The Springdale news., 1914-07-24
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TIE SUMMER B0ARDER <:
By JUNE GAHAN.

ldhii III tone or much suppressed disapproval. T might have gone up to Uncle Waits, or stayed with Con- . She asked me to. and 1 was fooiIsn enough to long for home. If you'd only mentioned it some way in your letters. I'd have understood, and you could to summer boarders."
 "Oh, Tan, you always do roll a snowball up until it chases you down hill. Summer boarders! Anybody d think that we'd started right in bUs ness just because we happen to have rented out one bedroom and study"
 Estania looked over at her sister re proachfully.
 "Chesters own bedroom and study"
 Tan, don't you dare worry mother about this, now. It was my doings You're all out of touch with the way things so here at heme, and ycu don't understand how every last dollar counts. You trot of to town when you feel like 1t, and paint in studio ali winter, ard give lessons, and go to t..e opera, and haven't thing to do hus keep Tan Shapin in a good humor And Ghester's just like you"
 You might Lave poor old Ches out of it. interpesed Estan:a. distenIy.
 Hes right in it. Vic laughed If ne had .come home this simmer and helped as he should have done, We would not have had to insult the fam. fly self-respect by taking in ten dol lars week regularly"
 Where's mother?'
 Gone boating with Mir Pomeroy," very demurely. He has been just dear, Tan, with mother He's got a motor boat, perfectly water-tight, tame one that he keeps down at the club dock, and he takes her out every day for trip down the bay"
 "Mother?" with raised eyebrows.
 Dear. no-the boat; but mother does go often and so do l. He's a friend of the Barclays and wanted to be near them for the summer We think it's Margaret so far
 Estania turned with her travelling cloak and suitcase, almost colliding at the bend of the staircase with young man who was hurrying down three steps at time. He was tall and dark, : thoroughly shabby.
 Pardon me Awfully clumsy and unlucky l am. anyway. Say, Vie, your mother wants her gray veil to tie around her hair-and her coat" He stood out on the broad veranda wait, ing while Vic hunted for the things.
 Estania could not explain her feel. ings. Somehow the summer boarder grew to represent to her all the fallen fortunes of the little home, and she re- sented his very existence If Chester had been there, it could never have happened. But Chester was one of the smooth-faced leutenants facing his first battle smoke on one of the bg gray ships in the gulf
 Then came a fateful day. MT. Pome- roy had gone for a shore tramp vita Vic Mrs Ghapin was taking nap. | was golden day out of doors. and Ian had decided to paint water color 5f the garden She wanted a certain camp stool that Via he'd handed over with anything else he wanted to the summer boarder. Estania yentured into his room to recover her property.
 Inside the door she stopped. Facing her on the bureau was very good photograph of herself, one that she had sent to Chester just before his sail ing south Yet it confronted her now, and il was enshrined on Bruce Pome- roy's dresser.
 She went down quietly without the camp stool, and waited determinedly for the return of Mr. Pomeroy. He came with Vic along the beach, strolling leisurely. Vic ran into the house to help with dinner, and Bruce threw himself down on the grass in frcnt of the angry goddess.
 He heard her in silence, merely nod ding assent to every accusation she made Yes, he had known Chester very well indeed; ehums at Annapolis He himself had given up the navy when his father had died, and now sub sisted most comfortably on an income derived from shoe manufacture
 "Awfully unpoetic, isn't it?" he smiled at this confession
 And you gained possession of my picture from Ches? ?"
 T did" he acquiesced cordially. T saw it when he was packing, and it in- terested me. Then I knew Pegeie Ear clay and she coaxed your blessed mother into taking pity on lone bach elor, and letting me stay here for the summer. I had an idea at that time, you know. that you'd come home. and I'd see you
 Slowly Estaniae dignity began to ebb away She stared out at a vaSrart sea gull that swept in narrowing cir cles over the little boat dock below them.
 I'm afraid I've been perfect cat" she said slowly T had no idea that you were a chum of Chester's.'
 I'm going to be more than that" Bruce answered, rather soberly. sI'm poinp to be his brot her.in-law Vie inst