Gunnison news-champion., 1922-06-02

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ished couldn't even think And when
y0u can't think you certainly can't
talk
Nonsense. Mary scowied Father.
Z -Of course you know what you want
20 do! What are you In the habit o,
doing with your young frients-yoGr
Carries and Charles. and all the
restT'
/ guess I JOS; stood and stared and
didnr say anything: for after min
I ute he cried: -weli-wsIi-WelIs Tin
waiting
why, we've waik-and falkland
play games began: but right away
he interrupted
Good. Very well. then. we'll walk
T I'm not Carrie or Charlie. but be
iieye ! can walk and talk-perhaps
I even play games. Who knowsr Come,
get POUR hat"
And got my hat. and We went
But what a funny. funny walk that
was! He meant 10 make :; n good
one, know he did And he tried.
{ He tried real hard But he walked
50 fast couldn't half keep up swifh
. him: then. when he saw how I was
Z hurryins. he'd slow down. way down
and look 50 worried-t'r ~e-a forget
and go stridIng of again. way ahead
OF me.
We went up on the hin through the
! Benton woods. and II was perfectly
Z lovely up there. He didn't say much
Z at FIRST Then. all of sudden. he be
I gan 10 talk. about anything and every
3 thing. And knew. by the way he
[ did IL. that he'd Just happened to
I think he'd got 70 talk.
And how he talked, He asked rne
was warmly clad tnnd here IL Is
Z August ., and DID have good break
Z fast. and how old was I. and did en-.
Joy my studies-which shows how III.
I tie he was really thinking what he was
saying He knows school closed nges
/ ago. Wasn't he teaching me himself
the last Of ii. too1 All around US were
/ flowers and birds. and oh. so many.
/ many lovely things. But he never said
( word about them. He just talked
because he'd got to talk. knew II.
I and II made me laugh inside. though
I all the while II mace me sort Of want
Z TO cry. too. Funny. wasn't NJ
After time he didn't talk any more.
5 but just walked on and on and by and
i by ", came home.
OF course. II wasn't awfuliy jolly
/ that walk wasn't: and / guess Father
4 didn't think II was either Anyhow.
he hasn't asked me TO go again this
/ week. and he looked tired and worried
( and sort Of discouraged when he got
I back from that one.
I But he's asked me TO do other
( things. The next day after the walk
he asked me to play to him. Yes, he
I asked me TO: and he went Into the
! parlor and sat down on one OF the
chairs and listened white / played
/ three pieces. OF course, didn't play
loud ones, nor very fast ones. and
was SO scared I'm afraid didn't play
Z them very well. But he WAS very POI
lite and said, Thank you. Mary" and.
( THAT was very nice: then he stood
( up and said, Thank you" again and
went away into the library. very po-
( lite, but stiff. Ike company.
/ The next evening he took me out to
| the observatory to see the stars. That
was lovely. Honestly | had perfect
: ly beautiful time. and l think Father
I did. too. He wasn't stir and polite
one bit. Oh, don't mean that he was
impolite or rude. Its Just that he
/ wasn't stiff as II was company. And
he was so happy with his stars and
his telescope, and so glad TO show
| them to me-oh. had a beautiful
time. and told him so; and he looked
real pleased. But Aunt Jane came for
me before I'd had half enough, and /
had to 20 to bed.
The next morning thought he'd be
different, somehow. because we'd had
such a lovely time together the night
before. But he wasn't He Just said.
Good morning. Mary" and began ~
read his paper. And he read his pa
per all through breakfast without say
Ing another word to me. Then he got
up and went into the library, and 1
never saw him again all day except
at dinner-time and supper-time, and
then he didn't talk to me.
But after supper he took me out
again to see the stars, and be was
just as nice and friendly as could be-
Not bit like q man that's only a
father by order of the court. But the
next day!
Well-and that's the way it's been
all the week. And that's why I say
he's been SO queer. One minute he'll
be just as nice and foiksy as you
could ask anybody to be, and the very
next he's looking right through you
as If he didn't see you at all. and you
wonder and wonder what's the mat
ter. and II you've done anything to
displease him.
Sometimes he seems almost glad and
happy. and then hen l0k 30 sorry
and sad!
Just can't understand my father