SHORT STORY,
HIS FIRST-BORN
BY
ANNIE HOWELLS FRECHETTE
(Concluded From Saturday.)
As she sat before her mirror, combing her hair, she saw reflect- ed from the doorway behind her Harriet's forbidding ocuntenance.
greeting him in her old loving
way.
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maʼam,” she said; without à touch of that sympathy with which she was wont to announce the arrival of that lady,
"Ob. surely not, Harriet. And to-day of all days!"
"It is not my fault, ma'am. I
have never made a habit of keep ing her for tes-and getting her wonted to coming."
"You know very well I have only kept ber because I am sorry for her. Harriot sniffed. "And to think that Mr. Robert is to be here only one day."
gallant heart he could not be rude even to a bore when the bore was a woman, but chiefly because he knew that his mother was suffer- ing and he longed to save her as far as he might.
the garden and gathered a land- After ten they strolled about
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FOR SALE-BARTING and DO guest, and Mrs. Lako, was asking CATE, on parter Kowloon Ialsed Lo: herself how much longer the in-No. 1184, fiction would last when Harriet appeared around the corner of the house, woaring an expression of
Sho wished haughty humility.
Quite a short visit," said Harriet coldly. Then, relenting to know whether Mr. Itobert slightly as she detected the near-, meant to take his mother for a ness to tears in the voice of her drive during the evening. If not, mistress, she added: "I told her she would like the horse herself, that you were expecting Mr. as she wished to drive out to her Robert, but she didn't take the
She could tako Mrs. hint, She said she enjoyed meot Stone home on her way, if she was ing people from the outside ready to go?
world."
"Then there is no help; she means to stay. Tell her I'll be down soon. Mr. Robert always says she drives him wild."
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would be different.",
It was the olive branch which Ilarriet was holding ont to her dearly loved but often disciplined mistress, and, even if she did have the manner of switching her with it, sir. Lakh sent her a look ple are to find it out. They got you were willing to make stone- of gratitude and hastily put theo thinking they have a right to mant. But if she sees you mak family horse at her disposal. Aknow. They haven't. bat Filing it day after day yes, then it few minutes later she drove up to allow them to know. I will say: the gate with a masterful men, and sar, stiff and angular, while, with Robert's help," Mrs Stone airily took her place beside her and was quickly driven away in to the gathering shadesufry-ning.
What a general Harriot is! exclaimed Robert, with a laugh, which turned into a sigh as he took his mother's hand and they continued their aimless walk about the garden. Silence fell between them, and after a time his mother said.
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I guess she drives other people wild, too-people who don't feel sorry for her just because she is a useless, lazy thing." And Harriet gloomed herself out of the room, Mrs. Lake sat with brush in hand, thinking bitterly, Had Harriet and her misery not been enough, without having Mrs. Stone heaped upon her? And Bybert-poor Rubeit! How he would hate to find her awaiting him, when he had come with his hoyy heart-longing to be alone with his mother. With the sui dea iuconsequence that she had always condemned in herself, she realized that she was on the verge of laughter as she pictured bin sitting throughout the to, liste- ing to hor sentimental pltitales. On the porch lo, put her into Ah, well, perhaps Mrs. Stone her chair and took his place on was to be a part of his punish-the step at her feet, resting his mont. At another time she know head against her knoe. She how he would have gruabled an aside in her ear at finding their visitor ready to greet him, and then, when she was safely gono, beginning, "By Jove, mother, that woman and then break ing into a hearty laugh. But nct to-day. Thore would bo no comody to-day.. It was tragedy.
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Sho went downstairs at last, she could find no further excuse for lingering, and greeted hor. visitor with such cordiality as she could force herealf to show.
"I am tired. Rahort; let us go and sit down."
stroked his hair gently, and thought of the times, when he was a boy, that they had eat thus, talking fitfully of the things that come and go through the mind of a boy which are so precious this mother.
Her beat yearnod.over him now in his trouble. If only his father had lived!
Presently a tear fell upon the bower head.
Before they separated for the might they went over all there "Perhaps it is dead, Robert."
And the next was to be done. He laughel bitterly. "That day they could talk of the present would make it easier for 108, than and the future with a calmness. I desorvo to have it made. If it they would not have believed is not living, then the horrible possible twenty-four hours earlier. nightmare will have passed. Something of the horror had al- will be known only to you and ready passed, through acceptance me. Even Marian need not of the situation. Even the cold, know; that phase of my life end-stera justice that they were will od before I knew of her existencing to accord" the child" was You don's think it would be already tempored by pity and a wrong for me not t: tell her, do "faint glow of kindness, you?"
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“No, no-it would be wrong to tell her. She might never feel the same toward you.'
"Oh, don't say that! For if is living sho will have to know. Tell me, dear mother, do you feel differently toward me?
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And so they parted he to go in search of what he prayed was no longer to be found, and she to sit and wait.
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The first letters that came bick to her were short and brought only news of the fruitlessness of his search. He had gone over "Ah, that is different, dear. his paths of those early years in You can never change in my eye. vain, before his inquiries br ught And, though I am sorrier than any promise of ultimate success. can ever tell you for what has All traces of the young Indian happoned, I am still sorrier for girl seemed hopelessly lost. Ia you, and you are just as dear to the shifting life of the West, the mo as ever. And if the child is men he had known were widely living and you have to bring it to scattered....Even where the great Marian, she can forgive you the cattle-ranges had stretched away more easily because she will feel to the horizon, little towns had that you need her love and sym-sprung up and altered the aspect pathy. She will stand by you of the country until it was a new and help you, for she is a good land to him. "Oh, mother, you have always woman. And can't you see that He wrote that he was discour- been so good to me, and I havo it will be easier for her to forgive aged and would soon turn home- repaid you so cruelly !"
you if you need her than if you ward. "Don't think of me, dear; we went to her and confessed all, an must just try to think what is best told her that the child was dead, for you to do."
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"We may as well speak of it, Robert. We must face it.
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But, happily for the visitor, ahe w of that self-centrod olas which seas little beyond itself and, as long as she was being grati- ́fied, cared little for the feelings of others. If she detected any lark of warmth in her victim, she readily forgave it when Mrs. Lake explained that she had not slept "No--I suppose not; but there well the night before. She play-are so many to consider." fally patted the cheek of her hostess, and said clearly it had been an inspiration of hers to como and bring a gleam of sun- shine to cheer her in her dullness
"And Harriet tells me that our dear Robert is coming. I must stay long enough to see the handsome fellow! You know, Robert and I are old sweethearta. Then I'll run away.
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"Ob. I know-I know!" "Have you over thought-re- member, I do not say that you should think it that it might ba better to leave things asthey are?"
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"Yen; I'm ashamed to say I've often thought that at first." But now-no! Molher dear; don't let us go back to that time, and pre- tend to ourselves that it would be HONEYCOMB SPONGES right for me to keep on doing wrong.
have the courage to have you do
"But that will make you late
"Oh, I know what would be TURKEY SPONGES for your tea. If you stay to see Robert you had better stay to taa." right for you to do, but I hardly
"How sweet of you! If you really are determined tokeep me, I may as well say yes"; and she quickly began to remove her hat and gloves and settle herself in the most comfortable chair in the room,
it. If it were only you and I: RUBBER SPONGES but there is Marian-and-the whole world."
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