Great Falls tribune., 1922-02-17

| With the necklace in my hand / faced
| my sister-in-law.
tAre you mad?" 1 demanded IN Z
| high stern voice, succeeding IN my
from her until Lillian and Marion
should be beyond hearing.
Before she could answer an impera-
tive old hand touched my arm.
'I'H attend to this" my mother in
law said incisively, and with CnanK-.
full heart / stepped aside. Elizabeth,s
Oriental necklace still dangling from
my fingers.
"Look at That!"
What's the matter with you, Eliza
beth 7" Mother Graham demanded aus
terely, and her daughter threw up her
head defiantly. but, noticed with
secret amusement, uneasily.
Matter enough" she retorted.. THAT
Underwood girl took my Oriental neck
lace out Of my box-I just caught her
with it in her hair, and she has just
pounded Mary almost into unconsci-
BUSINESS, and accused her OF trying to
kill Roderick, all because she has no
brains to understand the play spirit
Mary is developing"
Mother Graham surveyed her daugh-
ter for an instant with whitening
glare.
elizabeth, you always were the fool
| of the family" she said at last. "But
| I never dreamed you'd reach the point
Of absolute idiocy you have. Give me
that child
Mrs. Harrison passed the still sob
bing Roderick to his grandmother,. who
quickly pulled down the little blouse
| from his neck, motioning her daughter
imperilously to her side.
''Look at that" she said sternly, and
even from my position farther away,
the little chaps tender throat.
'If it hadn't been for Marion Under
wood your baby would have had his
neck broken, and Mary would have been
developing her individual play-spirit in
a reform school," my mother in law
declaimed, and for once in her. life, at
least, Mrs. Harrison, wilted and cowed,
thought of something save herself and
her theories. With little cry she
snatched Roderick from her mother and
began to cuddle him and to kiss his
hurts as normal mother would do.
Mother Graham turned to Mary, who
was still on the ground, but whose sob
| bing had run down into subdued
shifting.
Get up her grandmother said, not
unkindly. "and let me see which room
we'll have to order for you at the hos
| pital."
Mary sprang to her feet, shook back
| her tumbled hair with a gameness
which rejoiced my heart, and went. far
| in my mind to redeem the various
| childish crimes of which she had been
guilty.
Mary Is Terrified
"She didn't hurt me much" she said
| fiercely. Just you wait till l get hold
Of her-I'll show her!"
You'll do nothing" she said. slowly,
except take your medicine. You near
| " killed you little brother-look at his
neck-and Marion only gave you what
| was coming to you
Mary gave a startled look at little
Roderick and broke into wild frighten-
ed tears.
Il thought I had the moose 80 it
| wouldn't slip, grandmamma, truly
did, she said wildly.
Her grandmother put a comforting
arm around her.
'There, there. it's all right now,
thanks to Marion" she said, "and
| know you'll remember this lesson. But
| there's something else to be straight
| ened out now. How did this necklace
get tangled in Marion's hair? Remem-
Der, the truth, now! I happen to know
| something about it.
There was significance in her face
| which I think Mary understood. But
| her eyes were fixed on her grand
mothers face for only an instant. Then