The Washington times., 1926-09-13
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and ven get along 81 right unit!
something happens
Ct forgot TO say mothers nick.
name for me almost ever since
was five WAS Mugs People even
call me Mugs who never knew
mother. I've got q bracelet brought
~ friend from the Indian coun-
try with 4uggs engraved on ifs
Now, what mother had IN mind
by her words. Until something
happens was, fully believe. until
Nj. Hall found some way 0f leaN-
ing New Brunswick leaving his
home there. even leaving the min
istry, # he had 70. ! never heard
him say anything to that effect, but
DO think he and mother talked Il
over often and that Il Was quite
understood between them. But they
never intended % neI0pe from
New Brunswick
Mother and would certainly
have gone away together from olir
house, and lived alone and just been
happy earning orr lfvinsa Ia peace
and making little home IN some
neat newisn rooms with electric
lights and hot water and bath.
not like that horrible old house on
Carnan Street. where mother had
to paint and paper the upstairs bed
rooms herself to keep them lIEable.
Both 81 Them Loved Orient
we would have stayed by our.
selves, JUST lis two, and Ii ever AIr.
Hall could have gOttem loose from
his life ard his work. think that
probably later on. we three would
have gone sonleWhere
Gossip says mother and Mr.. Hall
intended going to Japan.
They may have hoped to. later.
But it would have been lots later,
and they would have taken me with
them. Mr.. Hall often talked Of
Japan and said how he would love
to see 1t, because he knew mis-.
sionaries who worked there and III
China and who told him 50 many
wonderful things that he IOnged to
go. Mother adored it. TOO, and
often told me about the Orient.
I am sure Mother had made up
her mind toward the end Stat she
WAS g0ing to take what was being
held out to hertlle love q this
wonderful man whose love she re-.
turned with all her heart and soul
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In life.
u turn cold and sick to think II
was the last thing. and to think
of the frlghtful way life did end
for both of them.
Would Have Told Me All
/ can't help believing that before
long. II Mr.. Hall had lived, he
would have gone like man and
made q clean breast Of the whole
thing to his wife. telling her how
he felt respect and friendship for
her but not love. and how he did
feel love for someone else, and that
he would have asked her to let
him 60.
I believe that il she had refused.
he would have gone away anyhow
-somewhere-and earned his liv-
ing in some way outside of the
church. He could have earned
1t in lots of ways. And Mother and
would have waited someWilere end
lived by ourselves and just been
happy, until things were Strengthened
out. and then taken the next step.
1T might have been.
wouldn't have cared what 1t was. so
long aa stayed with them.
They Were OF One Mind
People may say that am talk.
ing wildly. that don't know. and
that am drawing on my iImagina
ton. Maybe. But / have talked
with my mother more than anyone
knows. She ana were of one
mind. We understood and loved each
other, and sympathized There was
only II years difference In our
ages. She was like an older sister.
like chunn. Even IL she hadn't
talked to me. confided IN me.
would have known what was IN her
heart.
II the going-away part Of the
gossip had come true, no one in
bur family would have been much
my aunts or unc1es. no.
nor even my father. It was in the
air.
Did Mrs. Eleanor Mills try w
hide her love for the Rev. Edward
Hall. or did she feel that there
was no shame III their illicit Fela.
tiOns. Who slashed the throat
of Mrs. Mills after she and her
lover had been slain with 3 pls-
tol? These are only two Of the
Intriguing questions (which Char
lotte Mills discusses In tOnf0Fr0Ws
gripping chapter Of her life st0ET.
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