The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-11-25
PAGE SEVEN

| brought and everybody was hNSu tONi-
w enough around the Kitchen fire and
in tho neat Big aouarc sitting room
| Ruth stole out with the pie in her
hands folded in a white towei and
ripping lightly across the feds, she
Knocked at the door cf the little cot
age whore Ma'am Jefferson lived
enc, bet received ro answer. Ine
atchslring was hanging OUT. She
urcd Sc gently to rattle the atch;
out. ,til hearing nc sound from win
in. she pushed the door open and en-
tered Nc one was there, but big
Bible lay open on the stanl, and
he iron bowed spectacles were upon
it. Ma'am jefferson had evidently
been called away In hurry, probab-
" TO see some sick neighbor, Ruth
said to herself and she would be
glad to find some trace of loving
thouehtfulness when she returned.
Then Ruth wrote little note, sad
from the feelings that oppressed her,
yet kindly from the wealth CT her
own kind heart and left IL with tho
pie.
There's company up at our house,
the note said, "and | cant wait until
you come back, aunty, but ! have put
! the tea kettle over the fire and set
the tea drawing and ! hope you will
find everything warm and comfort
able"
Hours and hours Ruth sat alone by
the kitchen fire waiting for the last
sound Of life to die out in the house
that she might rake up the embers
and lock the doors, for she was a
notable housekeeper, this brave
young girl, and took ner invalid
mothers pace as far as possible in
all things.
But while she was, sitting alone by
the kitchen fire she heard a soft rap
at the window, and, looking up she
saw Johns face in the moon light,
earnest and smiling as he beckonej
to ner..
over her, proud and decorous Yankee
girl that she was, that he had been
spending the evening with Miss
Gregory, and II was worse than M
pertinent for him to call there on
his way home. She would not an
} swer his summons. She thought he
would go away, and so he did-trom
the window, but only to come quiet
ly in at the door.
Sitting down on the settee beside
, her, he spread mis- hands over the
|, dying embers to warm them and
| said with slight SILVER:
1T is chilly out tonight, Ruth and
} have been thinking of you"
She turned up her nose a little at
this; but dreading TO near anything
more that she would think was false
she told him very quietly:
II saw you 90 down the lane with
, Miss Gregory early this evening. |
: should think It most likely mat you
had been thinking of ner since then"
3 John turned and looked at her, lots
= of fun brimming up in his brown
I eyes. But when he saw how tired
and sad she looked he answered. hor
, gently:
I mo, little girl; have been think
y ing of you, as | said and the last
Q thing | did before coming here was
to drink cupful of tea and ca.
, piece of pie Of your making. While
s drank the tea was thinking no
S doubt 1t will sound foolish to yo1--
: but | was thinking how every enc
\ of those little grains had been oud-
1 died in the palm of your hand as
a you measured them out ana the rte
! was as sweet as though you had stir
e red the mince with your finger be.
4 fore putting 1t between the crusts'
4 Ruth was laughing and blushlng at
n his foolish words, and he, enjoying
k her confusion, put up one and and
9 drew her head down on ais Shout
r der.
81 don't know what you mean"
J. she said presently. 81 haven't turn.
ed cook for Miss Gregory"
o mo-" he interrupted her; Il fo~-
/ got that you didn't know where |
o had been, Tom Gregory was thrown
l. from a colt tonight, and they thought
a his leg was broken. His sister
- came across lots for me to- go down
d there and see what ! could do for
o him. We didn't like to stop at your
$ house for help, because you had so
e much company, so we went and got
o Ma'am Jefferson and took her over
It with us. We made the boy as COM
Portable as We could, and she said
y no bones were broken. So then
G went home with her, and there was
d the fire your care had frightened,
!. and the tea and the pie"
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