Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-08

me daddy" and she ran from the room She thought she wouldn't need light, and as she fumbIed around the closet for the slippers. the lump that she seemed to have in her throat for the last week grew larger than ever as she thought of her kind patient father out there in the sitting room. She tried to think of something to cheer him up. A thought flashed over her and where was that other slipper, for she must find it and go out and tell him quickly. There it was. She scampered back to where her father sat
 "Thank you, dear" said he. Alice slipped off his coat and put on his house coat, she knelt on the floor and un1aced his shoes and put on his slip pers. Then she went back to her chair.
 Daddy. I've been thinking" she said at last, why couldn't we go to Evergreen for a week or sop
 "Oh child I don't believe I could leave here for a whi1e," he answered. Evergreen was the name of their little cottage that stood on the shores of beautiful lake about twenty miles from where they lived. Several years before MT. Hunting had it built and l each summer they spent some time there.
 You see child I hate to tell you.n
 
 have had to put this home of ours l on to the market for sale. "Oh, daddy, daddyi" cried Alice 1 her eyes overdowing with tears. To I think that her home, her beautiful home that she had always lived in should be sold.
 We can't, daddy, we can't, can we? she sobbed.
 Yes, we have to. dear, and that is why thought we couldn't go to Ever green. have to stay here and attend to the selling of the house. "But daddy, couldn't MT. Stevens see I to that?
 Well perhaps so, if you want to go so badly, I'll see, maybe some how, can fix it up with Mir. Stevens 9 And sure enough he did. Before an- other week passed MT. Hunting and Alice bade their home goodbye and in a few days they were stamping their l feet and going into the cheery little cottage, and the first place was soon roaring and the teakettIe soon boiling. It was in the fall so though perhaps ] chilly it was delightful to take tramps over the hills. Each day Alice and her father walked miles and, in a week Alice had regained her color while MT. Hunting grew cheerful and happy once more. While they were tramping they tried not to think of their home and the money. They were l trying to enjoy the woods and birds as if nothing at all had happened to l them
 So the two weeks flew quickly by l and as their home had not been sold they were back there again The sec- ond day after they returned at night Alice was out in the kitchen making biscuits for supper. for there was nc I maid now, when she heard her father come through the hall. How quick his steps seemed tonight, and she gave a thankful little sigh that they had gone to Evergreen.
 Soon Mr. Hunting was out in the kitchen and his face bearned with t happiness as he said: "Alice we have had all this worry for nothing. The bank is all safe''
 l "Oh, daddy dear" cried Alice. throw. ing her arms around his neck regard less. of flour. Ifs this really true ?a
 Yes, darling, every bit true, and we shall live here always. We have ha6 repeated.
 'No, daddy. not for nothing" said Alice solemnly, liar from 1t. If you knew the great big lesson I. got from lit, daddy.'
 "Yes, darling. perhaps it did us botf lgood."
 were done, MT. Hunting and Alice pulled their chairs up to the fireplact wanted to help and get friendly witt Ellen Gray. and her father joined witt her in planning to make E1len's life far pleasanter than 1t had been in thu
 HELEN M. NORRIS. l Medford. Oregon,