Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-17
LAWRENCE HAS A PLAN
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Alice Fairbanks has always won
her way through life by her opti-
mism. Her sunny nature has car
ried her through her fathers death,
her mothers invalidism, poverty,
n necessity for hard work, with a
smile and a feeling of hope. When
she meets David Thorne, falls in love
and becomes engaged to him, her cup
of happiness is full.
An orphaned cousin, Lois Kennedy,
comes to live with them. She wins
away David, ~persuades him to come
to the city and marries him. Alice
Is heartbroken, and takes refuge in
work and study. Lawrence Marlowe
offers to help her in her studies.
The following summer n baby is
deserted by a poor family. Alice
wants to adopt 1t.
CHAPTER 40
Alice went over to the settlement
house the mex morning happier than
she had been for a long time. She
had been sure all during h year
she had been separated from David
that love would never again enter her
life. And now she felt that the best
substitute in tbs world-a real
friendshtp-had been given her.
h was filled with curiosity as to
what had happened to the little de-
serted baby. And so, for that matter,
were the small children of Shanty-
town. She found more than a dozen
sitting on the steps of Happy Home.
waiting for her.
As Alice was usually the first
worker to arrive, II had the key
and opened UP the place. Some of
the small girls who had Joined the
Little Mothers class and the u
keeping class, sat down patiently
to await the arrival of the young
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them; the rest gathered up their tools
and followed Alice back to the small
garden.
For an hour she talked and work.,
ed, demonstrating the best way to
put in late corn, and giving q lesson
in transplanting. Then, having finish
ed the sample garden rs they call
ed the patch behind the house, she
started off with her troupe to h
vacant lot gardens.
These, according to plan, had been
portioned out to all the poor families
who applied for them, and both the
old and the young members of the
families worked in them. Alice SUI
pervised, and frequently did q gener-
GUS share of the work.
She was hard at II n little after IL
when Lawrence appeared. -
He perched himself on the top rail
of a fence where a tree gave a little
cool shade. and watched her n her
pupils with some amusement anu a
lot OF genuine admiration. Alice
came over TO him finally, and sat
down on the grass at his feet.
you look rather hot" was his
rather banal greeting. -
Alice laughed and pulled off her
hat. At the same time her hair,
which always looked as though III
were about to come down, carried
ont its threat and fell in a Ions coll
down her back.
Alice blushed and started to hunt
the hairpins in order to do 1t up
again.
nroved. what a lot of hair you
have and such a. nice color! what
do you do to 1t to conceal It's beauty
when you wear 1t done up?",
Il don't know how to fix 1t. I up
pose" Alice confessed. u * inc
way your cousin does hefs' ou'
"she would be glad to show you
TaYrenee remarked. Anyway, it
doesn't look pretty pinned up. Ana
I wish YOU wouldn't work so hard.
Il don't want to talk o my
self" Alice said with sudden resent
ment. 'sEveryone tells me l donLl
know how to dress or make myself
look pretty, and 1 know 1t. but am
too busy to find out. Tell me anoutI
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the baby" o.I
sExactly what I came to DO,
lawrence said. quite unperturpeu'
ana lighting a cigarette. It's a per
fectly nice baby. 1t didn't cry, or fuss
or do any of the things babies are
to do, and it's really rather
nrettv. Needs f%attening. Mother NIX
ed II up In a lot of clothes tina had
heloneed to q young cousins baby, al
whole outfit made in Paris. the de-
serted child of obscure parents gracesi
its expensive wardrobe very Well
How dear" Alice commented.
HAS anyone decided to let me nave
it?" ri
mo one knows you want II. ana l.
think you're foolish to ask Tor IL,
Lawrence answered. .,,i
But I saw 1t first and l want IL
Alice answered. .l
"My dear girl. you are a goose,
Lawrence replied. II
sIm not" Alice answered Win ~
sudden show of temper. i doesn't
matter If / am poor. Mother n 1
have enough to bring the baby up
comfortably, certainly in a better way
than its parents would have done.l
And it doesn't make N dIfterence-