The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-05-13
WHERE'S EMEuNE?
BY N G. BRoGAN.

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she had admired as a child. opening
out on wide verandas. Then she went
to the piano and sorted over the mu.
sic. The songs of a by-gone day,
which she had expected to find. had
given way surprisingly to new and roll
licking ballads. So Aunt Emeline also
had become modernized in her taste
for music. Sallie tossed her hat on
a chair and placed her travelling bag
heneath it, and began to play the one
sentimental piece she could find. 1t
was something about oh! I'm lonely"
and "Oh. I'm blue" and carried a
touching appeal. But as Sallie for
the second time reached the chorus |
and wAS wailinS softly. "Oh! I'm so
lonely" n masculine voice nearby EN-
phatically remarked:
$50 am L."
And rs Sallie, undecided whether to
stop or to proceed. unnoticinG with her
song, finished "Oh! TIM blu-e." the
young man again exclaimed:
THAT'S me-. too. I've been sitting
out there" lie went on, as she turned
on the stool, "wanting to curse every.
thing in this dull Owl from the band
stand to the pump, when your musical:
voice expressed my feelings for me-"
"My singing" SnlIie demurrly re-
piled. has never before been likened
to cursins. But If it helped to relieve
you-- Will you tell me-" she broke
Off abruptly, "where my Aunt Eme-
line is?"
I'm afraid" the young man sadly
answered., "that I cannot oblige. l
wish that l might know-your Aunt
Emcline."
but if you don't know her." per-
: sisted the girl, then why are you
here"
Pardon me-" the young man sara,
II have been wondering that very
thing about YOU"
: Sallie turned from him coldly.
: II came to visit my Aunt Emeline,"
, she replied. "but she seems not to be
at home, while you"
II am very much at home" the man
pleasantly interrupted.
: Sallie stopped to pick up her bag.
U She would 60 in search Of Aunt Eme-
u line.
: "Who are you?" the girl asked.
:, II AIN james Oliver Lodge" he an
. swered, land I hope the name duly i'm
" presses you. Some people call me
= 'Jim.'"
sTNcII ,n, r1,1,otN to cvtprnCfnr1 I'm
!, pulsively, "Ill get III the car and we
will go and look for Aunt Emeline to-
gether. Wen try the shopping dis
trict firSt-just one short block.
Bring your %valisc." he advised.
3 Certainly not" SalIie answered
: promptly.
IT am going to stay right on in this
house."
"Nothing would give me greater
" pleasure" Jim said checrfully.
. "You are funny" Sa!lie exclaimed.
;" "Why should you be SO pleased about
" it,"
"It is rather soon; I fear to tell
:. you," lie answered with Il rueful
: glance, and the girl sighed in exasper.
alton.
Sallie ignored this levity. She felt
that she had joked enough.
Under p%retense Of reading, she took
:, n book from the table, and the young
: man obediently passed out through a
- French window to the vcranda. On
the hy-leaf of the book, Sallie read or
inscription, "To james Oliver Lodge
from Dad"
The girls pretty brows wrinkled in
J. p%erplexity. This young maj whom she
n had dismissed prOfesscd no kn0wl-
edge Of Aunt Elneline, yet here upon
r. 'her" table was 'his" book-from dad
"Come here" she called peremptor.
= lily, and the young man came
"Yon don't know Aunt Emeline," she
accused, "yet here is your book, upon
her table"
at Is not her table," James Lodge
retorted; it's mine-my table, my
- house, my everything"
T. "YOur home," Sallie murmured, a n
!. you let me walk in and play your
- piano, and"
e 81 didn't let YOU" Jim denied. "You
q came in yourself. When l heard the
Is piano, I followed from the garden
When you asked for your Aunt Fine
I" line. and l offered to take you out and
l. try to locate her, you drove me-" he
" ended tragically, "from my home"
II arrived at the station this after
" noon, and asked to be taken to the
Z Orion place." Sallie carefully ex
3 planned, "and the town driver brought
y me here, and left me at the door.
remember the house from childhood
visits. When no n answered to my
y ring, I came in to wait for my aunt
L. If this is your home, then where's
Aunt Emeline?
A her bungalow. no doubt" the
young man answered briskly. Il viii
take you there. If you had mentioned
the name orion. I should have known
e at Onco Dad has hOupht the old Or