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Junior Repeats What He Had Heard.
My fears that Mother Graham
would spoil her daughter's home
soming with Irritability because of
our failure to advise her of our chang
ed schedule proved unfounded. Her
little explosive criticism of my Impul
sive rush to Junior, leaving Harriet
to pay the taxi fare, must have had
the samo effect upon her temper that
the old-faahinned blood-letting was
supposed to have upon fever, for with
out welting to hear either apology or
explanation from me. she turned to
the door and held out her hunds to
tho stately woman coming up the
steps.
"Harriet! My girl!”
•'Mother. deaY!”
The .words were low and tremulous,
and ns I heard them, I bent my head
over that of my boy with a choking
sob. Memories of my own little
mother came rushing over me, as they
always do when I see a mother and
daughter together. What would 1
not give to enfold that beloved little
figure in my arms once more as Har
riet Bralthwalte was embracing my
mother-ln law. And yet even through
the longing ran the half bitter feel
ing that it were better for both of- us
that the little mother was safe in that
other world to Which her tired eyes
hat! looked so longingly in the days
of her tedious illness.
I had lived only tob her ull her
life. With the least exacting hus
»>nnd in the- world, I could not have
given her the same measure of time
and attention, and though I never
should have known it from her lips
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yet she could not have avoided either
noticing the difference, or suffering
because of It. And the warmest par
tisan of Dicky could not deny that he
1s exacting. Chivalrous, lovable, he
would have treated my mother royal
ly—but—he would have been Jealous
of my love for her, and her keen
eyes would have seen It.
A kiss upon my cheek—Lillian’s—
and her voice In low warning, roused
me from my retrospection.
"Welcome home, but don't go to
sleep." I caught her meaning at
once. Mother Graham, her emotion
al meeting with Harriet over, was the
efficient chatelaine of the castle once
more, and I knew that It behooved
me to watch my footsteps carefully.
“Margaret:” Her voice was per
emptory. "Can’t you put that child
down long enough to show Harriet
her room?"
Madge Placates Mother Graham.
With it promptness born of long
experience I knew the quickest way
of placating her.
"Junior \a going to do that, I’m
sure,” I stild with another hug for
the little body clinging to me
"Come, sweetheart, this is Aunt
Harriet, and she can’t find her room
unless you show it to her. Do you
know which room it is?"
“Of course he does," his grand
mother struck in quickly and I knew
that she was prompting his memory.
"You know, darling, the one where
you helped Danzie this morning?”
"The one wif the flowers?” Junior
asked excitedly. *
"That's it.” Mother Graham beamed
proudly. “Take Aunt Harriet's hand
and show her the room."
.Junior Is the Guide.
He looked at her, at me and at
his aunt In the funny, adorable way
he has when he is considering some
action. Then he. gravely slid down
from my artgs, and crossing to Mrs.
llralthwalte, looked up In her face.
"Are you Aunt Harriet?" he asked
curiously.
That's my name.” she responded
stooping to kiss him. He turned his
cheek for the caress in the way I
have taught him—I have a horror
of people kissing him on the lips—
and then looked at her again. Evi
dently he had something on his baby
mind.
‘‘Are you olnted idit over Edwin?”
He propounded the query gravely
and I did not need to see my moth
er-in-law's suddenly stricken face,
nor to hear the choking cough with
which Lillian smothered a laugh to
know what he meant. Too many
times had I heard Mother Graham
describe someone whose actions she
disapproved as an “anointed idiot. ’
not to recognize the patently painful
fart that she had recently applied
the epithet to her daughter in Jun
ior’s hearing.
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