New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-08-17

known during that former honeymoon,
greater by all they had learned and
suffered since-hours that repaid all
that suffering, and could not have
been captured mt any smaller price
But life, Of course, cannot be made
up of hours like that. No sane per
son can even want to live in u per
petual ecstasy. What makes Il noun
tain peak is the fall away into the
surrounding valleys.
In their valleys OF commonplace,
everyday existencc--and these Oc-
Cured even in their first days together
they were stiff, shy. self-cOnscious
with each other. And their attempt to
ignore this fact only made the self
consciousness the worse. 1t troubled
and b%ewildered both of them.
The arrival of the twins, In the con-
voy Of II badly flustered-and. to tell
the truth, II somewhat scandnliZed-
Miss French, simplified the situation
somewhat-by complicating it! They
absolutely enforced routine. And
they gave Rose and Rodney so many
occupations that the contemplation of
much abridged.
But ever her babies brought Rose a
disappointment along with them. From
the time of the receipt of Miss
Frcnch's telegram, telling them what
train she and the twins would take.
Rose had been telling Off the hours
In mounting excitement. The two ut
trrly adorable little creatures, as the
pictures of them in Rodney's pocket
book showed them to be. who were
miraculously, incredibly hers, were
coming to bring motherhood to her
She didn't GO to Boston with Rod
ncy to meet them stayed behind
in the cottage. ostensibly to see to it,
up to the very last minute, that the
fires wcr" right (Juno had come in
cold and r;liny) and, in general. to he
ready, on the moment, to produce any
thing that their rather unfOreSeeable
heeds might call for. Her real rea-
son was n shrinking from having her
first meeting with them in the cOnfu-
sion of arrival on a station platform,
under the eyes of the world. Rodney
understood this well enough, and, ar
irving at the cottage. he clambered
out Of the wagon with them and car
ri"d them both straight in to Rose,
leaving the nurse and the beWildering
pnraphernalia of travel for n second
trip.
Rose. in the passionate surge Of
gratiiied desire that came with the
sight of them, caught them from him,
crushed them up against her breast
ana frightened them half to death. SO
that, without Discrimination, they
howled and brought Miss French fly
ing To the rescue.
Rose didn't make n tragedy of it
managed II smile at herself, though she
suspected she'd cry when she got the
chance, and subjected her ideas to an
Instantaneous revision. They were
persons. those two funnily indignant
little mites, with their own ideas, their
own preferences, and the perfectly ade-
quate conviction of being entitled to
them. How would she herself have
liked it, to have a total stranger, tif-
teen feet high or so, snatch her like
that?
She was rather apologize all day,
and got her reward, especially from
the boy, who was an adventurous and
rather t%ruculent baby. much, she fan
cied, as his father must once have
been, and who tool to her more quick
ly than the girl did. Indeed, the sec
ond Rodney fell in love with her al
most as promptly as his father had
done before him. But little Portia
wasn't very far behind. Two days suf-
feed for the conquest Of the pair Of
them.
The really %disQuieting discovery
awaited the time when the wire edge
Of novelty about this adventure in
motherhood had worn off when she
could battle them, dress them, feed
them their very strictly regimented
meals, without being spurred to the
highest pitch of alertness by the fear
of making Il misunderstanding some
thing like the juice Of Il half-Orange
AT ten o'clock in the morning, the
what disastrous consequences.
That attitude can't last any woman
and Rose, with her wonderfully
hands, her wits trained not to
hn t,lI thu Snrnn thinu tu-ian hpr
pride keeping in sharp focus the de-
termination that Rodney should see
thas she could be as good a nurse as
Miss French-Rose wore off that nerv-
~tenseness over her new job very
quickly. Within a week she had a
established that was noiseless
-fricti0nless.
But, do you remember how aghast
she was I'VE the forty weeks John
:albraith had talked about as the
probable run of THE Girl Upstairs !"
Ter CONSERVATION e the idea of just
on doing the same thing over
md over again, 'around and around,
ike a horse at the end Of a pole?"
Well. 1t was with something the
feeling of CONSERVATION that,
thrown herself heart and soul
ntO the task of planning and setting
n motion Il routine for two year-and-
babies, she should find her
strengthening up and saying:
What next?" and realizing that. so
ar as this job was concerned. there
vas no next" The supreme merit
# her care from now on would be
emergencies the placid con
mutation of that routine. There were