New Britain herald., 1928-03-29

1 would sult us better why l don't ! know as I could do anything else
 but take you back. And I'd hate
 that. You're nice, pretty little ' thing. real handy in the kitchen, ! but. vos sir, I'd have 10 tell the
 n2atron that you just didn't suIt, Well I got 10 get back to ! that yearlin'."
 Somehow Sally managed 10 finish ! cooking the big Sunday dinner be-
 fore the family returned from i church. Out of dcftrence for the ! day shf decided 70 change from
 her faded einsham 10 her white dress before serving dinner. Surely | she had d right to look decent. i Clem Carson couldn't construe her
 humble dressing up as q bid for ! Davids attention.
 { In her little earret room she scrubbed her face and hands, l pinned the heavy braid ot soft | black hair about her head. and l then reached under her low cot bed | for her small bundle Of cloth hes, in which was rolled her only pair Of 1 fiue-ribhei white lisle stockjr gs. As she drew out the bundle she discovered Immediately that other hands than her own had touched l it, the stockings had been un- rolled and then re-rolled clumsily. 1 not at all in her own neat fashion. Then suddenly full comprehension came to her. The pieces Of inc
 puzzle settled miraculously into l shape. T. was here, in this bundle i that David had found the har-rln. Somehow he had seen Pearl slip 1 into the room that morning, had
 guessed that her secret visit boded
 no good for Sally; had spied on ] her, and then later had retrieved 1 the bar-p!u from the bundle in
 which Pearl had hidden 1t. 1 T. David had not soen--Bnt she ! could not go on with the though. | Trembling so that her teeth chat 1 tered she dressed herself as de-
 contly as her orphanage wardrobe 1 permitted, and then went down.
 stairs to dish up the dinner she had prepared.
 1 Immediately after dinner David went across fields To call on his
 grandfather. 2 grouchy sick old man who almost hated the boy be- cause he would soon own the lands
 which he himself had loved so l passionately. He did not ret"rn 1 for supper, and at breakfast on l Monday there was no time for more ! than q smile and I cheertu!
 Good morning" which Sally, with
 Clem Carsous eyes upon her, 1 hardly dared return.
 i Sally wondered if Dayid had 1 been warned. too, for as the days passed she seldom saw him alone 1 for as much as q minute. Per
 haps he was being careful for her i sake. suspecting Carson's antagon- 1 ism. or perhaps, in spite of the shameful trick in which he had caught her, h. really cared for 1 Pearl Evenings he sat for q short i time in the living room or on the i front porch, Pearl beside him, chat ! tering aniratedlv: but he was al-
 ways in his room studying by 10 1 o'clock, q blessed fact which made l her own isolation in her little gar ret room more easy to bear. On Thursday morning at 10 o'clock David appeared at t1e
 kitchen door, an axe in his hands.
 "Nill you turn the grindstone i for me while I sharpen this axle
 blade. sally" he asked casually, but his eyes gave her l. deep, sig nificant look that made her heart l futter,
 l Mrs. Carson. standing over her i hubhlIng preserving kettles, grum- i bled an assent, and Sally flew out 1 of the kitchen 10 join him.
 The GrndstonH, a huge, heavy stone wheel turned by 6 pedal ar
 rangemont, was set up near the i first Of the great red barns. While | Sally poured water at intervals
 upon the Stone, David hold 'ho 1 blade against il, and under cover ' of the whirring, gra ting noise he i talked 10 her IL q low voice. "Eyorvthire all right. Sallv'" Fine" she faltercd. T get awful tired, hut there's lots to eat such good things 10 eat-aud ] Pearls given ne some dresses that are nicer than any ] ever had be-
 fore. except they're too big for me-
 Isn't she fat" David grinned
 at her. and she was reminded again how yonng he was, although 1 he seemed SO very grown-up to her. i "Shc wouldn't be so fat if she
 worked a tenth as hard as you do.'
 T don't mind," Sally protested, 1 her eyes misting with tears at his 1 thoushtfulncss for her. I've got
 to earn my board and keep, Be- ! sides, there's such an awful lot 10 ! be done, with the preserving and i the canning and the cooking and 1 everything. Mrs, Carson works even ha rder than I do"
 ua}id's eyes flashed with indig-
 ration and T suspicion Of con- contempt for the meek little girl
 opposite him. "You're earning five
 tunes as much as your board and
 room and T few old clofhea that i Pearl doesn't want are worth. T. i ma.rs me so mad"
 "sal-lec! Amt that axe groun l yet2 Tine 10 start dinner! cant leave this plcalilll I'm mak-
 ing," Mrs. Caisan shouted from
 the kitchen door.
 Wat. Sally" David commanded
 "Woul4ut you like 10 take a walk
 with mc after supper tonight? I'll
 help you with the dishes. You never gaf out Of the house, except
 to the rsriaH. You haven't even
 seen tho fields yet. I'd like to
 show you around. The moons full ] -grtrrf,f