The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-06-01

thought she was very rich. and may
be famous. Everybody declared she
must know lot, anyway. and be
wonderfully wise and Intellectual; and
they said she was probably tail and
wore glasses, and would be thirty
years old. at least But nobody guessed
anywhere near what she really was
Nurse Sarah said she should never
forget the night she came. and how
she looked, and how utterly tiabher-
gasted everybody was 10 see her
little slim cighteen-yeurol girl with
yellow, curly hair and the mcrriest
laughing eyes they had ever seen.
Don't | know? Don't just love
Mothers eyes when they sparkle and
twinkle when we're off together some
times in the woods3 And Nurse said
Mother was 50 excited the day she
| came. and went laughing aud dane
! ing all over the house, rXclaiming over
| everything. q can't imagine that 50
/ well. Mother moves 50 quietly now,
everywhere, and is 80 tired. most all
! the time) But she wasn't tired then,
/ Nurse SaNS-noI mite.
But how did Father aCt:" de-
handed Wasn't he diSpleuScd and
Scandalized and shocked and every
thingE'
Nurse shrugged her shoulders and
raised her eyebrows-the way She does
when she feels particularly superior.
Then she said:
"Do? What does any old fool
beggin' your pardon an no offense
meant. Miss Mary Marie-but what
does any man do what's got bejuggled
with a pretty face. an his senses com
pletely took away from him by chit
of a girl: Well. that's what he did.
He acted as If he was bewitched. He
followed her around the house like
a dog-when he wasn't leadin her IL
something new; an he never took his
eyes off her face except to look at us,
as much as To say: Now amt she the
adorable Creature|"
My father did that?" | gasped.
And, really. you know, | just couidn
believe my ears. And you wouldn't.
either. if you knew Father. why
. | never saw him act like that"
mo. | guess you didn't" laughed
Nurse Sarah with a shrug. "Ant
neither did anybody else-fOr long.
but how long did IT laStT | asked
"Oh. Il month, or maybe six weeks,
shrugged Nurse Sarah. Then ii came
September and college began, and your
,,h L., "a
ing Things began to change then
Right then. So you could see themT
wanted To know.
Nurse Sarah shrugged her shoulder;
! again.
+, oh, la, child, what little ques
: tion-box you are an no mistake" SIT
!, sighed. But she didn't look mad-nO
like the way she does when l ask VIII.
she can take her teeth out and mos
:, Of her hair off and can't; and thing
: like that. CAS- if didn't know. Wha
does she take me fora childD Sh
didn't even look Representatives,
! :S1rah loves to talk. CAS- if l didn'
know that, tooD She just threw tina
quick look of hers over her shOulde
and settled back cOntentedly in he
chair / knew then | should get IN
, whole story. And | did. And I'm 70
| ing to tell it here in her own word:
just as well as | can remember it
bad grammar and all. So please RI
! member that / am not making ali thOS
mistakes. It's Nurse Sarah.
n i guess, though. that I'd better pU
ii into a new chapter. This one
4 yards long already. How do they It
II when 10 begin and end chapters? II
Il thinking its going To be some jo'
writing this boOk-diary, / mean. Bu
4 | shall love it, | know. And this
1 real story-nOt like those made-u
/ things I've always written for the cir
1 ut school.