Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-23

father (by now a fairly prosperous business man) into letting her have the money and she set him up in a little restaurant in town. We were taken around one by one to see the place in all it's splendor. Ti1lie's bucy- ant spirits were contagious. The place clOSed-Tillie in the "Shu- Fix being half soled while she wait ed. explained, "Bum friends and his kind heart-coming in and eating on him-promising to pay him Saturday. The poor boy is disgusted with thls place, I'm sending him into Boston to study electricity. Hughie is extrene- ly mechanical and very invenuve.'' "Yes." growled the pessimist, once outside, T wish I could invent some such line of talk and get away with it."'
 It didn't seem long before we saw him, cigar gripped between his tee.h. lolling at the corner and Tillie, con- ing from the cleanser's with her last seasons coat, told us that Hughie was taking a short rest before going on the road as salesman for an electrical concern. "He will make a splendid salesman" she affirmed proudly, he is so active"
 Regular movie,' chuclzled the pes simfst.
 Later we listened breathlessiy to a vivid account of the terrible woman who tried to inveigle him into a life of wrongdoing-his consequent disil- fusion and desire to quit the road
 We need him here," Tillie told us, This father is establishing a branch store, and of course we would raiher have one of our own in charge"
 He'll make money" prophesiet the pesSimiSt and about a month later. He's joined the church-he's playing for big stakes this time, sure,' and behold! our morning paper told us not long after that TilIie's boy was going abroad.
 Regularly thereafter we gazed at the admiring them as if we never saw the like before and listening enrapturCd to scraps of Hughies letters
 In Lyons, I think it was, he broke his leg--we looked very wise at the copy of the doctors certificate Gin French) and pretended not to notice that we met Tillie more and more often at the money order window.
 The audacity of Hugliie's next move however, found us totally unprepared and literally took away our breath.
 It seems as nearly as we ever knew that father finally baked at sons be- coming a remittance man and bade the money order business cease
 Came a proud letter from son Hughie, saying in substance that they had been very kind, he could carr. his own living and would trouble them no more.
 Six months interval-Tillie's color fading and her hand trembling as she made out her sales slips in her hus- bands store-then startled once more by the morning paper, we went in a body to condole with Ti1lie.
 We found her in brand new tailor made and imaculate pumps, radiant, starry eyed.
 Good morning. Yes, isn't it fine? Isn't it grand? He has enlisted; he's in the trenches. Lots of Americans in Paris have done the same. His father is wild, but I, oh, am so glad, so glad. You'd all thought he didn't amount to anything" she b1azed "Oh, yes. I've read you like book with your smiles and your soft words and your sly looks, but now" she sobbed, eff he comes back, or if he-if he-"' We turned and went slowly out.
 "The war isn't over yet" breathed the pessimist, softly. But Ti1lie had come into her own.-Boston Post