The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-09-06

moon was altogether true. They had
great hours-hOurs OF an emotional in
tenslty greater than any they had
known during that former honeymoon,
greater by all they had learned and
suffered slnce-hours that repaid all
that suffering, and could not have
been captured at 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 a per-
petual ecstasy. What makes a noun
tain peak Is the fall away into the
surrounding valleys.
In their valleys Of commonplace,
everyday existence-and these 0c-
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 bewildered both Of them.
The arrival of the twins, in the con-
voy of n badly flustered-and, to tell
the truth, somewhat scandalized-
Miss French, slmplified the situation
somewhat-by complicatlng 1t They
absolutely enforced routine. And
they gave Rose and Rodney so many
occupations that the contemplation Of
their complicated states Of mind was
much abridged.
But even her babies brought Rose n
disappointment along with them. From
the time of the receipt Of Miss
French'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
terly adorable little creatures, as the
pictures of them In Rodney's pocket
book showed them to be, who were
miraeulously, incredibly hers, were
coming to bring motherhood to her
She didn't go to Boston with Rod
ney to meet them; stayed behind
in the cottage, ostensibly to see to It,.
up to the very last minute, that the
fires were right (June had come In
cold and rainy and, in general, TO be
ready, on the moment, to produce any
thing that their rather unforeseeable
needs might call for. Her real rea-
son was a shrinking from having her
first meeting with them in the confu-
sion of arrival on, 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
ried them both straight in to Rose,
! leaving the nurse and the bewlldering
paraphernalla Of travel for second
trip.
Rose, in the passionate surge of
gratified desire that came with the
sight of them, caught them from him,
crushed them up against her breast
and frightened them half to death. So
that, without dissimulation, they
howled and brought Miss French fly
ing to the rescue.
Rose didn't make tragedy of 1t;
managed a 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 &c
them. How would she herself lave
liked IT, to have total stranger, fif
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 ant
rather truculent baby, much, she fan
cied, as his father must once have
been, and who took 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 hat
done before him. But little Porti;
wasn't very far behind. Two days suf
, feed for the conquest of the pair o
them.
The really disquieting discover
, awaited the time when the wire edg
of novelty about this adventure 4
motherhood had worn off; when sh
: could battle them, dress them, fee
+, them their very strictly regimente
, meals, without being spurred to tn
, highest pitch of alertness by the fea
= of making a mistake-forgetting som'
thing like the juice Of a half-orang
at ten o'clock in the morning, tn
omission of which might have-wh
. knew what disastrous consequences z!
a That attitude can't last any woma
long, and Rose, with her wonderful
9 clever hands, her wits trained not
: be told the same thing twice, III
pride keeping in sharp focus the d
, termination that Rodney should 81
). that she could be as good nurse
~ Miss French-Rose wore off that ner
3 Gus tenseness over her new job vel
/ quickly. Within week she had
routine established that was noisele
| -frictionless.
1 But, do you remember how agha
Il she was over the forty weeks Jol
| Galbraith had talked about as Il
4 probable run of "The Girl Upstairs
\ her CONSERVATION over the idea of ju
| going on doing the same. thing ov
| and over again, "around and arour
4 like a horse at the end of a pole?
II Well, It was with something t
II same feeling of CONSERVATION TIL
II having thrown herself heart and sc
| into the task of planning and setti
\ in motion q routine for two year-ar
] a.half-old babies, she should find h
= cole etroiobteninp IN and sayin