The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-11-20

old now and. Aunt Mary. this amt place
for him He's u nice little fellow and
] hate for him 10 get rough and ne will
II h~ stays here III do the best lean
and earn money TO help keep HIM but
want he should come ana live with you
81 won't have him!' said Mary
t'havah. nIu'id.
he could come alone with a tag all
right and could send his things by
freight He amt got much You couldn't
help but like him and l hate for HIM to
get rough Please answer and oblige your
loving nephew. JOHN BLOOD So,
Mary kept reading the letter and
stirring out Into the SHOW. Her sister
Lily's boy they wanted to staid him t"
her Lily's hoy and Adam blond ~
the man whose son she had Thought
would he her s0n Ii was twenty years
agO that be had been coming to the
hOuse- this same hUlistA she had
Thought that he was coming to see
her. had newer Thought of Lily ut all
till Lily had told her Of her own btA
tr''thai to him II hurt yet. II hnG
hurt freshly when he had died. i've
years ago Now LILY was dead ana
Adams eldest soI. John. wanted to
send this little br,thpr IL her to hnve
II won't take him." she said a great
many times. md kept readin. the let
ter aud staring ont into thp snow
For Lily she, had no tears she sel.
dom mad tp;lrsat all. Hut after n little
while she was conscious Of weight
through her aud In her. aching in her
throat. her breast. her lWdy She rise
and went near to the warmth ut the
6re. then to thp frepdum of the window
| against which the SNOW lay piled then
worked beside her rmttprps. Tile gray
shawl still bound her head. and II was
still In her mind that she must go to
the lnirn~ and lock II But she did not
go-shp sat IN the dnrkening room with
all her past crOwtling II.
That first day with Adam ut the
Bl0Ods picni.; given at bis h0me'Dm-
ing They had met with all that peril
GUS ready made Intimacy which a
MhOOi friendship Of years before had
allowed Az she had walked beside
him she had known we'll what he was
going tW mean to- her She remembered
the moment wien he had .UntrivCd to
ask her to wait until the others went.
80 that he might walk hOnie with her
And when they had renrhrd home
there OH the porch where she md Just
| shaken the rugs In the snnw Lily had
betsii sitting. u stool one ut the st,n,is
I now NJ length ininislipd to the shed
holding the hurt ankle that had Kept
her frnm the picnic Adm hid stayed
! an hour. and they had sat la.side Lilly
He had come ng,iin niid again and tlI'y
had always sat beside LII! Mary re-
nIemi,prpd that those were the days
when she was happy In things IN the
house nini the hm'k uf tile rooms and Of
the little garden from the Iarh ,l,ld Of
/ .,n the TINY ''st,n,ir" She tIad loved her
rlUt he's AMI her little rnitiiirs mud all
THESE things had SEEMED desirable and
ultimate i,praiiSr the! two were siinr
ing them Then one day Mary nad
Joined Lily and Adam there ON the
imrcb and Lily hnd iern hn'king ~
with new eyes. AMI Mar, had st';lr htHi
her face. and then Adams face. aud
they had all seemed IN u sudden naked
NESS and Mary had known that a
great place wis closed against her
since then huII>r and porch and gar
i den nid rOlitiiirs iii,i itsr,ii,s like tht,se
Vt other places She hud always been
shut outside soilirtliiiig ami always
she hid lWriir .brr,lrns The death OF
her parents g,ldfiies ut need worst Of
all u curiois feeling tint the place
CLOSED against her WAS somehow her
self that. 40 to say she AMI herself
had never once met She used 10 SHY
fhat fo herself sometimes. There's
two of me- and We dont meet We
don't meet"
"And now hp wants me tO take her
hoy and Adams" xhe kept saying I'll
never do surh u thing never
She Thought that the news ~ Lily's
I death was what gave her thp strange.
hodily hBrf TINT had seized her rthe
news TINT what she WIS used 10 VIVA
] gone: that she had no sister: That the
DAYS Of their being togs tiler ana u the