Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10
SOWING. SEEDS'IlVD DANNY
BY NELLIE L. McCLUNC
,,boy of "The Next KIM "Three Times and Out" etc.

they ever met in the moonlight and
vowed to be true till the rocks melted
in the sun and all the seas ran dry.
That's what Egbert had said. and then
n rift of cloud passed athwart the
moons face, and Edythe tainted dead
away because it is bad luck to have a
cloud go over the moon when people
are busy plighting VOWS, and wasn't it
a good thing that Egbert was there to
break her fall
Pearl could just see poor Nellie Slater
standing dry eyed and pale at the win
dow wondering IL Tom could get away
from his lynx eyed parents who logged
his every footstep, and PEARLS tears
flowed afresh.
But Nellie Slater was not standing
dry y-eyed and pale at the window.
did you ask Tom Motherwell?"
Fred, her brother, asked, looking up
from list he held in his hand.
y sent him note" Nellie answered,
turning around from the baking, board.
I'VE couldn't leave Tom out. Poor
boy, he never. has any fun, and / do
feel sorry for him"
His mother won't let him come, any
way" Fred said, smiling. $50 don't
set your heart on seeing him, Nell"
How discouraging you are, Fred"
Nellie replied, laughing. "Now, ] be-
lieve he will come. Tom would be n
smart boy If he had chance. / thinx
But just think what it must be like to
live with two people like the Mother
wells. You do not realize it. Fred. be-
cause you have had the superior advan-
tages of living with clever people like
your brother Peter and your sister
Eleanor Mary. Isn't that so. Peter?"
pptnr Slatnr tho ynunUnat nf tba 20 ~,
lily. who had just come in, laid down the
milkpails before replying.
We have done our best for them all,
Nellie he said. modestly. 1T hope
they will repay us. But did ] hear you
say Tom Motherwell was comingT'
''You heard Nell say so," Fred an l.
swered. checking over the names. "Nell
seems to like Tom pretty WELL"
''I do, indeed" Nellie assented, with
out turning around.
"You show good taste, Eleanor, :"
Peter said as he washed his hands.
Who is going to drive into town for
Camilla?" Nellie asked that evening.
II am" Fred answered promptly.
mo. you're not am" Peter de-
clared.
George looked up hastily.
81 am going to bring Miss Rose out"
ut Nulu DG1llN.
Then they laughed.
Father Nellie said grayely. "iust
to save trouble among the boys, will you
do it?'
with the greatest Of pleasure. her
father said, smiling.
Under PEARLS ready sympathy Tom
began to feel the part Of the stricken
lCver, and to become as eager to meet
Nnllin INoln,e Lo1 q L.
beautiful Edythc. He moped around
the field that afternoon and let Arthur
DO the heavy share Of the work.
The next morning before Mrs. Moth
erwell appeared Pearl and Tom decided
upon the plan of campaign, Pearl was
to get his Sunday clothes taken to the
lluff in the pasture field. some time dur
ing the day. Then in the evening Tom
would retire early. watch his chance
slip out the front door. make his toilet
on the bluff. and then. oh bliss away to
Edythe.
Pearl had thought of having him
rake a rope of the sheets; but she rG-
membered that this plan OF escape wds
only used when people were leaving q
rlace for good--such as n prison; but
for coming back again, perhaps after
ull, IL was Dtli'T w uSt inc uOOE.
E.gbert had used the sheets, though.
Fortune favored PEARLS plans that
after noon. A book agent called at the
back door with the prospectus Of a
hook entitled, "Woman's Influence in
the Home" While he was busy ex-
Flaming TO Mrs. Motherwell the great
advantages of possessing copy Of
this hook, and she was equally busy
! explaining to him her views on book
selling rs an occupation for an able
bodied man, Pearl secured Toms suit,
ran down the front stairs, out the front
door and away to the bluff.
Coming back to the house she had
an uneasy feeling that she was doing
something wrong. Then she remembered
Edythe, dry eyed and pale, and her
fears vanished. Pearl had recited once
rt Band of Hope meeting n poem of
her own choosing-this was before the
regulations excluding secular subjects
became go rigid. Pearls recitation
dealt with captive knight who Ian
guished in n moldy prison. He begged
temporary rcspite-his prayer was
heard a year was given him. He went
back to his wife and child and lived
the year in peace and happiness. The
nour came to part, friends entreated-
wife and child wept--tho knight alone
Was calm.