Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-04-23

! there. Then she went to Aunt J6lis
Farrington's house which, she knew
so well, at the corner Of Pine and
| Walnut Streets,-the house that look
cd like q picture out of yesterday
with its iron fences and old-fashioped
posy beds and terra Gotta statue In
the yard.
There was light burning in the
nall rs Mibb went up. She pulled the
old-fashioned bell and waited.
1t was Aunt Mary"Pursc herself
who answered that bell. She came
to the door with rcd-yarn shawl
over her frail shoulders, She had, been
carc-lincd forehead. She had nbecn
packing for the cpochal trip abroad
on the coming Thursday with. her
son. l.i .,..... ., 80,
"Mary. Mary Purse, can. ]
come in?" begged the woinan out
side in the dark, cts me, Mavy;'t
it's Mabel Henderson" go. 4, d.
A quartcr-hour later they sat in
the little front parlor of the Earring
ton home, the parlor, with it's antique
mcclellan and its what-not filled:'wit
Aunt Julia's daguerreotypes, and ITS
life-sized picture of Abraham Lincoln
and with John Farrington's big cav
airy sword standing ina corner. ~
Mary Purse, only five years the
older but looking twenty. sat. ;, in a
round backed horsc-hair chair. On
the floor at her feet with her poor
added, life-weary head on the older
woman's lap, sat Mibb Henderson.
the girl who would "take her
chances" with riches. And she was
sobbing out her heart. As that
great emotion possessed her the
gnarled beautiful hands Of our'ladv:
compositor of years in the Telegraph
Office, smoothed her hair and soothSd
her feverish forehead. - ain ,7UF
"Oh, if you only hated me, Mary"
she moaned, eff you'd only fought
me, damned me, killed me, if you'd
even rcbuked me one little bit it
would have been SO much easier to
bear now. But you took it sweetly
and nobly and bore it somehow, -
and you never held it against me.
You never let it show when came
around so simplify throwing your
pcvcrty in your face; haunting you
with the load you were under; show
in~ how base and contemplate was
:rd how low / had fallen. If you'd
only done it, Mary, if you only
had!"
81 couldn't, Mibb," Aunt Mary said
II knew you couldn't help it. Y
didn't do it to be mean you WI
that's all. There's ],
Of thoughtless folks in the wor
Mibb. We want to be patient "
ON and help 'em; most of 'cm
their errors in time and so 1t
zones out right in the end"
Dumbly, piteously the woman
he world who had lost her moorir
1t last, chung to, the other as !
,nly Alsatia to which to bring, ]
,ircd soul. And true to the gr
noble woman soul and the moth
,cart that was in her and the Sa
Ter troubles and struggles /
made her, she found that sis
'cady and willing to forgive and h.
md comfort and inspire and smot
way all care. Freely the Hcnd
ION woman's tears flowed, and
hose tears got as near to God
t was possible for her to get
.arthly life. a.. -.
Aunt Mary forgave her; forga.-
lcr for the cruel jests and stabbing
aunts; forgave her for Haunting, the
,rostituted fincry before her when
,cr heart was breaking with her
poverty and load; forgave, her for all
# these and took her in and fed her
oul with kindness and wrapped her
n her great big mother-heart of etcr-
lal sympathy,".. which is the bless
dncss of womankind above all other
ivinity, which is the high-road to
eace. ,.,. ,.,.4 -'',. .-.-4,,. ..ii.
"And He opened His mouth and
aught them, saying Ye have heard
hat it hath been said, AM ego afSr
n eye and artooth. for a tooth; but
say unto YOU that we resist not
vii; but whatsoever shall snite thee
n the right cheek; turn to- :him.sthe
sft also. And If any man sac thee
t the law and take away thy cloak,
It him have thy. cost also. 4.Ye bath
card that it hath. been said Thou
halt love. thy heighbor and hate
lrine enemy. Bot L say, ,unto.iy6u,
I'VE your enomies, hless~ thon1i that
ursc you, do ,gond to them that hate
GU and pray for them which de
use you and persecute you;
nat We may be the children of your
'ather WHICH is in heaven: for he
lakcth his sun to rise, on the evil
nd the good and sendeth His rain
II the just and the unjust" @
Verify Aunt Mary Purse, deserved
nc gold-piece. 'n', { t4i. ~.
Wcthink so. ~, 10 .@s ~ ~:
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