El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-09

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M my library Diary and I. and ]
have a pleasant sense of secur-
ity / have not felt in months. The
house IS quiet for Manette and her
little guest, after a stormy pillow
light are asleep. can hear Rich
ards dronLng voice relating the expert
ences Of the winter to her sister who
has called to see her. but otherwise
there is not a sound
II IS peaceful, and I am glad I am
back here to stay The winter has
Deem profitable one for Manette
doesn't look like the frightened little
shadow of child she was when We
[ elk her away
When Manette returned Auntis
spencer had a surprise for her. Soon
the surprise" was at her heels lust
as happy in finding an owner as she
was IN finding something alive to
cove
It was Pap. a brown and white
nondesCrlp- so fat and short legged
iC rolled rather than walked.
Il like him. Mrs Spencer said. COM
ing across the lawn to see what
thought of this unexpected addition to
my family, because ne has no pedi-
gree No one viii ever put a ficti-
uous value on him because his tail and
his ears measure so many inches He
Is just a common little alley waif. ana
these aristOcratic highly bred dogs
that cost thousands of Collars and are
owned by women who haven't any
more Intelligence than the dogs, nor
as much. You've got heart and
brain, haven't YOU. Rags2" whist
ling for the dog to come to her.
Went After Doll.
See said Mrs Spencer in triumph,
he loves Manette already He was
He loves everybody" repeated
Manette. and that is true He asks
nothing OF life but the privilege Of
eating a dry crust or an occasional
bone and the happiness of having
some one to love. If one speaks cross
to him he fixes his big brown eyes
on them in a look of such reprOach
that 1T hauntS me- I wouldn't scold
him. Diary. II he cheWed you UP. an
that is saying q good deal. for 7 do
not know what I would do without
you.
He has been with US less than q
hours. but in that time he has cheWed
up LOrena Belle. Manette's best doll; ne
dragged Anita Jane, her next best
baby across the lawn by the hair IF
its head. he cheWed a corner out C
the best soft pillow in the nursery that
he might find if there were any nice
inside. and when he had scratched lis
way through the feathers and got his
head inside, he heard no reproachcs
when Richards found him and pulled
filled his ears and chung TO his nose.
but his eyes were left intact and he
used them so effectively that Rich
ARDS laughed
When I left the nursery an hour
ago he was rolled in a little ball in
the bed Of the doll ne decapitated-
He shouldn't be allowed to sleep
there all night Diary By all che
laws of health it should be forbidden.
but il takes a heart StOuter than
mine to remove him with Manette in
tears at the prospect Sarah Rae in
equal distress, Richards in sympathy
with her charges. ana the pup, him
self, fixing those reprOacchful eyes
March 12.-When closed your
cover last night, Diary, / crossed the
lawn to smoke a good night cigar at
the Spencers. and to Mrs Jack I re-
lated all that happened while I was
gone ] made no reservation in my
confession. If I wanted TO, / wOuidn
have dared, for Mrs Jack would soon
detect it.
She did not laugh; neither did she
tell me what she had discovered
about the relict Of The Late Mr.
Brown.
You haven't heard the last of her.
Max she predicted when L had con-
Guided she is not the kind tI
woman who VIII let her prey escape
Indeep. there are few women these
DAYS who set their hearts on caDtur-
LEf2 q uldl VINO permit any INNS u
change them from their purpose
She sighed. and 7 knew Of what she
was thinking. Her brother Tom had
within the past month married a
woman he had known only three
weeks 7 viii not go into details. Tt
is a marriage that suggests the story
of Sappho- II was no burden the
first few steps. but. oh. what a weight !
he viii be carrying before he reaches
the top of the stairs with the woman
in his armsl