The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-12-09
Goodness. Kit, Don't You Know Me-

thrilled myself at this, and while
said little about it i'll my answer. Sc.
cretly hoped Dicks attentions would
prove serious. And they did.
About three weeks later came the
announcement OF their engagement
Their marriage followed almost i'm.
mediately. There vas a motor tr.p
through the east; then. carly in June
they came to spend the summer i'll tne
Rome town, and then amazing things
began to happen to father and mother.
DICK modernized the old home beau.
tIfully.' SO Nora informed me, and
they had procured for mother a house.
keeper from the city. n who had
Lived in the very best families and
knew to a T what was what.
After school closed, a day early in
July saw me landing At the home
station. My gaze went flying up and
down h platform ever before my
foot touched it.. in search Of fathers
dear familiar figure in the alpaca
coat for hot weather topped by the
wide straw hat as closely resembling
his old army felt as it was possible fol
father to find. but my glance met dis
appointment until a voice at my elb "
which seemed to come from a yester.
day OF many years ago, .auEhinRly ex-
claimed: Goodness. Kit. dom you
know ms?' and 1 looked into Dick
lieaton's good-natured face, then al
his direction on to a splendid motor
in sat a most respondent Nora, and
a father-well I hardly recognized
him in his extremely fashionable toys
Privately. 1 thought he looked over.
dressed. and.I was quite sure he fel!
SO when / saw him squirm under my
astonished glance. But all thought Of
magnificent cars and transformed
fathers loft ~ or NV c~>l-~l~--A Al.
familiar streets. Ny mind was leap.
ing ahead Of the throbbing engine to
a little mother sure to be leaning over
the old rustic gate. looking up the
road with eager. tender face. Ye,
when we rounded the home corner
there was no mother in sight. there
was not even the familiar gate. As
We approached my eyes widened at
the magnihcence Of our place.
Iher vas a broad veranda with
awnings, and a lawn set out in terri.
fylngly exact flower beds. With a
queer feeling of regret l discovered
that everything was modern. For
an instant my eyes rested on an ad-
Joining gaden. to find something IA
been u neighbor as far back as I
could remember. and really tiresome-
" persistent about-well, We are
friends, tried and true, at any rate,
and Suddenly I caught sight OF
mother on the great wide porch, and
a moment later I was up the unfa-
miliar- cement. steps and had her in
my arms. She chung to me an in
slant, but she seemed 1ustered. un.
comfortable. and I found the cause
in a most imposing figure in black,
standing in a side window looking,
thought. with plying tolerance on
our sush. 1t was on the point of my
tongue to ask softly who the stately
creature was when Nora came for.
ward and introduced her as Nine
Something-or-Other. mothers house
keeper; Immediately she assumed, to
my indignation. almost the air of mis-
tress, informing me she would show
me my room. When I replied, tartly,
Goodness. ] could find that with
both eyes, gone!" Nora looked EN-.
b~arrassed. and mother broke in hur-
riedly, "there have been so MANY
changes. KITTY. DEAR"
Before many hours elapsed I found