Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-02-01
IT bring her downstairs everv dav

now. right after breakfast. and she's
one, of the family. I'm going to coax
webb to make another sort of a
chair: n she can wheel herself
we seen them. She's learned to knit
beautifully; she's so proud because
she's working on a sock for the Bel
gian children-she says it's the first
time she's ever. felt useful! She
helps B'indy. toe. 1t makes you want
to cry to see how happy she is, But
With all her independence she wants
me all the time. When I start to
leave her there's something in the
way she looks at me that is just as
though she reached out and caught
me by the hand!'"'4
Nancy described. too, how B'Iindy
was constantly finding little tasks for
her that would keep her in the kitch-
en- or on the back porch within sound
Of her voice.
You see >talking's the joy of
Blindys life and my ears are new
they haven't heard all the, things she
has to say. Just when I think 1 can
escape she begins telling me Of the
cake her mother baked for Miss Sa-
Fbrina's mother the day the Governor
Of Vermont came to Happy House
or something like that"
Anxious that Peter should UNDER
stand everything Nancy made a vivid
word-picture of Miss Sabrina and of
the difficulties she had had in winning
her. II believe she's fond of me now,
but she just doesn't know how 10
show it! She's never displayed one
bit of affection in her whole life, I'm
sure. She's stone. But sonetime
she's going to break-I'm doing my
best to make her! | know she en-
Joys having dear little Aunt Milly
around h11t do vo,, fhirG cho,d CO.,
so? Goodness no. But there's a lot
of good in Aunt Sabrina and I'm
bound to know it all, so 1 make it
my duty to sit with her just so long
each day while she tells me about
the Leavttts and the other families of
this Island. And there is something
heroic about them all!
80 here I am. just tingling to fin
i mnm the last IS m act t Of my y Play 'sn, and s.a not a
Aunt Milly 81 Aunt sabrina or
Blindy OF even dear old Jonathan,
it's Monte or Dayy Or"
"Or me-" finished Peter Hyde,
work. You're hands are full!"
Nancy went on earnestly. "And it
all seems * worth while! Look at
Nonie-she's a different creature al
ready. I don't believe she pretends as
4AlOS1lS SAL1lC3"4lS1 l1tSlS UOUY is
catching up with her spirit. And
[Dayy doesn't hang his head when he
Hooks at you'll"
Peter Hyde could understand her
feeling toward the children. They had
planned together to bring something
more into those two starved young
lives. Like Nancy. he was delighted
at the results already apparent. It
was work too worth while to be
|abandoned-for anything.
"Nonte fairly eats up the books I
give her but she always wants to read
them with me-it's so that she can
ASK questions. And the questions she
asks! Every new thing she learns
she Immediately adapts to her own
life. We've begun Little Women and
Hof course she plays Amy! Poor little
flower. sometimes I think Of old
.Dan'l and Lie and wonder from where
on earth the child got her gift. And
what a precious blessing it Is to hertz
sisters actin lies" they both laugh
How could, anyone think bad
things OF Davy," cried Nancy, indig-
nantly. Hes the soul Of truth and
Ehonor!. But up here he won't have a
chance"
"oh. yes, he will" Peter. contra
dicted. III I'm any good reading
character in a;ten-year-old he'll make
1T the way the other boys follow his
slightest suggestion"
Days CLUB" was flourishing.
The attractions that Peter and Nancy
had added to its program had made 1t
boom. Several new ~'feIlars" had
come In. The meetings were even
more frequent than Liz cleaned the