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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH "Of course that aint all sue said; but 1 remember this part particular on account of wbat haptened afterward. You 6ee your ma she felt awful bad ' She cried a little, an sighed a lot, an said shed try, she really would try to help her busbund In every way she. could; an she wouldn't ssk him another once, not An' she once, to stay with her. wouldnt look sour an' cross, either. Shed promise she wouldn't. An shed try, shed try, oh, so hard, to be proper an dignified. She got up then an went out of the room so uiet an still you wouldn't know she was movin. But I heard her up In her room cryin half an hour later, when I stopped a minute at her door to see If she was there. An' she was. But she wasnt cryin by night. Not much she was! Shed wushed her face an dressed herself up as pretty as could be, an she never so much as looked as If she wanted her husband to stay with her, when he said right after supper that he guessed he'd go out to the observatory. An' twas that way right along after that. You see, I know, cause 1 watched. I knew what 6hed said shed do. Well, iMARY ' cBy & Eleanor H. Porter & Illustrations by Z. H. Livingstone Copyrlghtbi FATHER IImm AND U. Portw MOTHER SYNOPSIS. In a preface Mary Marie explains her apparent double personality and Just why she is a cross-curreand a contradiction; she also tells her reasons for writing the diary later to be a novel. The diary is commenced at Ander-sonvlllMary begins with Nurse Sarah's account . of her IMary'si birth, which seemingly Interested her father, who Is a famous astronomer. less than a new star which was discovered the same night Her name Is a compromise, her father Insisting on Abigail Jane. The child quickly learned that her home was In some way different from those of her small friends, and waa puzzled thereat Nurse Sarah tells her of her mothers arrival at Andersonville as a bride and how astonished they all were at the sight of the dainty eighteen-year-ol- d girl whom the sedate professor had chosen for a wife. nt Bhe dfcl It. e. CHAPTER II 3 Continued. "An your uia poor little thing! I couldnt think of anything but a doll that ivus thrown In the corner because soinebodyd' got tired of her. She was lonesoind, an no mistake. Anybody'd be sorry for her, to see her mopin round the house, nothin to do. Oh, she read, an sewed with them silks an worsteds ; but 'course there wasn't no real work for her to do. There was good help in the kitchen, an I took what care of your grandma was needed ; an she always gave her orders through me, so I practically run the house, an there wasnt anything there for her to do. An so your in a just had to mope It out alone. Oh, I dont mean your pa was unkind. He was always nice an polite, when he was In the house, an Im sure he meant to treat her all right. He said yes, yes, to be sure, of course she was lonesome, an he was sorry. Twas too bad he was 60 busy. An he kissed her an patted her. Cut he always began right away to talk of the comet; an ten to one he didnt disappear into the observatory within the next five minutes. Then your ma would look so grieved an sorry an go off an cry, an maybe not come down .to dinner, at all. Well then, one day things got so bad your grandma took a hand. She was up on around the house, though she kept mostly to her own rooms. But of course she saw how things was Besides. I told her some. goin'. Twas no more than my duty, as looked at it. She just worshiped your pa, an naturally shed want things right for him. So one day she told me to tell her sons wife to come to her In ,her room. An I did, an she came. Poor little thing I I couldn't help bein sorry for her. ,She didnt know a thing of what was wanted of her, an she was so glad an happy to come. You eee, Bhe was lonesome, 1 suppose. Me? Want me? Mother Anderson? she cried. Oh, Pm so glad! Then she made it worse by runnin up the stairs an bouncin Into the room like a rubber ball, an oryln: Now, what shall I do, read to you. or sing to you, or shall we play games? Id love to do any of them! Just like that, she said it. 1 heard her. Then 1 went out, of course, an left them, but I heard most everything that was said, just the same, for 1 was Tight in the next room dustiu, and the door wasnt quite shut. First your grandmother said real polite site was always polite bui In a cold HI tie voice that made even me shiver In the other room, that she did not desire to be read to or sung to, end that she did not wish to play games. She had called her daughter-in-laIn to have a serious talk with her. Then she told her, still very polite, that she was noisy an' childish. an undignified, an that It was not only silly, but very wrong for her to expect to have her husbands entire attention ; that lie had his own work, an it was a very important one. He was going to be president of the college some day. like his father before him ; an it was her place to help him In every way she could help him to be popular an' by all the college people on students; an he couldnt he that If she Insisted all the time on peepin him to herself, or lookin sour an cross If she couldn't have him. bright-colore- d Then, pretty quick after that, she began to get acquainted In the town. Folks called, an' there was parties an' receptions where she met folks, an' they began to come here to the house, specially them students, an two or three of them young, unmarried professors. An she began to go out a lot with them skatin an slelghrldin an snowshoeln. Like it? Of course she liked ltl Who wouldnt? Why, child, you never saw such a fuss as they made over your ma In them days. She was all the rage; an of course she liked It. What woman wouldnt, that was gay an lively an youug, an had been so lonesome like your ma had? But some other folks didn't like it. An your pa was one of them. This time twas him that made the trouble. 1 know, cause I heard what he said one day to her in the library. Yes, I guess was In the next room that day, too er dustin, probably. Anyway, I heard him tell your ma good au plain what he thought of her gallivantin round from mornln till night with them young students an professors, an, havin' them here, too, such a lot, till the house was fairly overrun with them. He said he was shocked an scandalized, an didnt she have any regard for his honor an decency, if she didnt for herself! An oh. a whole lot more. Cry? No. your ma didnt cry this time. I met her In the hall right after they got through talkin, an she was white as a sheet, an her eyes was like two blazin stars. So I know how she must have looked while she was in the library. An I must say she give It 1 well-like- d little; but of course your grandma had always given the orders throng me, 1 mean; an there really wasn't anything your ma could do. An' told her so, plain. Her ways Here new an different an' queer, an w liked ours better, unyway. So she didnt bother us much that way very long. Besides, she wnsnt feelln very well, anyway, an for the next few months she stayed' In her room a lot. an we didnt see much of her. Then by an by you came, an well, I guess thats all too much you little chatter- Cuess Was in the Next Room That Day, Too er Dustin." "Yes, I I to him good an plain, straight from the shoulder. She told him she was shocked an scandalized that he could talk to his wife like that; an didnt he have any more regard for her honor an decency than to accuse her of run-ri- n after any man living much less a dozen of them! Aij then she told him a lot of what his mother had said to her, an she said she had been merely tryin to carry out those instructions. She was tryin to make her husband an her husbands wife an her husband's home popular with ihe college folks, so she could help him to be president. If he wanted to be. But he auswered back, cold an' chilly, that he thanked her, of course,' but he didnt care for any more of that kind of assistance; an If she would give a little more time to her home an' her housekeepln, as she ought to, he would be considerably better pleased. An she said, very well, she would see that he had no further cause to complain. An the next minute I met her in the hall, as I just said, her head high and her eyes blazin,-Athings did change then, a lot. Ill own. ltlght away she began to refuse to go out with the students an young professors, an she sent down word she wasnt to home when they called. And pretty quick, of course, they stopped cornin. Had Your Iron Today? 1 box 1 CHAPTER III The Break Is Made. way Nurse Sarah finished her story, only she shrugged her shoulders again, and looked back, first one way, then another. As for her calling me chatterbox she always calls me that when she's been And thats the doing all the talking. As near as 1 can remember, I have told Nurse Sarahs story exactly as she told it to me, In her own words. But of course I know I didnt get It right all the time, and I know Ive left out quite a lot. But, anyway. Its told a whole lot more than I could have told why they got married in the first place, and It brings my story right up to the point where I was born; and Ive already told about naming me, and what a time they had over that Of course whats happened since, up to now, I dont know all about, for 1 was only a child for the first few years. Now Im almost a young lady, standing with reluctant feet where the brook and river meet (I read that last night. I think Its perfectly beautiful. So kind of sad and sweet. It makes me want to cry every time 1 think of it.) But even If 1 dont know all of whats happened since I was born, I know a good deal, for Ive seen quite n lot, and Ive made Nurse tell me a lot more. I know that ever since 1 can remember Ive had to keep as still as a mouse the minute Father comes Into the house; and I know that I never could imagine the kind of a mother that Nurse tells about, if 'it wasnt that sometimes when Father has gone off on a trip, Mother and I have romped all over the house, and had the most beautiful time. 1 know that Father says that Mother Is always trying to make me a Marie, and nothing else; and that Mother says she snows Fatherll never be happy until ties made me Into a stupid little Mary, with never ah atom of life of my own. And, do you know? It does seem sometimes, as if Mary and Marie were fighting Inside of me, and I wonder which is going to beat. Funny, Isnt it? Father is president of the college now, and I dont know how many stars and comets and things hes discovered since the night the star and I were born together. But I know hes very famous, and that hes written up in the papers and magazines, and Is in the big fat red Whos Who in the library, and has lots of noted men come to see him. Nurse says that Grandma Anderson died very soon after I was born, but that it didnt make any particular difference in the housekeeping; for things went fight on just as they had done, with her giving the orders as before; that shed given them all alone anyway, mostly, the last year Grandma Anderson lived, and she knew just how Father liked things. She said Mother tried once or twice to take the reins herself, and once Nurse let her. Just to see what Would happen. But tilings got in an awful muddle right and said things. It seems that for a long time they didnt want folks to know there was going to he a divorce. So before folks they tried to he Just as usual. But Nurse Sarah said she knew there was going to be one long ago. The first I ever heard of it was Nurse telling Nora, the girl we had In the kitchen then : and the minute I got a chance I asked Nurse what It was a divorce. My, I can remember now how scared she looked, and how 6he clapped her hand over ray mouth. She wouldnt tell me not a word. And thats the first time I ever saw her give that quick little look over each shoulder. Shes done It lots of times since. As said, she wouldnt tell me. so I wnsnt I had to ask some one else. going to let It go by and not find not not, when Nurse Sarah looked so scored, and when It was something my father and mother were going to have some day. I didnt like to ask Mother. Some had a feeling, from the way way, Nurse Sarah looked,, that It was something Mother wnsnt going to like.' And I thought If maybe she didnt know yet she wns going to have It, that certainly I didnt want to be the one to tell her. So 1 didn't ask Mother what a divorce waa, , 1 , Atteuu to than she did try to at first, a HouscKeepin? 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