News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-12-27

I ~. But hadn't anywhere near sale
what ] wanted to when he did stoI
me. Why, he almost jumped out OF
his chair.
"Mary!" he gasped. "Wliat In the
world are you talking about?"
"Why, Father was telling you"
explained And tried to be so cool
and calm that ii would make him calm
| and cool, too. Out it didn't calm him
or cool him one bit) ITS about when
| you're married and"
Married he interrupted again.
(They never let me interrupt like
that y
ITO Cousin Grace-yes. But Father,
you-you are going to marry Cousin
Grace, aren't your" / cried-and | did
most cry, for saw by his face that
he was not.
"That is not my present Intention"
he said. His lips came together hard,
and he looked over his shoulder to see
il Cousin Grace was coming back.
"But you're going to some time" l
begged him.
81 do not expect to-"
fell back in my chair, and I know
/ looked grieved and hurt and disap-
pointed, as I almost sobbed:
"Oh, Father, and when | thought
you were going tot"
'There, there, child! He spoke,
stern and almost cross now. "This alb
surd nonsensical idea has gone quite
far enough. Let us think no more
about it."
at isn't absurd and nonsensical !"
I cried. And I could hardly say the
words, | was choking up so. Every
body said you were going to, and I
wrote Mother so; and"
"You wrote that to your mother?"
He did jump from his chair this time.
Eyes; and she was glad"
"Oh, she was % He sat down sort of
limp-like and queer.
"Yes. She said she was glad you'd
found an estimable woman to make a
home for you"
ooh, she did" He said this, too, in
that queer funny, quiet kind of way.
yes" I spoke, decided and firm. I'd
begun to think, all of a sudden, that |
maybe he didn't appreciate Mother as
much as she did him; and I deter !
mined right then and there to make !
him, if I could. When remember all !
the lovely things she'd said about |
him
Father" began; and I spoke this
time, even more decided and firm. 81
don't believe you appreciate Mother"
"Eh, What?"
He made me jump this time, he
turned around with such a jerk, and
spoke so sharply. But in spite of the
jump l still held on to my subject,
firm and decided.
II say l don't believe you appreciate !
my mother. You acted right now as
# you didn't believe she meant it when
told you she was glad you had found
an eStimable woman to make a home
FOR you. But she did mean it. know,
because she said it before, once, last
year, that she hoped you would find
)ne Yes, and that isn't all. There's
another reason why l know Mother
always has-has your best interest at
leart. She-she tried to make me over
nto Mary before I came, so as to
lease you"
"She did what% Once more he made
ne jump, he turned so suddenly, and
poke with such a short, sharp snap.
But In spite of the Jump went right
IN, just as had before, firm and de-
ided. told him everything-all about
he cooking lessons, and the astronomy
'ook we read an hour every day. and
he pink silk dress couldn't have, and
he self-discipline. And how she said
she'd had self-discipllne when she
vas a girl, her life would have been
cry different.
l talked very fast and hurriedly. I
,as afraid he'd interrupt, and /
wanted to get in all | could before he
i'd. But he didn't interrupt at all. He