THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
daughter until the u«?xt newnlng when got J asked her why, and what ah® Grandpa was deed, so of course he thin els®, now—somethin' ullve, that three of them young, unmarried J
he came out to breuktutt. And be was meant.
couldn't go, and there weren’t any she could love an’ live with aq' touch fe.-wors. An’ she began to g0 3a
Ute to that, for he stopf>ed to write
“Oh. la! DM you beur that?” she brothers or sisters, only Aunt Jane in an’ play with, like she could the flow lot with then»—skatin' at«' sieiriucj
down somettdng he had found out demanded, with the quick look over St. Paul, and she was so mad she ers an’ rocks and’ grass an’ trees.
an' snowshoein'.
about one of the consternations in the her shoulder thut she ulways gives wouldn’t come on. So there was no
“Angry? Your pi? Not much he
“Like It? Of cours«? she liked m
night.
>
when she's talking about Father and chance of seeing the bride till Father was! He just laughed an’ caught her Who wojldn’t? Why, child, y.lu J
He's always finding out something Mother. “Well, little pitchers do have brought her home.
'round the waist an’ kls; cd her, an' suw such a fuss us they made ¿3
about those old stars just when we big ears, sure enough!"
Nurse said they wondered and won said she herself was the brightest star your madn them days. She
want him to pay attention to some
"Little pitchers,” Indeed! As if I dered what kind of'a woman it could •Jf all. Then they ran off hand in hitud, the rage; an’ of course she
d
thing else. And, oh, I forgot to say «lidnt know what that meant 1 I’m no be that had captured him. (I toid like two kids, too. All through those
Wliat
woman
wouldn
’
t,
that
v
l)tt
J
that I know It U “constellation." and rtilld to he kept In the dark concern ter I wished she wouldn’t .speak of first few weeks your pit was just a
an’ lively an’ young, an’ hud been J
not "consternation."
But I used to ing things 1 ought to know. And I my mother ns If she was some kind o:
jeat big baby with a new plaything. lonesome like your ma had? b U(
call them that when I was a little girl, told her so, sweetly and pleasantly, a hunter out after game; but she only Then when college began he turned all other folks didn’t like it. An’ 13
and Mother said ft was a good name but with tirmn«rss and dignity. I made chuckled and said that’s about what at once into a full-grown man. An'
for them, anyway, for they were a con tier tell me what she meant, and I It amounte<L»4o lu some eases.) Th« Just naturally your tna didn’t know pa was one of them. This time ’tv»
I
him that made the trouble, i knoifl
sternation to her all right. Oh, «lie made her tell me a Jot of other tilings very idea!
what to make of It.
’cause I heard what he suiq ,,ne
said right off afterward that she didn’t about them, too. You see, I’d just do
The whole town was excited over
"He couldn’t explore the attic an’ to her In the library.
mean that, and thut I must forget she cid«id to write the'book, so I wanted the affair, and Nurse Sarah heard e rig up In the old clothes there any
i
“•Yes, I guess I was in the next rorsj
said it. Mother's always saying that to know everything she could tell rue. lot of their talk. Some thought she more, nor romp through the garden,
t J
about things she says.
I didn’t tell her about the book, of was an astronomer like him. Some nor go lunchin' in the woods, nor none that day, too—er—dustin’, prefab).
Li
Well, as I was saying. Father didn't course. I know too much to tell se- thought she was very rich, nnd may of the things she wanted him to do. He Anyway, I heard him tell your ma
! J
kn«?w until after break-fast that he liad crets to Nurse Sarah ! But 1 showed be famous. Everybody declared eb< didn’t have time.
An’ what made
T
a little daughter. (We never tell him my excitement and Interest plainly; must know a lot, anyway, and b« things worse, one of them comet-tails
disturbing, exciting things Just before andRvhen she saw how glad 1 ryes to wonderfully wise and intellectual; and was qoftiin' up In the sky, an’ your pa
(Copyright by ELEANOR H. PORTER)
hear everything she could tell, she ■ they said she was probably tall and didn't take-no rest for watchin’ for
meals.) And then Nurse «told him.
tulked a lot, and really seemed to en wore glasses, and would be thirty it, an’ then studying of It when it got
1
asked
what
he
said,
an«l
Nurse
PREFACE
married again? And I should be there
years old, nt least. But nobody guessed here.
laughed an«I gave her funny little joy it, too.
to see it, and the courting, and all !
You see, she was here when Mother anywhere near what she really was.
slir.ig to her shoulders.
“An your ma—poor little thing! I
Which Explain« Things
Wouldn't that be some love story?
Nurse Sarah said she should nevei couldn’t think of anything but a doll
•'ies. what did he say. Inde««<l?” she first rame as a bride, so she knows
Father calls me Mary. Mother calls Well, I just guess 1
She was Father's nurse forget the night she came, and how that was thrown In the corner because
retorted. “He frowne«!, looked kind of everything
me Marie. Everybody else calls me
And only think how all the girls
Mary Marie. The rest of my name is would envy me—and they Just living dazed, then muttered: ‘Well, well, up- when he was a little 1: i.v; then she she looked, nnd how utterly flabber somebotly’ti got tired of her. She was
stayed to take care of Father's mother, gasted everybody was to see her— lonesome, an’ no mistake. Anybody'c
on my soul! Yes, to be sure!'”
Anderson.
thong their humdrum, everyday exist
Grundtrfa Anderson, v!;.« was an in- little slim elghteen-year-old girt with be son;.' for her. to see her mopin’
Then lie came in to s«*e me.
I’m thirteen yeurs old, and I’m u ence with fathers and mothers already
valid'for a great mac. years and who yellow, curly hair ami the merriest round the house, nothing to do. Oh
cross-current and a contradiction. Ttiat married and living together and noth
I don't know, of course, what lie
laughing eyes they had ever seen z she read, an’ sewed with them bright
is, Sarah snys I’m that, (Sarah is my ing exciting to look forward to. For thought of me, hut 1 guess he didn’t didn't die till just after I wns born
old nurse.) She says she rend it once really, you know, when you come right think much of me, from what Nurs«« Th' n she took car « of me. So she's (Don’t I know? Don’t I just love colored silks an’ worsteds; but ’eburst
• that the children of unlikes were al down to it, there aren't many girls that «ahi. Of course I was very, very small always beep in the family ever since Mother’s eyes when they sparkle and there wasn't no real work for her to
and 1 never yet saw a little bit of s she was a young girl. Site's awfully twinkle when we’re off together some do. There was good help in the kitchen
ways -a cross-currant and a contradic have got the chance I’ve got.
old now—'most sixty.
times In the woods?) And Nurse said an’ I took what care of your grtmd
tion. And my father and mother are
And so that’s why I’ve decided to baby that was pretty, or looked as lf
First 1 found out how they happened Mother was so excited the day she, ma was needed; an' she always gave"
unlikes, and I’m the children. That write it Into a book. Oh, yes, I know it was much account. So maybe you
to marry—Father mid Mother, I'm came, and went laughing and danc her orders through me. so I practical
is, I’m the child. I’m all there is. And
couldn’t really blame him.
talking about now—only Nurse says ing all over the house, exclaiming over ly run the house. an’ there wasn’t
now I'm going to be a bigger cross
Nurse said lie looked at me, mut-.-
she can’t see yet how they did happen everything
(I can’t lmtiglne that so anything there for her to do.
current and contradiction than ever,
tered. “Well, well, upon my soul !”
to marry, just the same, iljey're so tee- well.' Mother moves so quietly now.
for I’tn going to live half th«' time with
again, and se«med really quite interest
’’An’ so your ma Just had to mope it
every« here, nnd is so tired, ’most all out alone. Oh, I don't mean your pa
Mother nnd the other linlf with Father.
ed till they started to put me in his tottilly different.
But
this
Is
the
story.
tife
time.)
But
rhe
wasn
’
t
tired
then,
Mother will go to Boston to live, ami
arms. Then he threw up both hands,
was unkind, He was always nice an’
ys- —not a mite.
Futher went to Boston :o attend a Nurse says
Father will stay here—n divorce, you
backed off. and cried “Oh, no. no, no!”
polite, when he was In the house
know.
“But how did Fnther act?” I de an' I’m sure If meant to treat her
He furn«"l to Mother and hoped she big ‘meeting ot astro: nomers from all
I'm terribly excited over it. Non«« of
was feeling pretty well, then he got over the world, nnd th icy had banquets manded. “Wasn’t lie displeased and al) right. He i said yes, yes. to be sure,
the other girls have got a divorce In
out of the room Just ns quick as he and "receptions where beautiful ladies scandalized and shocked, and every of course she ■ was lonesome, nit’ he
i
dresses, thing?"
their families, nnd I always did like to
could. An«! Nurse said that was the went In their pretty evening
wns sorry,
'Twas too had he was
Nurse shrugged. her shoulders and so busy, An’ he kissed her an' patted
lie different. Besides, it ought to be
end ot It, so fur as paying any more and my mother was on :■ of them. (Her
astronomers. raised her eyebrows—the way she does her.
awfully interesting, more so than Just
attention to me wns concerned for father was one of tt
be always l>egan
l«egati right a away
But he
Nurse said.) ' The me 'rigs lasted four when she feels particularly snjierior.
living along, common, with your father
quite a while.
to talk of the comet; an’ ten to one
'l
’
liep
she
said:
days,
and
Nur
and mother in the same house ail the
■se said she guessed my
He was much more interested In bls
he didn't disappear Into the observa
“Do?
time—especially Lf it’s been anything
What does any old fool— tory within the next live minutes. Then
ew star than he was in his new fnther saw a lot of my mother during
that
time,
beggin
’
like my house with my fatti.-r anil
Anyhow,
'
■
.(■
was
invited
to
your
pardon
an
’
no
offense
daughter.
We were both born the
your ma would look so grieved nn’ sor “Yes, I Guess I Was in the Next Room
mother in it I
That Day, Too—sr—Dustin’.”
same night, you see. and that Star was tbeir home, and lie stayed uucther four meant, Miss Mary Marie—but what ry7 an' go off an’ cry, an' maybe not
That's wliy I've decided to make a
lots more consequence than I u ;»< days after the meetings were over, doe» any man do what's got bejuggled come down to dinner, at.all,
an’ plain what he thought of her gsl-
book of it—that Is, it reqily will be a
But, then, that’s Father nil over, And The next thing they knew here at the with u pretty face, an’ Ids senses com
"Well then, one day things got so llvantln’ Tound froni tnornln' till night
house.
Grandma
And<
book, only I shall have to call It a
lerson
had
a
tele
pletely
took
away
from
him
by
a
chit
th at's one of the things, I.think, that
bud your grandma took a band. Sbe with them young students an’ profes-
diary, on account of Futlier, you know
bothers Mother. I heard her say once grata that lie was going to be married of a girl? Well, that's what he did. was up an' around the house, though
sors, an’ havin’ them here, too, such a
to
Miss
Madge
Desmond,
Won’t It be funny when I don't have to
and would He acted as if he wns bewlfcheil. He
to Firtber that she didn’t see- why,
she kept mostly to her own rooms, lot.“till the house was fairly overrun
do things on uccourtf of Father? And
when there were «<> many, many » stars, they ¡ilease send him some things lie followed her around’ the house like But of course she saw how things was
with them. Ho said he .vas stfocked
I won’t, of course, the six months I'm
a paltry one or two more need l to be wanted, and he was going on a wed- n'dog—when he wasn’t leadin’ her to goln’.
Il««stdes, I told her—some. an' scandalized, an' didn't she have
living with Mytlier lu Boston. But,
such a fuss about, And 1 don't. ding trip nnd would bring his brlde something new; an’ he never took his 'T was nq more than my duty, as I
any regitrd for Ids honor nn' decency,
<®, my!—the six" iuonttis ,1'jii living
home in about a month.
eyes off her face except to look at us.
either.
Q
1 •. -'1!« ■«-
As much as’te say: 'Now ain’t she the looked lit it. She just worshiped ymir if she didn’t for herself! An’ oh. a
It
was
Just
a»-sudden
as
that.
And
! B" '■ 'l ''n' 1
But Father Just groaned, nnd shook
pa, an’ naturally she’d want things whole lot more.
Stand It I nift?
HJe it
_
!—Nurse says a tliunderclup adorable creature?' ”
(i.ls iiepdj nnd threw up his hands, and Burprj^log
right for him. So one day she told me
“Cry? No, your tna didn’t erv this
"M.v father did that?’’ 1 gasped. I
Homo. Anvh^w it’ll be
ent. ,\nd
blue say < outittR liav^
Ip ’kj'l S'.’ HrgQ. .Vol that’s all lie s -.¡<1 oui of a
to tell her s >n’s wife to come to her
And
really,
you
know,
1
just
couldn't
;
sionished
them
m'r<5.
father
was
al
TtiiiPs till in« Bîi.lûï lût« ¿f tit íes But
in her room.
■' Weu7aTi<>ni
th*s lnt(' 11
it s enougti
"ïo mnjíe you most thirty years old i t lhal time, and believe my ears. And you wouldn't.
“An’ I did, an’ she cam*. Poor lit white as a sheet, an’ her e; ■- was like
lay, Jie
jie jyoii|«hi 1 t ,ef
*?
’
’
J
J*
11
*;"
’
Fntlier.
"Why
As I Htarted to ??iv,
let
h'.-'yj never cared a thing fur girls nor
li'i'l so - iiiall rind piéiin iftl* ¿i
tle thing! t couldn't help bein’ sor two blazin' stars. So I know* 1 -v she
Wj'jr
Saw
him
"act
like
that
'"
I
ll««v
.
.
.
the
■ bit tjf niton
Hi'
s.ivs
j^^l know he wouliln't.
wouliln't
H«? '-.I'"«
cant as if you were just a lit th- *'ef g ¡.¿oil l L
must have looke-.l while she was In the
f
you didn't." laughed ry for her. She didn’t know u thing
r-
IW u ’ i if >■ 't
nutei. ’ Va u j UU;-
IWniJ iJ‘L'vÜnp “n ’'l? grônhiï. Did
or wliat wns wanted of her, an’ she library. An’ I must say she give it
Sarah
wliH
a
shrug.
“
An3
Nurse
In wys a Impel ss old batlielo? and
But. n dlar? -;>l«,
¿ÍU ¿
»liool"’ f„i,- <»i»ir».i
was so glad an' happy to come. You to him good an' plain, straight from
And So Thut'» Why I’ve Decided to p •»)£
dn t . , -T ui. iTJ
H.» v as bound neither dij nnynody else—/or long." see, she wns lonesome. I suppose.
tlie shoulder. She told him she waa
lie I»yes tlfiiPfei He I.’ ?'? fill* “•««»
¿round? o e Hot a plens'tli
Write It Into a Book
I
"But how long did it Tiist?" I asked,
up in his stars, eSen then, and was
shocked tin' scandalized that he could
“
‘
Me?
Want
me?
—
Mother
Ander
.......
.
"
“
—
rcenng nt nil.
>.-»*,»***
and lie told me It would be an ex’-
“Oh. a month, or maybe six weeks,"
ulreiidy be inning to be famous, bji-
talk to his wife like that: an’ didn’t
'Vefi, now, about Uie name. < >f cause < f .. ■ omet ne'J tilScover^i He shrugged Nurse Sarah. "Then It came ton?’ sne cried. ‘Oh. I’m so gladT
But _1 feel
cellent and Instructive «llBcfptTno for
he have qpy more regard for her honor
me to do it, too—set down the U'eathor^ foully awfully old; and you know t^ course they had to b. „-in to tnlk about was a proi -s -f lii ouj College here, September and college began, and your Then she made It worse by runnin’ up an’ decency than to accuse her of run-
the
stnlrs
nn
’
bouncin
’
into
tTtv
room
woman Is as old as she feels. Besides, initnliig V e pretty soon; and Nurse where his lather hml been pres!«l«*nt. father had to go back to his teach
and wliat I did every day.
rln’ after any man living—ranch less
The weiitlier and what I <1I<1 every Nurse Sarah says I am old tor my age. snJJ they did tuli; n lot. But the) His fnther bad Just «lied a few months Ing. Things began to change then.? like a rubber ball, an’ eryln’l 'Now. a dozen of them ’ .-^n' then she told
what
shall
I
do,
rend
to
you,
or
sing
|no wonder, the kind of couldn’t sattle It. Nurs» said that that before, and Nurse said maybe thht was
«lay,z indeed!
Lovely reading that and that ! it !;v
“Right then, so you could see them?"
to you. or shall we play games? I'd him a lot of what his mother had said
VÔI
n life I’ve lived
would make, wouldn't It? Like tills:
was about Hie first thing that shoved one reason why Fnther got caii.bt in I wanted to know.
to her, an’ she said site had been mere
And maybe that Is so. For of course how teetotaliy utterly they were going the matrimonial net like that, (Those
"The sun shine« thin mornlffg.
1
Nurse Sarah shrugged her shoulders love to do any of them!' Just like ly tryin’ to carry out those instruc
that,
she
said
It.
I
heard
her.
Then
gnt up, ate in.v breakfast, went t.« It has been different, living with a to disagree about thlm.s.
I tions. She was tryin' to make her
are h«*r words, not mine. The idea again.
Mother wanted to call me Viola, of calling m.v mother a net ! But
m J mmi I,
<'nme home, ate my dinner, filtlivi and mother that lire getting
“Oh, la! child, what a little ques- I went out, of course, an’ left them, husband an' her husband’s wife an’
But
I
heard
'most
everything
that
played one hour over to Currl«* llev ready to In* divorced, from what It after her mother. nn«l Father wanted nurse never did uppr««elate Mother), tlon-h<«x you are. an' no inistake,” she
her husband's home popular with the
all me Abigail .lane after Id« But Father Just worshiped his father, Sighed, Rut she didn't look mad—not was said, Just the same, for I was colffge folks, so si;“ could help him
wood's, practiced on the piano one would have been living with the loving, to
Nurse Sarah mother; nnd they wouldn't either «me ami they were always together like the way she does rvì '-n I usk why right la the next room dustln,' and
hour, studied another hour. Talked happy-ever-after kind.
to be president, if he wanted to be.
with Mother upstairs in her room ebon! says It’s a «hiillli. utid a pity, and ttiat gl»n tn to the other Mother was sic t F—Grandma being sick so much? she can tnke her teetb-out atid most the <loor wasn't quite shut.
But he unswered back, cold an’ chilly,
real
“
Firsjt
your
grundmotlier
said
the «unset uud the »uow ou the trees. it’s the chihireii thut always suffer. itn«l nervous, iinil cried u lot ■ those and so
when he dte«I my father of her hair off and 1 eun’t; and things
that he thanked her. of coarse, but
Ate m.v aupjicr,
Was talked to by But I’m not suffering—not a mite, I'm days, nn«l she used to sob out that It was nearly beside himself, end that's like that. (As if I didn’t know! What pollt«?—she was always polite—but In be didn't cure for any mor“ of that
they thought they «ere going to name one reason they were so anxious lie mu's she take me for—a ohild?) She a cold little voice that ma«le even me
Father down In tbe library about Im just enjoying it. It’s so exciting
kind of assistance; an' If she would
<lf course If I was going to lose her darling little baby that nwt'iil Ab! should go to that meeting in Boston. I didn't even look displeased-—Nurse shiver in the other room, that sha did
proving mj-eelf and taking cate not tn
give a little mor«' time to her home an
not
d»«slre
to
h«'
read
to
or
sung
to,
be llght-nilnded and frivolous. (Il, either one. It would be different. Hut gull .lane, they w««re »erv much ni!» They thought it might take Ids niind Sarah loves to tnlk. (As If I didn’t
her hout«d-:eepln', as she ought to. he
ineniit llk<*Mother, only he didn't sn. I'm not, for I uni <" IB«« with Mother taken : that «lie w,«ufd never give her off himself. Nurse saW. But they know i that, too!) She Jqst threw thut and thut she did not wish to play would be fonslderald; better ;u.ase«i.
consent l«« It—never,
Then Father never thought of its putting tils mind quick look of h®c.i over her shoulder games. She had- called her daughter- An’ she said, very well, she would
It right out I«)U<1, You don’t have tn six months, then with Father
n-law In to have a serious talk with
ai.v some thing!« right out In plain
So 1 still have them both, And. would sii,v in fils ••old. stern way : on a wife!
and settled back contentedly In Jier
see that he had no further cause to
“Very v««U, then, you needn’t. But
words, you know.) Thetf I Went to bed " really, when you come right down •'to
So fur us bls ilolug it right up quick chair. I knew then I sliould get the her. Then she told her, still very complain. An' the next minute I met
Just ns lf I was goiug to write, m.v It. I'd father take theta separate that neither shall I give m.v consent to my like that was conc««rned. Nurse said whole story. And I did. And I’m go- polite, that she was noisy *an' child her Ln the hall, ns I Just said, h«r hea«
»ivel like Hint 1 Not much 1 am. But why. Why, separate tliey'r«' Just p < t - daughter's being named that iihsurd that wiisn'J so surprising. For all the ing to tell tt here ln her own words, ish. an' undignified, an' that it was
Vfel.t. The child is a human being— wav up, if Father wnntvd anything he just as well as I can remember It— not only silly, hut very wrong for her high and her eyes blaz!’«'.
I «hall call it n diary. Oh, yes. 1 shall fistlv nil right, like tliat--that—wlint
“An' things did change then, a lot.
to exiH'ct to have her husband's entire
roll It > y diary—till I take it to be do-yoll-eall-ft IRTWtivr? — sedlltSfr. or not a fldille In an oreheSH ii
ItuilMcd
having It, nn<l- having It bad grammar and all. So please re-
I’ll own. Right away she began to re
And that'» the way It Went. Nurse
pgint.d, Then I shall glv«« It Its true something like that. Anyhow, it b that
miMubcr that I anrsmt making ail those attention; that he had his own work
an’ it was a very Important one. He fuse to go out with tin' s'uili-’its an
nnme- - h novel. And I’m going to tell whit«« powdef that you mix In two said, until everybody was Just ubout
mistakes. It’s Nurse Sarah.
young professors, an' she sent down
crazy.
Then
somebody
suggested
the printer that l'v® left it to him to« glasses, and that looks just like water
I guess, though, that I’d better put was going to be president of the col
word siie wasn't to home when they
muk«« the spelling right, and put in nil till you put them together. And then, “Mary." And Father said, very well
it Into a’new chapter. This one Is lege some day. like his fnther before
called. And pretty quick, of eonrye.
him
;
an
’
it
was
her
place
to
help
him
those tlrosoTne little comma» nnd oh. my! such a fuss and flzs and splut they might call me Mary ; and Mother
yar«!s long alreiyly. How do they tell
they stopped cornin'.
s
would ismsent to
tn
every
way
she
could
—
help
him
to
period» and qucetlon murks that every
ter! Well, it's Hint wny with Fnther sivltl certainly she
wh«m to begin and end chapters? I’tn
“Housekeepin'?
Attend to thst?
body seems to make »uch n fuss about and Mother It’ll be lots ««aster to tnlte Mary only sli<> • should pronounce It
thinking It’s going to b»« some job. be popular an' well-liked by all the
If 1 write the story |>«rf? I can’t he ex
them separate. I know. For now 1 can Marie. Anri so It «a» «w'tthwl father
writing this book—diary, I moan. But college p«?ople an’ students; an’ he Well, y-yes. she did try to at first, a
little; but of course
i.ziirw your
)'"ir grand«*
*ra:idiw
pccted to be bothered with looking up twi Mary six montlis, then Marie six called ihc Mary, sud Mother called
I shall love it. I know. And this Is couldn’t be that If she insisted-ail the
given
the crib
throa*»
months, and not try to h«> them tmtli all mo Marie.
Ard right away every
time
on
keepln
’
Mtn
to
herself,
or
look
h«>w words are spett. every five mln
had
always
g
-----
a real story—hot like those made-up
there really wa**“
utes, nor fussing over putting In a at once, with hui . v I h « only five minutes body e¡s» began to cull me Marf
things I’ve always written for the girls in' sour nn’ cross If she couldn’t have me, I mean; an’
- , An' I
anything your nu could <b*
Mitri«1
And that's the way It’s beer>
him.
Whole lot of ioolwdi little «lot* and between tliem.
at school.
Am! I think 1 shall love botli Father ever sTnci-
dnsliea
“Of course thut ulp’t all sbe paid; told her so, plain. Her ways w®’
*JV- if anybody who wa» reading the ntid Mother better separate, too. t)f
Of «-ours««, ivle-ii
op to thiak
but I remember this part particular new an' different an’ queer, an' **
CHAPTER II
F
'Nfflred for that part? The story's course I love Mother, and I know I'd of It. It's sori « t
and funky
on account of what happened after
lilted ours better, anyway
think of it
Just adore Father If he’d let me—lie’s though naturally I
waul, You se»—your ma—she felt didn’t bother us much that wny "trf.
Nurae Sarah’s Story.
/ stories. I’ve written lots of s«i tall and tin«« ami splendid, when growing up with tt »
anti always
awful had. She cried a little, an' long, Besides, sbe wurn’t fee’drt
Ami this Is Nurse Sarah's story.
/for the glrla. too—Utile short he’s out among folks. All the girls are having U until st(
mif duy It
As I sai.l. I’m going to tell It sighed a lot. an' said she’d try, she well, anvwav. ah’ for the next W
/ I mean; not a long one like this slmfily crazy over 1dm. And I am. too «.<'t«irriMl (<> tne that n»ne ot rtie <>thet
si«- staye
siuyed in her room
straight through as near as I can tn really would try to help her husband months she
dfeolng to be, of course. And It'll Only, nt home—well. It’s laird to be girls bad lui!
two n.iioes.
a.: mes. one
«ute for Hidr
didn
3ee much of h r
—- ’t - —
tier own words And I can remember in every way she could; an' she an’ we <•
-.veil, _ I -’»*
Wjeaii exciting to be living a story in
Mary alwa)-». And you see. h«« named fatl.ei- ahd otte
ohe (ol
toi their mother t
Oft
of it. I tlRnk, for I paid very close wouldn't ask him another once, not by an“ by you came, an'
■tend of reading It—only when you’re me Mary—
call them by .1 began lo notice ollie
once, to May with her. An’ she that’s all—toomiuch. you Little 'I*3 ,
iittentioo.
living n «tory you cun't peek over to
But I mustn’t tell that here That's tillrm's then too. Their fathers
“Wel], yes. Miss Mary Marie, things wouldn’t look sour an’ cross. either. box !”
the buck to see how It’s all coining out part of the s’or)-, and this Is only the moth, th dh.n I live In r*H> its at
d begin to change right there an' She'd promise she wouldn’t, An’ she'd
posttc «.il ls i»f the lo». • i-v.
i
Their (other-
I shan't like thut part. Still, It may be I'ret uc«‘. I'm going to bt-gln it to mor
CHAPTER 111
cn, an' »<> jou coulil notice It. We try, she’d try, oh, so bard, to be proper
«ml mill!»»-».;• seemeo t Io like »urei: rdtW-r
nil the more excltfng. eftvr all. not to row—the real story — Chapter one.
«v it. tbiwig?. maybe your pa an’ me i i ah dignified.
i
io have litri,
know whnt'a conilh«.
But, there— I mustn't cull it a Mild to. (nth t««u*« tbet arid
tti.n’t «it tin« fine
“Site got up then an' went out of
The Bheak la
el lier and l>vt<d;|.
I like love storle» the best. Father's “chapter'' out loud.
-e Sarrt
I >ta l ies don I Jokes Hi
the first month after she the room so quiet an' still-you wouldn't
Ard that’s lilf way Nurse
U I*. llfiml <»f liter;
got—oh. lot« of book»' In the library, have chapters, and this Is st diary. I «Mil the
-W- Ii
vacation time, an’ he know she wns movin'. Itut I h«‘nrd her (Inislied her story, only s' life 4 -brusi**
■nd I’ve read stn«’k« of them even mustn’t forget that It's a diary
Hut • llfl
all the time die wante«!. t?p hi her nsmi cryln’ half an hour her alioujders again. «>• «1 h ked bfiA
'i ,1
Bon'«' of til«' stupid old hlst«irl«’H an«l I can write It <l"»vn us a chapter t«»r
And 11
lieti Io
1» «ilk.
si.«« wanted it al!
An’, qhe took I later, wh«p l stopp«*<l a minute at her first one way, th«m am-tlie f. A« I«
Io lda<
blogrnphlee I bad to rend them when It’s g« dug to he a novel, utter It's
-fis **
I«-* wns Jus', ns glad to give «’«»«r to see if she was there. A d her calling me “chatterl o
Hieie ivuHii't anything elee to read done bet ng n diary
was to take It. An so from sb«' was.
she»
Ise*
ways calls me that when
»*» ay *G «triti pt]
But there Weren’l many love stories
till night they wqn together.
"But she wasn't cryln' by night. doing all tlie talking.
Meteor's got n few. though - level«
♦ke." A . (» 1
CHAPTER I
n’ nil over the hwse an’ garden, Not much she was! She’d washed her
As. near ns I can remember, 1 “
•»er <1 v. rtii
eoee—«ltd noiue books of poetry, ot
ripin off thnnigh the woods and’ fuce un’ dressed bersetf up as pretty tol«l Nurae Sarah’s at««ry exn tly ;
Little Slim Eighteen-Year-Old
ni her K r; s tn
the little shelf In her room. But I
I Am Born
the mouutiiiti every other day ns could be. .an' she never so qinch
With Yellow, Curly Hair.
me, in her ««wt; ««' ~,s- (
Th» sun was slowly setting in the tvn.v . md1 t Vi
rcn«l nil theae age« ng”
their lunch.
as l«H»k«Nl as if she tyanted her hus of course I know I didn't -"’t *!
right aw «,« thi«n.
I'e never want
That'S why I’m »<’ thrille«! «'»er th!: west, casting gol’lcn heap s ««t light tn ItH» ft»» f ' \ f
m i le she wns city-bred, an’ not band to stay with her. when he s-tld
ed to wait n minut«« h«> fouml a girt h<
tie«« one—the one I m living I mean to thv s«>mb> r old room
to «««sis an’ flowers growh'' right after supper Hint he gtiesse«! ull the time, and I ’Uiow ,ve.
quite h lot. But. anyway. i!'’ • J
I y s::«n I wanteii, hr wanted her right away wild; an she went oraxy over them,
That's th«> wny It ought to b«'gln I dull 1
For of cour«e this will Ms ■ tme «tor»
he’d go <«ut to the observatory. An' whole lot tnore than I coul«l h.i ."
have
don't bave a rvmid ruble then.
without
waiting u minute. He slioWtst Ii ties the stars, too, through
Tbere’lt be my love story lu two «' know, and I'd like t<> do It. but I cun t
twas that w ay right along after that. why they got married in the first I
It and He'd never happened to notice a girl h's telcacvpe; hut she hadn't a mite of
thr»«' year* »vh»*o I grv* up. »nd I ni beginning with my b«'!ug hoOL «>1 with n rtsi elotli mal a lamp
1 know, cause I watched. Yon see. and it brings my story right up t ’
Rut use for them, an’ let him see tt good
ehll«< I’m waiting there’» Fat I m « is and ■«ourse. and Nurse Namq says the sue chi hlrvn round It playing Fîmes and he wanted before, you see.
I knew what she'd said she’d do. Well
point where I wan born; and Ij*.
wasn't shining at nil It wnn nlg' t nnd doing th legs, and fathers and m ¡er» he'd found one now all
nil right : an’ Ula'n. She tot>? him—I heart] her she did It.
Mother’*
ready tokl about nam’r.g me. au-1
And If« let» and Nurse said there was nothing te with my cwn ears—that his eyes, when
Nurse Sarah m . v » that alien you re the stars were out. Sh«‘ rrn.emb<«rs rwiu ug Mild mi-nd'ng
"Then, pretty quick ait«w that, she a time they hn«l ov»r that.
do but to make th® beat of It and get they laughe<L was all the stars she
«livorced you’re free Just 111;» you were part leu In riy stsmt the st nr» for Father jollier w here they do have th«' u
began to got oc«piainted in the town.
Of course what's lappene«l ■
Nurse s«yn my fill her and i,t<>U>er ready for her.
t»efore you were murriwi. »ad that was in the otisi'rvatory. and couhln't
«-anted; an* that she'd had stars ail Folks called, an’ there was parties an'
be
dlstorbial.
(We
never
distort'
□p to now, I don’t kn«>w *‘l
'
ought never to have been married
rmnetlmw they marry Brel’»
Tbit
There wasn't anybody to go to thè her ilfe for breakfast an’ luncheon an
receptions where she met folks, an
I was onlv a child for the nr*t
mu«!e me think rigid aF»F: what II Father when he's thsro. you know.) That’s what I heard her tell our wedding.
Grandma Anderson was dirmw. anyway, an' all the time be
they began to come here to the house, years Now I’m alm,st a youni '¿“J’
And so he dblnt even know he had ( Bridget one day So the first Chuno» I sick, to of course she couldn’t go, and tween; an’ she’d rather have some-
Father <* M«aher, or both of U«««ni
M-clally them students, an* two or “siandlnc with reluctant. f»*< *
(Continued next wee*»
ELEANOR H. PORTER
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
R.H. LIVINGSTONE
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