The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-09-12

E ~ 1heosophus Terrel, church warden.
( and president ~ The board - ciuca
I ton, with peroxide hair of course. no
! oue must know. % course. father @as
frlsbilgll3 euugea about ll GrHeldn
I tried "a rxplsln ynd be- stertned NJ her
az frst aud then vlr.u he asked her
T about II she Was sulIeu and wouldn't
say anything II happened last night
She came Rome that way before ain.
ner, aud shes been IN her room ever
since We didn't want 10 hay" even
/ the servants see OF course We'll have
10 send her away someWhrTe--til II
I comes IN brown We haven't decided
| just where she'll go II there were only
/ converts now MS there used TO be
where girls could go to retreats or
/ something ! suppose she'll Just have
! 20 20 10 some oul of.theWny farm. u
will take about six months. J suppose.
And we don't know what well tell PEG
| pie. It's very ugly business Bob"
/ Bob was no longer inclined to laugh.
He looked as sad as Gregory, but his
eyes were softer Poor little Kid h
murmured, but Gregory did not hear IL
please don't let any Of the family
! know told you about this" he said
And, Bob, please don't think that
| Helen Is nj all that sort Of girl. Helen
and Grizelda are MS different as tive
sisters could be--she has absolutely nc
/ patience with the child
Perhaps II was because or In spite
OF all effort on the part Of the Ferrels
to net as II the dreadful thing that
had happened had not happened, Al
! any rate the meeting Of Helen Ferret
| and Bob Lamar was not quite what
anyone concerned had expected II
| would be- To be sure, Helen had
changed almost none since the picture
] that Bob had treasured had been
| taken She was the same Helen ana
Bob was the same Bob, but there was
no quick look of understanding be.
| tween them that was part Of the meet
/ ing as every one had planned II. Per
/ haps this vas because Bob was pre-
| occupied. As soon as he could con.
veniently do so he made a strange re-
quest of Gregory 81 want to see
| Grizelda," he told him. II can't get
her out Of my mind. | want to talk to
her. Poor youngster--we all sow our
wild oats, and hers have been of a
very tame sort-but She's going
| through worse torture for II than you
| and | did for the worst crop we ever
sowed"
Under protest, therefore, Gregory
did secrete Bob up the back stairway
and into Grizeda's prison-a room that
! had been the schoolroom when the
children were young and was now the
barest room In the house. Bob asked
, 10 talk with the girl alone.
He told her to begin with that he
| had come TO her as the best friend that
she had. and then laughing n little
and taking her warm young hand,
| asked her to tell him all about it.
"Well, you see, they wouldn't let me
tell them ! said didn't mean to do
It. and they said | did, so ! thought
If they thought ! wasn't telling the
! truth wouldn't tell Well, 1t was this
way. You know Helen has that nice
! glinty kind Of hair and 50 has Gregory,
and they've always told Inc my hair
was p0tato color. And there was a girl
| at school and She said If ] let her wash
! my hair with something her mother
/ had In n bottle my hair would come
out with glints In it, and no one would
know, but they'd just think II was
getting that way. Well, | went home
| with her and first time we used 1t, II
| didn't make much difference, so we
used more the next time and when
when il dried 1t was this color. And
/ that's how II happened and now we're
all disgraced and Tn JUST as wicked
as II I'd done something perfectly
dreadful. They're going to send me
away she said without a tear. "If
they really loved me they wouldn't"
Poor little girl" said Bob. and then
| he took the little blonde head on
his shoulder and smoothed the hair
tenderly back from her fair young
| forehead Every one makes a mis-
! take once IN a while" he began.
"But you never did" said Grizelda
definitely Gregory told Helen you
/ hadn't and Helen says she never could
marry a man that had sowed any Wild
oats. Nice people don't do foolish
| things like this, do they? Helen would
1 be furious II she knew you had seen
me-did You think Helen was beauti-
! full" eagerly asked the girl who had
wormed 1t out Of Gregory before that
Bob Lamar had Helen's picture
"rm not thinking about Helen just
/ now. except perhaps TO think that she
would never want TO marry me, any
way. was thinking Of way out of
| this. I'm going out TO Japan-next
week. I'll be gone six months The
hair would be In brown again by that
| time, and in the meantime what differ
| ence would II makei Little Grizelda-
4 | decided never to 90 away from civil
izatlon again without one OF my Own
kind Could you go with me--would
Won marry me right away auietly