Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-08-28

Ter ana gone on to church meetings
with Aunt AdeIine and let myself be
rat and respectable. but | haven't got
the character You thought | went to
town 10 buy monument, and didn't.
| bought enough clothes for two brides.
and now I'm scared TO wear EN-. and
| don't know what youll think when
yon see my handbook. Everybody Is
talking about me and that dinner par
~ Tuesday night. and Aunt Adeline
says she can't live in Il house of mourn.
ing so desecrated any longer. She's
going back TO the cottage Aunt Ret
tie Pollard says that if want TO get
married ! ought To do ii to Wilson
Graves because OF the seven children.
and then everybody would be so re-
lieved that they are taken care OF that
they would forget that Mr. Carter
hasn't been dead quite one year vet.
Mrs. Johnson says | ought 10 he de.
clared minor and put as ward to
you. | can't help Judge Wade's send
ing me bowers and Toms sitting on
my front steps night and day I'm
not strong enough to carry him away
and murder him am perfectly mis-
cradle. and I'm
Now, that'll do, Molly: Just hush for
half minute and let me talk to YOU"
said DR.. John rs he took my hand in
his and drew me near him NO won
der your heart hurts if it has got all
that load OF trouble on it, aud well
itIS rot Ia ,>f bnt lR
put yourself in my hands. and you are
to do just rs | tell you. and | say-for-
get it. Come with me while | make n
call 1t is n long drive. and Fm-I'm
lonesome sometimes myself"
| saw the worst was over, and l
breathed freely again, but had talked
so much truth in that fiction that felt
just as said did which is Il slightly
unnatural feeling for a woman There
was nothing for it 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. he took me to in his shabby
little car. lust two tiny rooms, but
they We're 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 embarrassment and anxiety
shes all right today. but she wor-
ries because she don't think l can tend
to the baby right" he said. and he did
look helpless. Her mother had to go
home for two days. but Is coming to-
morrow. daSn't undress and wash
the youngster myself. 1t won't hurt
him to stay bundled up until granny
comes. will it, Doc?"
Not bit" answered DR.. John in
his big comforting voice.
But looked at the girl, and l 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. picked up the bundle and
went into the other room with it.
where a kettle was boiling on the
stove and a large bucket by the door,
l found things by just a glance from
her, and the hour | spent with that
SuluIl DdDy WAS ohc VI NhO shoot Wv
licious Of all my life | never was left
entirely to myself with one before, and
| did all | wanted to this one, guided
by instinct and desire. He slept right
through and was the darlingeSt thing l
ever saw when | laid him back on the
bed by her never looked In DR..
Johns direction once, though ] felt
him all the time
But on the way home | gave myself
the surprise of my life! Suddenly |
turned my face against his sleeve and
cried as | never had before. l felt
drive carefully. However, he manag-
ed to press that one arm against my
cheek in way that comforted me into
stopping when | 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 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 l was gone to do it to me about.
Judy told me with her broadcast grin
that she had gone down to her sister
in-law's for supper, and | sat down on
the steps with II 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 | sat and grated my ownself
against lfrpd'S Ipttpr that had come in