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GIRL ALONE
SYNOPSIS.
· By ANNE AUSTIN. Author of Saint and Sinner."
Clem Carson's big-lamckled hands fastened on her arms.
SALLY FORD, 16, yes in the state orphanage, the only home Sally has known since she was four. It is rumoured that the nintron, MRS. STONE, has sel- fishly frustrated several proposed adoptions of Sally, wanting to keep her there where her under standing and sympathy with the small children, make her a valu-. able helper.
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Now go on With the Story, "
CHAPTER 11.
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1928
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LOV E LIVE LIFE WIFE
thing! Please, Miss Pond! You've always been so sweet to me
The little touch of flattery did it, or maybe it was the pathos in those wide, blue eyes.
"It's against the rules," Miss Fond wavered. "But-I know
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touch he nodded with satisfaction. trented as a servant, to have the "Good big muscles, even if she is shame of being an orphan, a child a skinny little thing. Lalways any nobody wanted, continuously held these skinny, wiry little women up before her shrinking, hunted can beat the fat ones all hollow." eyes-lint was the fate which be- "Sally is strong and she's muring 16 had brought upon Sally vellous with children. We've Ford. never had a better worker thun Every June they came-farmers, Sally, and since she's been raised like Clem Carson, seeking hired in the llome, alie's used to work, girls" whom they would not have Mr. Carson, although no one could to pay. Carson himself had taken Pay we are not good to our girls. three girls from the orphanage. I'm sure you'll find her a willing Rena Cooper, who had gone to She is summoned to the matron's helper on the farm. Did your is Carson farm when Sally was office where a man, a farmer, wife come into town with you this 13, had come back to the Home in judging from his clothes, awalts afternoon?"
September, a broken, dispirited her. Sally is suddenly paralyzed "Her? In borry-picking time?" thing-Rena, who had been so gay with fear. She wonders what It Mr. Carson was plataly amazed, and bright and saucy. Annlo all means. Then brightening with "No, mum, I come in alone. My Springer had been his choice the how you feel, Sally dear. I was the hope that perhaps it is a father daughter's laid up to-day with next year, and Annie had never raised in the Home myself, not come to claim a long-lost daughter, summer cold, or she'd be in with come back. The story that drifted knowing I can't get your card she hurries to the office door,
me, nagging me for money for her into the orphanage by some mya-out of the files now; Mrs. Stone finery. But you know how girls terious grapevine had it that might come and catch me. But are, mum. Now, seeing as how Annie had found a "follow" on the I'll make some excuse to come up my wife's near crazy with work, what with the field hands to feed furm, a hired man, with whom to the locker room when you're she had wandered away without getting your things together. Oh When Sally Ford opened the and all, and my daughter lald up the formality of a marriage cere she broke off. "I was just telling SaHy how nice it will door of the office of the orphan with a cold, I'd like to take this mony. asylum, radianco Was wiped girl here along with me, The third summer, when he be for her to have a real homo, MASSAGE HALL instantly from her dolicato face, as know me, mum. Reckon I don't
Mrs. Stone closed the door If she had been stricken with sud- have to wait to be investigated no could not have Sally, he had taken Mrs. Stone.".
Ruby Presser, pretty, sweet little den, illness. For her worst fear there.” was realized-the fear that had Mra. Stone was already reach-Ruby, who had been in love with firmaly, her eyes stern upon Sally. Eddie Cobb, one of the orphaned "Of course it will be nice. And kept her awake many nights on Ing for a pen. "Perfectly all boys, since she was 18 or 14 years Sally must be properly apprecia- her narrow cot, since her 16th right, Mr. Caraon. Though it does old. Eddie had run away from tive. I did not at all like your birthday had passed. She cower put me in rather a tight place. the Home, after promising Ruby manner to Mr. Carson, Sally. But od against the door, clinging to the Sally has been taking care of a to came back for her and marry run along now and pack. You knob as if she were trying to screw dormitory of 19 of the small girls, her when he was grown-up and may take your Bunday dress and up her courage to flee from the and it is going to upset things making enough money for two to shoes, and one of your every-day disanter which fate, in bringing bit, for to-night anyway. But I live on.
ginghams. Mr. Carson will pro- about her 16th birthday, had piti understand how it in with you. lessly planned for her, instead of You're going to be in town attend- Ruby had got inte mysteriousvide your clothes, His daughter the boon of long-lost relatives for ing to business for an hour or so, trouble on the Carson farm-the is about your ago, and he says her last year's dresses will be nicer which she had never entirely I suppose, Mr. Carson? Sally will "rapevine" never supplied con- than anything you've ever had."
"Yes, Mrs, Stone," Sally ducked have to get her things together, crele details and Ruby had rùn "Sally" Mrs. Stone, seated at you could call for her about five, away from the farm, only to be her head and sidled, out of the the big roll-top denk, called sharp-I suppose?"
caught by the police and sent to door, but before it closed she ex- ly. "Say "How do you do?' to the "Yes, mum, five it is?" The the reformatory, the particular changed a fleet, meaningful look gentleman. The girls are farmer spat again, rubbed his hell with which every orphan was with Miss Fond. taught the finest of manners here, hand on his trousers, then offered threatened if she dared disobeym going to know!" Sally whis Mr. Carson, but they are always it to Mre, Stone "And thank you, even a minor rule of the Home.pered to herself, as she ran down a little shy with strangers."
"Howdy-do, Mr. Carson," Sally mum. I'll take good care of the Delicate, sweet little Ruby in the the long, narrow corridor. "I'm young 'un. But I guess she thinks reformatory-that evil place where going to know! About my mo
polsoned the ther!" And colour swept over her Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd. she's a young lady now, eh, miss?" "incorrigibles" "I believe this is the girl you And he tweaked Sally's ear, his minds of good girls like Ruby face, performing the miracle that naked for, Mr. Carson," Mrs. Stane, went on briskly, in heringers feeling like sandpaper Presser, made criminals of them, changed her from a colourless
little orphan into a near-beauty, (To Be Continued) pleasant company volce," which against her delicate skin.
Tell. Mr. Carson, Sally, that Sally, remembering, as she cow. overy orphan could imitate with
you'll appreciate having a nice erca against the door of the bitter accuracy,
was suddenly The man, a tall, gaunt, middle-home for the summer a nice orphanage office,
home," Mrs. Stonel fiercely glad that Ruby had thrown aged farmer, nodded, struggled to country speak, then hastily hent over a prompted, her eye stern and com-herself. from a fifth-floor window of the reformatory. Ruby, dead, brass caspidor and spat. That manding.
And Sally, taught all her life to was safe now from charity and necessary act performed, "he eyed
with a keen, speculative conceal her feelings from those in evil and from queer, warped, ugly Sally
whispered terrible His lean face was tanned authority and to oboy implicitly,girls who to the colour and texture of brown gulped against the lump In her things as they huddied on the feather, against which a coating throat so that she could utter the cots of their cells.
ceased to hope.
gasped in a whisper.
gaze,
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too.
"Oh; Sally, dear, what is the of talcum powder, applied after a lie in the language which Mrs.
matter?" A soft, sighing voice close shave of his black beard, Stone had chosen.
The matron closed the door broke in on Sally's grief and fear, showed Judicrously.
"Yes, mum, that's the girl, all upon herself and the farmer, a bony hand was laid comforting- right. Seen her when I was here leaving Sally a quivering, sobbing ly on Sally's dark head....
"Mr. Carson, that farmer who inst June. Wouldn't let me have little thing, huddled against the her then, mum, you may recollect." wall, her nails digging into the takes a girl every summer, is going Mrs. Stone smiled graciously, flesh of her palms. If anyone had to take me home with him to- "Yes, I remember, Mr. Carson, and asked her: "Sally, why is your night," Sally gulped.
no reason why she shouldn't make all
She
I was very sorry to disappoint you, heart broken? Why do you cry Bat that will, be nice, Sally!" but we have an unbreakable rule like that?" she could not have Mise Pond gushed. "You will
intelligently. here not to board out one of our answered
have a real home, with plenty to dear little girls until she fa 16 would have groped for words to eat and maybe some nice little years old. Sally was 16 last week, express that quality within her dresses to wear, and make new
burned
flame friends-~~~ steady ப் and now that school is out, I see that
these years, unquenchable,
"Yes, Miss Pond," Sally nodded, the soul-stifling, her home with your family for the even under
She held thrall by 12 years of enforced summer or longer if you like. damp blanket of charity, The law doesn't compel us to send knew dimly that it was pride acquiescence. "But, oh, Miss the girls to school after they are fierce, arrogant pride, that told Pond, I'd been hoping it was- ber that Sally Ford, by birth, was my father or my mother, or 16, you know."
"Yes'm, I've looked into the entitled, to the host that life had somebody I belong to "?"
"Why, Sally, you haven't a law," the farmer admitted. Then to offer....
And now her body quivered father, dear, and your mother he turned his shrewed, screwed-up black eyes upon Sally again, with an agony which had no name But, merey, me, I mustn't be run "Strong, healthy girl, I reckon? and which was the more terrible ning on like this Miss Pond No aickness, no bad faults, willing for its namelessness-she was to caught herself up hastily, a four- to work for her board and keep?" be thrust out into the world, or ful eye on the closed door.
"Miss Pond," Sally, pleaded, He rose, lifting his great length that part of the world represented in sections, and slouched over to by Clem Carson and his family."won't you please, please tell me the girl who still cowered against To eat the bitter bread of charity, something about myself before I the door. His big-knuckled brown to slave for the food she put into go away? I know you're not al- hands fastened on her forearms, her stomach, which craved delllowed to but oh, Miss Pond, pleaset and when she shrank from his cacies she had never tasted; to be It's so cruel not to know any
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