The Detroit times., 1913-02-25
How Mrs. Peaches Lost Flesh = And Her Heart
The Melting of Molly
Bv Maria Thompson DaUiess
Autbor of Miss Selma Rose of Old Harpeh, etc.
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eat no more hardly, too. ain ago
ing TO live in that house with MIN
moren two days longer. | want 10
come over and sleep in your bed with
blue ribbons on the posts and have
.-sa,3.-ta- iala ~ .t!i-tsei:s -
Don't YOU say that, lover. ever
again" | said as | bent over him
your father Is the best man in the
world, and you must never. never leave
him"
II bet will. when | get big enough
10 kill bear answered Billy decid-
edly. Say, do you reckon Mamie
saved even little piece OF that cak >
slipped out of my arms and was gone
before could hold him.
IL is lonely house across the gar
den with the big and tiny man in |. all
BY themselves, And tears. from an
other corner OF my heart entirely. rose
to my eyes at the thought. but theX
too. never fell for ! heard Mrs. John
son calling and had 10 run down
quick and see what new delicacy had
arrived for my party.
Uncle Thomas Pollard had sent me
a e;iaFt-bettle- ef-his-erivate- stock
with the message to put the mint 70
soak just one hour and twenty min
utes before the men came. made
room for il beside the case or cham
payne on the cellar shelf and won
dered how they would stand IL all
We don't have champagne often in
| Hillsboro, and when we do NOBODY
seems to want TO cut down on tie
juleps, consequently-well. rothinG
ever really happens, However, II
must have been the champagne that
made Tom act as he did. lie was
never like that before
Somehow | didn't enjoy dressing TO
night for my dinner as | did for the
dance, and when | was through stood
| before the mirror and looked al NY
self a long time | was very tan ana
slim and-well. suppose ! might say
regal in that amethyst crepe with the
soft rose-point, but | looked TO mysclt
about the eyes as / had been doing
for wears when | put on my Sunday
clothes 10 so 10 church with Mr.. Car
ter He was always in a hurry and
didn't care about looking al mysef IN
the mirror anyway: nobody else ever
looked ar me and what was the use
Ana tODlSQl tHdI RENE tiiuh4Fh Ht-N
me feel no different from one OF MISS
Hettie Primms conceptions that | had
been wearing for ages with indiner-
ence and total lack OF style. | shrug-
ged my shoulder almost out OF the
dress with what | thought was sad
ness. though II felt a trifie like tenn
per too, and went on down into the
garden to see If any Of my flowers mad
q cheer-up message for me.
But IL was a bored garden | stepped
into just as the last purple flush or
day was being drunk down by the
night. The tall white lilies llid their
heads over on my breast and went TO
sleep before I had said word to
them. and the nasturtiums snariec
around my feet until they got my slip
pers stained with green. Only Billy
,bachelor's-button stood up stin and
sturdy, slightly flushed with imbioins
the night dew. and tipped me an i'm
pertinent wink. l felt cheered at the
sight OF them and bent down to gath
err a bunch OF them 10 wear, even II
they did swear at my amethyst drap'
cries. when an amused smile that
was done out loud came from the
path just behind me.
Don't gather them all tonight
Mrs. Peaches" said Doctor john
1teasIngIy, as he stopped beside me