The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1913-05-01

ument, and didn't; l bought enough
clothes for two brides, and now I'm
scared to wear 'em, and don't know
what you'll think when you see my
handbook. Everybody is talking
about me and that dinner-party Tues
day night, and Aunt Adellne says she
can't live In a house OF mourning so
desecrated any longer: she's going
back to the cottage. Aunt Bette Pol
lard says that II want TO get married
| ought to do II to Mr.. Wolson Graves
because of the seven children and
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 declared
minor and put as a ward to you. /
can't help Judge wade's sitting on my
front steps night and day. I'm not
strong enough to carry him away and
murder him. am perfectly miser-
able and I'm"
Now thatll do. Molly. just hush for
a haIf-minute and let me talk to you"
said Doctor John as he took my hand
In his and drew me near him. mo
wonder your heart hurts II 1t has got
all that load OF trouble on 1t and well
Just get little OF that scare OF. You
put yourself In my hands and you are
to do just as tell you. and say
forget It, Come with me while make
call II is a long drive and I'm
I'm lonesome sometimes myself"
| saw the worst was over and /
breathed freely again. but / had talk
ed so much truth in that fiction that
felt just as 1 said / did. which is a
slightly unnatural feeling for a wo-
man. There was nothing for 1t but to
go with him. and wanted to most aw-
fully.
To my dying day I'll never forget
that little house, way out on the Cane
Run Pike. he took me to Il in his shab-
by little car. Just two tiny rooms. but
they were clean and quiet and a girl
with the sweetest face ever saw lay
in the bed with her eyes bright with
pride and a tiny. tiny little bundle
close beside her. The young farmer
was red with embarrassment and anx-
Iety.
shes 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. / dasn't undress and
wash the youngster myself. It won't
hurt him TO stay bundled up until
granny comes, will It. Doc?"
mot a bit." answered Doctor John
in his big comforting voice.
But looked at the girl and / un-
derstood her. She wanted that baby
clean and fresh even II 1t was just
Ave days old, and felt all OF sud-
den terribly capable. picked up the
bundle and went into the other room
with 1t 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 small baby was one OF the most
delicious 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 ever saw when laid him back
on the bed by her. never looked IN
Doctor Johns direction once. though
felt him all the time.
But on the way home gave myself
the surprise of my life. Suddenly I
turned my face against his sleeve and
cried as I never had before. felt
safe. for 1T is cliff road and he had
to drive carefully. However. he man.
aged TO press that one arm againnt