Seasoned Timber

By Dorothy Canneltl

CHAPTER. FOUI (Continued)

but they were disappointed by her reaction to the news. She only said, "You don't say so. Well . .. and reached for the empty pie plate in front or Miss Peck.

ter all, why not?" . . . "You must tell me." said Tim- othy Hulme to Susan, looking around the low-ceilinged room, "how it was when you lived here. 'rhat'll give me a notion of how to make it look as if I really be- longed." "But it does look as it used to.

an. come along. will you, and help me get the tea?" After she had had her tea, Aunt

Fly Eariyblrd Today Lavinials eyes began to droop again. "Well. go along, Tim, and

have Susan show you all over the

Ig place," she said sleepily.

' ' They went out of the back door

A. into the am: limbo of the wood-

shed, and emerged from that in-

rww”w'”””'-H-'"' to the sweet pale sunshine or November.

They struck diagonally the uplifted oblong of the hill pasture. After a few steps, "Do you know what I'd like?" she said. using Aunt Lavinia's turn of phrase. "Yd like awfully-if you wouldn't mind telling me-to know some more about-Mrs. Henry."

The other name had trembled so obviously on her tongue that Tim- othy could say, quite naturally, "Gall her Aunt Lavinia. She'd like that."

They were standing by an out- cropping of rock. "Let's sit down for a while," suggested Susan.

"Let yourself go .. don't be afraid of falling." thought Timo- thy Hulme, and in a. dreamy mur- mur began with the first words that came into his head, "When my brother and l were little, Aunt Lavinia and my mother used to tell us that the reason Aunt Lavinia followed my father and mother was because my mother's alto voice couldn't get along without her soprano. That was like them. The real reason was that they loved each other. They all sang. Father played the cello and Math- er the violin. Aunt Lavinia. was a professional pianist-you should have heard her play before the arthritis stiffened her fingers.

After is silence, "Where did

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"Boys' jobs. one after another. sweeping out a grocery store. selling neckties in a. cheap inher- dashery. Delivering packages tor a butcher."

"How did you live?"

"In a hall bedroom. we found one with a double bed. we cooked on the gas Jet. We didn't know how to take care of ourselves, or our clothes, how to get the right food. Downer was sink a good deal - sore throats. Aunt Lavinia wrote me. all this time, begging me to say just how we boys were living, and if Father had left us

that we were all right, getting on . And then on a. black, eero stormy winter evening, when I got back from work frozen and pushed open the door to that room-there was Aunt Lavinia! she was sitting on our trowey bed. talking to Downer. stroking his head with her strong. white musician's hand that was exactly like my mother's."

choir to manage, got a little apart- ment. made ti. circle of civilized people for us to know."

"Well, she saw me through Co- lumbia and into a position as teacher in a city high school, and got Downer into a. job as sales-

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Peter didn't see him at tint, and -

started in along one of the private

man that interuted him, where he was doing well. And then she went back to Australia to her hus- band. I was astounded when after I'd left New York and come to Clifford to teach, a letter come to say she thought she would like to make me a visit. I went. dowrr to meet her ship. And when it new

don't know what he'd done to her! she'd gone a little insane, I think. On the dock, she was saying over and over, 'I've come back to see do you still need me, Tim? it you don't let me die."

The girl's lips were trembling. A tear hrimmed over and ran down her cheek.

to New York for a talk about the Academy finances. "It's absurd!" he exclaimed to Mr. Dewey. There's nothing in the world he has to say that he couldn't write Just 15 well."

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Peter's thump had said, "Who are you?"

Ragwed-Ear's nelxt th-imp had said. "'.i'hie is my home, keep out."

Peter had promptly thumped back, "he respectmi to your elders, young fellow. You don't own the Old Pasture."

Then they stopped tnumplnz SM started staring at each other.

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out on the Green Meadows and .

my name is Peter Rabbit," replied Peter. ' . He was Ragged-Bar's father. and

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Leaning against. the steepness of

Ibroiher Downer

I for every Purse was he? - ten - before we were

husband to Australia. she had al-

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lie reflected, and said dryly. "Aunt

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i "What kind of man?" asked

Susan. hrr breath coming quickly

Mother couldn't endure him." In

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