Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-23

from the stove a steak and various
creamed vegetables, said: It's a por-
terhouse. Come, let's eat
Hungry and wondering, l drew up to
the kitchen table.
Don't faint" laughed mother. I'VE
have million. you and l. Your father
great-uncle left it,
why, he never saw u.s.
NO. but he must have heard of us,
all right. Wife and daughter of my
Granddaughter. the late Edwin Walsing-
ham Reed" That's what the will said.
A young lawyer came from Pittsburgh.
He brought me check for $4,000 and
just had time before noon to deposit
it in the uptown bank.
"Of course. we forgot the dinner and
Rugged each other and danced around
the kitchen, and mother said now she
could tell me how cheap and mean my
clothes did look, and l replied that her
loathed old buds should make a bonfire
tomorrow.
Let's make lists of what Wen get
when we go shopping Monday morning.
What do we need first?'
And then we both remembered and
shouted: The twins
Hurry" cried mother These or
phanage people may be after them
now
While mother collected the twins I
prepared for them. Nearby were some
excellent shops, where | soon acquired
two charming brass cots and tiny chairs
and go-carts. At the furnishing store
bought reckless dozens of three-year
size garments-complete outfits for all
weathers. Then, when | reached home,
there was mother with the dear baby
wastrels. sacredly ours to bring up as
our own.
Wen give them sea bath next
week"
"Bathtub first Mother had turned
on the water. They're too dirty to
kiss"
DIRTY and wild eyed and tangly haired
beyond belief, they yelled with fright
fought US desperately. But. van
quished by water. soap and scents,
sweet in their new white linen frocks,
they were amazingly pretty. Eating
were pictures of well brought up
babies in proper nursery. When Jack
broke his bowl he promptly pointed at
Janet and said: She done it; l saw
her" While she replied with prompt:
aye lie"
But we were not dismayed Time
and love would change all that We
paraded them out in their go-carts. We
played blocks with them on the floor:
we put them in their nighties and
their snowy little beds with a doll for
the baby girl to hold and a stuffed
monkey doll for the boy. We saw
them into dreamland. and then we
laughed wildly at each other. We wee
mother and /.
What good Sunday morning it was.
with correct breakfast and the twins
in fresh pink linen. We We're ENJOYING
it hugely when our bell rang. 1t was
AN impressively well dressed elderly
man who entered. with a remarkably
dark face-dark with ill temper and
gloom.
Mrs. Edwin Walsngham Reed? All.
kindly tell me the Christian names of
yourself and your daughter"
Elizabeth and Eleanor"
Thank you. 1t is my painful duty
to inform you that Mrs. Esther and
Miss Gwendolyn Reed are the legatees
instead of yourselves. / was absent
and, in fact. a precipitate young idiot
in my employ took it upon himself to
communicate with you. The codicil in
my possession makes the matter clear
1t is the other nephew that was meant
the New England Edwin Walsingham
Reed" His frown. grew darker and he
growled: kindly tell me how much
you have spent of the money that be-
longs to these other ladies?'
Poor mother was pale with humilia-
ton and anguish. How much did you
spend, Eleanor" she asked
1.-The babies things cost a lot"
quavered. 'Tll count it all up" Then
a storm of despair swept over me and
/ walled: "Oh. 1 won't give I'D the
twins
The twins, with their nimbuses of
golden hair and violet eyes. were beau
tiful at the moment, but they had be-
gun to fight. Our saturnne visitor
gazed disgustedly as they kicked each
other with dainty slippers and mother
phan waits that we have long wanted
to adopt: as soon as the money came
we took them"
Meaning to bring them up?". asked