Connecticut western news., 1921-11-24
A Real Thanksgiving s byFrederick Hart
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e. 1921, by Mcclure newspaper Syholch'"'
 "I don't see why he didn't writeF said Mrs. Halden pettishly. "Of course I'm glad he's coming home for Thanksgiving, and all that, but he might have given me longer notice. But that's just like Bob-always drop ping in like tornado, with no more than a telegram the day before he comes-and how I'm to get his room ready, simply don't see! have the dinner to attend to, and goodness knows it's hard to get things these days without making preparations for an other guest. If he'd only written l | All he had to do was to sit down a week ago and write"
 "Now. mother, don't get all wor- ried." pretty Barbara Halden slipped an arm around her mothers ample waist. q know you've a thousand things to do, and Bob's coming makes 1t harder-but you just go ahead ana manage the dinner. I'll fix his room and everything"
 "Bless your heart, dear, run along and get 1t ready. I'm always gald to see Bob" Her speech was cut short by the abrupt exit of her daughter,
 who danced off up the stairs, followed
 by her mothers call. Be sure ana put out the smoking table! You
 know how Bob likes his pipe" "All right, mother dear-I will" And Barbara sped to the little room under the caves that had been sacred to Bob Holiday since the time, two 2 years ago, when he had first come ! to their town to practice law and had ? taken up his residence under Mrs Halden's hospitable roof which he declared almost offered comforts \ I enough to make him forget that he \ ever had had any other home. Since that summer, when he had 7 saved Mrs. Halden's little savings and U her home from the clutches of grasp z ing syndicate of real estate sharks \ he had been like a son to the good K woman. She had let him do very
 much as he pleased around the house H and had even hinted at his paying nc l hoard. but Bob had insisted on giving 2 her what he termed q ridiculously in G adeuuate sum each month.
 - When success brought him fame ant M fortune he had refused to take up oth
 CT lodgings, claiming that he enjoyed !l the home cooking and the home asso l k citations of the little brown house nea Fl the edge of the town more than h EI could ever like the garish splendor Et of n hotel or the loneliness of bach
 elor apartments.
 n For the past two months he hat . been travelling in the West on oi n railroad case. His sudden wire, rc . ceived the day before Thanksgiving n had been the first apprisal of his Tt
 turn that Mrs. Halden had had. U Now as she busily arranged he U kitchen In preparation for the man'
 featuring of a dinner that should su 0 mass all her former efforts in th' M line she blessed the chance thu 0 brought "her boy" as she called Bo E home at the holiday season, while sl
 outwardly feigned great irritation
 his unceremonious announcement
 his return.
 U Meanwhile, up in Bob's room, Ba Q bara was busily putting thin E straight. spreading clean linen on | c he'd. arranging the cover on the dre'
 CT seeing that the smoking table w
 sunnlied with matches and trays i
 Bob's ever.present pipe, and genera 4 making things fresh and sweet for t ! reception of her hero. For Barba O Rob was a good deal of hero, thou U she would hardly have confessed ASa even to herself.
 She attacked the dresser last Of - intending to take out of the draw
 any odds and ends that might be , them and leave space for shirts nke lars and other articles of mascul h to apparel.
 u to The big lower drawers were emI Doe and beyond a quick glance ln sea ~ of truant dust she did nothing
 them; but one of the small top dr'