Show The Evening Telegrams Telegram's Daily Short Story WHERE WHERE SHE WAS NEEDED By LOUISE ALICE KNOX C Copyright 1914 b by the McClure l Newspaper News Net paper S Syndicate atc It wasn't that she resented Hazels Hazel's not wanting her hH In ITI tho the house What young youns bride brido could t feel el delight in having hn a agro gro grownup stepdaughter r around all thc tho time She understood Hazels Hazel's feelings thoroughly It was that th she ho had fooled tooled herself Into thinking that Hazel would want ant her her- herIt It was her own stupidity that she pho was blaming n now rud- w She had dreamed and anti planned so man many weeks Whatever made me mo think in the first place that I wouldn't t l le be o In the way a 1 she wondered staring out O of or tier lier bedroom window at al the tho green creen orchard afar off oft on the hilltop Or didn't I think at all That had been It She had not thought at Bt all aU She had Just felt Ever since her mother died she he had hs had an ble be longing to have another woman person person per per- son Aon In the hou house for tor her father fattier had been a real chum to her yet what could fathers athers understand of or the JOs JO's Joys of oC dressmaking and party planning And Ad Hazel a girt girl from the city I h had M seemed I sent to her In direct answer to prayer Well Yell I must have ha been crazy crazy that's that's all was as the decision sho tin finally reached reach There Is p poor or lonely Aunt Jenny needing needing need need- ing me mo and I am staying where Im I'm m anything but needed Her next decision was to pack her suitcaSe suit suit- case and c get t off ott to Aunt Jenny at once The Tho dear old ladys lady's farm lay only two miles out of the village She could walk that easily Nor was waN there thele any am line lime to b be lost In Iii getting ofT off Hazel was 35 now down street treet marketing When she returned it would probably be an hour or two before she red t that at her stepdaughter had flown thinking that she sho WB was war AS ns usual a at t her tousle music lesson The Tho da danger nger lay Innot innot In Innot not getting out o of tim tho house anti and far up the street before Hazel started homeward Tt rl would be frightful meeting her carryIng carry carry- in Ins Ing a suitcase The best beet way to go o was to go KO un She would lea leaf f I note on her bureau telling toiling that she lie had been heen n needed suddenly by Aunt Jenny Vas not Aunt Tenn Jenny o trying to nil 1111 all t tie Cia butter orders she ahe received recI So a as not to arouse their suspicion she idie he would tell toll them tieni that she would he away only onI a week ceU or t two later she Hie could lengthen the stay Perhaps too It would bo be best to address the note to Hazel linac Not ot for tor anything would she make t trouble for Cor the girl rl For Vor I sue guess JM Id gro grow stiff and unfriendly un un- un friendly trl and solemn 11 too If I were a It bride and had to h have ft a third person around all tie te time si sho told herself fairly When hen the tIme suitcase was packed packer she tf flew w to 10 the tin tiny child's childs d desk sk lIk which she had always kept even fOn thou though h she had lon long 3 ago 0 o outgrown It and dropping to toa toa a cramped ramp rt position b before fore It II wrote the note D Dear 4 1 Hazel Hazel You'll You'll think me the flightiest thing In the world for chasing oft art In this Scatter j li way 8 but dont don't b be alarmed I haven't sloped eloped Ive I've Just packed m my suit ault case casc and gone out to totA tA stay with Ith Aunt Jonny for or a da day or two t i-h i sent word that she Nhe n dM m mt me to ta help her with till te churning po so I thought It wasn't WInt right to witH wall even w n a minute I know how she gets geta CtR nil all nervous 1 and unstrung un unstrung un- un strung when she tins has more orders rs than Rh she can cnn fill b by herself so fO o 1 I simply threw a r few w things s Into the th suitcase and took to m my heel hecl I hate to leave you OU and Dad Your loving GERALDINE Th The h pen dropped dropp d from h her hr r nn fingers so 8 tat Mt t a long Jon time motionless Tenderly her r fingers touched the green Ml felt Imitation Imitation tion tiomi blotter of th the Un tiny r desk k It was on this blotter that her fathers father's l lug hla lg hand band v ha wears ars r. r ago had guided lu her r ba baby b one allf She had ad been Just bl big enough nough to sit before it Jt comfortably then S' S Somehow n how sue sie hd had n never been able to part with the I th thin thing i ng It will b be lon lonely ly without mel sho she thought childishly as she Ahe he rose There Was wan not a moment to be he lost and amid yet strangely h she hc he made no move to go o. o Silently ll Ue she wo wandered toward the window and stood I looking do down n on th the garden below It was wan down there under the linden tree 11 tat a t she and b her br r fath r spent so o many ninny long JonI evenn evening s it wa was th there rc he had bad mado made to her what Vila t she aha always called t to l herself herselt his lila confession slon HA f you Olt ever e noticed he ho had brok h out suddenly on one night that Im I'm not like Uko oth other r people She iad started and looked at him In |