Show LYN N 11 MLA ko kathleen ris m y illustrations aaion 3 bu bil I 1 I 1 if Z Z A cis grigst grig lt V orria HOME AGAIN SYNOPSIS ellen androe and joe let imer orphans without means make mak their home with thel their r aunt F elsie isle at port fort washington small new kew york town ellen Is studying art rt her expenses being paid by mrs sewall rose girlhood friend of her mother mrs rose invites ellen to a thanksgiving house party find and the girl eirl Is delighted on the way ay from rom the station elation to mrs roses ellen rides with a remarkably attractive young woman and a much older man she takes them for or rather end nd daughter but they are introduced as ar and mrs josselyn ellen does docs not it in with the younger me members abers of the party and in miserable leaving tor for her home next morning ellen meets gibbs josselyn son of her fellow guest ile he has disapproved of his fathers wedding and Is not on speaking terms with the couple declining to stay ot at mrs roses gibbs drives ellen to the station they miss the train and gibbs undertakes to drive the girl to port W washington a ah their auto Is wrecked ellen it Is hurt but it Is not thought to be serious and she and gibbs part he has been attracted by the girl and she he by him ellens injury proves to be severe and for months she 1 Is 8 an invalid recovered she Is tailing part in the towns memorial day cay festivities when gibbs josselyn on a yach yachting trip with a friend george lathrop meets her again the feeling of mutual attract attraction lon has strengthened since they parted they leave port washington man and wife CHAPTER V 6 tommy rommy dear the little mother in the big blue coat coal said presently lifting ing the child frow from her lap find and setting him upon his own sturdy legs on the he 1 deck rup run and nd tell dad that mother wants ants tf see him tell him were almost almost in tier her voice rose almost to song on the last phrase and although the child was already out of hearing her nearest neighbor an elderly woman also comfortably stretched in a deck chair heard her and smiled you sound glad to be back mrs josselyn said she 1 I know how glad I 1 w was as going A to be admitted ellen josselyn her happy eyes lealnd the prospect of the dark water of the harbor mouth and the alie unmistakable approach of the solid blue shadows that mean hind mr josselyn and I 1 went abroad abro id the very day after our marriage and that was six years ago last october weve laed in france all this time tommy was a born there and when we decided to come back to america I 1 felt a sort of terror actually 1 it seemed much buch harder than the original uprooting strangely enough 1 I 1 neer have been homesick for america but im homesick already for francel france and let et now that were almost in im he be tinning to be terribly thrilled 1 ellen let her ees rest on the turn tum illig water again find and the nearing land america thirty fourth street again central park again after ill all it was home she had curiously t vaguely dreaded it she had bad had her times of hoping never to return and yet now the ehe felt a sudden thrill tin and a rush of something like rapture in tier her heart y she was ana an older ellen at t twenty w enty nine hine and an astonishingly developed ellen the six years imd had ril made tide a woman of intelligence and charm S travel and study stu d y had done their share jy joy had lind had I 1 its is part in the chanze cl innee 1 nna and sorrow too wifehood had y U brou glit tier generous nature only i what was fine find and good motherhood had brought her the boy flit tant at was tile core of her heart and motherhood had bad brought sorrow as well ell for little tom had had bad a sister for a few happy A months three years ago and the baby Fr aie in a strange cemetery was never long out of ellens thoughts lint that was mas the only slin shadow dow oth trw lse it was all gain the radiant girl that had sailed with nith gibb 3 fr from m this same harbor more than six years ka had bad not been tin nn exacting wife thare achere was tin nn background of spoiling i and nd selfishness to in make ellen jo celyn a difficult woman to live with her joyous oh ob gibbs wont that he be fun I 1 had charmed him and perhaps a y little touched him a thousand times kin L ln those first days everything war delight I 1 iniE ht to 0 o her flip lie ship the nv new the new gowns tier her eyes eye carsil were never fired of new imbres tons 5 part pari wall all she che had ever dreamed tor for her life much much more than ther her brighter dream and before ilav came me find and afterward and ava always va T wonderful life was ns for tho tha magic cliv with ith her in C arm nn watching cont contelia elif i 1 clarc new lines hm a in him H i A fit tare ce hearing hint him say a dozen times a day that she lind lad ghen eh en lint him back ills Is life her happy grateful heart was only too full ile he began to work a ai once and for awhile she worked too but t swiftly she saw that her earnest and clever beginning was as that of a promising child there were ten thousand girls in paris who ito could do what ellen could do gibbs was a genius she never doubted it and it was as only a year or two after they came to paris that his world began to see it too ile he wont went straight at ills his portrait work and he lived only for that find and for lier ter and ellen watching other women struggle anil and despair in loneliness onell ness and poverty wondered ion dered with her old sweet childish surprise why god had been so good to her and presently she had find tommy and they wore were playing nt at housekeeping in the tiniest of little lost villages in brittany these were days of sunshine while gibbs gabbs wonderful lit in knickerbockers and a paint smeared smock painted and yvonne walked bareheaded to marlet market and ellen played under twisted old trees with tommy tommy had no nurse but his picturesque little mother now for ellen was thrifty even in paris and ellen had spent more than one evening on the arm of gibbs chair working out the end of their problem their money must last until this time or that time lime they must think of the future when tommy was two years old and before the second child was born gibbs painted his wife they were in brittany again and ellen with kith white sewing in the lap of a checked blue gown and figure and face already caught in the first rising tide of motherhood wits was set against a background of gnarled griar led old grapevines the picture was bung in the salon des independents and ellen when her delicate little girl was a few weeks old went to see it there was a crowd about it there was always a crowd about it it was the discussed picture of the year but she always looked at it with a little pang at her heart beart she had been so happy in those sleepy july days in the grape arbor she had bad thought that the new baby would be like tommy strong and gay and hungry and the tiny new thing who aho had been named rose tor for gibbs gabbs mother was so frail even while she was looking at gibbs picture his first success rilen ellens s beart was in the little nursery on mont saint etienne Etlen nc hanging banging agonized aboe the little bed where here rose josselyn lay quiet apathetic half asleep the picture during the winter caused a widening circle of comment and admiration and presently gibbs had his first commission and was to paint a boy of ten in the trim gray uniform of a military school and ro re cebre two thousand thou rand francs for the picture so fame was colln coming and fortune would come close on her heels ellen sitting by tile studio window in the winter afternoons and looking out at al the lutter ong ln snow into which bonne yonne had taken tile the dam dani ing ting tommy mused upon the dream that had become the fact she had paris gibbs and tommy po fin much more than she lind had asked but the silent apathetic little pose poe wn was gone from the nursery now never to lie ile against er mothers heart again was that the cost co st of bucce success rs she wondered success was new hut but nh ah this constant cons hunger at her heart was new to too how gladly limy gladly she would let the one go if slie she might lose the other glov painted three more the alie next winter which mide them feel rich hut but he was wn w worine hard and an in the atelier six morn ings a week and am neither he nr nor illen ellen were Inell inclined ned to 0 o sit si that hat there wits no n P a fir incentive to seek and lar fo tile the exquisite years went by and was three and then four sad still tile 1 t ili ell in their own happiness shut away from tile the world and to in forget it ellens whole heart I 1 nil HS wrapped ahdout her husband her girlish lind had never been disturbed true she knew now that eliat gibba was hunnan she knew nw that he ronld r he that lie had moods in which she and tommy find and yvonne must keep even it a crumpled leaf from hl blit path rut but he loved her sho she him and il hb lilia pride nud find her happy that were wn B him those hone of a and n pupil sometimes wide eyed admiration oil nil motherly wre were dear to him up he did her it if she loved hint not of have arv e to asli he wn vena nil hot her world 1 danly in the seventh year n nw nr note cainap into their without anny premonition ibea apol haenn in it to say if we do to so bark back to amelica Amell Ame ilca ca kilen ellen was as innocent as a gibbs of anny prearranged planning to that effect they simply felt the possibility in the air presently gibbs mind had seized strongly upon the idea ne would go to new york and find a studio and see what the prospect was of painting portraits there after tommas tommys birth nt at Il ellens lens request he had written his father enclosing a little photograph of the small bald headed lump of babyhood that was thomas gibbs third and the lie grandfather had eagerly responded to the overture A magnificent gold lined cup had come from atif banys tor for the baby and presents on all formal occasions now gibbs began to think he be would like to show his father the stalwart tommy who spoke two languages at rive five and played his little violin so nicely then abruptly it was settled and they began to wonder how bow they hai had managed to atsy away go BO long ellen during the last bu busy ay days could stop sometimes lit in her packing to look out of the undraped studio window the had been so happy here since the mar dais when she find and gibbs gleibs had unpacked the boxes and laid the rugs and hung the pictures with their own hands was it wise to run awny from it all and then came the memory of fifth avenue in spring sunshine and the sound of ones own tongue spoken on all sides and the garden in main alain street sweet with lilacs and she would smile again she smiled now as the little boy and the tal la I 1 man crossed the deck to her gibbs was young nt at thirty eight despite tile the silver hair ile he had been playing bridge find and was glad to get gel into the fresi air after the hot smoking room you packed everything he be accused her because I 1 wanted you to be free to see the very first of the city I 1 she answered eagerly look tommy ellis island dear where nil all the immigrants have to get oft off and look theres liberty 1 I it Is darned thrilling gibbs said smiling ng as they leaned on the rall rail r I 1 i ii A IL L it Is 1 darned thrilling gibbs gibb 3 said smiling as they leaned on the R rail ail the nicean was left behind them they wore were i nell ell into the rier now und and on both bides the land wits was coming down to meet them aln in trees were still date but easter was near weve missed all the ugly hard part ellen exulted and well get all the glory of the sp spring 1 1 I wrote rote the old man wed go to the Pre brevoort voort gibbs suld 1 I bet well we ll 11 find a me sage there ask us doun domn to the llie new nev house houie ellen smiled her father faglier ln in law and his wife had recently taken pos possession Nession slon of a new home at wheatley Wh entley hills a rashio fashionable colony only a few miles from port washington it would he be rather fun to visit there as glahs wife with little thomas third she he wet well I 1 remembered the handsome aranan who wh had been so bafflingly su superior perlor in her manner toward alra airs hose her own what was it stepmother ln in law now sa no curiously had events come about 1101 gibbs GIh bbs bs she wild raid suddenly look there by that little boy on the pier chos aang the alie lagl flag thit that your rather father of course it ill I 1 anti and your stepmother too ton and theres jot joe theres joe the old darling unde joe T tommy climmy oh joe joe joe that lq I 1 dad I 1 gibbs said deeply pleased and touched and theres there 9 old george I 1 call tills this decent I 1 we wee e been away fit lung ellen that rd id forgotten how nice it 14 I 1 to have folks I 1 I 1 suppose five dashing indy in the bank lint hat Is my im minin wave your blind kid your family and try to remember the english for things lings ti or I 1 wit not like youl you I 1 five minutes later they were nil fill together in 11 jumble of funding liin ding ellen was kissed on her suddenly wet cheeks by her father ln in law and by george lathrop who 1141 lind had been best at their weddin lac il and by flip swett t and rather silent joe joe wax was taller lhnn ever he be would never be well dressed or well gro grudd or have a particularly happy manner in company but bin ellen clung citing to tile the big 1 arm and laughed int me hlo hond ainne kindly nee re aa if she nev nel feel and see and hear atif f hint him ile HP had Imp improved so and he lf ked sr so well so grown gron i un I 1 after nil ali nes little brother i hiir it I 1 fir one eq little brother eat farn n if lie n wn we fanty I arl sie she vinod ter 1 er anther ln in law nc nel i hp atis wi shrunken Ket und and ills his fire face tild t grawn leaner in IM 1 aspect alint i was ires so cang canave ve aw CO cc be hardly recognizable she wits dressed with greet great severity but everything ever tiling site she wore as wag fine and rich her skin was like a rose lent her dark eyes were rimmed with taint violet shadows eyes made for OW i but shining with pleasure and hoppl 1 now ellen thought thou glit she had never seen whiter teeth or a more beautiful scarlet mouth to enhance their whiteness hit eness she had been beautiful seven beirs ago she was more than that now she radiated charin and personality there th ere was a hint of sadness in her face when it was in repose there were a hundred provo cathe attractions in her thoughtful smile she was ready with a french phra phrase ge a german phrase she touched lightly upon the italian political situation site she had the name of a Kuss Itus liin novelist readily upon her tongue ellen thoroughly liked george lathrop who was gibbs senior by only six or seven years and his best friend george was a lawyer lauyer and a man of importance but he was some somewhat hat insignificant in appearance and his manner still betrayed the country boy who tins has fought ills way to the top you must help me get sorie sone new gowns ellen said realizing for the first time in seven years that gowns really were important of course at home in parn paris I 1 mean ive worn worm only studio things but my benr ear you should have gotten loads of things in parisi 1 lillian an said think pirates here well I 1 did get an evening gown and en an afternoon dress ellen said bald gibbs glahs find and I 1 tried to pick out some tiling smart rut but really it Is hard there there areso abeso many new models and one cant tell which Is going to ile he adopted and so many women dress just to fit their own types now regardless gar gard less diess of style mere here we arel are joe who could not move tile his delighted eyes from ills his sister said suddenly they all 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