The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-31

sesSed the news Is. aer nie.-e'S sa-ass-
Inent Lena knew tssaT she weaaa vSs9
every house On Man street 10 esss
the news even III ner days work se4t
untoue
Presently Mrs stone came from her
room. furtive.y wiping her eyes. aus
proceeded to place tie supper u the
table
Ma said Lem after awhile aS they
ate in silence. won needn't VERY
about my engagement Evaieen ouly
said she'd marry me if you didn't care
You seem To care.
-Eyaleen said that?~ demanded MrS
Stone
Yes, she wouldn't marry where she
wasn't wanted She said 50. If VOC
don't want her for a daushtar-in-law
guess you won't have any, ended
Lem gloomily-
Mrs. Stone was silent for long time
Il was hoping your going to see her
was only 4 fancy. I didn't think II
would amount 10 anything" she mur-
INJURED at last
Its amounted TO this-if ] can't
marry EvaIeen don't want anybody.
and LENS mouth was set hard
Il never could bring myself 10 ap-
prove OF your marrying her. Lem. and
guess III have to tell you the reason
why cried his mother 6erceiy.
= believe you ought TO tell me. moth
err Its only my due"
We'll. was engaged 10 sam BiggS
once. and he fitted me to marry Molly
Tolles-there~ Mrs Stores face was
flushed crimson a. she mede this hn-
miliaring confession.
Lem jumped 70 his fest ard leaned
across the table. ~t4ood Lord inoth
err be exclaimed no you mean
thar y.u're holding that ove- ms Eva
leen and me: Why. we haven't done
anything
Il know il. only ! couldn't have
NoIivss daughter around. I'd ne think-
ing of il. / hate sam BiggS-a tri-
fling. shaller individual cried Mrs
Stone violently.
Ma" said Len soberIy. 4 cant ND
derstand how you feel this way after
50 many years. / Sh0Rld think you Il
be mighty glad 70 think you'd got rid
OF marrying such trifer a yon say
Mr. Blggs * Just think, If you'd
married Nr Biggs you couldn't have
married pa. and he was the finest ma
that ever lived.
That's right. Lem. only somehow |
can't give in TO your marrying Eva
leen." she said obStnately. for she
had been a Stone and married 8 Stone
and came by temper and will on both
sides OF the family.
Very well. mother. You mean that
as fnalT~ Lem was very white IS he
+ turned 70 the door.
Yes" she said hnSkily. And with
out another word her son left the
room and went upstairs u his own
little bedchanbar under the roof She
could hear him moving around. and
she knew that he was dressing 70 -
over 70 Evaleen Bigss' house and tell
her that his mother would nor wei
come her Is 3 daughter
Nhat wouId their life Be after thar
Would Lem - away from home ard
leave her alonee 3Ti-bt rot things h-
worse tha2 i he married Evalaeu ard
brought her there:
Mrs. Stone shock her head Noting
could be worse than u ne confronted
with the daily sight OF the daughter
81 Molly Toslas and Samuel Biggs. TIE
faithless one. and n realiza that rba
girl was married 70 her son. her pride.
her Len.
50 she allowed Lem 10 leave the
house a half hour later. although she
knew be fingered d little. hoping for
+ some sign OF relentng on her part.
But she gave no sign
The next day be was grave and s..
lent. and for many days after that Be
was the same. Mrs Stone was very
miserable and unhappy and did not &c
into the street She was afraid she
might meet Gussie Biggs and she was
+ fearful OF that lady's tongue.
One June day az sunset she found il
necessary TO go across lots TO a farm
IN the neighborhood The fields were
knee high with daisies ard buttercups
and her skirts made a sweeping patti
through them. The field skirted a pine
grove and. IS Mrs. Stone passed aIone
here she heard a sound that hruughi
her 70 sudden pause.
II was the sound OF weeping.
She did not turn her head either way
at first for the sound carried her back
twenty-five long years 70 q time wher
she was young girl and had throw
herself down upon the brown pine nee
dies IN that very spot 70 weep out he.
sorrow because Sam Biggs had Tilted
her. Ever since then she had WINGED
at the smell OF pine needles-or The
sight of swaying daisies-or the SOUND
II wood thrush at sunset.
All these sights aud sounds were
mingled now together with girls pas
slonare weeping. 50 she had wen
years ago. and now she was a middle
aged woman who despised sam Big.
and was heartily glad she had not mar
RED him. only she could not forgive
him This grief stricken girl was the
rei1carnatiOn OF her own self. Sh.