Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-08-28
DSBY BROUGHT PEACE
sy c9sTkcE LIVINGSTONE.

tCopyrisht. i9l5 By y. o ChaP1saaa)
think twice Betty.
= have thought Til my brain is
weary ard NJ heart Is sore have
decided. IS the better way"
" ~ well said 1aaa Randall. go
ne read yaa have chosen l viii take
nine. There need ae no scandal
you are : lzdv. - 70 he Z gentle
nan. Remember. diouzh, neither vii
ever turn hack 10 retrayerse the mis-
taken path.
The woman put cut her hand as II
moved b. some pleading influence. but
ire man was gone Before nightfali
the home theT he'd shared for eight
years was in the haads Of carpenters,
nasons 80 decorators. Before a
week had passed b. a partition, roof
high, divided the big double house into
tnso Parts. On one siae lived the wife,
On the other the husband. Then peo-
PIE began to tall
There's something under the sur
face" spoke Nrs. Judge Bascom to
her husband-"some dark drama"
&c Get Il cut OF yoar mind, wife, was
the blunt retort. There are 10 two
better people in the werld than my
worthy friend Randall and his wife"
Then. Why"
Pride. Neither will seek to remove
the barrier they have raised in their
own self-willed natures. Mrs. Randall
---os,,fI Ttc -. clOrr to-+prag bafc,a cbn
would unbend from what she consid-
ers to be true womanly dignity. Her
salf-cente-ed consciousness has re-
PEELED Randall and has made hin be-
iieve she no longer cares for him. One
coed heart-to-heart talk would settle
rything-such as you and en-
cage in when we're not fighting cur
usual family battles," and tho good
natured judge laughed IN his whimsi-
cal way.
The old jIrist was correct in his SUI
misses. but he had not gone deep
enough into the proposition. When
Jehn Randall married Betty Morse
they had been very much in love one
with the other. Then there had been
disappointment No children had
Jlessed their family hearth.
The judges wife was distressed at
he news that came to her. Once the
Randa!ls had been close friends of the
family With q woman's ready wit
she delved deeper into affairs then her
happy-golucky husband. Within her
own mind she framed up plan to
remedy the outlook. 1t nigh prove
an experiment. but she hoped for the
best.
One Geld winters night John RAN
dall sat in his CHEEKY but lonely liv-
ing-room, gazing stolidly into the blaz-
ing crate fire. He knew that on the
other side of the partition his wife
was probably passing her time IN the
same spell of gloomy revcrie.
What is that?' suddenly exclaimed
Randall
It was a hard, harsh sound as CT
someone pounding with a club or
stone on the front porch. Randall
arose and went to the door and ope~ Cd
1t. first turning on the perch light. He
fancied he saw o woman's figure sour
rying past the gate. He looked down
to note a basket containing a blanket
and Counterpart covered with q film
scarf STOPPING, his heart beating
rapidly, he knew not why, as he drew
this aside.
"a saby," he excla,>oa-",,ssan-
doned!"
At that moment the nett door
opened. Mrs. Randall. too had
heard the noise on the porch She
came into view, she caught . glimpse
Of the child in the basket. A great
cry of pity. yearning, love burst from
her lips. With hungry heart. jealous,
enwrapt in possession. quickly Ran
dali snatched up the basket.
Il saw it first" he cried, almost
freely. 1T is mine,"
Then he went in with the child and
closed the door against the longing
woman. He stirred Up the fire. he
turned on all the lights. Suddenly a
new motive for living found birth in
his heart. He felt as enc intrusted
with a great treasure. Planning the
many things he must do with tho
morning-secure nurse, buy an out
fit for the baby, provide for all its
care-Randall hustled about Tho
child woke up. 1t began TO cry.
The door opened For the fret time
in two years Mrs. Randall stood with.
In the room.
"Oh, john" she cried poignantly, 81
can't endure it! The cries OF this
dear little child"
He relinenshed the child to those
tender, loving arms. He sat in a new
warm haze of contentment. watching
his wife as she quieted the babe in a
motherly way, fastening into her own
apartments, returning with bottle
of milk, and soon had the little one
cooling contentedly in its dovny nest.
AS the child fell asleep, husband and