The Nevada County picayune., 1922-07-20
fCopyrisht by ELEANOR H. PORTER)
Which Is the Real Love Story. .oe1oN FOUR DAYS LATER.
CHAPTER VIII

Well here am again in Boston. Mother and the rest met me at the ,ts,ion. and everyboGE seemed glad to see me. just as they did before. And I wss glad to see them. But didn't ,eel anywhere near so excited. and ,ort of crazy, as I did last yer. l ,r,ed to but I couldn't. l don know uhv Maybe it was because I'd been Marie all summer, anyway, so l wasn't so crazy to be Marie now, hot needing any rest from being Mary, Maybe it WAS cause I sort of hated to leave Father
 And did hate to leave him, espe- dally when I found he hated to have me leave him. And he did. He told mo so at the junction. He asked me had I been a little happier there with him this year than last and he said he hoped had
 And told him. of course l had; that 1t had been perfectly beautiful there. even if there had been such a mix-up of him getting ready for Marie, and Mother sending Mary. And he laughed and looked queer-sort of half glad and half sorry; and said he shouldn't worry about that. Then the train came, and we got on and rode down to the junction. And there, while we were waiting for the other train, he told me how sorry he was to have me %.
 He said would never know how he missed me after I went last year. He said you never knew how you missed things-and people-till they were zone And wondered if by the way he said It. he wasn't thinking of Mother more than he was of me. and Of her going long ago. And I told him l loved him dearly. and I had loved to bs with him this summer, and that I'd stay his whole six months witS him next year If he wanted me to.
 He shook hls head at that; but he did look happy and pleased, and said I'd never know how glad he was that I'd said that, and that he should prize 1t very highly-the love of his little daughter He said you never knew how to prize love, either. till you'd lost it. and he said he'd learned his lesson, and learned 1t well. l knew then, Of course, that he was thinking Of Mother and the long ago. And l felt SC sorry for him.
 "BV TH stay-I'll stay the whole sx months next year." I cried again.
 But again he shook his head.
 No, no, my daar; thank you, and To love to have you; but it is much better for you that you stay in Boston through the school year, and want you to do 1t. It'll just make the three months l do have you all the dearer, because of the long nine months that do not, he went on very cheerfully ana DrisAly; ";ynd don't look so solemn ana long-faced. You're not to blame TOT this wretched situation"
 The train came then, and he put ine on board. and he kissed me again put was expecting 1t this time, of course Then l whizzed off, and he was left standing all alone on the patform And felt so sorry for him ano sil the way down to Boston l kept mihklng of him-what he said and now ne looked and how fine and splen- uio and any-woman- would be proud-of- nm he was as he stood on the plat iorm waving good-by.
 And so guess l was still thinking VI nm ana being sorry for him when so' to Boston, That's why I couldn't oe so crazy and hilariously glad when "e ioiks met me, I suspect. Some way ail of sudden, 1 found myself "ishing he could be there, too.
 oi course, I know that that was pae and wicked and unkind to Mother, .nu she feel so grieved not to have ,he satisfied with her. And I wouldn't nave told her of it for the world. So Tried just as hard as I could to for ss' hiin-on account of Mother, so as .o DC loyal to her. And I did most .iee' nm by the time I'd got home. Du' u all came back again a little later 'leh We were unpacking my trunk.
 lou see, Mother found the two new ""te dresses, and the dear little s"oes' l knew then, of course, that sne nave to know all mean, how s" s"e hadh't pleased Father, even after Mary.
 why, Marie, what in the world is