The Washington times., 1919-03-27

The child 'digplsys talent for
drawinE5 she learns she is 70 set
(cHAPTER II. (Continued).
There were many pictures Of the
cat; many OF her parents. too
odd, shaky,- smeared portraits all
out OF proportion. but usually
recognizable.
A few landscapes varied the col
lection-a view or two Of the stone
bridge opposite, a careful drawinC
Of the ruined paper mill. But the
majority of the subjects were pure
II imaginary; pictures OF demons
and angels, Of damsels and fairy
princes-paraGonB OF beauty-With
cAstles on'adjacent crags and swans
adorning convenient ponds.
Her mother rose after a few mo-
ments, laid aside the pile OF draw
ings, went to the kitchen and re-
turned with her daughters school,
books and lunch basket.
Rue, you'll be late again. Get on
your rubbers immediately"
The ehild's shabby winter coat
was already too short in skirt and
sleeve, and could be heightened no
further She pulled the blue tobog-
gan cap over her head. took a hasty
osculatory leave Of her father,
seized books and lunch basket. and
followed her mother 70 the door
Below the house the Brookhollow
road ran south across an old stone
bridge and around a hill to Cay
field, half a mile away
Rue, drawing on her wooden
gloves, looked Up at her mother.
Her lip tremhled very slightly. She
said:
Roe n FaiFy-Dreamer.
~ II shouldn't know what to do II
] couldn't draw pictures when
draw a princess mean her for
myself. y is pleasant-to pre-
tend to live with swans
She opened the door, paused on
the step; the frosty breath drifted
from her lips. Then she looked
back over her shoulder: her moth
er kissed her. held her tightly for
3 moment
"If I'm to be forbidden to draw
pictures" repeated the girl. 81 don't
know what viii become OF me. Be
GAUGE really live therein the pic
lures ] make"
Wen talk 1t over this evening.
darling. Don't draw in study hour
any more, will you:-
'I'll try TO remember, mother"
When the spindIe-limbed. boyish
figure had sped away beyond sight,
Mrs. Carew shut the dor. drew her
wool shaw closer, and returned
slowly TO the sitting-room. Her
husband, deep in padded rocking
chair by the window. was already
absorbed in the volume which lay
open on his knees-the life Of the
Reverend AdonirRm Judson-one Of
the worlds good men. Ruhannah
had named her cat after him.
His wife seated herself. She had
dishes TO do, two bedrooms. prepa-
rations for MONDAY dinner-the
usual and Interchangeable routine.
She turned and looked out of the
window across brown fields thinIy
powdered with snow. Along A
hTawiinG, wintry-dark stream.
fringed with gray alders. ran the
Brookhollow road. ClUmps Of pines
and elms bordered it There was
nothing else TO see except A dis
tsnt crow in a ten-acTe lot. walk
ing solemnly about all by himself
Like the vultures that
wandered through the compound
that dreadful day in May she
thought involuntarily.
Another Turk Massacre.
-
zoHd TO BrookhoIIow. And her hus-
band had been obliged to give up
after the last massacre, when every
had been-dragged out and
killed in the floating shadow OF
the Stars and Stripes, languidIy
brilliant overhead.
For the Sublime Porte and the
KuJTds had had their usual way al
lsst: ther wes nothing left OF the
mission: school and converts were
gone; her wounded husband, her
baby. and herself refugees in a
foreign consulate; and the Turkish
making apologies with /
its fat tongue in It's greasy cheek.
The Koran says: Woe 10 those
v NJ ~ egs anu AA NAANAA III a. atN
careless"
The Koran also says: In the
name OF God the Compassionate, the
What thinkest thou OF
Him who treateth our religion a.
q lie?"
Mrs. Carew and her crippled hus-
band knew, now, what the Sublime
Porte thought about il. and what
urng the onfni0R Of the KuFdfab
cavalry concerning missionaries
and converts who treated the Mos
lem religion as a lie
She looked at her pallid and
husband; he was still read
ing: hik crutches lay beside him
on the floor She turned her eyes
10 the window. Out. there the soli-
targ crow Was still walking busily |
about in the frozen pasture. And
again she remembered the vultures