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it 7th mm the acton free press mum m ummn qlljr 3frrr proas ljaii tnrjj i why bessie barrett was so happy- kate m cubarv a fairhaired lad and hli heart wu rlsbt wb it ten yes ten lon years tojnloht anon shall i bleu him aealn before yfc tr most dutidcnt and modest of j kndeks it was perhaps because m it was so very diffident so very modest it irritated all the morp ibc peculiarly alert nerves pf mr godfrey klrke oh come in come in he orled the tone held less of invitation than of resentment indeed he was both angry and disgusted liens he couldnt have half an hour to himself to read the fortnlflhtly without some one cominff hammering ar his door i on its you is it well what do jou want now hu brusque permission to enter had been accepted an elderly woman had entered the room she had s small pale withered face a kind face though ule ii u fir finrtrtrdrmt ed in a worn dark gown the net flchu crossed over her slender shoulders was clasped by an oldfashioned medallion tomorrow wll be thanksgiving- ere she said i wished to know if i might prepare for tire day after an originally handsome apartment this in which the old man and it had been handsomely furnished mow both the room and its belongings bore the mark of creeping poverty or ex treme peurlousness the master of the house seated by the centre table seemed to shore the character of the room tie too had been handsome once now he was expressive only of age and indi gence from the threadbare collar of his limp dressinggown u the tips of his thin and shabby slippers prepare what he growled why a turkey sir or a pic or or a bit of cranberrysauce sir he looked so fierce her words died in her throat turkey 1 and where do you suppose i can gee the money to spend on turkey and pie i to make us all sick and bring doctor and doctors bills down on me i and with a snlc of disgust cranberry sauce the skinny stuff no mrs botty a bit of bacon and some bread will be good enough for poor folks like us good enough his housekeeper for that was the un enviable position mrs dotty occupied in oodfrey klrkes household resolved to make one last appeal but x thought perhaps on account of the child she began the child the child he repeated irascibly tm sick of bearing about her if it unl one thing she needs its an other rm not a rich man you know that mrs dotty mrs dotty knew nothing at all or the sort she shut her lips tightly and said nothing im poor i tell you whined on oodfrey klrke and i cant stand the expense of her what la arte to mr how indignation made mrs dotty quite bold for once shes your own granddaughter sir that what she u well i didnt oak lor her did i i never manted to adopt her what rlgr had her mother to make such a poor hand of herself by marrying tim bar rett and then come buck to dlr hire and leave me hrr trlrl eh shes on cxprnr i tell you thats nil an ex- pene ird help us but hes grt ting titan ever murmured the woman ma with a bung that niu downright dis respectful ah lumnied the door behind her you you miss bewsjer she started u she liiokrd up and taw bessie barrett standing v near her she was a slim brown haired little thing of about sewn teen she was clad in an illmade frown of coarse maroon cash mere iter eye were large gray just now very sorrowful her lashes and brows were quite black the dellcai features had a pinched look nd the pretty ilpa were paler than shtuld the up or one so young yes and i heard oh dunt dont mind dear said mrs dull j aoothlrutly putting a hand that looked tke wttn l on the gir a h just u crutts soured lonely old man i do mind besi passionately cried oh i do i ihant stay here i shan1 be an rxrnr to him any longer i will go away somewherrr site bruke don in atu of titter weep ing now mu lleitslr cr that way ou loved your mother befoi you but the poor hill- ld eormvrter ajnut vtyin hrrclr yean before the klrkes were the people of wealth snd position l that part of the country but one trouble after another hod come upon the bouse wrsr the wire of the master died maud the daughter married a man whose only poverty ne was a frail scholarly man quite nm for a jro tinst advene fortune b a year later h wire any- sxhe or tli followed him leaving their child to its grandfather oodfrey klrke to the latter hod corrjethe final blow when his nnly snn robert his hope and pride had run away to sea then in the house which since the death of the mistress had been a cheerless and dreary place began a rigid reign pf miserliness and consequent misery bessie broke from her friend and ran upstairs and- into iter own little bare room there was no flrcln the grate though the day was cold with the pene trating damp or a wind from off the ocean she went to the window and stood there looking out across the flat brown marshes to where the waters tossed greenish and turbulent a horrid day- she said with a shiver but it cant be worse out than in fine put on a short old astracban jac ket a little felt hat and a pair of much- mended cloth gloves then she went quietly down a out in the desolate bouse the day wore wearily on the old man plodding in solitude over his accounts anxiously striving to answer for every cent of ex penditure and refraining from lighting lamp or candle till his weak eyes were strained to the utmost was a pathetic illustration of the economy that u more contemptuous -than- admirable the dusk jtbedready november dusk was filling the room when he laid down his pencil and rang the bell mrawdotty4iamphade responded mr klrke kepi but one other servant if mrs dotty could correctly be termed a servant and she absolutely refused to enter the protesting presence of her master teal yea sir the meek housekeeper withdrew ten minutes later she brought in a tray on which were tea bread butler two cups two saucers and two plates mr klrke poured out his tea shook a little of the sugar he was about- to use back in the old silver bowl added carefully a few drops of milk and cut a slice of bread butter has gone up three cents in the last week he sold i cant afford o use butter so he munched his bread dry with a sense of exaltation in his selfimposed penance he would not open the poor- housedoor for himself by using butter but somehow the rank tea tasted rank er than usual surely the bread was sour and the gloom outside the small circle that the lamplight illumined seemed singularly dense what was mrong what was missing what was different he paused his hand falling by hls side the child a he and mrs dotty had always called her the child was not here she used to slip in so quietly take her seat and when her meagre supper wasover glide away just softly yes little as he noticed her she was generally there he rang the bell sharply where is she he asked mrs dotty when she popped in her mild old head there was no need to particularize mrs dotty cast a swift acurchlng look around isnt she here without waiting for a reply she turn ed and ran up the stairs to bewles room there she knocked no answer she down lojionna in the kjuehen want mri dotty did you see mum bessis yesm passln westward a couple of bmirs ago yestn bhr mrs dotty breathed a t relieved sigh bessie had probably gone to rose dovers house the devers lived almost a mile away as a storm was blowing up she would most likely stay there over night about ten oclock mr klrkes bell again tlnicd out again mrs dotty ap peared before him has the child com in no sir do you know why she went iutr j suspect sir r ivch speak up fchc overheard our conversation to day what or it nothing or it with a very angry flash from very fnded eyes except that she vowed she would be an expense to you no longer sho did eh she did well grimly i hope she wont the child had a sulky fit she was probably at the house of some neighbor sho would return when her tantrum had passed off all this he told himself suu he sat in his lonely room till long after midnight listening listening when he finally went to bed it was to roll and moan till daylight in the vogue wretch edness of unhappy dreams at breakfast he looked piercingly at mrs dotty hdme yet no sir she was not really m the least alarm ed she felt quite confident the girl was at devers noon the noon before thanksgiving- eve came went bessie did not return she was at all times the wry quietest of girls but oddly enough old oodfrey missed her sharply strangely she used always to bring him his paper band him his plate draw the curtains arrange the a nere child but he miss ed her all forenoon it rained towafd even ing the rain ceased and a fog a chill smoky blinding fog began to creep up from the atlantic if you dont mind said mrs dotty making her appearance with a shawl over her head ill just run over to devers and sec what is keeping miss bessie o do he answered she had spoken as if the distance were not worth considering but it was quite a journey for her when she returned aim looked white ansf scared she lshlhere hasnt been horkl said oodrrey klrke hojdlnu up one lean hand that is only the carrier with the flour ask him if he has seen her mrs dotty went into the hall al most instantly she returned he has not he says there is the body of a young woman at the town morgue what oodfrey klrke leaped from his choir he says that the body of a young girl was found in the east branch to day oodrrey klrke sank bock in his seat mrs dotty smiled a hard little smile to herself as she closed the door and went away she knew how many friends bessie had she shrewdly suspected if she were not round at one place she would be at another and she was malic iously and pleasantly conscious that she had given the hardhearted old man u genuine score pin this moment as he would haw been to another ills when his devoted wife had drooped and died under his ever- increasing sitogmnce rdisuuon hlsl when maud married the first man who offered hlmseir to escape from her fathers petty rule hlsl when robert ran away to escape the narrow obliga tions und unjust restrictions laid upon him ills when the child his dead daughter had itift him could- no longer endure his brutality or accept from him the scant support he so grudgingly gave his fniill all hlsl in those lonely hours uic wholo rnlontkss truth dawned upon him as such truths wilfdawn in most bitter brilliance- he dropped his licad oh hu hatlda with n groan how different might not life have been for lilm he- was a rich richer in- tleed thnii he had cvef been though he professed poverty he could have given maud a- competence robert a helping hand poor little bessie turkey und pic for her thnnksnlvlng dinner what see it day the new rog ers hukuncltic l radio blindfolded 5 station in 5 sroottdl no tun- ins no nouc no dcuy thati automatic kadio w an 1tum 5atation automatic radio in latnt cabinet design and flnbh t nostoop tuning the ftneat moat eaimy read and tuned dial yet dnlcned no need to ftquint aqua it etrctrtc tunoij ey doubl art ton winka to insure positive tuning preculon w worht rtcrptton standard short wave aviation amatrur and police nine inglctubc performance nci 12 dynamic speaker opened the door went in the room was empty hamlly she drscended the atalr 5he is not in sir where is she i dont know sir impatiently oodfrey klrke puthed his chair back from the table you ought to know it a your busi- nrjis to know but 11 doesnt matter- it doesn matter in the leat long the latter sat where he had left him thinking r the hrst time in years he was thinking sadly seriously solemnly thauluglv tugeve in his wifes lime the house used to be i und cheerful on thai night s comfort and bright odorous with ood things fully merry price 13995 other ram sstts p gay tilled with anticipations ao ihe homely fragrance or in the kitchen so deltght- uh the brljc bustle attend ant on the morrow a festivity now it w ilj lrsolu t e d reary darksome with de pressing and unutterable gloom whose taull wa it hu decidedly oodfrey klrke as savagely relentless to himself automatic coiuol radio not juat auto matic thii and auto italic that bul truly automatic ir every way hear it to day t- come in and it treat the tliit in t thrill tad r it w piionk d talbot would aba lure to aw thankful for on th morrowr if indeed there wu tobe morrow for her for might not ebe be shuddered at the thought be the eirt t tbe morgue the othotr were sne why not she hewju jtiita wretched and forlorn old man he looked around the dim shabby room he looked at the dylnsr lire in the jrrnte lie wondered of what use would be p him now his twenty tjiou- sand in bonds his eight hundred acres of meadow innd tbjj money he hnd out nt interest ho rose in a dared kind or way a shadowy purpose taking dcflnltc- ness in his mind he wished he hnd been better to bessie ho wished ut wliii t was the use of wishing anything now there could be but one satisfac tory answer to nil his ficlf-condrmnn- tlort a hiiol from the revolver in the drawer yonder hint ho hnd always jcrpt in rcndtnwn for possible burglars he rose he moved toward the tabic hli figure cast a fantastic shadow on the wall there might be thnnksglvlng for his death though there could never have been any for his life hnrkl ho had the weapon in his hand he started nervously was that bessies voice he turned dropping the revolver with a clatter yes there she was not three feet away fresh fair damp smiling it ts the queerest thing she said coming toward him as she spoke i felt badly yesterday and i went over to mrs fnrnhms to see if she could jreimewuxjl i met -mrsy-nolson- and she asked me to go homo with her dicky was 111 and she wanted mo to stay over night she sent you a note at least she sent the boy with it but he lost it and only told her so this afternoon as soon as i knew that started home alone although dicky was no better yes sold oodfrey klrke he was listen rnff with an unusual degree of in terest and tonight when i was almost here kelsons is quite two miles away you know i got last in the fotf her grandfather regarded her in amazement what made hcrpaie checks so bright what excitement had black- ened her gray eyes and a gentleman who was comlnjr here found me and and brought me home please thank him grandpa hero he is with a incredulous gasping cry ood frey klrke retreated as a big brown muscular fellow came dashing in from the hall robert 1 father then they were clasped in each others arms a silence ensued but the hot tears sprang to the meeting eyes for the heart must speak though the lips be dumb enjoy tea at its best tea im back from the sea fbr good father and i chanced to find my- lltue niece bessie j out there ji the fog a young lady i vow and i wat think inn of hrr as a mere baby yet just think she tells nje charlie nelson wantn her no well charlie in a line follow he can have her a year from today so now you know why the klrko hmncstau is ditzzllng with lights and flowers and why it resounds with littii- ter this thanksgiving why old oodfrey wears a brandnew suit rind a floaer in his buttonhole why robert in his right ful plncc looks so proud and pleased why dear busy little mrs dotty beams benignly wbybesslff gowned in snowy stilnlng silk thiitjqt this is a lovely old world after all why charlie nelson is so blessedly content and why in each and every ticort reigns supreme thanks giving match trick on the surface of a small bowl of water place a number of matches so that they have a star formation then get a piece of soap dip it into the water in the centre of the star and the matches will shoot away toward the edge of the bowl if a piece of lump sugar is dipped into the water the result is the opposite oil the matches rushing together jovfxy actions every man feels instinctively that all the bcnutlfiil sentiments in the world weigh lew than one mniilr lovely action and that while tendernes of fttilng and riisccptllillity of kciirroiis emotions are nc ideuts of life permanent kdncs u an achievement nnd a quiillty of life tine words says one homely old pro verb butter no parsnips the only conclusive ovmehwiof amans slricerlty 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