Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-10-04

observant Carolyn May, non, yes, Mr..
Parlow, they ought to be happy again,
and we ought to make EN- so,'
"IIuh! Who ought to-"
"You and me. We ought to find some
way Of doing it. I'm sure we can, If
we just think hard about It,"
"Huhw grunted the carpenter again,
turning Cherry into the dooryard.
Huh -
This was not very encouraging re-
spouse, Yet he did think Of it, The
little girl had started train of
thought in Mr., Parow's mind that he
could not sdetrack.
He knew very we'll that what she
had said about his daughter and Jo-
seph Stagg was quite true. In his self
ishneSs he had been glad all these
years that the hardware merchant was
baked of happiness.
The carpenter had always been u
self-centered individual, DESTROYS Of
his own comfort, and rather misery,
He had not approved, in the first place,
of the intimacy between Joseph Stage
and his daughter Amanda.
mo goodll come o that" he had
told himself.
That is, no good to JedldiGh Parlow.
He foresaw at the start the loss of the
girls help about the house, for his
wife was then helpless invalid.
Then Mrs. Parow died. This death
made palmer still to the carpenter
that Mandy's marriage was bound to
bring inconvenience to him. Especial
ly if she married a cloSe-fSted young
business man like Joe Stage would
this be true. For, at the reading of his
wlfe's will Mr.. Parlow discovered that
the property they occupied, even the
shop in which he worked, which had
been given to Mrs. Parlow by her par
ents, was to be the sole property Of
her daughter. Mandy was the heir.
Mr.. Parlow did not possess even life
interest III lne eSluJe.
1t was blow to the carpenter. He
made a good income and had money
In bank, but he loved money too well
to wish to spend it after he had made
it. He did not want to give up the
place. If Mandy remained unmarried
there would never be any question be-
tween them of rent or the like.
Therefore, If he was not actually the
cause of the difference that arose be-
tween the two young people, he seized
and enlarged upon it and did all In
his power to make mere mlsunder-
standing grow into quarrel that nei-
Their of the proud, high-spirlted lovers
would bridge,
Jedidiah Parlow knew why Joe
Stagg had taken that other girl to
Faith camp meeting. The young man
had stopped at the Parlow place when
Amanda was absent and explained to
the girls father. But the latter had
never mentioned this fact to his daugh-
ter
Instead he had made Joe's supposed
offense the greater by suggestion and
innuendo. And it was he, too, who
had urged the hurt Mandy to retaliate
by going to the dance with another
young man. Meeting Joe Stage later,
the carpenter had said bitter things
to him, purporting to come from
Mandy. 1t was all mean and vile; the
old man knew 1t now-as he had
known 1t then.
All these years he had tried to add
fuel to the fire of his daughters anger
against Joe Stage. And he believed
he had benefited thereby. But some
how, during the past few months, he
had begun to wonder If, after all, "the
game was worth the candle"
Suddenly he had gained a vision Of
what Amanda Parlow's empty life
meant to her.
Carolyn MAY. interested only in see