Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1920-04-07
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JOHN
q DOROTHY 8. GRAVES.

IVVAAuS uOuSe. mere IN the room d
rectly beneath his own, the door ofte
stood open few inches, enough t
allow glimpse to a. passerby. Their
was q Jolly little stove always CLEAN
ing red-frequently cracking gaylJ
Beside It stood gaunt, violin rack
That was all.
John never passed the doOrwn,
without longing glance at the stoy,
and prolonged gaze into the marrow
opening. ;t
For weeks this room had Fascinated
him. Why, he could not say. Was /
the stovel Was It 1.-THE roomer" b,
4 never saw7
Tonight he passed the door slowly
he saw the same few inches only. and
he heard the lightest possible rustic
and that was all. but his heart choket
him, and he stumbled up to his owI
rOOm-
There he sat- on the edge Of hi.
iunpy bed. and buried hfs face ii. hii
hands He wanted to cry. He did mol
CRY. Instead. he thought and thought
Was ethe roomer" lonely, too? Was
she young or old? Dare he speak to
her1
he glanced about his grim four walls
which could never be q home to him.
His memory Of a little gray house In
the 1elds Of golden corn, or among the
tender spring shoots, or the whitened
stnbbis OF December. sent hot tears to
his eyes. The Christmas box from
hons had been meager. ..The girls :
who took pies and cookies as 4 m,tter
~ fact. and who never knew what It
was 70 be away from home, could not
undesstand.
HIT little Benny, queer kid" had
aent three ear. Of the prize corn from
the farm. and III the popcorn he had
raised IA his school. garden. eQueer
nd. Benny" thought the big brother.
i But the corn looked good to him. It
Ms the best present be had ever had.
Meanwhile something he had not *
pscted was happening IN the room
below. The strains Of the violin hoat-
"a up to him; bravely. cheerily they
began. Il was tune he knew and
loved. A voice 3oined-a young voice.
sweet and tender.
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