The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-04-11

up OF hours like That. No sane per
son can even want to live In a per.
petual ecstasy. What makes a noun.
tain peak Is the fall away into the
surrounding valleys.
In their valleys Of commonplace,
everyday existence-nnd these &C.
they were stif. shy, s~clf-conscious
with each other. And their attempt to
ignore this fact only made the self
consciousness the worse. II troubled
and b%ewildered both OF them.
The arrival OF the twins. in the CON
voy Of n badly nustered-and. to tell
the truth. n somewhat scandaiized-
Miss French, simpliied the situation
somewhat-by complicnting II! They
absolutely enforced routine. And
they gave Rose aud Rodney : 10 many
occupations that the contemplation Of
their complicated states of mind was
much abridged.
But ever her babies brought Rose n
disappointment along Will them. From
the time Of the receipt Of Miss
Frcnch's telegram. telling them what
| lTNl1 Sill anu NV WINS N'ufh tuN's
Rose had been telling on the hours
In mounting excitement. The two Mt
terly adorable little creatures. as the
pictures OF them In Rodney's pocket.
book showed them to be. who were
miraculously. incredibly hers. were
coming to bring motherhood to her
She didn't go to Boston with Rod.
ncy to meet them; stayed behind
In the cottage. ~ostensibly to see To II,
up to the very last minute, that the
fires were right (June had come In
cold and rainy and. In general. to he
ready, on the moment. To produce any
thing that their rather unforeseeable
needs might call for. Her real rea.
son was a shrinking from having her
first meeting with them In the confu.
sion Of arrival IN n station platform,
under the eyes Of the world. Rodney
understood this well enough. and. ar
rlvfng at the cottage. he clambered
out Of the wagon with them and car
ried them both straight In to Rose
leaving the nurse and the bewilderlna
paraphernalia Of travel for a second
trip.
Rose, in the passionate surge Of
gratified desire that came with the
sight OF them. caught them from him
crushed them up against her breast
and frightened them half to death. So
that, without discrimination, the,
howled and brought Miss French fly
Ing to the rescue.
, Rose didn't make a tragedy OF II
managed n smile ut herself, though sh'
suspected she'd cry when she got tn
chance, and subjected her ideas to al
instantaneous revision. They were
Q persons, those two funnily indignan
little mites, with their own ideas. thei
own preferences, and the perfectly ade
Y Quate conviction OF being entitled 4
them. How would she herself hav,
3 liked IL, to have a total stranger. III
teen feet high OF so, snatch her Xix
r that7
n She was rather apologize all day
g and got her reward, especially fror
Z the hoy. who was an adventurous IN
d rather truculent baby, much. she far
cied, as his father must once hav
8 been, and who tOok to her more quick
e ly than the girl did. Indeed, the sec
ond Rodney fell In love with her a
II most as promptly as his father ha
n done before him. But little Porti
wasn't very far behind. Two days gu
m feed for the conquest Of the pnir
" them.
The really dlsquieting discover
awaited the time when the wire ede
+ OF novelty about this adventure !
ID motherhood had worn on when 81
IN could battle them, dress them, fee
m them their very strictly regimente
I'd meals, without being spurred to II
highest pitch Of alertness by the fei
70 OF making n mistake-forgetting som
thing like the Juice of a half-orani
n at ten o'clock In the morning, Il
omission OF which might have-wi
That attitude can't last any WON'T
10. long, and Rose, with her wonderful
clever hands, her wits trained not
ph be told the same thing twice, h
pride keeping In sharp focus the d
termination that Rodney should 8
~ that she could be as good u nurse
W, Miss French-Rose wore on that mel
re Gus t~enseness over her new Job We
quickly. Within a week she had
re routine established that was noisele
he --frictionless.
But, do you remember how aghf
lie, shs was over the forty weeks Jo
q Galbraith had talked about as I
we probable run of THE Girl Upstairs
-se her CONSERVATION owe the idea OF J,
20 going on doing the same thing o,
we and over again, around and aroui
like a horse ut the end Of n polef'
he Well, II was with something I
same feeling OF CONSERVATION tn
Of having thrown herself heart and 81
sed into the task of planning and settl
In motion "a routine for two year-nl
as a-half-old babies, she should find h
so self Strengthening up and sayir
what nexti" and realizing that,
far as this job was concerned, tn,
II was no next" The supreme IN,
ing Of her care from now on would b.