The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-01-29

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just as tell you:'' -
Yes. | WILL" shifted in a comfort
| ed voice What woman wouldn't be |
comforted by being called luscious
peach?' l looked out between my fin |
| gers to see what more he was going |
to say, but he had turned to shelf
and taken down two books.
"Now." he said III his most business.
| like voice. as cool as bucket Of wa
ter fresh from the spring. .'it Is no
| trouble at all to take off Your surplus
avoirdupois at the rate of two and
half pounds a week if you follow these
directions. As take it. you are about
twenty-five pounds over your normal
| weight. 1t will take over two months
to reduce you, and we will allow all
extra month for further Identifying.
so that when Mr. Bennett arrives he
will find the lady of his alteration in
proper trim to be adored. Yes, just
be still until copy these directions in
this little red leather blank book for
you, and every day | want you to keep
an exact record Of the conditions of
which ! make note, No, don't talk
while make out these diet listsi !
wish you would go across the hall and
see if you don't think we ought to get
Billy thinner set Of night drawers
1t seems to me he must be too warm
in the ones he is wearing"
When he speaks to me in that tone
Of voice always do it. And ! needed
Billy badly at that very moment i
,, took him out of his little cot by DIR
johns big bed and sat down with him
in my arms over by the window
through which the early moon came
streaming Billy is so little. little not
to have mother to rock him all the
times he needs it. that take every
opportunity to give ii to him | find
when he's unconscious and can't help
himself She died before she ever
even saw him, and I've always tried to
do what could to make il up to him,
Poor Mr.. Carter said when Billy cut
his teeth that Eeighbor's baby can be
!. worse than twins Of your own. He
: didn't like children, and the baby's
CRYING disturbed him, SO many night
:, | walked Billy out in the sarden until
!. daylight, while Mr. Carter and DR.
John both slept Always his little.
:, warm. witty body has comforted me
: for the emptiness of not having baby
Of my own And he's very congenial,
:, too, for he's slim and tiowery, pink and
!; dimply, and as mannish as his father
e IN funny little flashes.
:, "Git Il stick to punch it, Molly he
was murmuring in his sleep. Then
:, heard the doctor call me and | had tt
:, kiss him, put him back i'll his bed and
go across the hall.
,, DR.. John was standing by the table
N with this horrid small book in his hane
n and his mouth was set i'll straigh
~ | line and his eyes were deep back un
=, der their brows | hate him that way
too, and would like to get up so clos
m to him that he couldn't hit me or hav'
,r a door locked between us. It's strang
how the thought of taking beating
| from a man can make q weiDan's hear
| jump Mine jumped SO 1t was hard Z
/ look as meek as felt best under til
| circumstances, but looked it out frol
| under my lashes cautiously
| There you are. Mrs. Molly he sal
| | briskly as he handed me this book
| "Get weighed and measured and size
j I'D generally in the morning and follos
| all the directions: also make every ret
/ ord have noted so that | can hav
/ the proper data to help you as you
| along-or rather down And il you wi
/ be faithful about it to me. or. rathe
/ Al, think we can be sure of buttonn
| that blue muslin dress without eve
the aid of the buttonhook." His voic
| had the sif you can note in it tha
| always sets me eff.
| Had we better get the kiddie som
| thinner night rigging?' he FASTENED
| ask as | was just about to explod
He knows the signs
/ THANK you, DIR. Moore! hate tt
| very ground you walk on, and I'll
tend to those night clothes myself t
/ morrow I answered, and sailed o.
Of that office and down the path t
ward my own house beyond his bedg
But I carried this book tight in II
hand, and made up my mind that
would do it all if 1t killed me. | wou
/ / show him could be faithful-to who
would decide later on. But hadn
read far into this book when cor
mitted myself to myself like that!
M don't know just how long sat
the front steps all by rayself bathed
"s a perfect food Of moonlight and lone
en- ness. It was not bit of comfort
ny hear Aunt Adeline snoring away in n
lhu room down the dark hall It takes u
Iat greatest congeniality to make pe
my sons snoring pleasure to anybody. al
lah Aunt Adeline and are not that way
~. When poor Mr.. Carter died the ne
me day she said: Now. Mary. you are
| tirely too young to live all your to-
lia. years of widowhood alone. and as 4
lhu In the same condition. | will rent 7
heh fottage and move right up the sire
YES into your house to protect and const
YOU. And she did-the moving a
the the protecting.
nm Mr. Henderson has been dead for
ma. two years He only lived three mont
zap after he married Aunt Adeline and
hnd Grape veil IS over yard long yet. u
can are the dust under her feet. but