The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-04-13

has Just seemed as If MotheF couldn't
crowd the days full enough. She hasn't
been still a minute.
Lots Of her old friends have been to
see her; and when there hasn't been
anybody else around she's taken Peter
and had him drive us all over Boston
to see things-all kinds of things;
Bunker hill and museums, and moving
pictures, and one play.
But we didn't stay at the play. 1t
started out all right, but pretty soon
man and a woman on the stage began
to quarrel. They were married (not
really, but in the play mean), and
guess it was some more of that in
compatibility stuff Anyhow, as they
began to talk more and more, Mother
began to fidget, and pretty soon 1 saw
she was gathering up our things; and
the minute the curtain went down
after the first act. she says:
"Come, dear, we're going home. It
It isn't very warm here"
AS If I didn't know what she was
really leaving for! Do old folks hon.
estly think they are fooling us all the
time wonder? But even if I hadn't
known then, I'd have known it later,
for that evening I heard Mother and
Aunt Hattie talking in the library.
No, I didn't listen. I heard. And
that's a very different matter. You
listen when you mean to, and that's
sneaking. You hear when you can't
help yourself, and that you can't be
blamed for. Sometimes it's your good
luck, and sometimes it's your bad
luck-just according to what you hear!
Well, I was in the window-seat in
the library reading when Mother and
Aunt Hattie came in; and Mother was
saying:
"Of course came out! Do you sup
pose I'd have had that child see that
play, after I.realized what it was? As
If she hasn't had enough Of such
wretched stuff already in her short
life! Oh, Hattie, Hattie, I want that
child to laugh, to sing, to fairly tingle
with the joy Of living every minute
that she is with me. I know so wei
what she has had, and what she will
have-in that-tomb. You know In
six months she goes back"
Mother saw me then, I know; for
she stopped right off short and after
a moment began to talk Of something
else, very fast. And pretty quick Z
went out into the hall again.
Dear little Mother! Bless her old
heart! Isn't she the ducky dear to
want me to have all the good times
possible now so as to make up for the
six months I've got to be with Father?
You see, she knows what 1t is to live
with Father even better than I do.
Well, L guess she doesn't dread it
for me any more than do for myself.
Still, I'll have the girls there, and I'm
dying to see them again-and won't
have to stay home much, only nights
and meals, of course, and Fathers al
ways pretty busy with his stars and
comets and things. Besides it's only
for six months, then I can come back
to Boston. I can keep thinking of
that.
But ! know now why I've been hav-
Ing such a perfectly beautiful time
all this week, and why Mother has
been Gl.l1g every minute so full o
fun and good times. Why, even when
we're at home here, she's always hunt
ing up little Lester and getting him to
have a romp with US.
But of course next week I've got to
90 to school, and it can't be quite so
jolly then. Well, I guess that's all for
this time.
ABOUT A MONTH LATER
I didn't make a chapter of that last
It wasn't long enough. And, really, l
don't know as I've got much to add
to it now. There's nothing much hap
pened.
go to school now, and don't have
so much time for fun. Schools pretty
good, and there are two or three girls
most as nice as the ones at Anderson
vile. But not quite. Out of school
Mother keeps things just as lively as
ever, and we have beautiful times.
Mother is having a lovely time with
her own friends, too. Seems as If there
is always some one here when get
home, and lots of times there are teas
and parties, and people to dinner.
There are gentlemen, too. suppose
one of them will be Mothers lover by
and by; but of course I don't know
which one yet. I'm awfully interested
in them, though. And Of course it's
perfectly natural that I should be-.
Wouldn't you be interested in the man
that was going to be your new father?
Well, 1 just guess you would! Any
body would. Why, most folks have
only one father, you know, and they
have to takp that one inst as he Is ::