The Holbrook news., 1922-05-05

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 "Yes. sir"
 "Well. you may go and tell her now, please, that you are sorry. and that you will go to school this afternoon. You may go now" And he turned to the table and picked up his book.
 didn't go. Of course. I just stood there twisting my handkerchief In my fingers: and. of course. right away he saw me. He had sat down then.
 Mary, didn't you hear mel" he de- handed.
 "Yes, sir, but-Father can't go back to that school" choked. And began to cry.
 But I tell you that you must"
 I shook my head.
 "I can't"
 Do you mean that you defy me as you did your Aunt Jane this mOrn- ing?-that you refuse to go back to School:"
 'Yes. sir"
 For a minute he sat and stared at me just as Aunt Jane had done; then he lifted his head and threw back his shoulders as if he was throwing off a heavy weight.
 Come. come. Mary" he said stern ly. .I am not a patient man. and my temper has reached the breaking point. You will go back 10 school and YOU will go now. mean that. Mary"
 I@. I I .hnl-aH m I guess there was something in my face this time that made even him see For again he just stared for minute and then said:
 Mary. what in the world does this mean? Why can't you go backf Have you been-expelled?"
 "Oh. no. sir
 Then you mean you won't go back
 "I mean canton account of Mother"
 wouldn't have said it If I hadn't had to. I didn't want to tell him. but 1 knew from the very first that I'd have to tell him before l got through could see it in his face. And so, now. with his eyes blazing as he jumped al- most out of his chair and exclaimed: it over as soon as possible.
 "I mean. on account Of Mother that not for you, ar Aunt Jane. or anybody will l go back to that school Int F,ll haf associate with me-On account of Mother"
 And then 1 told it-all about the girls. Stella Mayhew, Carrie, and how they acted. and what they said about my being Dr. Jekyll and Mir. Hyde because l was a Mary and Marie, and the ice-cream, and the parties they had to give up If they ing 50 I could hardly speak. before finished; and Father was on his feet tranping up and down the room nut tering something under his breath, and lookirg-oh, can't begin to tell how he looked. But it was awful.
 And so that's why I wish" l fin- ished chokingly, that 1t would hurry up and he year, so Mother could get married"
 "Married." Like flash he turned and stopped short. staring at me.
 "Why, yes" explained; "fOr if she lid get married, she wouldn't be d. vorced any longer, would she:"
 But he wouldn't answer. With a queer little noise in his throat he turned again and began to walk up and down, up and down, until I thought for a minute he'd forgotten was there. But he hadn't. For after a while he stopped again right in front of me.
 "So your mother Is thinking of get ting married" he said in voice 50 queer it sounded as if 1t had come from away of somewhere.
 But shook my lead and said no, of course; and that was very sure she wouldn't till her year was up, and take, so couldn't tell for sure any thing about it. But hoped she'd take one of them, so she wouldn't be di- vorced any longer.
 Father turned. and began 10 walk Gp and down again, with his hands in his packets; and l didn't know whether To go away or to stay, and suppose I'd have been there now if Aunt Jane hadn't suddenly appeared in the library doorway.
 Charles, if Mary is going to school at all today it is high time she was starting" she said. But Father didn't seem iO hear. He was still tramping up and down the room, his hands in his pockets.
 "Charles!" Aunt Jane raised her voice and spoke again. Il said If Mary is going to school at all today 1t Is high time she was starting"
 ''Eh? What?" If you'll believe 1t, that man looked as dazed us if he'd never even heard of my going to school. Then suddenly his face changed. ''Oh. yes, to be sure. Well, CT Mary is not going to school to- day" he said. Then he looked at his watch, and without another word strode into the hall, got his hat, and left the house. leaving Aunt Jane and