The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1916-03-09
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY
BY CATHERINE

ably dutiful son. He was also q su
cessful young lawyer. The one THU
about him which worried his doth
mother was his Indifference to mat
mony and his bookwormish tendent
One day Mrs. Williams return,
from q visit to an old friend and .
nounced to her astonished son at Il
dinner table that the young dauShtI
of this friend was coming to rema.
as their guest while her mother we
on a protracted visit to Panama to
with her engineer son.
I'm afraid it will be deuced Az
ward having q young lady in the fa
lily. as it were. 1t will doubtless me
that we'll have to sacrifice to frivoli
many an evening which might be ?
to uses worth WHILE" Stanley object
which from one Of his dutiful hi
it's was little short Of open rebelltt
but his mother only smiled In q whi
sically pleased way.
"Oh, Pussy won't demand any 4.
rifices that will be hard for anybo
to make" she said. still smiling.
"Fussy! Mother, you don't me
that the girls name is-that?"
ITS q nickname only. Her r,
name is Augusta, and both are clea;
misnomers."
Stanley rose from the table .
passed into the library, where
picked up a copy Of Flammario
Wonders Of the Heavens" which
had reluctantly laid aside when DIM
was announced.
A few days afterward, Stanley Y
called to a neighboring city on b,
ness. Absorbed in his work for Q
eral days, he quite lost count of Z,
time, and on the day Of his rett
he saw in a book store window q n,
Unpublished book.
1t was a cold, bleak day in Janua
and Stanley strobe from the street
to the house with his soft black
pulled low over his eyes and his on
coat collar turned up, while he b
the treasured new book under his q
He went straight to the library,
pecting to find his mother quietly
cheting or scanning the society
umn in the evening paper.
The warmth Of the wood IRE ,
soothing to his chilled body. and
walked across the room before rem
ing his hat or overcoat. When
reached the hearth, he was astoun'
to see a diminutive young Won
snugly tucked into the shelter Of
capacious armchair. One tiny !
was tucked under her and
other dangled within . foot
the floor. Hearing footsteps,
young woman opened two v
bright brown eyes and looked
quiringly up at him without NOV
even the dangling foot from whic
tiny suede pump was in Imminent {
ger Of dropping.
Just as the girl began to uncurl
self from her snug position, Mrs.
Hams entered the room from the
ing room.
"Why, stanleyl We've been v
ing you'd come tonight; haven't
Fussy?" AS the girls name was
en- by his mother, Stanley realized
situation, and in the introduc
which followed he stammered ont
acknowledgment and his stiff welc
to their guest.
Mercy, but I'm relieved"
Pussy. "You looked 80 serious at
ing there all in black that I tho,
the minister had come to dinner.
"Now that we have a man at
command, Fussy," began Mrs.
liams, as they left the dinner II
where shall we station him for
this EVENING""
"Oh, let's make 1t a musical com
with glitter and gaysty, and pr
girls and pretty gowns, and perha
bit Of supper at one Of those da
awhile, eat-awhile places I've b /.
80 much about! Is that too much
a tired traveller to tackle in one
ning?"
mot at ALL" said the dutiful ]
forcing himself to look away from
table, where the new book lay tt
lizingly near his hand as he pa
into the library. Z
The next evening when Pussy
into the library all dressed in
gown Of pale pink, she found sth
absorbed in the new book.
"Please don't let me break VI
your honey habits" she pleaded
she approached him 80 closely tht
caught the faint perfume from
hair. won't you sit down an.
on reading, or won't you read
to me?"
ooh, this book can watt" said
ley, with a strange absence of re
ment, land I'm afraid it might bt
reading for you. The writer int
me particularly in his chapter on
on's Belt" Stanley fingered the
book absentmindedly as he concll
"O'what" asked Pussy. big
with curiosity.
"Orion's Belt" said Stanley wi H
smile. And, seeing her blank loo
added: That's q c%onstellatio
planets, you know. Haven't you
seer 1t on a starry night?" (
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