Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-04-02

worry that you might refuse.
"Anything on earth | can do fc
you, promise that | will, Mary"
She waited moment before tn
request came out.
"Mr. Hod," she said fcal'ully faint
ly, but steadily, ~ want-can I hay
my old placc--back-in your OF
fee"
! Sam looked at her blankly.
"You want WHAT"
! 81 want my old job back, in you
office. Setting type in printing
Office is all that l know how tc 10
And | must do something. All dur
ine this week | have been turnin.
it over and over in my heart. Tha
first night after the funeral ! got in
to bed alone. l could not stand i
alone. | called to my boys and the!
got into bed with me. The little
ones thought it was sport. The Older
boys snuggled up close beside me
Yes we did!-six of us in one bed
And they quoted down after time
and fell asleep. only Was left awake
in the awful, awful, dark.
"And there in the bed, with tho
bodies of my boys around me, and
their little hearts beating close to
mine, laid in the silence and fought
it out with myself. ! must not COM
plain. | must not lose heart no"
faith. | must take up the battle of
life where Jack laid it down and
carry it on. l am not the first woman
who has lost husband. / must not
think of my sorrow. I must bury
that in my heart and my life. Ahead
of me lies the work of raising those
boys of mine to be good men. And
when I have done that, | am ready
and willing to lay down my heartache
and follow Jack. That is for the far,
far, future. Life for me now must
be too practical to think Of that"
"You want TO go to work-herc?"
eyes. am going to work-here
if you'll let me. I am going on!
God helping me, will not full my
little boys"
"And you think you can 10 it by
here, Nary"
81 thought some Of taking Tom out
Of school. The next moment itsecmcd
cd ridiculous. Just because my life
has ended in failure is no reason why
l should do anything to make his
little life failure, also. So I'm go
ing to keep him in school and all
the other boys as fast as they become
old enough. I've got the cow, the
little black mare "nd the place; !
guess | can manage somehow you
only give me back my work. Old
Mrs. Morrow will live with us and
ook after the youngsters while I'm
,ere in the village typesetting each
lay. If you can give me the chance
o earn nine or ten dollars Il week, it
will keep us in clothes and pay the
axes and doctors bills that are
pound to come. Then as each boy
yets through college, l count on him
urning around and helping the next
brother under him.
"What!" we both cried. "You're
,oing to try to put those six boys
through collcge-alone?"
ayes, Pm going to try. Once
wanted to go to college. Once
wanted to amount to something in
he world. But things occurred hat
prevented me. Somehow the chance
ever seemed to work around. | had
o leave home suddenly and go to
,ork-herc. Then got married
nd the babies came. After that
here was no hope. And faced it.
|ut my boys-cveryone of thcm!-
re going through college if it kills
,c! want Tom to go THROUGH the
logical school and turn out preach
l.. l guess that every mother wishes
hat one of her boys would turn out
preacher. But whatever happens,
hall do my best and leave the rest
, God. Mr.. Hold, | want that old
lace of mine very, very much. III
ork my fingers to the bone if you'll
nly give me the chance. Can |
ave it?''
"Ycs, Mary" replied Sam quietly
he preface to an emotional explosion,
You can have it. Come in Monday {
orning and take your old lob.
he wages will be sixteen dollars
week and you can keep it till you're !
hundred!"
When she had gone I said to Sam: I
"But she can't set anything but
raight-matter, Sam! And we don't c
t any more straight matter by I
md. We dumped all our eight r
lint when we installed the ma :
ines"
"Then, by CAD, We'll buy some! u
AIRED Sam Hold. "--for so lone as l a
sn controlling interest in this BIZ
nual Bedquilt which the town calls a
that woman shall have u
job 1ere as long as there one ex- y
lmation-point left outside the hell n
X! And if any bat-eared slob with
|link in his neck ever breathes that b
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