The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-03-30

Grandpa was dead, 80 Of course he
couldn't 60, and there weren't any
brothers or sisters, only Aunt Jane in
St. Paul. and she was so mad she
wouldn't come on. So there was no
chance of seeing the bride till Father
brought her home.
Nurse said they wondered and Won
dered what kind Of a woman 1t could
be that had captured him. q told
her wished she wouldn't speak Of
my mother as If she was some kind Of
a hunter out after game; but she only
chuckled and said that's about what
it amounted to In some cases.) The
very idea!
The whole town was excited over
the affair, and Nurse Sarah heard a
lot Of their talk. Some thought she
was an astronomer like him. Some
thought she was very rich, and may
be famous. Everybody declared she
must know a lot, anyway, and be
wonderfully wise and Intellectual; and
they said she was probably tall and
wore glasses, and would be thirty
years old, at least. But nobody guessed
anywhere near what she really was.
Nurse Sarah said shs should never
forget the night she Ame. and how
she looked, and how utterly fabber-
gasted everybody was to see her
little slim eighteen-year-old girl with
yellow, curly hair and the merrtest
laughing eyes they had ever seen.
Don't I know? Don't I just love
Mothers eyes when they sparkle and
twinkle when we're OF together some
times in the woods) And Nurse said
Mother was so excited the day she
came, and went laughing and dane
ing all over the house, exclaiming over
everything. q can't imagine that SO
well. Mother moves 80 quietly now,
everywhere, and is 80 tired, most all
the time.) But she wasn't tired then,
Nurse says-not mite.
"But how did Father actT' I de-
manded. wasn't he displeased and
scandalized and shocked, and every
thing?"
Nurse shrugged her shoulders and
raised her eyebrows-the way she does
when she feels particularly superior.
Then she said:
"Do? What does any old fool
beggin' your pardon an no ofense
meant, Miss Mary Marie-but what
does any man do what's got bejuggled
with a pretty face, an his senses COM
pletely took away from him by a chit
Of a girl? Well, that's what he did.
He acted as If he was bewitched. He
followed her around the house like
a dog-when' he wasn't leadin' her to
something new; an he never took his
eyes off her face except to look at US,
as much as to say: Now amt she the
adorable creatureT"
my father did thatT' I gasped.
And, really, you know, I just couldn't
believe my ears. And you wouldn't,
either, if you knew Father. "Why,
l never saw him act like that!"
"No, 1 guess you didn't" laughed
Nurse Sarah with a shrug. "And
neither did anybody else-for long"
"But how long did it last?" asked.
"Oh, a month, or maybe six weeks
shrugged Nurse Sarah. 'Then it came
September and college began, and your
father had to 60 back to his teach
ing. Things began to change then"
Fright then, 80 you could see them"
I wanted to know.
Nurse Sarah shrugged her shoulders
again.
"Oh, la! child, what little ques-
tion-bo1 you are, an no mistake" she
sighed. But she didn't look mad-not
like the way she does when 1 ask why
she can take her teeth out and most
of her hair off and l can't; and things
like that. CAS- if 1 didn't know! What
does she take me fora child?) She
didn't even look displeased-Nurse
Sarah loves to talk. (As If didn't
know that, tooD She just threw that
QUICK look Of hers over her shoulder
and settled back contentedly In her
chair. I knew then I should get the
whole story. And I did. And I'm 60
ing to tell it here in her own words,
Just as we'll as I can remember 1t
bad grammar and all. So please re-
member that am not making all those
mistakes. It's Nurse Sarah.
guess, though, that I'd better put
it into a new chapter. This one Is
yards long already. bow do they tell
when to begin and end chapters? I'm
thinking It's going to be some Job,
writing this book-diary, mean. But
shall love it, I know. And this is
a real story-not like those made-up
things I've always written for the girls
at school.
Ito be continued next week.
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