THE DAILY BRITISH whic, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1913. PAGE TWELVE 0-0-0000 The Brown Road D00I00.00000000000000000 #1 wish, dear," said Hugh, "that you would ask Aunt Clarissa to spend gf few days with us." Edith looked up from gine. "Aunt Clarissa! she Bhe knew very well whom Hugh meant. There was only Aunt Clarissa. God had never made such another lean, brown, wrinkled wo- man, who wore such atrocious hats, 'such absurd homemade garments, She had been the one unpleasant in- cident of Bdith's wedding. In all the ten years since then they had her maga-| said one time invariably been reminded of her existence by the arrival of a rug t i a or bed quilt or tidy so hideous in Edith's eyes that she hid them as goon as she could. Two or three times Hugh had suggested that be asked to visit them she And now that they were right in Aunt Clarissa's native haunt, haviag bought a house there and moved into it for the summer on account of Hugh's counvalescing from a fever, he was asking again that she come to see them. "1 don't believe she knows we are here," Hugh went on, "and she's on- ly a few miles away. ternoon and see 'her. But that wouldn't do me any good. If she wants to sée me immediately she must come here: [I'd like to have her stay two or three days, so that we could visit. There's a lot of things I'd like to talk over with her. I've told .you how good she was to me when I was a boy. We were poor then--a great deal poorer than Aunt Clarissa, who was poor enough Many a meal of mush and milk I've eaten off her pantry shelf, for I al- ways was hungry. It tasted better than lots or banquets I've eaten since. Well, they're all gone now . who were my folks save Aunt Clar- fs8a, and she's an old woman. She's right where she started in on the game little side hill place, with an old horse or a cow or two. But I've gone on. I've gathered in some mon- ey and I've got you." He smiled tenderly. "But I want Aunt Clarissa | too. Please, Edith!" "y can't," Edith thought. "Maybe," she added, 'she won't leave her cows and horses. And there's her son, who would cook for him?" '""He's only her stepson, dear. Oh, ghe'll come if you'll ask her. Try her and see." When an hour later the rural de- divery man went jogging up the lane hie carried a letter from Edith to which Hugh had appended these words: "Please come, auntie. I'm Just getting over a sickness and feel very babyish. 1 want you. Come to- morrow, come any time, only-- come!" "Phat will fetch her," he said with a smile. And it did. The next day Aunt Clarissa arriv- ed. She came in a dish wheeled bug- gy, drawn by a decrepit horse. Her stepson brought her. Edith glanced put of her window just in time to see the horse fall asleep before the porch while Aunt Clarissa climbed down from the buggy, laden with small fuggage. She had on a black and white lawn dress, a cape and a hat with a feather than any fowl would have been ashamed to own. In ten years she had grown thinner and prowner, but not less energetic. Her step was as light as a girl's as she mounted the steps. Hugh met her. His hoyisr whoop of joy brought Edith with a proper welcome. From the buggy Aunt Clarissa's middle-aged stepson grin- ned on the group on the porch. Land, no. Seth iwon't stay. He not | ®een her, but they had at Christmas| in the city but|* Edith had been able to put him ff I've been think-| ing you could motor over some af-| EE - said Aunt Clarissa. "He's got to slop the calves at 1 o'clock. Seth, you be sure to keep the pup tied up |We're tr to learn him not to | meddle with the young turkeys," she explained. "There's a couple of | olrickens in that bundle for you, Ed- ith. And here's a box of pot cheese fer Hugh. "Twon't hurt bim to eat it ! And here's a little pail of cream. 1 {thought maybe they'd come in § WW can't, | 1, T should say!" Hugh put his arm tenderly about the narrow, drooping shoulders. | Seth woke up the went nodding and flies down the lane. "You've got this place fixed up fine," Aunt Clarissa remarked as they sat on the porch after dinner. I never see so much pretty {fresh paint and paper in my, life. And windmill there a-flying in the air! It's wonderful." She gazed about her admiringly. "What's that little building off there for Do you ieesp'a porse?'" Edith laughed. ""We keep a car, Aunt Clarissa. That's the garage." "You mean an ottermobul? I never rid in one in my life." There was awe in the crackling old voice. "And I never got close up to one but once. That nearly run me down on the highway. I wake up nights yet a- sweating and a-trembling with dreaming about it. It was a red one. 1 hope yours ain't red." "It's buff and black, Aunt Claris- sa. And it's guaranteed harmless. "Maybe it is, but you can't tell." Aunt Clarissa found a pocket in her full skirt and produced a roll of lace and set to work. old horse, which whisking off the "They're dreadful skit tiz actin' critters. You never can tell. 1 can't get over the feeling that they're live minsters. Every time I see one I want to climb a tree or get ebhind a stone wall. I'd be scar- ed to death to ride in one." "Nonsense!" said Hugh. "Yours is the fear of the inexperienced, auntie. ne spin will convert you. Edith, you must take her out." "This very afternoon," said Edith. But Aunt Clarissa shook her head. "Yon just keep the barn door shet so out," she said. 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Size 36 requires 1% inch material Bach thought Edith, "and I den't see how you ever came to belong to my Hugh 1 hope he's getting some pleasure out of yaur visit, for I'm not." It was true. Aunt Clarissa had comme to stay three days, and they seemed endless to Edith. The sec- ond afternoon she went off in the car alone and left the old woman with Hugh. She stayed until the shadows were falling and her gasoline was out. "What did you and Aunt Clarissa find to talk about?" she inquired when at 8.20 the old woman went to her room and left them alone. "Everything," Hugh said. 'What do you and she find to talk about?' "Calves and young turkeys and rag carpet weaving and how they curad old Mike of a spavin." Edith's tone mocked. 'Really, Hugh, we've not one thing in common. Aunt Clarissa knows her world to perfection, and she hasn't an atom of interest out- side of it. She's a contented woman Her life just suits her, It satisfies ner. She's actually cock about it It isn't so much what she has missed as the fact that she doesn't know she's missed anything. She's so sure that she's had all she wants and she's so absolutely pleased with what she's got that she vexes me. To me she's terrible. 1 want to shake her placidity to pieces, to cry to her: 'Don't you see how cramped and poor and mean your life is? Can't yon realize it?' But what's the use. Hugh stared at her as she finished almost passionately. "1 guess you don't know Aunt Clarissa," he said, calmly. 'I guess you don't. She isn't a crochet hook with which she! what vou think she is by a long shot You simply haven't got into her heart tat's| all. She's got a heart. And there isn't one single thing she's missed that she don't know about better than yoa do." Near noon the next day, while Aunt Clarissa was waiting for Seth to come after her, the rural delivery man left a letter. It was in Seth's difficult writing that old Mik2 had cast himself in the stall, and in con- sequence 'was too lame to travel. If she'd wait a day or two Joags) or he would be all right, Seth thug "Wait!" "cried Aunt ag ssa "When I've all but got my hat on'"" She began to hum softly to her elf Edith bit her lip. A day or two longer! 'Oh, 1 never can," she thought. "I'd take you out in the car if you'd let me," she suggested zenily. "You may," she said tersely. Edith colored. She felt that she was read. She felt that ihe (id woman had sacrificed much in con- senting, and she took a kind of cruel pleasure i fancying the upset of Aunt Clarissa's old-fashioned notions once she was in the car. Smartly togged Edith brought out her car and Aunt Clarissa got in be- side her. Edith could feel her brac- ing herself mentally and physicaily as the machine started. They swept out of the lane isto the road. She glanced wickedly at the stiff old fig- ure beside her. "Relax!" she ecriail. "Look at the fields and hills and that cloud yonder. Enjoy yourself auntie!" She let the ar out. Aunt Clarissa sat looking straight before her. It ame to Edith that her courage must be tremendous, and she felt a creeping sense of shame at trying it so cruelly. "Real martyr stuff ©' flashed through her mind. And she slowed down. "You can keep it right. Needn't stop on my account," Aunt Clarissa said. And Edith saw she 'Aren't you scared to death? a "Well, 1 guess not. I've been pleased to death watching the eritter eat up this here grown road that I've driv over my hull life behind some old slowpoke of a horse or other I tell you I've got a real respect for anything that can go without being licked and coaxed and pushed along. It's the first time in my life I'fe ever moved to my liking. If I had one of these critters I shouldn't like to die in a hurry and get to flying. It makes me feel kinda joyous." Edith stopped the machine in the shade of a great willow. 'Aunt Clar- isa!" she managed to say. "Yes," Aunt Clarissa went on, quietly. "It's a terrible thing to be a bird hitched to a turtle all your life. You ain't stout enoagh to carry the turtle along with you, and so you fold up your wings and crawl with it. Aud by and by you most forgi t you've got wings." She sighed. "I've al- ways been hitched to a turtle of some kind or other. Fust off there was my man, Seth's pa. 1 married him before I was old enough to know better. And now there's Seth. He's this pa right over again. Good, but terrible slow. Sometimes 1 feel like 1'd leave folks'd be wicked as so aw- ful moderate. Oh, I've had my ideas and they didn't have anything to do with carpet weaving and milking ad raising chicks, either. I've had day dreams that went higher . than that cloud yonder and faster than this oeermobul. But seems like the Lord didn't mean me to be morn'n I am, else He'd given mé a chance. I've tried to be contented with what He's dolt out, 'and if doing your duty faithful's any sign that you're going to be happy in heaven 1 expect I'll have the fastest pair of wings a'go- ing when 1 get there." With a sob Edith flung an arm about her. "You dear old thing," she said. "I see how it is. I under- stand. No wonder Hugh loves you. But he doesn't love you half as much as I'm going to, Aunt Clarissa. I offer you a half interest in this car for the rest of the summer. Turn old Mike out .to pasture. This is your natural conveyance. Take to motoring and put off flying as long as you can--for my sake." Aunt Clarisssa looked into Edith's eyes. She smiled. "The shade of a willer treeyis a good place for folks to kiss in," she said. was smuliline. * ghe BROKE THE RECORD Landed 900 Cars ars At Fort William In One Day. 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