The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-24
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(Co right, 1914, by the News
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Mother wants JACK and Mary
to come and live with her." said
Dick this morning. she says
that she cannot stay alone and
that when Mollie is out of an
evening she would be afraid to
stay with only the maid in the
kitchen"
/ confess | had a little selfish
thrill when | thought that had
started my own little apartment
partly because | had thought this
very contingency might occur. !
do not envy poor Mary If she has
to live with Mother Waverly. II
Is much nicer to have Aunt Mary
live with me.
What do you think about it
Margie?" asked Dick.
II don't think we have any rea.
son to think about it," an.
swered. 1T is something to be
decided by Mary and Jack"
Il don't think either of them
want to go very badly" was
Dicks next remark after a short
silence, "and | don't know as
blame them. No one can live with
Mother in peace unless he lives
in her particular way, and her
way will not be the way of either
Jack or Mary any more than it is
Mollie's."
IF | were Mary" l said. 81
would certainly have conditions
very sharply defined. If she could
have the three rooms that used
to be yours and Jacks and pay a
certain price for her board
think perhaps livable plan
might be worked out"
Mother thought that shs
might rent the house as its stands
TO Mary and Jack and she and
Mollie board with them"
"Dick, I'm not going to inter
fere in this, but certainly think
that would be asking too much OF
Mary. In the first place, the
house is too expensive for Mary
and Jack to rent and the work OF
running it would be too hard foi
Mary in connection with shop.
IF Mother wants Mary and
Jack for company she should take
them for a little more than theil
board, for they will be certainly
giving up lot
Let them wait a little" spoke
up Aunt Mary. "Fll go over and
stay with Sally for a month and
by that time they will all know
what they want to do"
Dear Aunt Mary, would yor
really give up your privacy and
do this?" l asked.
Certainly, Margie, I'll be glad
to do it, for only | can tell how
desolate Sally is and will be fol
long time. Your Uncle John
has been gone year. but I have
not been able to lose that awful
unattached. unsettled feeling"
went over and kissed her
Eyes, know, dear, you have all
been kind to me and you love me
and have been more content
with you and Dick than with any
one else. But / am afraid that il
will be even harder for Sally to
adjust herself to her changed con-
ditions than it was for me. Per.
haps If | stay with her for little
| can make her understand that
we all must accept our lot.
Dick looked at her with almost
reverence expressed in his face
II tell you, Aunt Mary, l hope
Uncle John appreciated you. ]
don't believe they make 'em like
you nowadays.
81 know they don't" I put in
with all my trying I cannot be
as unselfish and sweet as she is
and, besides, il ! were I'd be
wasted on you, Dick"
81 guess that's no lie, Margie,
answered Dick, with his wry
|smile.
He never has mentioned the
night that Dad died, and l shall
not do so. | believe he has been
illed with remorse over 1t. Be-
sides, l cannot quarrel with Dick
all the time. 1t is hard enough
to suffer when he goes out and
comes home as he did that night
without going over the matter and
getting angry again and keeping
myself stirred up all the time
about it.
Dick is old enough to know
when he does wrong, and | don't
believe anything l would say
would help matters much.
don't want him to lie to me
about where he was after he left
the club, and so will not ask
him anything about 1t.
am always thankful that /
have very little curiosity, for one
of the things | have learned since
I married Is that the devil bats
most of his temptations with curl
osity when he goes fishing for
men, and Fate Usually has only
heartache in store for the curious
woman.
Continued Tomorrow