Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-06-18


Abel Why Father and Mother? A
year ago no one could have foreseen
the fortune, nor have prophesied the
possession of the room by another ell.
derby couple
Angy drew near to Abe, and Abe tc
Angy. They locked arms and stood
looking at the pillows. He saw, and
she saw. the going back to the old bed
room in the old home across the woods
and over the field-the going back.
And in sharp contrast they each re
called the first time that they had
stepped beneath that roof nearly hal
a century ago-the first home-comin1
when her mother-heart and his
father-heart had been filled with tho
hope of children-children to bless
their marriage, children to completr
their home, children to love, childreI
to feed them with love in return.
Let's adopt some leetle folks" said
Angy, half in whisper I'm afears
the old placell seem lonesome with
out
Might better adopt the sisters;" he
spoke almost grufly. Il alters die
think young uns would be the most
comfort tew yew after they growed
up"
"A baby is dretful cunnin'," Angy
persisted. But" she added sadly, 81
don't suppose a teethin mite would
find much in common with u.s."
Anyway" vowed Abe, suddenly
beginning to unfasten the pillow
shams. these belong ter us, an In.
a-goin ter take EN-"
They went down stairs silently, the
shams wrapped in a newspaper carried
under his arm.
WAL, naow, he tried to speak
cheerfully as they rejoined the others
and he pushed his way toward the
dining-room-"I'll go an git my cup
an sasser."
But Miss Abigail blocked the door,
again blushing, again confused.
THAT 'Tew our Beloved Brother
cup she said gently, her eyes not
meeting the wound in his, I'VE bout
concluded yew'd better leave here fer
the one what answers the ad. Yew
got so much naow, an him"
She did not finish. She could not
She felt rather than saw the blazing
of Abe's old eyes. Then the fire be-
meath his brows died out and a mist
obscured his sight.
Gals" he asked humbly, would
yew ruther have a new beloved
brother?"
For a space there was no answer
Aunt Nancy's head was bowed in her
hands. Lazy Daisy was openly sob
bling. Miss Ellie was twisting her fin
gers nervously in and out-she un.
wound them to clutch at Angy's arm
as if to hold her. At last Miss Abigail
spoke with so unaccustomed a sharp
ness that her voice seemed not her
own:
"Sech a foolish question as that no
body in their sound senses would ask. "
Abe sat down in his old place at the
Preside and smiled thousand smiles
in one. He smiled and rubbed his
hands before the blaze. The blaze it.
self seemed scarcely more bright and
warm than the light from within which
TRANSPORTED his aged face.
Gals" he chuckled in his old ia
miliar way, 81 dunno how Sam1
Darby II take it; but if mothers will
in, guess l won't buy back no more
of the old place. 'cept'n' jest my
ROCKINGHAM with the red roses onto
it; an all the rest O. this here plagued
money I'll hand over ter the directors,
an stay right here an take my com
fort"
Angy bent down and whispered in
his ear: I'D ruther dew it, tew, ia
Their. Anythin' else would seem like
goin' a-visitin'. But yew don't want
ter go an blame me-" she added anx-
iously, "ef yew git all riled up an sick
abed agin."
"Pshaw, mother" he protested
"yew fergit was adopted then, naow
l be adoptin' Thar's big difference. "
She lifted her face, relieved, and
smiled into the relieved and radiant
faces of Abe's Children" and her
own.
(THE ENDO