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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1903)
( THE LIE. i V ANMIIi IIAMIl.TtlK IKINNKd. )-- The Ue went it to. bed with him. Runny didn't want It to, but It crept in through the keyhole, It muni Iimvc been thekeyhote, Tor the door wnn shut the minute Motta's Hkirt IihiI whined through. Hut one thing Rtuwy lind to be thankful for. Metta didn't know it wm there in the room. Ah fur km thnt went, It win a kind hearted 1,1c. Hut after Mcttn went away, nfter nIib hud put out the light mid mid, 'TletuMiil dtMiti8, Muster Rtnwy, mi' m uuro mi' don't roll out," after thml KuHay auugxlod deep down ill the ptllmva and tmid he would go right to lecp; oh, right straight! lie Hlwnyt had lxiforc. It ityitlu you forget th light wan out, and mill there weto queer, cranky tiiKht-n!OM all around your UhI. under It M)tne of 'em; over by the bureau ome of ,em. and .ionic of 'cm coining creepy, creepy up the Ktrtlrn. You dug your heed deep down in the pillow, and the intxt thing you knew you were nulflcp, no, awake, ami the noUe were beautiful day-one that you liked. Vou heard rooatcni crowing and Mr. Yaudervooit'i cow calling for break IaM, and, likely as not, tome mother robins tinging duet with their hiitbands. Oh, yea, it was a jjcmkI deal the beat way to do, to go right alraight to kp when Metia put the light out. Hut to-night it wan different, for the U wa there. You cpiildu't go to tleep with a Lie in the room. Is wat worm than creepy, creaky nobtc mercy, yea! You'd swap it for thoae quick enough and not iihk n tingle bit of "boot.' You ahttott wanted to henr llld n6Uc8 It came acroui the room. There " Bt!jfillVinltwliut unMy'lcrtW ft was coming well enough. Jle knew when it got up close to the tide of hit bed. Then it stopped and lcgaii to speak, It wiwu't "out loud" awl it wiuu't wlrispor, but Kumy heard. "Move ovtr.l'm coming into bed with you," the Me arid. T lioje you don't think I'm going to alt up all night. Iloride I'm alwtiya scared in the dark, it runt hi my family. The U uro always, afrakl. They're not good alecpers, either, to let's talk. You begin or Khali I? "You," moaned Rusy. "Well, I say, this is groat, isn't it! I like this house. I stayed at Harney Toole's lant night and it doesn't begin with this. Hartley's. folks arc ioor, and there nren t any curtniiit or carpet or anything, nor pillows ou the bed. I nevur slept n wluk at Harney'. I'm hop ing I shall drop off here, after awhile. I ft n new place, and J am mote likely to In new place. You never slept with one o' my family before, did you?" . "No," Riuay groaned. , Oh no, T never befonj," . "That's what I thought. I should lutvc been likely to henr of it If you hud. I wat a little sur prised, I say, what made you have anything to 'do with tue? I was never mote surprised in my liful They tflways said: Well, you'll never get acquainted with that Rutty Ruud. He.' another kind." Then you went -and shook hands witli mul" "I had to." Unsay aat up in IkhI and stiffened hituielf for helf dofence. I had tol Whan Jqffy Vaudervooi t said that about Her, well, I guess you'd have had to if they said Uiinga about your mothor ", "I never had 0119 the T,ic.s have n Father, that's all. Go ahead.". "There isn't anything else, I Just had to.M f,Tcll what you tfaid and whnt he Mid! ' Go ahead." "You know all uboii " "Co ahead."' Uuwy rocked hluihclf back and forth in his agony. It was dread ful to have to Hay it all over again. "Well, then," doggedly, "M mild my mother never did, but his did oh, alwaysl" "Did whnt oh always?" Rusty cliuchud hit little round fingers till the bone cracked under the llusli. "Kissed him good-night went up to hit room upurposd to, an' nn tucked him in. Oh, always, he said. He said mine never did. An' I mid " "Yen snid go ahendl" "I nid hhe did, too, oh al ways," breathed Russy in the aw ful daik. "I had to. When it's your mother you have to " "I never had one, I told you I How do J know? Go on." He was driven on relentlessly. He had it all to go through, and he whispered the test hurriedly to get it done. "I said she tucked me in cnm'e up a-purpote to, nn' nlwnys kissed me twice (his mother only does once) an always called me' dear." Russy fell tack in n heap ou the pillows and sobbed into them. "My bndiiewd" anybody but a Me would have' snid "my good neat," "butjyou 1 1 1 do it up brown that time, dklu't you! Rut I don't supppec he bcliuvcd a word of it you didn't make him believe you, did you?" "He lwd tol" cried out Rusay, fiercely. "He said I'd never Hod ,to him iu my life" "Hefore; yea I know." Rutty tlipped out of bed and and padded over the thick carjKt (owanl the place whore the window sent was jutc dnytjpie. Hutlt "wWn't tliorc. He put out bin hands and hunted dctperatcly for it. Yes, there, 110, thnt was t4mrp and hard and hurt you. That must be the edge of the bujeau. He tried again', for he must find it, he nuisU He would not stay in bed with tlPH We another minute. It crowded him, it tortured him so. . "Tlds Is t,V thought Ru.y, and tank down grateftilly on the cush ions. 11 Is 'bare feet scarcely touch ed toe-tlpa to the floor. Here he would stay all night. This was better than "I'm coming, which way are you? Can't you .speak?" The Me was coining tool Sud denly uu awful thought flashed acrost Rusay's little .weary hrnln. What if (he Me would always come too? What if he could never get away from it? What if it slept wit 1 .him, walked with bim, talked witli him, lived with him, oh ,al waysl Rut Rutty stiffened ngniu witli dogged courage. "I had tol" he thought, I had to, I had to, I had tol When he said things about bur, when It's your Inothor you have to." A great time went by, measure less by clock-ticks and aching little heart'-beats. It seemed to be weeks and mouth? to Hussy. Then he began to feel a slow relief creep ing over his misery, and he said to himself the Me must have "dropiwd off." There was not a sound of it iu the room. It grew so Btill and beautiful that Russy laughed to hluijelf in his reliof. . He wautcil to leap to his feet and dance about the room, but he thought of the sharp coiners and hnrd edges of things in time. Instead, he nestled among the cushions of the window heat and laughed ou softly. Per haps It was all over, perhaps it haps it wasn't asleep, but Imd gone away. to Harney Toole's v perhaps, where tlicy rcgfilarly "put up" Iio9, and wonhj never comeback! Russy griped 'for joy. I'orbnps when you'd never shaken hands with a Mc but once iu your life, nud that time you had to, and you'd borne it, anyway, for what .Seemed like weeks and mouths, perhaps then they went away and left you in insnce! Perhaps you'd had punishment enough then, Very late Hussy's mother came up Ntnirs. She Was very tired, and her pretty young ftce iu the frame of soft down about her opora-clouk looked a littie cross. Rumy's father plodded behind more heavily. "The boy's room, Rllenl just this oncel" he pleaded in her car. "It will take but a minute." "You are so tiresome, Carter! Well, if I must Why he isn't iu the bed!" The light from the hall streamed iu, showing it tumbled nud tossed as if two had slept iu it. Hut no one wns iu it now. The mother's little cry of surprise sharpened into anxiety. "Where is he, Carter? Why don't you speak? He isn't here iu boil, I tell you I Russy isn't here!" "He has rolled out. no, he hasn't rolled out. I'll light up there he is, Hllcn! There's the little chap on the window-scat!" "And the window is open!" she cried sharply. She darted across to the little figure and gathered it up into her aniwj. She had never been frightened about Russy before. l'erhaM it YHb the fright that brought Iter to her own. "He is cold, his little night dress in damp!" she snid. Then her kisbas rained down 011 the little sleeping face. In his sleep, Russy felt them, but lie thought it was Jeffy's mother kissing Jeflfy. "It feels gbjj, doesn't it!" he murmured. I don't wonder Jeffy likes it! Ifmymothcrkuxied me I told Jeffy she dull ,, It wns a"Mci but I had to. . youhave to, when they say thingsike that about your mother. Y911 have to sny she kittes you oh, , always! She conies 'way up stab every night a-purixfec to, An' sbci tucks you in, an' she calU you dear, It's n Me an' it 'most tylfe you, but you have to say it. Hut it's perfectly awful afterward." He nestled agaiiuit the soft down of her cloak nud moaned as.jf.iu pain. "It's awful afterwards, when you have to sleep with the Lie. It's perfectly aw fill " , "Oh, Carter!" the mother broke out, for it wns all plain to her. Iu a dash ofngouiicd understanding the wistful sleep-story was filled out In every detail. She under stood all the tragedy of it. "Ruasy! Rusty!" She shook him in her eagerness. MHu&y, it's my klsaes, it's your JUQUier, Rusty! Heel them! don't ou feel them on your forehead and your hair and your little red luja? It's your mother kitting you.1" Ruspy opened hiskgygs, '".Why! Why. fcl" he said. "And calling you 'donr,' Kintiyl Don't jjou hoar h,qr. Donr boy, dear little loy! You henr her, don't you, Rusty dqtir?" ' "Why, yesl whyl'tf "And tucking ou Into bed like this, sol She's tucking in the blanket now, and now the little quilt, Rtito! UMint is what mothers are for I never thought before oh, I never thought!" She dropped her fnee Inside his ou the pillow and fell to kissing htm again. He held bib face quite btlll for the sweet, strange baptism. Then suddenly he laughed out happily, wildly. "Then it isn't a Molr' he cried, inn delirium of reljkrf'mid joy. "It's, truel" Harixjr'sfc'jibr April. Bulletin and Weekly Oreconinn only $2.00 per year. Subscribe. 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