The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-02-22
-opyTiEht. 1917, The RoAh.s- MsIril Company

I'm not joking said ierkily; Fl
am lonesome. End worse than being
lonesome. I'm scared ought 10 have
stayed just the quiet relic. u Mr.
Carter and gone on 20 church meet.
ilgs with Aunt Adcline and let myself
be fat and respectable: bat 7 haven't
got the character You though | went
TO town TO buy monumen' and (
didn't; ! bought enough clothes FOR
two brides. and now I'm scared TO
wear EN-, and dont know wha' yon1l
think when YOU see my Jank-book
Everybody is talking about ne ard
that dinner-party Tuesday night and
Aunt Adeline says she can't I've IN
house OF mourning 40 desecrated any
longer: she's going back 10 the cot.
tage. Aunt Bette Pollard says that
" want 20 get married ! ought 70
do to IL Mr.. Wilson Graves because OF
tie seven children and then everybody
would be so relieved that they are
taken care OF that they would forget
mat Ar. carter hasn't been dead nuite
one year yet Mrs Johnson says |
ought TO be- declared a minor and put
as ward 10 you | can't he!o judge
Wade's sending me flowers and Toms
sitting on my front steps night and
day m not strong enough % carry
him away and murder him. am per
fectly miserable and I'm
Now that'll do, Molly, just hush for
half-minute and let me tall. TO you,
said Doctor John as he took my hand
in his and drew me near him. mo
wonder your heart hurts il il has got
all that load Of trouble on II ard wcll
just get 4 little OF that scare off
You put yourself in my hands and you
are to do jIit as tell you. and say
forget IT, Come with me while I
make call 1t is a LONG drive and
I'm lonesome sometimes my
self"
| saw the worst was over and II
breathed freely again. but had talked
SO much truth in tina, fiction that |
felt just - | said ! did. which is a
unnatural feeling for wo.
man. There was nothing cor il but 20
go with him, and | want 4 10 most
awfully
To my dying day III never forget |
that little house, way out ca. :he Cane
Run Pike, he took me TO IN his shabby |
they were clean and quiet ard a girl |
with the sweetest face ever saw lay |
IL the bed with her eyes bri sAt with |
pride and tiny, tiny little bundle !
close beside her, The youn. farmer |
was red with embarrassment and anX-
iety
She's all right today but she wor-
ries because she don't think can tend |
TO the baby right he said; and ne
did look helpless Her mother had |
TO go home for two days but is com
Ing tomorrow. | dash undless ard |
wash the youngster myself II won !
hurt him 10 stay bundled up until |
granny comes, will ii, Doc?"
Not q bit, answered Doctor John |
IN his big comforting voice.
But | looked at the girl and | I'M |
derstood her She wanted that baby |
clean fresh even if IL was just Ave |
days old. and | felt all OF a sudden ter.
ribly capable. picked up the bundle I
and went into the other room with il
where a kettle was boiling on the |
stove and large bucket ~ the door
found things by just a glance frcm
her, and the hour spent with that
small baby was one OF the most de-
lClOuS OF all my he. | never was le!t |
to myself with one before
and | did all | wanted 20 this ono.
guided by instinct and desire He
slept right through and was tie dal!-
INCEST thing ever saw when | Ian
rim back on the bed by her never
ooked in Doctor Johns direction once L
though felt him all the time.
But on the way home | gave myself
lie surprise OF my life Suddenly
urncd my face against his sleeve and
.ried as | never had before | felt
-Tfn FOR il is cliff road and ne had
% drive carefully. However he man
q 10 press that one arm against
nay cheek in way that comforted me
into stopping when | saw we were
near town / got out of the car at
tho garage and walked away tHrougl.
he garden home without looking m
his direction at all. never seem 20 |
be able to look al 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