The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-24

enough pocket money. But the idcn
Of IN old unpaid grassy bill made me
slcx. I talked things over with mother
the aext day-tOld her | wasn't going
To ccllcgc-Said | was going TO get a
job. / got her 10 let me run all the
accounts after that, and to attend to
everything. And | got II job and be-
gan paying my way within II week"
"If | had II thing like that to re-
member" said Rose unstcadily, "Td
never forgot to be- proud of ii so long
as | lived"
81 wish | could be proud of IT," said
| portia. But | cOulbp't help making Il
sort of grievance Of II, 90 In all these
years I've always made mother afraid
Of mc-ulwuys made her feed that | was
somehow coutcmptuouS of her work
and idGus. / grubhcd away until ! got
things Strengthened ont, 81 that her
income was enough to live Ou-cnOugh
tor her TO live on. I'd pulled her
through. IIut then y.
"I;ut then there was me-" said Rose.
IL thought | was going TO let you
~ ! 'lAlb N'liN va llAll' N'''F' ''''
things didn't come out that way-at
least | couldn't max" up my mind 10
make thcm-So you ven to the uni.
yrrsity. | paid for that, and ! paid
for your trOusscau, and then ! was
through"
Rose was trembling, but she didn't
finch. "Wh.what was it," she asked
a,,i,tIy st,.lnt ,,snS 10 thut might In ga
been different and wasn't? Was it
was II somebody you wanted to marry
that you gave up so | could have
my chance?'
Portals hard little laugh cut like a
knife. you have always thought me
cold,' she said. $50 has mother. I'm
not, really. Im-the other way. ]
don't believe there ever was II girl that
wanted love and marriage more than
T.. A man did want me To marry him
ut last, and for Il while | thought
would. Just-just for the sake of mar
rying somebody. He wasn't much, hu
he was someone. But | knew I'd come
To hate him for not being someone else
and | couldn't make up my mind &c
IL. 30 L lbbh Ntu WI iuNl'hh'
81 stopped hoping, you see, ant
tried Ia forget all about il. And, IL
"A way. ! succeeded. | wns beginning
to get real jobs 10 do-big jobs fol
big people, and II was exciting. Tina
made ~ easier to f;qget. ! was begin
ming To think that some dag I'd earl
my way into the open, big sort of liz,
that yo,r new friends have had 70
nothing. And then, Il week ago, Their
came the doctor aud cut OF tina
chance.
".And yet" she leaned suddenl.
:, forward, and the passion that ha,
- been suppressed IN her voice till now
l"upcd mp into iiumc-"and yet, cal
YOU tell IN" what | could have don
VI differently? I've lived the kind of If
they preach about--a life of 'nuhl
" sucriGcc.' II hasn't "nnoblcd me. II
=. made me .potty-mrun-SOur. It
withcrrd me up. Look ut the differ
nee between us, Look AT you wit
your big. free SpaCiouSn"SS-your pow
= rr of loving and attracting love, why
> yo0 even love ne. now, in spite of "a
v - said this mo ming. I've cnvic
y 90 that-Iyc almost hated y"
-, Tor st.
~ $50, that's Il ,iC' I've wanted Il
= The only thing , 80 aid ever hate 20
for would he fc- calling. You've 20
10 make good! You've had my shar
~ rs Tcll rs yOcfs-you're living IN
= life rs we'll rs yours. I'm the branc
they cut on So that you could grow
" II - give up and let the big thin
', slip out OF your hands the way yn
p" were talking this morning, hecau'
=, you're too weak to hold II and haven
: pluck enough to fight for II :.
-" Look M me- said Rose. tt
~ words rang like II command upon
~ battlefield.
;" Portln looked. Roses blue eye
= were blazing. II won't do that" ST
!, said very quietly. IL promise 20
~ that Then the hard Discriminate
y in her face changed to something sof
or, ana nS If Portals resistance coun
!" et no more than that Of II child, ST
" pulled her sister UP In her arms ar
- held her tight. And so, ut last, Port
~ got the RELIEF az tears.