Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-22

III suppcse you ought to know---
Esomeon1 else "a tell You. old a. Wenn
tor 3'lindy. OF ever, ,sabrina, though
1shs'd rather die inrstl I.tlanksI used
Ito DO 1omething like you, Nancy, Or
would have been. IL + hadn't been
Ifor------the troubled" ssEa
'will i nal. you unh.ppy ! tell
TT, Aunt Miliy?" s5Ss4s
"No. child. I used to lie here by
the hour and think things over and
Lover. but after awhile / got so things
signed and all the fight inside Of me
died. There never was much.1E You
see Sabrina brought mo up! and she
was as stern then as she IS now. CuE
father was like that. too. Ny mother
died when I was o bAby." t'
when father died Sabrina hadstha
care Of me. ! suppose she tried TO
bring me up well; she wa very strict
land-never seemed to .sunderstand!
to dream Of getting away from the
Islands. I wanted to 80 away.tato
school somewhere and learn to do
something-I did not much care what
that would Keep me, out in the
world. Finally / decided that ] want
ed to study music and then, m
tire. teach it, It wasn't much to
WAnts was IT. 0ear oUS MSs
when I went to Sabrina with my plan
she was terrible angry. You might
have thought I had suggested some;
thing wicked! She simply couldn't
understand! There was enough
money for us both to live on and she
said I was selfish and inconsiderate to
want to go away. She talked a great.
deal about the Leavitt position and
being a lady and. learning content
roGnf o,11 tho ~Nwo chn 70 16raS thn
more restless and discontented's.I
grew! And the more I dreamed ct
what waited out in the world beyond,
these little Islands. 60 .s-
After q long while, Nancy, I made
up my mind to go, anyway! It YVES
o easy to do, because I'm not very
brave. and the trouble we'd had sort
Of made me hate to take any step
that might make g break. between
I sin.ply couldn't seem to face a life
here. That's hard for you to believe,
isn't it, dear? But I was q. different
creature, then. Well, me night I
packed some clothes and slipped
away. I walked to North Hero and
caught the train for Burlington. 7
was going from there too New
York"
Breathlessly, Nancy - whispered,
what happened them" *Ps
The train was wrecked outside of
Burlington!" .4s4s.s ~
"Oh-Aunt Milly!"
"I was terribly hurt. I lay for
weeks in a hospital in Burlington and
they didn't know whether I'd live or
die! I wish--" she stopped, short.
mo. I don't! I'm glad I didn't die.
this!"
Poor, poor little Aunt Milly!"
But, listen. child-that isn't. half
all. 1t seems that on the same train
was a young man from North Hero
whom, I had always known-and
liked. But Aunt Sabrina had-never
approved of him. and long before she
had forbidden his coming here I did
see him sometimes, thought loved
There had never been more than a
pleasant friendship between us, and
i had not dreamed that he was going
to Burlington on that train. He was
killed. And when I came back frons
the hospital the story was on every
tongue that I had been running away
with Charlie Prince!" .2siss
ooh. I was hurt in every part fof.
me-my body and my soul and my
mind! My precious dreams had
crumbled forever and ever: And I
had to face that dreadful scandal!
Not that I ever saw a. soul-Sabrina
took are Of that! She kept me shut
up a. though I had the plague. But
through her reproachful eyes I was
made to see the accusations Of every
man, woman and child on the Hero
Islands. And I couldn't make her be-
flieve it wasn't so! She simply would
mt talk about it. She went around
with that dreadful look, day after
day, and when she'd say anything at
all, it was about how 1 had brought
shame to the Leavitt name. And aft
err awhile I began to feel as though
II had done something-more than
just run away to study music. She
made me understand that the only
way I could atone for it all was by
burying myself within these four
walls" al as sa
Then that's what she means by
making you bed" ::
Eyes, dear, + vas 10 crushed that
I came to believe she was right: God
knew that all I had wanted when, j