The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1920-06-10

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/ Copyright. 1920. Western Newspaper Union)
| The little girl who had been wander
/ Ing uncertainty about the corridor of
the great office building paused at last
/ before glass door.
James Lorrimer," she spelled audi
/ bly,; Attorney and Counselor at Law"
/ Then the little girl opened the door
and peeped inside.
A young woman bending over a type
| writer looked up and smiled reasSur-
ingly.
That's Mr.. Lorr.mer, isn't it, sit
| ting there in the farthest room behind
a desk? I'll go and find him myself"
"Who sent you in here" he asked.
mo one sent me-" the little girl
quietly returned. Il Just came" She
seated herself in a wide chair at the
| opposite side of the desk 81 came by
myself on the street car found your
name last night among the lawyers in
our telephone book. It's business
visit and / brought all the money in
my bank TO pay you. I've got over a
dollar. Please tell me how to get I'M
adopted"
ITO get unadopted," he repeated.
$50 you don't like the adoption bust
ness, Ell? Well, how did it happen7
And what is your name, young LADY,"
I'm Wanda-Rose," the child an
swered with dignity, land don't like
being adopted very much. 1t happened
when the beautiful lady visited our
orphanage. She liked me because 1
made her smile; il had grown very
hard, she said, for her to smile, so she
managed with the directors to adopt
me and took me home with her. She
was the first mother I'd ever had.
Some one found me long ago In the
orphanage garden, when 1 could hard
| ly talk at all, and what called myself
sounded like Wanda so that's the
name they gave me. My beautiful lady
added Rose; she says I'm like rose to
her. But, please. will you make me
unadopted?"
The big man got up and lifted the
tiny figure to his knee.
I'm afraid that I don't understand
all this, Wanda Rose" he said, whimsi-
cally. IF your beautiful lady is also
kind, why wish to be 'unadoptedT"
The child raised reproachful eyes.
"As IL I'd ever wish to be-" she said.
Its for her sake that I'm doing it. So
that he will come back again."
Tauac 7 ebaol, III, hoo1
81 will have to ask you to explain
further. Wanda"
Rose" she finished, severely. "He
went away two years ago; you see he
was my beautiful lady's husband.
Ellen, that's the cook, says that they
were very happy together until my
| lovely lady's sister died and she took
her little boy to raise. She was so
fond of that boy; he was delicate, FL
len says, and my mOther-I call her
mother, you knOw-had to stay with
him great deal. The boys name was
Roger, and Ellen says that my moth
ers husband got very 'noyed about
Roger. An he'd talk cross when he
wanted her to go some place an my
mother couldn't because of Roger. an
she'd cry, and then by an by her hus-
band went away, an my mother told
Ellen he was never coming back, an
he never did"
The lawyer arose abruptly and put
the child from him. His brows were
drawn together again and his gaze
was darkly piercing.
"Well?" he asked.
Wanda-ROse settled herself again
quietly in the big chair. well, Rog-
ers father married after that, Ellen
says, an he took Roger away; an my
mother used to cry a great deal, she
was so dreadfully lonely. Not for
Roger, Ellen says, but for her husband.
He didn't know that she was lonely
OF course, or even that Roger had
gone; he just kept on staying away.
Then my beautiful lady began to visit
the hospital and orphanage, an brings
us toys an roses, an she called me
her rose i liked to make her laugh:
she had such a pretty laugh-like
| piiuS SluSiiS WIFI you near tneI0 In
the morning. An one day she took me
home with her to be her little girl. But
l couldn't keep her laughing because
she cried so much over the photograph
in the frame in her room; an asked
her was 1t her husbands photograph
and was he ever coming back? She
just put her head down then and cried
harder than ever an she said: Never.
darling, now-Im afraid So thought
that now meant me-that he'd never
come now you see, cause l was here
like Roger. An he'd gone away be-
cause Of Roger-or Roger is what
started the trouble, anyway, Ellen
says. So came down here to get un.
adopted. Lawyers do such things,
don't theyF Wanda-R Rose paused.
"You ought to be gladden. to do 1t than
anyone else" she said, shrewdly.
James Lorrimer stood for a long
time looking down into the street be-