Show alio proverbial straw had broken abo lack thu pa of Cli arlotto brantome usually equal 0 o alio exigencies of alio occasion was c the twin ns a anit of course were tho culprits they however with the complacency to boys of six or thereabouts i were to tho tempest of dc which raged ia their fister 3 breast they had re frain cil from adding deceit to their guilt but had confessed fully and unreservedly to riding tho canaras can arys nest lo 10 tearing n jacket biml losing a hat blown alic well to eating abc strawberries eliat ero saved for supper and to catching most faithful dicu with a fishhook fish hook that fishhook fish hook represented tho straw charlotte the camel alio rould have borne anything boiler alian downright cruelty developed so early in bouc of tier own blood sho never was 1 boy and a man was here went on pop cy abig mau volunteered the other twin and bo asked us about everything and wo said our mother very well and our was an old maid school maam charlotte winced where had ho nicked up that explosion and hail it como to hint you must not talk to strange men about mother or me what did lie want he hauled to see yon me visions of ps of spying burglars only they biad nothing to burgle ns ponsey had said one day came into her mahd how did lie look lie was beautiful he was dreadful said abo twins in duct further questioning elicited these facts he was ong lic was old bo was short ho wan tall lie wore spectacles be bad 1 mustache and was abiog man in the last and crowning fact the ijoyi agreed practice bad made mis brantome Bran a tolerable clairvoyant so f ir ns thoc two small dumdi win concerned abc jumped at the conclusion an elusive am bad that wi v and gave alic subject comoro attention she bad other tiling than bug men or any men and the problems of liow to provide a new ant for ami liow to antill remorse into alio hearts of her charges drove other thoughts away si eting down on alio low doorstep of alic house thit had been ciomo to glicr for MX and twenty happy she tried tu reason it out the sun was yet high iha days were at their longcr long ct glicr llo bcd abo tireless river in front of across the prairie alic halh were preen in the field of rye over the way learned a largo while wooden brosi her grandfather in whose wins bowed home of the bine blood of franco bad bong lila ciomo in blits country aln n tha of an indian biad still property to gell the deed of iilo provided for lie of grorud alic sinking grai cs binin had tho cross it bad been renewed t times sinco then bat abo game and vas ever alio llio patient protector solemnly holding its arms out as if to defend alio mobil cring alie grain grew thick around but alio liny village of alio dead was never disturbed by spade or plow old bierre and never arpi neither dil and one night when riding boma li n giorc at abu sight of tho while ros in the moonlight and threw him his head against a stone he left no legacy but the homestead ami a debt to and children was a gap of twenty years between charlotte and the twin babies and she really biad a third bat on her hand fortha mother was nothing more useful than abal after glicr husbands death sho was not feeble minded exactly but painfully gentle ami unaccountable charlotte shouldered her burach 1 with a brave heart her french ac ent forur blood biad never filtered through canada brought arr employment in a school in the town near by the long walks back and furch appt the roses bloomin in her chucks the boys were good and abc being busy was happy it requires leisure to bo euc miserable tho cros typified to alio daily martyrdom of and now looking at it her heart grew light the new hat would cost but a trilla surely more strawberries in alio garden the canary would lay more eggs abc I 1 could be mended and old speckle bad proved superior to iho linn book but what could the boys bo aug about the bug danl alio bugman bug man they were shouting trotting toward her with all their elgh t on their sandy little feet it was certainly eliy geould a stranger call twice that lie como once was not surprising but twice wo showed him bour photograph said and ho said you look like an old maid a bit and ho paid went on the terrible infant without a pause we proud to have suan a nice sitter lie wished ho had and bo had such a lot of bug ho puts them to with madi ciuc abd puts pins through cm abid he laa a gold watch and lo 10 let us wind it up and ve told him to cacno again baiao and hato ho bat was echles but in oma way alic found aci adf inua to glicr fuel to meet n who was taking oil liis hat to her and bowing a ganco which oven granda illich bran tome would havo ap profil mis I 1 alio in 0 o 1 I nm gathering materials for nn historical work and wu tu you for inform ilion concerning the antiquities of this region val I 1 might as well say now that I 1 havo references and nv that sort of thing then you aro not aliu stopped im smiled no I 1 am nol exactly n bugman bug man as alipo liello follows kavo called me although I 1 must pawl guilty to a slight leaning in ct just now I 1 wohld joyfully part with the bigar sl bugs of my collection if in exchange I 1 might your grandfathers paper lie wag so gracefully genial hat ono no moro ho absurdly dignified with liim alian willi tho golden robin iI ling ou alio indian cross will yon walk in 1 I will sit out hero instead if yuu will permit me so and copey dragged a chair and then stood and wonder eyed listening to the talk of discovery and adventure they did nol understand it very well until alio conversation lunice to indian lore indians and bears they could comprehend then the mother voica drew acir tho door in lie melancholy wavering any the lo 10 wife thought thil la sallo was an indian chiot cliar lotto was i ying and she had of father marquitte but suppo ed him the priest down at la PAZ heronin ion of libin boull not hivo anido hiim vain slie doca not in top pory ai alio calls it 1 I art a woman the other da alio thought a herbarium was ft bai remarked mr duncan then they lanh cd lut lo 10 an end the boys acan 1 dumb aldow behind the back to indi cito to their sister that they acro pc of lainer ln iner so she act sho conversation lag in to end tho call como tomorrow to morrow and sec ano if you like alio said it w ill bo saturday and I 1 bleill be at home tu lie thanked her and withdrew jumping over alio rail fence which skirted the field of rye in to gel a view of tho cross on which not one but a dozen goldin robins were now holding ii conclave and alie teakettle w n soon ringing in alie kitchen ft son us gay as that of the robain and charlotte wa not her muni cartful self is tho picked the strawberries for tea half of green said the di sho s ing cf the bugman bug man it certainly was astonishing liow niichi consulting tho brantome Br antomo manu and too mr dincan required so much inac it was mi will yon kindly read this list while I 1 copy it or miss charlotte really 1 cant make out whether this i an c or an all tho while grandfather would have begun to inquire as to marriage i and scotch pedigreed pedigrees grees had ho been alive to sec thoc chestnut locks innocent of bang and that dark iiii t iche in such dangerous proximity it ans tho old story two young heads bending over the samo page no word of passed all was on a strictly basis tho of the history of the missions of the northwest the objective aim but at last there was no foi lingering longer the hills the prairie were red and gold tho robins had lied and thu grain around the liello burying ground and stowed away charlotte was walking home as usual far anav in ho road two moving dots appeared which developed into the twins as they came nearer tears were cutting briny farrow down their nota very clean checks hysterical sob alone came from their months as they tried to speak but finally intuition eliminated these words from the uhlas mother lias away she lalio would if we dian didn t stop pounding and we anil she lias gunned ru nned eliat she had made threat n hundred times before bit bul been pacified which way adl 1110 quickly thinking of the river so BO cruel she gunned up tho railroad track no more words were needed back of the garden wa was s alie branch railway from la lu tho evening train was nearly due leaving alie twins to toddle after as well ai they could in tho ran ran alio llcy the briglia invalid shawl wai a bearon mrs tint upon the track idly playing with toina yellow charlotte knew tier patient well mother she said it is lau and alio boys anro calling and you roust feed tho chicken thu mother shook her head persuasion was no persuader then charlotte scolded alike useless then as a last la st resort sho used a gently force A failure sit and pull those yellow howors to pieces that tho poor unbalanced woman would do nothing cac in heavens namo what waslo be done choso who have had know the strength of tho insane tho train whirled for alio crossing a cuilo ciway and insl then guiding li im james duncin fence a vv handkerchief in his hand blessings upon alie medicine which subdued tho bugs it this a moment and ho hail her out of danger boford tho train t then ho ho had been copying tho inscription on alio Indi tinn cross as a s the boci went screaming by ho gathered enough from their inco words 0 o learn what alio llio matter was alio chloroform idea was simply an inspiration abw cin I 1 repay you wet byod charlotte as tho party boyf mollar and all walking back by making mak ing over to me bran tomu s and his grand daughter ixta no vcr write alio llio t story without her well in tho bauo af ence perhaps anil aliis id liow it camo to pass that tho boys marched up tho church acislo before tho robana camo again with charlotto Charl olto anil alc tlc bugman bug man As for the cross it spreads its walto arms over a new mailo grave tho poor mother has away forever L tu swu |