Gunnison news-champion., 1922-06-16
fou waving yood-by.

Z wf,ilLn. be could b. there. too.
Ot course. ! know that that was
bad and wicked and unkini TO Mother.
and she'd feel 80 grieved no, TO have
me satisfied with her And wouldn't
have told her Of IL for the world So
I i tried Just as hard as I could TO for
get hlnl--Ou account of Mother. 50 as
TO =. loyal To her. And I did most
I for.st him by the time I'd got home
| But IL sll came back again . little later
whsa Ne Were unpaeklnx my trunk.
You sse. Mother found the two new
wh-e dresses. and the dear little
I shoes knew then. Of cour~e. that
.h. q have TO know ALL mean, how
she hadn't pleased Father. even after
all her pains trying to have NE 90 rs
Mar.
why. Marie. what in the world IL
thisr' she demanded. holding up one
q the new dresses
] could have cried
suppose she saw By my face how
awfully ! felt cause she'd found IL
And. Of course. ahe saw something
uas the matter: and she thought II
waS-
Well. the nrs, thing ] knew abe was
looking at me In her very stemest.
sorri-st way. and saying:
-Oh. Marie, how could youf I'm
ashamed Of you, Couldn't you wear
the Mary dresses one little three
months 10 please your fatherT'
j did cry. then. After all I'd been
through. to have her accuse me Of get.
tins those dressesl Well. Just
couldn't stand II. And ] told her SO
as well as could, only Was crying
SO by now that could hardly speak.
I told her how II was hard enough to
be Mary part Of the time. and Marie
part Of the time, when ! knew what
they wanted me TO be. But when she
tried TO have me Mary while he wanted
ms Marie. and he tried to have me
Marie while she wanted me Mary-I
l wished had never been born unless
! could have been born a plain Susie
or Bessie. or Annabelle. and not q
Mar Marie that was all mixed up till
] didn't know what ] wns.
And then ! cried some more.
Mother dropped the dress then. and
toOk me In her arms over on the
couch, and she said, There. there"
AM that was tired and nervous. and
al wrought up. and to cry all l wanted
Ia. And by and by. when was calm
er l could tell Mother all about 1t.
And did.
told her how hard ! tried TO be
| Mary all the way up TO Andersonvilie
aEI after ! got there. and how then
! found out. all OF sudden one day,
{ that father had got ready for Marie.
and he didn't want me to be Mary.
NJ q that was why he had got Cou.in
Grace aud the automobile and rhe
Z geranlums In the window. and. oh,
everything that made 1, nice and com
~ and honey. And then l. when th,y
( bought me the new white dresses and
The little white shoes. Aud told
Mother, Of course. II was lovely to be-
( Marie, and liked 1t, only | knew she
would feel bad TO think. after all her
pains to make me Mary, Father didn't
want me Mary at all.
Il don't think you need TO worry
about that" stammered Mother. -But,
tell me, why-why did--yOur father
want YOU TO be Marie and not Nary
And then / told her how he said he'd
remembered what I'd said TO him in
! the parlor that dny-how tired ] got
+ being Mary, and how I'd put on Ma
! RES things just to get a little vacation
from her. and he said he'd never for
gotten. And SO when 1t came near
tine for me TO come again. he deter
mined TO tx IL SO / wouldn't have To
be Mary at all. And so that was why
And i told Mother it was all right,
and of course | liked IT: only II did
nix me up awfulIy. not knowing which
wanted me TO be Mary now, and which
Marie. when they were both telling me
different from what they ever had be-
fore. And that 1t was hard, when you
were trying just the best you knew
how.
I And ! began 10 cry again.
And she said there. there. once
more, and patted me on my shoulder.
and told me needn't worry any more
( And that she understood IL, II !
didn't. In fact, she was beginning
! to understand u lot Of things that
/ she'd never understood before. And
! she said II was very. very dear
I Of Father 10 do what he did, and that
( needn't worry about her being dis
l pleased at 1t. That she was pleased.
I and that she believed he meant her
/ to be. And she said ! needn't think
any more whether to be Mary or Ma
rie; but to be just a good. loving little
daughter to both OF them: and tina;
/ was all she asked. and she was very
| sure II was all Father would ask, too.
| told ner then how I thought he
did care little about having me there.
| and that knew he was going to miss
me. And l told her why-what he'd
said that morning in the Junction
about appreciating love. and not miss
I inc fhinra or np0nle until yOu didn't