The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-29

things she would have him and out.
argued her parents feeble objections
Long before spring they were married
and she went to live on the hill farm
with his folks.
There was the usual result of this
amalgamation Of young and old. Eller
was pronounced too young. thriftless
and headstrong, and Chan upheld her
only feebly. In the end he bought the
farm and his parents moved away.
Ellen hoped then she was going to
be really happy. She was growing
slowly to know the real man she had
married. She, was coming to a fresh
realization Of herself. Her outlook up
on life astonished n terrified her
She felt SO Inadequate. Yet one
thing impressed her rigidly-she mus
do her duty; she must be the wife, the
mother, her own mother had been be-
fore her.
She perceived that already she and
Chan had got far apart. When the
child was born they must love each
other again as they had. Chan was
not wicked: he was merely the pro-
duct of common blood-a needless,
idle, selfish fellow, with an Astounding
conceit attending every word and ac-
ton. AS Ellen withdrew her person
atty he thrust his forward ever more
and more arrogantly. He domineer-
ed. hullied her. His attitude was that
OF master. He treated her, his dog,
and his horses very much alike.
n child, a boy, was born one
spring morning. Ellen thought, Char
will be pleased" In her heart she
knew she had hoped for a daughter
The child grew Justify in the image
nf hjg fofhor P,I$ he hr0,~A< -Van-
no nearer to Ellen. and with a sick.
ening disappointing of failure
she realized that she and Chan were
of different fibre.
The little hill farm was we'll worr
when Chan took 1t, and the wearing
process simply continued as time went
by. For Chan was no farmer. Ell.
n work was very heavy, often be.
yond her strength. She had left of
girllshness and taken on womanlines.
to quickly. and a womanliness tina,
saddened and silenced her.
Another child came, and another
and another, until there We're six son.
In all. And eve the girl for whom
n prayed ever with increasing in
tensity. For many years she lay
down at night and rose in the morn
ing with appeal on her lips: Lord,
send me a daughter"
Her own mother died a few years
after Ellen went to the hill farm. And
1t was her keen longing for somebody
OF her W sex who could understand
that made her yearn SO nightly for
a daughter.
The boys resembled their father.
They were 1.-THE. brown, hawk-eyed,
c~uriously untamed in They
loved to hunt and fish and roam the
woods. They did not care for educa-
ton or society. Not one of them was
IKE Ellen in look or act or DISPOSE
ton. She was still an alien among
them, the only one of her kind. They
companioned with their father, bur
they avoided. 1t was as il a plac-
10 hen had Matched a brood of part
ridges, which a from her as soon as
they could so. She fed them, saw tina,
their clothes were neat and clean.
mothered them as much as they would
let e But often her heart wearied,
saddened with unspeakable loneliness
when IN looked upon them.
Ihey were sitting at supper one fall
night when the oldest, Rob, came in
late from his hunting. He set his gun
In the corner and hung up his Goa.
and cap. Chan lounging on the table
over his plate. spoke to his son.
Where's them rabbits?"
Il didn't shoot any," the boys
manner was difident. embarrassed.
He came to the table and sat down.
but he pushed the food away as IL he
We're not hungry.
There's some new folks on your
old place. ma" he announced.
Il wonder who they are," she said,
One Of the younger boys spoke
quickly, with an amused, oujzzinp
glance at his brother. II know. Their