The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-02-14
CHAPTER XIII.

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She began getting her strength hnck
very fast in the next two or three
days. but this queer kink in her emo
tiOns didn't struightcn out. She came
To see that IL was OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
almost, but that didn't help. Instead
If II baby, she had given birth 10 two.
They wcr" hers, of course, as much
as one would have been. only, her
soul, which had been waiting 50
rcstatlcnlly for its miraclr--for the
child which, by making her u mother,
should supply what her life needed
her soul wOuldn't-COuldn't accept
the substitution. Those we droll,
thin.voiccd, squirming it'll" mites that
were exhibited To her every morning,
were as foreign to her, rs if they had
been brought into the house In II
basket.
When Harriet camc In for the first
time to see her, Rose knew. Ilar-
rict was living here now, running the
house for Rodney, while Rose was
laid up. Doing 1t beautifully well,
too, through all the confusion Of
nurses and all. Harriet said:
II think you're In great luck to
have had two ut once; get your duty
30 postcrity done that much sooner.
And, OF course, you couldn't possibly
De expected to nurse two great crea-
lures like that"
Rose acquiesccd. She would have
struggled, though, she knew, bur for
1hut nItn.r trigls tntn hu,l MIN NlI her
Her heart nched.
When she found that struggling
with herself, denounclng herself for
Il brute, didn't serve to bring up the
feelings toward the twins that she
knew any proper mother ought to
have, she buried the dark fact as
deep as she could. and pretended. 1t
was only before Rodney that the pre-
tense was really necessary. And with
him. really, II was hardly II p%rctcnse
ut all. lie vas such II child himself,
in his gleeful delight over the pos
session OF u son and II daughter, thnt
she felt for him, tendcrly, mlstily,
UNANIMOUSLY, the very emotion she was
trying TO capture for thcm-fclt like
fTlilIllH MS l''l'l ~ NV "'dh
kissing him, crying over him.
She wouldn't have been allowed to
10 that 10 the babies. anyway. They
were going to be terribly we'll brought
up, those twins that was apparent
from the beginning. They had two
nurses all 10 themselves, quit" upar:
from Miss Harris, who looked utter
D.,. A.. p,pt.n and Il,ris iha
maid, who were destined, II appeared,
10 be- as permanent Us the battles. But
Rose had the germ OF an idea of her
own about that.
They got them named with very lit.
tie difficulty. The boy was Rodney,
Of course, after his father and grand
father before him. Rose was II It'll"
afraid Rodney would want the GIL
uumed after her, and was relieved Ia
nud he didn't. Thcrr'd never in tie
world be but one lioS" Tor him, lr
said. So Rose na"icl the girl purtla.
They kept RIOS" in bed for three
weeks; hut on her back rs much rs
possible, which was terribly irkSp.ar
10 her, since her strength AMI vital
ity were coming hN'h 50 IuSl' Nh'
might have rehcllcl, had 1t not been
for that gcrminant idea of hers. II
wouldn't do, she saw, In the light cf
that, TO give them any cxcusc for call
Ing her unreasonable.
one Sunday morning, Rodney car
ricd her upstairs TO the nursery To
see her bubbles bathed. This IA a
big room AT the top Of the house
which Florence McCrea had always
vaguely intended To make into u
studio. But. In the paralysis Of Ia
decision as To what sort of studio To
make II, she had left the thing bare.
Rodney had given Harriet carte
blanche to go ahead and fit II up be-
core he and Rose came back from the
%>cnshore, and the lnyctte was u monu'