Show MOTHER S K f by LOUISE ATLEE ATIEE ralph penton who had a small woolen factory and yas twenty three thre a years of 0 age was regarded as an an unusually promising young man quite 9 good enough tor for any girl in warren county why he be esteemed highly in view of all this lucy acy re bilg tons mother was wag not at all perturbed when one evening in early summer ralph fenton brought her daughter homo home from prayer meeting on hla his arm he supplemented this a day or two later with a call and was smilingly received soon thereafter grant villa folk began to talk in whispers A conspiracy also was hatched several months montha earlier in paying avisia a visit to a town a few ew miles distant lucy remington had met tho the young man with ith whom her immediate future was not concerned ile he was in every way as desirable ai as fenton whom she was afterward to meet but when he drove over to grantville to make a call and meet her mother Us his reception by the latter had been polite to tho the verge of frigidity you dont seem to like john hudson ventured the daughter when the young man had departed well I 1 hope we shall see bee very little of mr hudson fenton made frequent visits to the tha remington home and was iss welcomed cordially both by the widow and her daughter tho the latter seemed to tad find the young man agreeable company and the mother congratulated herself that her efforts tor for the family welfare were likely to have a successful outcome could she have overheard a conversation which took place one evening as the precious young alsem I 1 1 biers were returning from a local festival she would have bave been shocked beyond expression at the discovery that her hopes bopes were certain to bisca misca miscarry mr F fenton enton laughed the girl girla yon a certainly are one of tho the nicest fellows I 1 ever met J thanks awfully he ha returned promptly also I 1 am engaged permit me to congratulate you you see I 1 want to be frank with you 1 I appreciate it and will reciprocate I 1 have been engaged to a girl over in Bliss blossfield blissfield field tor for the last three months 1 I I 1 am so bladt bladl and now how can I 1 help you be asked with a chuckle chuck la do you know why mother should be so opposed to mr hudson people become prejudiced without a good cause you haver lt told me i yit yet how I 1 can help you I 1 by by not dropping me yet she eho stammered you see mother has has hopes that that 1 I see he bo camo came to tho the rescue Y yes well from all I 1 hear of huda hudson n hes a mighty nice fellow and im glad to help him get such a lolly jolly good girl tor for a wife my marriage will not tako take place tor for three months yet we expect to be married about that time in this interesting little matrimonial game there were a three against one but mrs remington was not an easy quitter when she discovered that lucy was wag meeting hudson at the tha post office tho library and other places I 1 he bhe made it her strenuous duty to intercept percept them whenever it was possible she had bad frequent crying spells and she went about her work with tears team in her eyes finally sho she woke to a realization that her plan had tailed failed miserably although penton fenton still maintained friendly relations with them ho ha showed no signs at 0 asking the maternal consent to make lucy ills his wife it resolved itself into a case of a woman worrying herself ill yet with nothing tangible to worry about when old doctor peters was called la he ha felt of her pulse looked at her lougue and der demanded napped bluntly what the dickens are you worrying about T about about lucyll lucy I 1 sho she sobbed ashes in love with a man I 1 do not approve of his name Is hudson young hudson over at tipton yes good for herl wrong with hint aa 1 ayes are not very wide apart alpart neither are ara elder spooners ners he ha has nigh high cheek bones so had bad abraham lincoln but but listen mrs remington said the tha doctor soothingly 1 I was over at tipton yesterday and I 1 saw mr hudson lie he Is building a fine now naw house it has baa a room am for Ms his mother in law the best beat in n the house she will have a brass bed a mahogany bureau a wilton carpet and a long mirror she will have a patent rocking chair and mother mr hudson la Is hew herel I 1 aa i bounced lucy from the doorway good chuckled the doctor as he made his way out gut A little later the mother wiped ali away her tears and got up and dressed herself she felt herself no longer in the valley of the shadow of death when she bhe appeared in the parlor mr hudson rose up and began mrs remington I 1 have come over to L she encouraged him with etli a pacific smile and offered him her hand car bially 1 I am very glad to see you y she said copyright 1916 by the mcclure per syndicate |