Gunnison news-champion., 1922-06-02
CHAPTER VI.
When , Am Both Together.
sosron AGAIN.

BOSTON AGAIN.
Well. came last night Mother and
Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and
Baby Lester all met me at the station.
And. my, wasn't glad TO see them7
Well. just guess l was!
was specially glad on account Of
having suci, dreadful time with Fa-
fher thut morning. I mean. was
feeling specially lonesome and home
sick. and nof-i elp;Igir --nnywhcre like
You see. II We ,iis -T'r, "a bee
sort Of hoping. know. that at the last.
when l came to really go. Father
would get back the understanding
smile and the twinkle, and show that
he really did care for me, and was
sorry to have me 60. But. dear me
Why, he meyer was SO stern and SOL
emn. and you're-my y-daughter-o -only-by-
he-order-of-the-court sort Of way AZ
he was that morning.
He never even spoke at the break
fast-table- (He wasn't there hardly
long enough TO speak. anyway, and he
never ate thing, only his coffee-I
mean he drank it, Then he pushed
his chair back from the table and
stalked out OF the room.
He went to the station with me
but he didn't talk there much. only to
ask II I was sure hadn't forgotten
anything, and was l warmly clad.
Warmly clad. Indeed! And there II
was still August. and hot as It could
be! But that only goes to show how
absent-minded he was. and how little
he was really thinking Of me!
Well. OF course, he got my ticket and
checked my trunk. and did all those
proper, necessary things; then we sat
down to wait for the train. But did
he stay with me and talk to me and
tell me how glad he had been to have
me with him. and how sorry he was
to have me 60, and all the other nice,
polite things most everybody thinks
they've got to say when a visitor goes
away7 He did not. He asked me
again II was sure had not left any
thing, and was warmly clad then he
took out his newspaper and began to
read. That ls. he pretended to read:
but l don't believe he read much. for
he never turned the sheet once; and
twice, when I looked at him. he was
looking fxedly at me- as II he was
thinking Of something SO guess he
was just pretending to read, SO. he
wouldn't have to talk to me.
But he didn't even do that long, for
he got up and went over and looked at
a map hanging on the wall opposite.
and at big timetable near the other
corner. Then he looked at his watch
again with q won't-that-train-eyer
come? air, and walked back to me and
sat down.
And how do you suppose felt, to
have him act like that before all those
people-to show % plainly that he was
just longing to have me go? guess he
wasn't any more anxious for that train
to come than was And 1t did seem
as II 1t never would come, too. And
1t didn't come for ages. 1t was ter
minutes late.
Oh. / did 20 hope he wouldn't go
down to the junction. It's 30 hard to
be taken care Of because KS my duty
you knowi" But he went told him
he needn't, when he was getting on
the train with me. I told him ! just
knew I could do Il beautifully all BY
myself. almost-a-young lady like me-
But he only put his llps together hard
and said, cold. like ice: Are you then
50 eager to - ri1 Il mer Jusf - Il
was the one that vaS eageF to get
nd Of somebcdyl
Wen. a I'D - went But he
wasn't mse4 b11fM = H tEeln than