Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-02-08

Of this family, you know"
"Such an idea! !" scoffed Aunt Grace.
who was not at all of a soothing ma
true.
"Carol was born for lovers, Prudence
says so. And these mems girls have
to be watched, or the wrong fellow will
get ahead, and"
"Carol doesn't need watching-not
any more at least"
'Tm not really watching her, you
know. I'm just keeping my eyes OPEN"
'But Carols all right. That's one
time Prudence was away off" She
smiled as she recognized bit of Car
obs slang upon his lips. Don't worry
about her. You needn't keep an eye
on her any more. She's coming, all
right"
"You don't think there's any danger
of her falling in love with the wrong
mani"
mo"
"There aren't many worth-having
fellows in Mount Mark, you know"
"Carol won't fall in love with q
Mount Mark fellow"
"You seem very positive"
eyes, I'm positive"
lie looked thoughtful for q while.
"Well, Prudence always told me to
watch Carol, so I could help her if she
needed it."
"Girls always need their fathers"
came the quick reply. "But Carol does
not need you particularly. There's
only one of them who will require es-
pecial attention"
"That's what Prudence says"
eyes, just one-not Carol"
''Not Carroll" He looked at her in
establishment. "Why, Fairy and Lark
are-different. They're all right. They
don't need attention"
mo. It's the other one"
"The other one! That's ALL"
"There's Connie"
Conner"
"Yes."
| CONNER"
"Yes."
"You don't mean Connie"
Aunt Grace smiled.
"Why, Grace, you're-you're off. Ex-
cuse me for saying 1t, but-you're
crazy. Connie-why, Connie has never
been any trouble in her life. Conniep
you've never had any friction with
Connie, she's always been right so far.
One Of these days she's pretty likely
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very easily"
"But Comics so sober and straight
and"
"That's the kind"
"She's so conscientious"
Eyes, conscientious"
"She's-look here, Grace, there's
nothing the matter with Connie"
."Of course not William. That isn't
what I mean. But you ought to be
getting very, very close to Connie right
now, for one of these days she's going
to need lot of that extra companion
ship Prudence told you about. Con-
ME wants to know everything. She
wants to see everything. None of the
other girls ever yearn@ for city life.
Connie does. She says when she Is
through school she's going to the city"
"What city,"
"Any city"
"What for?"
"For experience"
Mr.. Starr looked about him help
lessly. "There's experience right
here" he protested feebly. Lots Of
it. Entirely too much of it,"
"Well, that't Connie. She wants to
know, to see, to feel She wants to
live. Get close to her, get chummy.
She may not need It, and then again
she may. She's very young yet"
"All right I will. 1t is well I have
some one to steer me along the proper
road" He looked regretfhlly out Of
the window. 81 ought to be able to
see these things for myself, but the
girls seem perfectly all right to me.
They always have. I suppose it's be-
cause they're mine,'
Aunt Grace looked at him affection
ately ITS because they're the finest
girls on EARTH" she declared. "Thats
why. But we want to be ready to help
them if they need it, just because they
are so fine. They will every one be
splendid, if we give them the right
kind Of chance"
He sat silent a moment. ''rve al
ways wanted one of them to marry a
preacher" he said, laughing APOLOGIZE
cally. ut is very narrOwminded, of
course, but a man does make hobby
of his own profession. always hoped
Prudence would. l thought she was
born for it. Then 1 looked to Fairy,
and she turned me down. l guess I'll
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