Show 9 aN em Years f Repentance Katherine Edelman I f I r f WAS AS nearing the llie midnight hour and nil all over the littletown little littletown town there was an aD air of ot eagerness S and expectancy A New Ye Year rear r was about to 10 tobe be he born I t It lits gleamed from front almost every ery window I und land from many homes came he the sounds of ot cheer und and mirth telling that n New Years tears party was os In progress fI Inside one home however and ond It was the largest and handsomest that the town boosted there ss was as no sign of the J jy y and cheer tint that other homes held Daniel Danl Trent and hi his lili hiItt wife Itt Muir- Muir tha Iho sat by time the fire In their 11 using Ing room mum and und neither of them hud hind spoken for tor a 0 along along long time Presently Martha Trent spoke hut huh huther her voice was a little more than u mm able per f dear wont won't you let III h bygones by goner gones be bygones I wont won't you OU forgive I aud and forgot forgo because It II Is III New ew Years Year's You know 11 tomorrow Is his birthday too Daniel ls is lit Is our oar only chill child Daniel Trent his hili wife with I witha a sharpness that lint almost t startled Ild ht tier her even though she lilaI hod expected a u rebuff re ro butt buff Dont mention his name again he lie almost shouted he hI made his bed now let him lie III on un II It If my lilY son nn l j ji jr r i c l li i J JJ J c. c o. o 1 L Martha Trent Argued and Pleaded for or Her Boy i S to In nanny murty a s lv Iv to 10 I Ignore nr nil 1111 the IIII plans plan llIn and ami h K s 1 I lid hud tar fur hl him m. m let him alma take hike the A Again pi In it filled 1 the tile house for luau ninny minutes I Till This time line It II wan ue 11 1 broken 1 b by the Ihl hind Inne of the till telephone Trent and his liln wife it start stall stalled ed Id lo lu u their lr feel fart abruptly had hll hadt t tub l ted ked up be the phone S-on S oOn he ht WitS listening to lu a excited voice Cp vII In t quite III ill In fuel rul II the tle doctor thinks there I. I Is real mil dunier dun dnn Irr ier nud amid he hI t l. l begging ng for tur you lo to uric Wont Won't you 1011 please e relent lu u th it hll mt iii i Mr Ir Trent Then tf n 11 nl I hard he-ard f I volee nit tile die away n II n i 1 nb b us 1111 he hI abruptly hung buns up the rr I r rr r Then for rr a a. a few rw minutes the lite J great greal rIll I to act was vime startled Never before hUll hud hadit It II heard voice coif as us n It I n now nua I mused With H II strength h horn born of nr love 1 she ahe argued d and pleaded for tor her buy boy with lIh n s voice IrE trembling with motion emotion she told Daniel of ot his real dut duty and of f the mIser misery he way was causing to 10 them nil all In to le less 9 than HI Mil hour they ilsey were pre nn an their way 11 fo to And when they reached Claude's Claudes bedside Dan Ilan leis lei's heart wits was us II tender lender and us as ful uI fult of t f as All Marthas Martha's Mart tins Ax A. nil all the world nor I knows love lote Is a s i too tonic tome II a 8 potent health giving log ing that hat his has rival agency II no and nd before heru he be ru fore miu 7 days had passed Claudo kid bud responded lo to Its III fowl ower r Rut 1 si at Ml II I and Martha lingered In the Ihl little lit the tle collage y we e I nth loth to 10 leave the place where liNe SH si much happiness had mine to 10 them till nil und when they did dually go mode and KNIe 1 them A. A I J now the Ihl hill big h house p In Trenton I b iii n. n no nu longer filled 1 with hh silence mind and 1 mind fl till III It with heir Ir Ii nii i beer ihrer iSi I raus n w Irs N H. H u. u I Lulu I |