Show carolyn of the corners comers BY RUTH BELMORE ENDICOTT 1111 br dood maul int CHAPTER continued C 17 no I 1 should sav mv they re not aulty aunty rose hass ob with grimness lar far ft from it its a fact I 1 have believed it ft it 7 haan hadn I 1 t seen arm tt it with nay my ana pon eyes raiding holding hand in there ther elike like a pair of f well do re vou know knew what it means so col carolyn may that they low love each other me the child aid d boldly I 1 and I 1 in so glad for thern them I 1 so a am V I 1 declared the woman adill I 1 in a whiter whisper but it menns mears changes here bon things wont be the same for long I 1 know J joseph ph stagg stegg for far what he be fi is what Is 1 he amy roger asked himan carol n may in wine borne trepidation for the lie house hosel beeter teeter seemed to be much moved he hes a a very deter determined new it man am once hele he be gets set act in a way say he arrom e ery eiery ry bea before him moody mandy Is going to be made mrs J joseph ph stags stagg so quick that tt ft 11 astonish her now yon yen bell believe me carolyn may oh ob V I 1 m w as the little girls comment therell there II 11 be changes here bell very suit sud don den 1 so MOB company pany threes three a a crowd campany Mam carolyn berely may never was a truer true saying the those two t wilt will want just each oth other and nd nobody body else 1 tt ell C stairs carolyn may if you ve tie fin dished yo your I 1 supper we it better go up to bed it a long a past enst your bedtime 1 yes aunt aulty aunty y rose roll said mid the me little girl I 1 in d vote voice aunt aulty aunty rose bose did not at notice that caro cam lyn iya may did not net venturie to the door of the me muting bitting room in to bid either uncle joe or mi miss A winanda do good the child followed theroman the noman upstairs with faltering steps led and in the unlighted bed bedroom am that had been hannah stagg s she film knelt at aunt aulty aunty rose a knee kne an and 1 murmured her 1 usual I petitions I do blesa bills uncle joe and ad MI miss anemia amanda BOW a t so happy was a phrase that tha I 1 might lime have thrilled aulty aunty rose at lo other it time 1 but I she be amabrose was ao deep I 1 in her own thoughts a that at she it ites beard what hot carolyn toy may said laid p perfunctorily ily alth her cus customary tomar bla she ehe left the he little giri air and went want down downstairs a carolyn may had men so much excitement t during the day that she might film been eap exp ted to sleep at once and that soundly betit but it vas snoten not so the tittle girl toy lay with wide open eua else he her imagined imagination at work T comp company a ny threes three a crowd she wait took that trite saving in which aunty aulty rose raw had expressed her am own feel feelings bugs to herself it if uncle joe and bliss amanda were going to be mar tied they would wit not want anybody elbe around of course not dart I 1 elbeZ cound and d who what will become became ot of mer thought cro carolyn lyn may choki chokingly gly all A the me C emptiness W the Is last fies few months swept pr over the 1 of if the lit tie child in a wave wall that her bar natural lateral cheerfulness coul could not at with withstand mad her anchorage 1 in the to love re of uncle joe an and miss ails amanda was swept aw ay the heart sort of the little child welled swelled 1 I oils eee overflowed she sobbed he her alf to sleep the pillow in uffing els tile sounds ads am more forlorn than ever be tura since ace she ehe had bad come me a to the cox cor I 1 bucz ners CHA CHAPTER PTER XVI 11 1 the h journey 1 it I a certainly M i eynis fact that arnaud Ain ancla F immediately usurped some me potter polar in the household of the stagg I 1 limm to tead ad she ordered joseph Is 99 nin am LU le 9 go down to his hia store wt that next t it ln and he be ald 1 not I totsc cad could old h he site attend ato to line business tor far al do days Y thereafter lie he was too BU u old and law lame aad it his bu burns were ere too aliet net gormley came up inch each day for far I 1 and it was exceedingly f no full 0 of f baals bd business als allm A kaaa so would ld it bave to be very my exacting indeed ad to find fault with the interest the boy displayed in running tle store seem just as his employer de ored anted it to be run me I 1 tell Y you 1 I shot it carlyn chet chat drawl d I 1 io confidence dence 1 I in mighty borry y mr stagg stage got hurt butt like he did but bar lemme tell you ilik it a 8 just jaw 1 givan I we me the th chour chance ot my life 1 V N by maw says saye that mr MI stags rings aud and M till moody mandy 11 fl sit git married for or s BUI a now V 1 ou h yes sighed the little girl J ahey boy 11 be married well e 11 ima hen folks falls git married they allus ex 9 go off on a trip course cadose they will and M nie I 1 LL 11 be rental the busl beat also all by myself it it 11 be great I 1 mr huis aln bee ac act how w h value in I 1 LT ab be to him why y it 11 be the waste of me mea evold cried the opine optimistic I 1 site fouth on yes yeb carolyn camin may heard it on all bides aide everybody Lvery body was talking tal liing beat about the aff I 1 of at uncle joe and it mi A an anda ad I 1 every eu time she bhe raw her bar undo ancle ind and her pretty lady together the observe be dot ant child too could it not but notice that they were utterly wrapped up in inch each other mass amanda could not go pnat past the eary carl chair la in which the ard hardware re deal or er we was enthroned without touching reaching bill he as bold a na a boy bay old boize six h her air hand and him hies it love I 1 ove a mality warm throbbing aluir had caught them up and wept swept dimou sma away y out ot of them silvea ow out of their that old 14 selves mims at least th aliey had eye only f for I 1 each other thoughts only in for I 1 an each chaff other e even a child could see something of tills the the absorption of the two made aumpy aunty rail bobes a very impressive to carolyn may A week walk of this followed a week in shah the tha trouble 1 in covell move mays heart and brian seethed until it be me unbearable she a nas convinced that th re would until soon he be DO room for her 1 in the big h house she watched aunty aulty ross rose pick her own trunk anil and the old lady looked verv glum indeed she heard board I 1 whispers ap to of an I 1 immediate curol lt in marriage acx here in the house home with mr me draggs se as the me officiating clergyman carolyn candy vay may studied emitted things out tor for herself being a child her conclusions were am not always wi nise a onea one she felt that sue he might be a stumbling block to the complete happiness of uncle toe joe and amnnda amanda they night might it have ve to set mt aside their own desires because of her she felt vague ly IY th that this meet not be 4 1 I lim can go he home sue he repeated over and kvut over to h herself jf H heine wc was still to in the new york city apartment house where she had bad lived so BO happily before that flay day when her father and mother had gout gone aboard the of Du dunraven Dun raven craven their complete loss lose out of the little girls life ilfe had never become fixed in her mind it had never teemed seemed a surety not even after he her talks with the sailor benjamin bj town hardy afternoon the little girl went to the church churchyard rard and made neat the three little graves and the one long one on the plot which belonged to amity rose role hennedy she almost burst buret into tears team that evening we too when shen he ehe kissed autry rose good night a at I 1 bedtime uncle joe jim was wae down at the barlows Par lows he old and mr me farlow actually smoked looked their pipes together la in on the cottage cattle porch an aulty aunty I 1 arty role hose was I 1 usually III an early ri riser seIt but the 1 first I I 1 person up an at the he corners core on that saturday morning was cam carolyn may she wes was dressed a ian full hour before the household was usually stir astir she came downstairs very softly carrying re the beavy bag she had bad brought with her the day she had first z N 7 the brakeman was waa nice TO too and brought her water in ft a paper cup come came to the car corners she had bad her purse name in her with all her money 1 in it and ad she he had bad I 1 iii the bag most at of her necessary lince possessions she w allied he her far face led and hands hand her hair was due aimed core combed bad and neatly lawly bm braided fled reace from the pant pantry she secured some bread blood and butter awl and with tw ali in her lined hand unlocked th the a porch door and a went cut out prince got up yawning and ad shook himself she out eat on the steps a to eit the bread and butter of di ang viding it with prince I 1 IB such a beautiful place P princey eha it a whispered to the mon man am rel we or are going to blab I 1 it dread ftfe culat I 1 page but then thea well W well eo have have the me park DWI you yon real cant r rua BO tree re the thre prince whined whiled carolyn may mi 17 got up ind and shook tho the crumbs from her lap then she ahe unchained alent the dog and ad up her bar bag pit p pranced I 1 d about her glad to get his morning u I 1 run com the little girl and hie file dog went out of the go gate is and started at along the rond mad toward sunrise coong cove ties ban housea had all 11 been asleep at the cornara io ho was wa the perin w cot tage logo when she trudged by she would cod have ivied liked to me eee miss amanda to kiss h her just once but she in must oat if not of think of th that ta it brought auch a into w to her throat threat nobody ono ccola carolan may and it prince until tit elie all reached lit main street accor then than the son sam had bad risen man and ad a few early pa persons were eve astir but nobody appeared who nho knew kneis the me child or who nho cared anything ed about of her has at the re railroad I 1 howd station elation nobody spoke to her for she he bought DO ticket she wa aoa not dot exactly fly clear in her mind beat about fiek tickets ets anyway she had bad found the conductor on an the train from coming up f from no new york fork a kind and ad PIC pleasant I 1 roan and she he decided to to do all her bar bull business with lit him tied had she elie attempted to in buy a ticket of if the tell agent undoubtedly he be would have bull made md acme inquiry A it was when the train came along carols I 1 mui ai after ft seeing prince pu put t into the me baggage car climbed aboard with the help of a t brakeman brake keman mao of course me f it I 1 he howls awfully he told old the file en v who a gale her a check without quest question I 1 on 1 I shall bell how have to go 1 in that cox car and ad sit fill with him there w were ere not many people tn in the car they steamed away from so sun rise cova cam and caralla may dabbled her eyes with he her handkerchief and it told hertelt to be brave T the ile I 1 ions were a long way part apart ati a and d the a conductor did not dot come came through tor for wine some time when he dol did I 1 open the door and mine come late into the cox car carolyn rely may started up with x gad cry it was the wry very conductor a wh had bad been so kind to her but on the trip III I 1 up from new lork iola the Till rill road man knew her at once and ad shook book heads hands most at heartily with her bar where are you yon going carolyn caalim miar mv he asked all the way say with you yon air she ehe replied to new yes air I 1 in going home ionic again gal as then othen III see you later late he said mid without asking for far her ticket the conductor conduct er remembered the little girt girl wry very well although he did not remember all 11 the details of hw her story lie he was me wry very kind to her herald and brought bee 9 her satisfying sews CD a about ban IP prince rin la I 1 the baggage car the brakeman was wa nice too and brought her water to drink in a paper cup at last the long stretches chea of streets at right anellia with the tracks track 6 appeared asphalt streets lined at ith tall f th apartment houses this could be b e noth 0 mg me but new york city let her pupa papa had told her bee long ago that there was no a other city like it tn in the world she knew one hundred and twenty fifth street ind and its elevated station that was nas not dot where she had bad boarded bearded the train going north when mr MI price had placed her in the conduct conductors ars rare care hot but it was usurer nearer her old home hom that sh she knew so she told the brakeman sh she wanted to get out there and ad he strong arranged ge d to have prince released the little girl alighted and got her bar d dog g without misadventure she wise waa dava down on the street level before the biml train continued on it its jou journey ciely downtown at the grand central torrid terminal nal th the conductor was met with a telegram sent from sunrise seattle cove care by a certain frantic hardware dealer ind and that telegram gra told him something about C carolyn may of which he had not thought to ask CHAPTER the home of carolyn may it was some distance from the Z rail wh li road read station to the block on n which ie carolan carol n may cameron had bad lived all her life until she be had bad gone go to stay my with it until uncle joe stagg sto 9 9 the th child knew she could not at take the car for or the con car ductor do tor would out not let at prince ride she started the dog on an his I 1 leash h for far he was w not muzzled cd the bag became heay it y very my soon but she he staggered along am with it uncomplainingly plot y her IS I 1 disheveled appearance appen tence with h the bag az and the dog gave people who noticed limit her the impression 0 that th sio metal carolin may had bad been bee away perhaps for far a fresh air W vacation and d was now coming home brown and an d weary my to her expectant family but carol a may knew that she was mining coming home to an empty apartment to rooms reams that echoed with voth her h mothers othor voice and in which mislead lingered only memories am ones of her famer s ache cheery spirit yet vet it was the only home boom aha he f 1 that was left eft tor for her he I 1 she could not blame uncle U Is joe zo and mi miss amanda tor far f toi igniting getting her aunty aulty he roe had lu ben I 1 quite quim disturb disturbed e d too since the forest flo fire she had given give the little girl no hint bint that provision would be made for far it bar a I 1 future W wearily cauly carolyn way may traveled it through the harlem streets shifting the bag from hand to do hand prince da pacing 1119 sedately by her side sedately we a re getting a near a or lime home now prin ce cey she fihe told line him gain aguin and again thus thu fhe he tried to keep her heart up she came to a the C corner r near which lit i she had bad lived ad so bo I 1 long dog and prince suddenly sniffed buted at the sc screened reared d door of a shop dof of ell of course coms poor lie fellow if 1 1 that a a t a the a butcher a carolyn 11 may a y B said aid she bought a p amny y afternoon paper baj on a law news stand food and I d then la en went 1 W let into the a shop imp and it got get a ams nickel e j a worth a r or of bones and scraps tor for the dog doc clerk cleric did wt not know knew her for he we iiii j a new am man TO bill BB CONTINUED |