or: John in
I his big comforting voice
But looked at the girl, and under
stood her She wanted that baby clean
and fresh even if it was just five days
old. and felt all of a sudden terribly
capable. l picked up the bundle and
went into the other room with 1t.
where a kettle was boiling on the
stove and 4 large bucket by the door
I found things by just a glance from
her. and the hour spent with that
small baby was one of the most de
ucious 81 all my life never was left
entirely TO myself with one before. and
did an wanted to this one. guided
Inv instinct and desire He slept right
through and was the darlingest thing l
ever saw when I laid him back on the
he'd by her. I never looked in Dr..
Johns direction once. though felt
him all the time.
But on the way home l gave myself
the surprise Of my life, Suddenly |
turned my face against his sleeve ana
cried as never had before | felt
safe. for it is a cliff road and he had to
drive carefully. However he manag-
ed to press that one arm against my
cheek in a way that comforted me into
stopping when 1 saw we were near
town. | got out of the car at the gar
age and walked away through the gar
den home without looking in his direc-
ton at all | never seem TO be able to
look at him as ! do at other people
We hadn't spoken two words since we
had left the little house in the woods
with that happy faced girl in it. He has
more sense than just a man
1t was almost dusk. and | stopped In
the garden a minute to pull the dirt
closer around some of the Bachelors
buttons that had popped" the ground
some weeks ago Thinking about them
made me regain my spirits. and went
on In the house to be scolded for what
ever Aunt Adeline had thought up
while was gone to do it TO me about.
Judy told me with her broadcast grin
that she bad gone down to her sister
in-law's for supper, and | sat down on
the steps with sigh of relief.
Some days are like tin cocoanut graf
ers that everybody uses to CRATE you
against. and this was one for me. For
an hour I sat and grated my ownself
against Alfred's letter that had come IN
the morning. realized that wouis
Just have to come to some sort of de.
cision about what | was going to do.
for he wrote that he was TO sail in a
day or two. and ships do travel so fast
these days.
| love him aud always have. OF that
am sure. He offers me the most won
derful life in the world, and no woman
could help being proud to accept it,
I'M lonely, more lonely than l was even