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LEWIS C. RUSSELL,
ATTORNEY AT I.AW,
Winder, Ga.
Offices over First National Bank.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Winder, Ga.
Office over Smith & Carithers’
Bank. Practice in State and U.
S. Courts.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Statham, Ga.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Winder, Ga.
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' Winder, Ga.
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WINDER, GA.
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Second
Jff Best
Henry Took Ann at Her
Word, but Little Jim*
my Rebelled.
By LOUISE OLNEY.
Copyright, 1909. by Associated Lit
erary Press.
Ann Mark’s eye flashed. Direct as
her name, she refused to marry Henry
Jasper. He stood before her a little
awkwardly, but yet a man that most
women would have considered kindly
He was not forty, well off for the sim
ple community, highly respected, and
his wife, Caroline, had been dead three
years. Being a mere man. how could
he kuow that Ann, his old schoolmate,
had suffered agonies when as a young
man he had courted and married her
cousin?
No one knew why Ann had not mar
ried. She never wore her heart on her
sleeve. Now, in spite of herself, her
heart softened to him, noting now his
hand ruffled his hair as it always did
wheu he was puzzled and unhappy.
“I never did think I could be second
best in any mau’s life.” she went on
rather cruelly. “And I don’t see how
at my age, thirty-five, and I don’t care
who knows it—l don’t see how I can
begin playing mother to another wo
man’s child. The boy will hate me. as
ail children do a stepmother. No; ask
some other woman.” The man flushed
angrily.
“Don’t insult me. Ann. You know I
don’t want any other woman. I've al
ways—you know I can’t tell you what
I always thought of you. It wouldn’t
seem fair to Caroline, who did her best
by me.”
The world knew she had beeh a
weak, fretful, untidy woman, jealous,
thriftless, her baby beauty gone In a
few years. And it knew of his loyalty.
He could not tell this woman how in
the years she had been about his house
helping Caroline his heart had gone
out to Ann’s cheery strength, her
wholesome, healthy kindness. He tried
one word more.
“Ann. if you knew how I needed you
In every way you would come. Do you
think I have forgotten how to love?”
Still she shook her hend. He turned
slowly away, climbed into his buggy
and drove to his own farm. Ann sat
thinking, for she remembered many
things. She Anally rose and went into
her sister’s house, where she was visit
ing. Molly looked at her curiously as
she entered, waiting to be told some
thing. for she had guessed Henry’s
errand. But she was forced to respect
Ann’s silence.
In the crisp September morning Ann
started out for a walk. She went over
the hill where she used to play with
Molly and with Henry and Caroline.
How strangely things had worked out!
She thought of her busy life ns fore
woman in a big shop, her practical,
busy, useful, lonely life. How soon
her visit to the old place would bo
over! Reaching the top of the hill, she
sat down in the falling leaves, pushing
the heavy dark hair back from her
face. Her big eyes were soft and kind
and dark, like an animal’s eyes. She
was tali and vigorous.
Down in the valley she could see
Henry Jasper’s house and barnyard.
He was hitching the bays to the bug
gy. and presently he drove away. A
sudden temptation assailed her. She
had heard Molly say his most recent
housekeeper had left. Should she go
and have a look at things? She did not
see the boy about. Probably Jimmy
was at his grandmother’s. She rose
and walked across the stubble.
The door was locked, but she found
the key under the mat and entered.
She could have groaned at sight of the
kitchen—dishes unwashed, floor ditto,
disorder rampant. The sitting room,
the bedroom, everything was a sorry
sight lo her housewifely eye. for she
was first and always a housekeeper.
Things had been bad enough in Caro
line’s time, but uow they were impos
sible.
She had no compunction about en
tering. She had always been in and
out before she went to the city. He
would not care. She looked at the
clock and calculated that he could not
get back from town under two hours.
Then she rolled up her sleeves and
skirt and went to work—dishes first,
then the floor, then sweeping, dusting
and making beds. Before she knew
it three hours had gone and it was
noon. She found a bite to eat and de
cided to go on even if he caught her
at it. She did not care.
Knowing it would take weeks to get
everything as it should be. she chose
those points to put to rights that would
make for sheer comfort. She made
some pies and ginger cookies and
doughnuts and boiled some corned beef
from the barrel, trying not to see the
condition the cellar was in. The after
noon wore on. and still Henry did not
return. She mended some of Jimmy's
clothes, poor child!
She had decided that she would keep
at work as tong aa possible and then
slide out the back way when she s4w
him coming, but it was not to be.
About 4 she suddenly was aware of a
wailing in the yard and from the door
beheld Jimmy, fish pole in hand, limp
ing along and crying at every step.
He was a boy of ten. like his father as
one pea to another. She ran to meet
him and saw that his foot was cut and
bleeding. She picked him up and car
ried him in. washed his foot, dressed
It and put him on the sofa, where she
fed him. As she came to take away
the plate he suddenly, la the most un
boylike fashion, snatched her about
the neck and kissed her. Then lie fell
asleep.
By this time she had no thought of
going back till the child’s father came.
She moved about the kitchen and din
ing room in her orderly, effective way
—a way businesslike, eminently wom
anly and good. The waste apparent
everywhere annoyed her thrifty soul.
She saw forty ways to better and save.
She set the table with a fresh cloth
and put a good supper to cook on the
stove she had blackened at the cost of
her pretty, plump hands, her one beau
ty save her eyes. It was nearing 6
o’clock.
After a little Jimmy awoke and
without warning began to cry. refus
ing to tell what troubled him. but de
nying that it was his foot. Finally
Ann got a low' rocker, took the child in
her arms and began to rock him.
Great boy that he was. he snuggled to
her, his unloved little heart accepting
the comfort, trusting this soft voiced,
smiling, mother armed woman who
called herself Aunt Ann.
As she sat thus, her attention quite
absorbed. Henry Jasper came wearily
to the kitchen door, his arms loaded
with groceries, his face hopeless. He
had been wondering where to look for
Jimmy, who had been allowed that
morning to go to a neighbor’s.
Then with unbelieving joy he saw
the clean room, the spread table, the
new air of comfort, and, best of all. In
Ann Mark’s kind arms he saw his
sleeping motherless child—a child near
ly as unmothered before his own moth
er’s death as after It. She looked up at
him and smiled.
“He cut his foot and came home cry
ing. I came over, and when I saw so
much to do l went to work. I knew
you wouldn’t mind. Henry,"
Mind! The bard thing was that she
should come just to go again: that she
should give him a taste of tills calm
comfort. let him see her like this and
deny him a continuance of it. He was
very miserable In his gratitude.
“Put your packages ou the sink.”
she commanded, “and when 1 have laid
Jimmy down I will put them away.
Will you open the oven door and look
at the biscuit?” He obeyed her. then
stood lookiug while she deftly put
everything in its place. The milk pail
sbiningly waited for him to take it
and go out to milk, but he lingered.
And Jimmy awoke and wanted to tell
his father about the enormous fish that
nibbled at his hook and got almost
caught and how he had cut his foot on
the broken bottle and found Aunt Ann
to bind it tip.
“Supper is ready, and you had bettor
eat before you do the rest of the
chores. Henry," she said, helping the
bov to limp to his place.
They ate joyfully, talking, laughing,
the man wondering how many min-
utes would pass before she rose to go.
The future yawned emptily. She was
asking him about his housekeepers, i
what he paid them, advising him what j
he should do. Finally when she rose
he rose too. They stood facing each
other, and her clear eyes smiled.
“You are— Oh, Ann. you have been
good!" he said awkwardly. “Shall I
hitch up and drive you home, or will j
you walk?’’ So he had taken her at j
her word. It was evident that he had
no thought of anything permanent in,
all this. But the woman had. She
saw here her place, her opportunity.
The old hurt and anger had passed,
and she was again at heart the simple
girl who bad loved In secret this man
who was at last hers. She paused a
moment, still looking at him. There
was now uu thought of being “second
best.” Bbe would make kernel f all to
them.
“I’ll wash the dishes up first, and
then after you have done the chores
you can walk L>ack with me.” Jimmy
set up a sudden waii from Ilia chair,
where he still sat at the table.
“I don’t want you to go away.” he
cried, “and I won’t stay alone while
papa goes with you!” Ann went be
hind his chair and put her arms around
him. She did not look at the child'9
father.
“Listen. Jimmy. Aunrte must go to
night. but if you will be good till papa
comes back I will come again.”
“When will you? How long will you
stay?” be demanded, with the definite
ness of childhood. No uncertainty for
Jimmy! She did not hesitate.
“I will come back—in tlie morning—
and I will stay always—lf papa says
that 1 may!”
Jimmy, forgetting his foot, jumped
at her neck like a little boa constrict
or. But his father set him down,
wanting her himself just then.
“Are you going to let her stay,
papa?” Then Henry Jasper laughed,
and the burden of unhappy years roll
j cd from his shoulders. Ann was pres
ently Agreed to hand him the milk pail
as a hint to let her get at the dishes.
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