The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-11-04
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You will always be a mother to me-"
said he gently.
Tell me again of her-the other one.
It's vague now"
h repeated the story of how he
came into the world and into her pos
session almost Immediately after that
event. Now she told it clearly, CON
cisely. not ~distractedly as in the night.
always had been. Her prayers We're
short, morning and night. She could
not have made them long.
Adam came to my husband one day
and said h a Lucy Barlow was in
trouble. She was expecting a baby. He
implored Henry to take her up to Hall
fax on the Lanigan. She was the dear
est. sweetest girl in all Gloucester, l
will say that. laddie. Her father vas
the captain of a whaler and was away
for many months out of the year. Her
mother was dead. so Lucy spent most
of her time with an uncle who lived
here in Corinth. In the summer time
she went to Gloucester to visit an aunt.
But while she was here, we saw a great
deal of her. She met Adam Carr at
our house. He was already married,
and he was very young-too young for
the woman he was married to. He
wasn't more thar % or "a and she was
50. They We're not happy together.
Well. of course he fell In owe with
Lucy. That's the long and the short
Of it.
They just couldn't help themselves,
it was that right and natural. Well,
my husband asked me what we should
do to help her. and I said at once that
| would so up to Halifax with him on
the next oyage and AXE Lucy along.
Your father-I mean Adam Carr, of
course-was boarding with us at the
time. His wife ived in Gloucester. He
persuaded Lucy to go with us, prom
lslng to come UP as soon as he could
arrange to do so. He was mate on mis-
fathers fishing schooner and couldn't
get away at that time. 1t was his plan
to get a divorce from his wife, but just
how it was to be done I can't say. 1t
eve did happen. but it didn't matter
in the end. She died a few years later.
It's q Gods pity she couldn't have died
before Lucy had her trouble. We took
Lucy away on the Lanigan. I was to
stay with her through it all, and the
Lanisan started back to Corinth. She
Went down with all on board Just in
side Eddy's Islands on the awful night
you've heard of-oh. but 1 can't speak
Of that My hueband was lost.
Il left Ley there ard can3e back
here to wait for the sea to give up my
dead. My own baby was coming. All,
it was a dreadful. dreadful time, my
months after the wreck, Adam Carr
came to me with a letter from Lucy.
She wanted him to on to her at once.
| went with him by steamer. We got
there just before you We're born. Lucy
died the next day. Three weeks later
my baby came-a girl baby, and my
only one. My little one died the day it
was born. but Lucy's lived and thrived.
1T was then that Adam Carr sug-
gested that [ be mother to YOU. that you
be known as Henry Payson's boy as
long as o should live. He begged 50
hard and I wanted my own baby so
much that I-well. / fell in with his
plan. That is how you came into the
world and how you became John Pay
son son of. Henry Fayson, lost at sea
months before you We're born. ! have
tried to be q good mother to you, laddie,
all these years. and now"
lie leaned over and kissed her, he
tears streaming down his cheeks. She
broke off in the middle Of The lament
to Gt-C..c his hand and murmur words
Il cc-ato-t.
Then, as If moved by a common i'm
pulse. they arose and stood together at
the side Of the man i. the he'd. He was
there was unmistakable intelligence IN
those ~blocdshot, bullying eyes. They
, drew hack APPALLED,. He knew! He
had heard and he understood!
Suddenly John stepped forward and
tenderly aid his hand on Adam Carr's
forehead. He bent forward and said:
Its all right. father. It's all right"
ADAM Cor-'a eyes closed slowly.
"The New YORK. doctor will be here
at z, and the nurse also" said the son.
las much for the stricken mans benefit
as for the Widow Payson.
Fhe outer 1olr was opened. and
someone entered the parlor. An odd ex-
preston came into John Payson's face.
His jaw fell; a look of utter dismay
grew in his eyes.
"Why-why." he began blankly, 81
don't believe I told Mary tha yau are
rot my mother. l didn't think. She
must think that you-you are"
Someone was rapping on the door
casing not 10 feet away, a gentle but
imperative summons that cut short his
wretched reflections.
Who's there?" he called out in SUBJ
ducd tones,
st is l." came back Mary's voice.
81 have come to see if 1 can help you
and vour mother"
He slrrang Onward and drew the cur
taiEs apart.
Eric has t%elephoned from the court
house that
house that everything is well with
him. So l came here as quickly as
could"
She anne bravely into the room and
looked at Adam Carr.
CHAPTER XXI.
Mt. COOPER'S BUSY DAY.
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