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Miss Seiina Lue
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Soap-Box Babies
By
Maria Tbenpsoa Daviess
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nhmratioos by
M*£13us G. Kettnef
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jO». »«MkrKtir- •
<Mf **?*ep. » yen ean go with him.
Hies Cynthie, fer (Parity will be glad
to see yoa two so smiling together ."
As M;» Selina L^e softly crew the
•hatters tr*ether to keep out tie
tight. Mist Cynthia followed in the
wake of Mr. A Las and the becket of
bran through the gar-den and ap to
the bam. It is to his credit that he
•erved the aggrieved th" -gh com
placent old lady before he threw down
the bucket and drew Miss Cynthia to
him.
'*Tel! me." he qaesticc-d. "when it
happened to yoa? It was all over for
me that first mincie when I saw yos,
past Carrot'« red head- standing in the
grocery door."
"That dinner—yon didn't laugh
Mi ss Cynthia hid her head on his con
venient shoulder.
*Ah. but I loved yoo so I coald
"Te*. thee—and before—since the
worid wis yosng—"
Kao-ssoa," said Charity patiently
tor dry bran is sot an agreeable
Imkfir. ard the water barrel stood
cCBreeieaL
~De finish feeding the dear thing."
testet ed Mi» Cynthia sympathetically.
"Thea yon can walk cp the HiU with
nse. I want to freshen np a little
and come right back to watch by E'.os
KB. She will need very particular
care today, and Miss Selina Lae has
so much she must do. Oh. what if
•he hadn't weathered the eight! I
think my heart would have broken—
watching her struggle—if—If yon
hadn't been there' Will yoa always
be—there—when things hsrt—meT*
"Tes," he answered her quietly,
with • deep kok into her eyes. -Now
let me take yoa home, for yoa are
hardly able to stand. Promise me
to get a good rest, and I will help
Miss Selina Loe, until yoa cas cosae
back."
And through the early sunlight he
walked op the river path with her to
the Hill Mansion and left her at the
garden gate among her roses that
were no fresher or fairer than herself.
She was the Incarnation of dawn,
and his lore encompassed her as the
fragrance of dew-wet Sowers.
Below at the grocery. Miss Selina
Lue was basy with her preparations
for the day. and as she worked she
smiled to herself and lightly brushed
her fingers over the cheek that had
felt the twofold kiss.
Soon. however her pleasant
th-?ugtt« were interrupted by the ap
parfïitxE of Mrs, Kinney at the door.
Miss Pelina Loe r-garied her with
aatflBSskmeat She was earetoped in
the fc-lds of ax cid Hack shawl and
tr ber hand she carried a large crocs
af white rtw lie p|i«i, roe-es. The ex
preeeSoe ess her face was oce of sym
pathy and chastened K>rrcw
"Misa Se:my Lae." she said is a
enrrettly fsnereai vosoe. "1 com over
u sees as ! cocid It took almost sH
•iglt to gît rvwes encogh made to ti
a derxz fer everybody. We all
wanted a frune o|Mdei erf osr sym
pathy *
**ky, Müs" Kins- y bacey ï dee's
»»i so symjAthy tc 'coast of—"
""Well of course she wast t y oar
own chfid. and s© yos can't fee! the
sat&e a» a sacîher; bat a death in the
family is always sad. though scm<»
times a great relief. Toe seemed so
fond of—•"
"Ok, Mis' Kinney hocey stop be
fore you go any farther and let me
teü yosa Plossoœ aijst dead, but git
ting weil by the IȔd"s mercy. Stiil
I do thank yoa fer y oar kind feelings
•Bd—"
'Well I wish 1 cc ul-de? kn rw ed she
wasn t a-goisg to die before I set up
•U tight aad wasted the tiss» paper.
I woelder rather mace— There come
ti-# Dorises tow' Won't they be sur
prised! Mary Ellen have gtx her
wreni dace but it looks kinder wob
bly
Mr Itebbs had pet his blick Sun
day coat re over his overalls and oc
his way to wert was »topping fer a
*teft of coedc-le«..-* Mrs Dobbs had
oo a hlack muslin sfcrt and waist and
had tied a piece of that same - itérai
o© the arm a t Benu'e. whose eyes
were swollen with crying and wht -se
•ppes-asoe den.-ted raal he*rt u
C«ish
"Oh.. Mas Seliny Lt- me and r »:hbs
«»• to say—we— ?7e-ak rp Doch«'"
Mrs. Dobbs' vaice broke and her ch.b
b? face began to work with grief.
"All yosVe gc< to say Mr Dobia, is
hew gl*d yon ,%re that my baby is
t-itiirg well, and thee, give row ;c-Lt
to Mary EBen and Fi c-a to ycur wark.
rejoicing fer me* said Miss Selina
Lee cot rg <ja>ckly to the res- uie ci
tie lourd ertng ccaÄoier ~'àvw d ä
yoa all ever git the noei^, that this«*
west against Blossom last nightT"
she asked
"We seen tbe doctor—and then yo®
closed the froct M'~ds—that s always
• sign—and—""answered Mrs !>:;»
•waMcwing a sob
"Well, ain't thai too bad fer ytxa
Mercy M* Tyne. BJo-on> ot deed
And !?
cor likely to be. and, piease. ma'aia,
take them black bombaiine strips
offen the cfcücren's Becks. It's so
rough S*-'ü rob 'es raw."
No*. Mrs Tyne a person of
ose idea at a tte». and ber mind
needed
-jj;« Seliny Loe," she said with
r*a! and practised emotion though
she have gone from our sight and we
must bury in the c-o-l-d cold ground
yet let us lcok up'" At the word
"co?d" Mrs. Tyne gave a realistic
shiver, and at the word "up" she cast
her eyes skyward, though the expres
sion vas in some degree marred by a
sQuint caused by the rays of the morn
ing son striking her fall in the face
"That's * real comforting thought.
Mis" Tyne, and I ans thsnkful fer fie
speech and tie star, too Beanie,
hocey. run all up and down the street
and te .l everybody Blossom is a heap
better and they needn't git ready fer
no fu'eraL"
"Now, yoc know there ain't been •
ieeth on the Bluff fer four year«,
since Mr 51 Bradford's ma died, and
we was preparing to have as nice a
fanerai as ever was fer yoa, Mi«
Seliny Lee,' said Mrs. Kinney in •
tone that might have been construed
as reproachful
* Well I winter say one thing and
it's that 1 am glad me and Blossom
have found out how many friends we
iave while we arc atil! alive and can
predate ties all It never did seem
•est r .ght to fcoäd back all the flower«
and tear» and white roh«« until peo
ple are gone where they can't en;oy
em none. And "specially about fa
nerai eermens—looks Uke if the
corpses coulder heard all the prai*e
spoke over the as they msghter got the
ambition to go on living a spell longer.
Lands «live, did you all know it"»
seven o'clock, and sot a bre*kfa»t
■ dish waated on the BluffT"
Miss Seilt a Lue's call to duty sent
them ail hurrying la different direc
tions.
Mrs Dobbs w»» «low in getting
started, and as «he descended the
steps she said: T do declare I am
uneasy about Ethel Maud I couldn't
find her nowhere« this morning. I
was jest so sorrowful about your troo
ble 1 dean forgot to worry."
"Oh. Mis" Dobbs. honey, when I
opened the door thi» morning at day
break there vu Ethel Maud acroc-ch
ed down on the steps with nothing
on but her nightgown, and a-moaning
like something hurt She «hot past
me into the room, and when she sees
Blossem so much better she Jt«t laid
down on the Soor and cried herself to
sleep plumb pitiful. Mr *'-»« lifted
her on the foot of the bed and I
know tf Blossom stirs she will wake
up and call me. Her little heart is
that loving she can watch even whtle
she sleeps. I feel thi. morning more
than evM- how we are aL watched
ever in loving kindness that nevet
. , ., . _ .
sleeps and He am t ever going to for
" ;
b.essed thought and pending and
«»rfcrting in times of trooMer
^
swered Mrs Dobbs thoughtfully. And
we all o.rhter be mighty happy with
so much good teing done to
Wty. it Je« butter,
"And ain't weT
my bread of life with happine« Look
like tome folk« Uke. ter sw oiler they
bresd dry. but you an: me want a lit
Ue iprinkle of bap;7 a top of
our n. How'« Mr Dobb. •holding
031 "
"He a^t cuseed a wer* «lace oar
trip. Mm Seliny Lue Sotaetime« 1
se^ê him J*«t «-chawing the swear*
•■4—"
"Uon't notice it. Mary Ellen Je«
h°«d to the thought -Jsat he ato't . g>
ing ter do U no »ore. and thalU
-Bat look yoc der. M^s Seliny U*
Ain't that cut*T~ And Mrs Dobb.
turned Mis« Sel_na Lae around bodüy.
It was Carrot« »landing in the grt>
eery door. He was crowing *nd i st -
giirg and wobbling, but he stood his
ground determinedly—alone... One
Äaming lock at the tiack of his head
mm* «traight up with excfteaœt.
and he stretched his haad and dach
«d hi, t~6 to Mi« Selina Loe in eW
dent tritnpft ov W nis .ciievement.
"Hooey I ym'. can't vbear to ioc*.
A mother o«_gnter be the one ter see
her baby tak. hl« Srst step«, ani ;«*
Mis' F*jar!ty —" Miss Selina Lo.
faltered u sn* «tarted toward the
tottering baby
"Pirk him up Quick." answered Mr*
Dobb* "They ain't nobody in th.
world px. a b«tter right to any baby'.
If. s*.e;s than you has. Mis. Seliny
Lue."
CHAPTER IX.
SnKta«
■Tj§»: k* a rnar n^»
« UT« & f—f jr.
i-i* worn.'
-sr
T>ro«.g>> Tea-w.
t» lî !» r«
SeJïaa ija».
"Fiassem " said Mis* Selina Lie a.
she seited herself în the grocery door
for a breathing «sell after all th*
Bluff dinner* had been di«r*3—ed.
boegkt 7i. ; for and started cm their
ways w the different pots, "'kok? like
wc-men i-Lghter think op «<ome , t.-..ng
ciSerent onrt in a whiie to feed to
they fan '. e« The Dct-'i<se« have '•
bciled cabbage fer d-tner now
months nazi r_nmng. and the Kin
neys have et ec many fned e«gs tnat
! begin to look fee the children to
»hew pi»-f**ii^ra If I «as a tend ng
u» a husband î »odi feel Kke it <u
kinder disrespectful to hi« «to&ik t.
offer tt the uot tr»k every 4ay ul
"o '
"**
™.n^L Jl £ » ^den access
s -all red tcng-ae _
of affection. The Blossen was once
EO , abloom aid abob with enthssi
ex. un » *~u
If the mes folks bare to pot all of
ti.<r -ires into making of the money
to live on, looks Uke the women
lot*
meet of "em handle !t so keerless
rinks up to fifty cents before it ,
it
buys anything Why. honey-buncn
wherever did you come from? I didst
see you up the Hill " And Miss Se-ina
Lue's face fairly teamed oo Miss
Cynthia, who came in from the back
of the store,
""I came down the path and through
the garden." answered Miss Cynthia.
-WelL I hope you noticed how Sne
the garden is a-growing. There never
before.
was sich a digger as Mr. Alan
Sow. them winter beets, couldn't yoa :
teH he had bw a-hoelng of em faith
ful—
-Tes." answered Miss Cynthia with
a shy smile that she hid in the bac-k
of Blossom's neck, tiey look like his •
artistic work-"
"Well, yoc ain't so fax wrong " an
swered Miss Selina Loe with an ad
miring glance at the soft blush behind
iv
••
v
■
'Jest Held to the Thought of His Fer- '
givenesv arvd Dent Never Give
It Up."
da Miss Selina Lue." said Miss Cyn
thia. her eyes shining with excite
ment at the bare mention of the tre*»
nres over in the bam.
"Child, them pictures Jest feeds me.
Locks like all my life I've been living
on the plain every-day eating of
things and he have handed me a plate
of chaîock -roos fer my spirit."
" I wish he could hear from the
three he sent on to Chicago. They
Blossom's curia. "If a man have got
ft inside him to do one kind of werk
big everything else in him have go*
. „ j _ft ,v
tc measure up to it, and wita Mr.
Alan it do. pictures and beets."
To® like his pictures as much as 1
ought to be mounted and on the guHd
hall waLs by this time Mtss Cyn
tos voice was impat le nUy excited,
for she knew how Mr. Alan tonged for
, , . . .. ,
approval of his great commission, and
f f a J erT ,pecU1 " Mon " * hich she
aL«c knew
Miss Cynthia, honey, don 't you git
imp "**1 ***"? tie letter ' to ° DoD ' t
never fergit that it is the man's p*.rt
to champ the bit, but a woman must
pull at life steady like. There's the
(postman now: run, child, rent " And.,
run, child, run'" And
directly in the face of her wise coun
sels for serenity^Miss Selina Lue hur
ned after Miss Cynihias 'ring £gbr*
"Oh." said Miss Cynthia as she
r.ocd with a letter clasped to her
breaet. "here it is. M^s Selina Lee,
here it is: What do you suppose is
in itT"
Honey. I know what he is a-hoping
! fer. though not letting hisself expect
J h much. His father being one of the
men to build the big hall. Mr Alan
have Jest got Ms heart set on his
tlï-ê pictures—axhd forftTiag
' him fer painting 'em"
"Oh, I know. Miss Selina Lue and I
i am so afraid—"
"Tos mustn't be afraid
; chad, but yon mast pray and have
j la^th to soften his hear: towards the
j boy Jest hold to the thought of his
fergiveness, and don't never give it
; cp. whether 1rs b: that letter or not"
W ~ r ; iat ««ends like we were
f t!c M 55
: M ^ Aod Mim "««
1 * TiC ^ ^ •***"
i 'Tes, I remember you to^d me about
them "waves' when I heid to it
Mr Kinney would cotne on back from
town that time he gut cad and tried
to leave his faaslly. Though ywo ex
plained It Sne to nie. I didn't under
stand tt at all and I Jest kept cm
•-praying—old fashxmed prayers wiU>
no new-fangied fancy label on "em
They are jest as good today as they
was in Moses'— Lands alive, what's
the trouble over at the D>bbf»"s now:"
honey,
A sknll ftLn-ek tos# from t fe-? i£*ep
îor of tfee ûobbf m fetr
j hovs** cp tine straec which *u fol
i lowed by a Quick exclamation, at
which Ethei Maud shot oet of the
j front door, wrigglei over the gate
•cd darted through a cloud of white
dast to precipitate herself bodPy into
Miss Selina Loe*« lap.
i "They aint a thing in the world the
«sauer with her. Mt&s Seliny Lue."
called the si ether froen the front « ,n
dew "She burned her fingers lift
ing hot ginger-cake free the ;=as
whïîe my back were tnrs»ed She
Rüster thoeght she deserved a smack.
le s-he ra and ran to you
u<ie a Sùooon at her."
fare I
"Ethel Maud.' i-a.d 11« Seîma Loe
»temiy. as she lifted the fniwi lui
head out of her akiris, "go right i«ack
and ask yw soth*^ can yoc have
thtt pie<* of r*ke before yoc eat ose
Ecc'hfïl Then yoc can bring a»
other p.ece foc n» atsd Misa Cyntn*
asd oce to divide with she babies She
acde-i as E--hel SU»! de^ed bur
' Mary
.
riedly to apologöe and *«»*«
E3en makes her cake like she hr<*
—fcsder haphaiai*— %■» U comes oat
an right. mostly fit« being ii.ii«!
with siih good istemuons, M:s» &e
Una Use f-srther remarked, Jos'
of mine orer—to the river bank he*«
sketching, and I promised
-Take the plate, child and rwo
pi eces. Mis" Dobbs wil! admire to send
it to him. One's more'r. enoogfc fer
the bai es aad sne. And. Miss Cyn
thi-e. don't never hold back from feed
ing men Utile attentions, even if they
is dumb about showing as they Ukes
"««Tr Too many women treats hus
bands like h'tching-posts. Now, hur
ry while it's hot" And Miss Selina
Lue fairly shooed Miss Cynthia on to
her tryst
Now" she said. "1 must git to
my—"
"Mis® Seliny Loe. come look what s
coming up the hill! Come quick:"
called Fexr ï Dobbs from down the
street, his face shining with excite
ment until the freckles fairly stood
out oc the surface.
"Lands alive!" said Miss Selina
Lue as sie went out to the middle
e>f the street. "If it ain't a ottenno
biîe^ Frost tie way the poor thing's
breathing îoeis like it might be going
to staid They hadn't oughter push
the critter up that hilL it's too steep
fer anything but a squirrel or a trol
ley-car to climb. Ran. Bennie. and
ask him if he would like us to bring
our clothes-line and help him a bit."
But as she spoke, the huge red ma
chine gave a puff, pul'ed over the
brow ot the hill, and stopped with a
shudder at the very grocery door.
A ieetle-browed. fierce, white-whis
kered old gentleman sat In the ton
neau and berated In a most astonish
ing way a very meek young chauffeur.
"Now. you'll have to walk back to
the garage and get one and leaTe me
here to burn up in this unmitigated
sun, you numskull—d'you hear?—
numskull:"
The meek young man answered
meekly, but not at all as if terrified,
for there was something comic in the
old gentleman's rage and there was
a twinkle under the bushy eyebrows,
"Now. don't be bothered, mister,"
..... , .. . . ..
sai-c Miss Senna Lue from the gro
, ,
eery steps, where she stood sur
rounded by all the small fry on the
BluiT, none of whom had ever before
had the opportunity of such a close
•cï nain tance with the mysterious ani
mal known as the "ottermobile." " The
young man can go in on the next car
and be back in no time with the
monkey-wrench or whatever you need
to fix It with. And you come right
in and set here in the shade of the
hackberry where you can git the river
breeze. Bennie. set out the big chair,
and. Ethel Maud, you and Luella run
weU ^ draw a bucket of fresh
water ^ tacd ^ , h new
d h b mj - door . Just come
v„„ k_
over nere and be comfortab .e, mister,
{ ad=jrfl to ba _ e TO „
Miss Seiina Lue s basiling, hospit
>bje enthusiAsm had lte oW
^ ou{ oî the m8chine ^ 5eated bv
the grocery door before he knew it
himself
.- Vpon mT ,- ord ttadaœ tfct8 „
p, easant after ^ v ot 5UC •• he said in
booming voice, "verv pleasant
dyou bearT _ Terv p, eas4nt - and his
brows drett up i' n aE arch of amuse .
Œe! . t u Ethei Ma , d aad LlK . 1!a pre .
„.„ted themselves before him with a
dipping gourd held in two pairs of
s = »jl hands, for not for worlds would
either of them have relinquished a
part in the presentation of the cool
ing draft,
"My. my, what a nice pair of little
hew
a very interesting family-and- large
mi this is all the
children on tbe
Bluff: they don't none
of "ein belong to me." said Miss Selina
Lee ss she took the gourd from him
and began to water the children one
mt a time, according to siie
"Now, that's too bad. madam-
d'you hear?—too bad Such a fine
lot: But. bless my soul, I think yo«a
are lucky not to own a single one!
I—I've got the most outrageous pig
headed child myself and I—well. 1
Just can't express myself about him;
o-.trag*«cs pig-head—d'yoti hear?—
octrageous pig-head:"
"My. now, ain't that a pity!" said
Miss Selina Lue sympathetically.
"Did the poor boy take to drink*"
"Drink"? Xo. madam, be did not:
He's everything a gentleman ought tc
be and more, the pîghead —d'yoti
hear*-—the pig head""
"CouidBt yoa do nothing with
kirn?" asked Miss Selina Lue with
Interest "Tos have to make allow
t&cff fer T ' " r g men-folks : lock? likt
\est tbfj t<
beads W im dM be brexk
they
out *"
Miss Selina Lue se« ted herself on the
step beside his chair, keeping a watch
ful eye on the children wbc stood as
close as possible to the red marvel
and disct»*ed it* wonders in the
highest-pitched voices at their cosn
E_and As «nul , her sympathetic
and interested way had its effe-ct of
trresis-ibly inviting c-onhden ce
*1* a most unexpected—pig-headed
De« —left sae and the business tc gc
to the Sogt and went trailing off after
SDoecsh-se—d" roc hear—tDoonshine " *
'Well. now. T expert he thought
roc could take a grtty good keer cif
1 in tir and the burines«, toc, yoa
•**= so rtrt -t .g fer any age ». I -i_ -
nid M ist Selina Lue sosthingly The
0ii gentleman drew btmself t; h. ha
rha-r and looked Quite lejjmuM by
the tneetio® of hi« ohrkt« j c-.thfsi
Mi
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