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Show "You bought one, after all? But, Mellicent, It will bo so lonesome eating eat-ing It without any of your own folks here." "I'm to have some of my own foUra ten of them!" , f5 "Why. Mellicent, only yesterday yoa told me that there wasn't a living soul related to you this side the Rockies, and" "That was before you taught me how to find them, Delia. There, don't be frightened. I've not lost my mind. You remember about Angelina Snow? I got to thinking of the uglier Uvea than mine, Delia. Of the two dt-ar Misses I'rescott worrying over money matters ever alnce they lost so much In that mining venture; of my little dressmaker, who was the petted darling dar-ling In her home back east and has to work for her living among strangers out here, because ber lungs are weak and she can't live anywhere else; of poor, fastidious Mrs. Adams, who can only afford a third-class boarding house; of I won't go on. but they're all invited, and they've all accepted." 8be roue, and as she turned toward Mra. Wyatt the firelight revealed a face radiant with happlnesa, "I can't talk things out the way you can, Delia." De-lia." she concluded, with a gay little laugh, "but juat you come Icto the kitchen with me and see my Thank giving turkey r May C. Ungwalt, In Los Angeles Times. TURKEY FOR TEN ffrpHANKSGJVlNa aln'U different J from any other day,'" enapped Mellicent, making the most of the creak In her rocker. "What's tbe use of having a turkey when you've got only a reed bird appetite!" "It ain't Just the turkey itself," replied re-plied Mrs. Delia Wyatt, with a knowing know-ing shake of ber head, "though It'a surprising sur-prising bow plumb crazy the kiddles sre after drumsticks. Land of love, If Mr. Ilurbank could only produce centipede centi-pede gobblers! Hut It's what the turkey tur-key stands for, Mellicent" There was a moment's silence, then the creak reasserted itself. "Maybe there is when you've got sons and daughters and grandchildren to sit round tbe table and look for It," napped Mllllcent; "but I'd like to know what's backing up a Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing turkey when you ain't got any folks to reunite for a family dinner?" Mra. Wyatt put her knitting Into her work bag, with a sigh. "I've got to Hop In at Johnson's to buy eome chestnuts chest-nuts for tbe stuffing." she explained. In apology for her glance at the clock tnd abrupt leave-taking. "What did I do with my bat? Oh, here It Is on tbe chair. Mellicent do you remember Angelina Snow?" Mellicent nodded, her mouth bristling brist-ling with five hat pins, as she stood with Mrs. Wyatt's Jacket held out In both bands toward the open fire. "You made me think of something she told me once my left sleeve's caught there, Mellicent Angelina had the blues terrible bsd one morning." continued Mrs. Wyatt, sticking In the batplna one by one aa she talked, "but 'stead of sitting down and maklug company com-pany of them she trotted them tight out for a walk. And what do you sup-poee sup-poee she did then? She went up and down Spring street, looking and looking, look-ing, and every time she passed a woman wom-an uglier than herself she counted her off on a finger. When her Angers gave out she went homecured. Angelina An-gelina wouldn't have taken a blue ribbon rib-bon at a beauty show, either." Mellicent Jaucey's' practical, active nature had no time for sentimentalising, sentimentalis-ing, but the morning after Mrs. Wyatt's visit new, strange thoughts with twinkling eyes and wistful smiles kept peeping out at her from behind the routine of daily duties, and at noon tbe suddenly dropped broom and duet-rr, duet-rr, dressed with trembling Dngers, sar-prtsd sar-prtsd Teddle Roosevelt Tortoise he II with a bear hug. aad darted from the bouse bearing the exalted expressions of an archangel, and wealing two gloves for the same hand. la tbe gathering twilight of that Thanksgiving eve Mise Mellicent s doorbell tinkled excitedly, and tbe next moment Mrs. Wyatt flashed into tbe sitting-room. "I wanted you from first Mellicent," the panted, without preface, "but It msde thirteen at table, and It never occurred oc-curred to me antlt an hour sgo thst I rould count Jel"s twins ts one Jtit as well at twi. Von 1! ctrnir, !' " "I'm rrj P ' 1 but !' 4 prv :i en k |
