Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-02-11
soul in the world really loves me"
Nancy put out a protesting hand,
Miss Sabrina patted it.

Ndncy put out a protesting han0,
Miss Sabrina patted it.
Il am right, my dear, I know it
now. But If God will be good to me
He will give me a few more years to
live so hat l nay make up, in a small
way. for the wrong I have done-to
others and to myself. Do you know,
Nancy. 1t was you who first brought
home to me the truth-that happi-
ness comes as it is given. 1t was a
fortunate thing for Happy House
when l brought o here, dear"
strangle the words of confession that
spranE to them. Aunt Sabrina went
on:
II cannot bring back the years or
atone to my brother for the wrong I
did to him. I do mo- know how I can
make up to your own father. Per-
haps. If you ask him to, he will for
give me, sone day. But / shall, as
soon as 1 can see my lawyers in North
Hero. make new will, leaving Happy
House n my share OF my fathers
fortune to you-"
Good gracious thought Nam
cy: she thinks Anne's father is still
her feet. But Miss sabrina paid no
heed to her agitation. She rose and
vent to the table and opened a leath-
er-bound book that lay there,
II have brought down some papers
and letters that belonged to your
grandfather-when he was a young
nan Here is a picture of him. Come
and see it. my DEAR"
Unwillingly Nancy crossed to the
table. Miss Sabrina reverently placed
the faded picture in her hand.
my only brother" she whispered,
brokenly. your grandfather"
mo. Anne's grandfather" Nancy
almost screamed.
She looked at the picture with in
tent interest. 1t portrayed. a striking
the card in her hand. Across the
back had been written. the name.
Eugene Standbridge Leavitt."
Astounded, Nancy cried out: "Why,
that-that is my fathers name!"
CHAPTER XVI. =
Eugene Standbridge Leayitt.
For a moment Nancy thought she
had gone quite crazy! She put her
hand to her head to steady its whirl-
ing. This was her grandfather-her
own fathers father! She was the
real Anne Leavitt!
Aunt sabrina was fussing over a
notebook in which clippings had
been pasted. She thought Nancy's
agitation quite ~excusable; she was
trembling herself.
That is a family name. The
Standbridge comes from our great
ther had been called Eugene-yss,
here's what B'lindy cut out Of the
newspaper" She placed the open
page of, the book in Nancy's hands.
She tbld Nancy how, after the quar-
rel. her father had ordered her to de-
stroy everything about the house that
might remind anyone Of the disowned
son.
II carried out his wishes. After our
been constant companions. l was ter
riblv angry at my brother for having
brought this grief and shame to my
father in his old age. Now" she
caught her breath sharply. but
B'lindy was fond Of the boy. She
packed these letters and the picture
away, and after that, for years, when
ever she'd read anything about him
in the papers or hear a word, she'd
enter it in his little book. I never
knew hat until years later. See
here's ar account of his wedding. It
says he went abroad-he'd always
wanted to. even when he was a young
lad. Here 1t tells that he bought a
Newspaper. Here's where it speaks
about his son Eugene ~. n
1t seemed to Nancy as though the
little pages Of the book. with their
.age-yellow clippings and curious en-
tries. were opening to her a new side
Of her fathers life. She remembered
some stuffed birds in her fathers cab
met that she had known in a vague
sort Of way had come from Africa; 1t
was intensely interesting to read
from the little book that :'the we'll
known newspaper man, Eugene Lea
witt. and his young son, Eugene. had
gone on a six-months' trip to Africa. ;,
"Mtlly wrote once to our brother.
though I never knew It until I found
this book. After = long while he an.
swered with this note. B'lindy's put
It here" turning page.
The few lines were strangely char
acteristic Of Nancy's own father. They
told the younger sister that he'd
found the world q very kind and :
rood place to live in.
AnnthAr letter had besn writes, ~