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Wednesday, November 1,Stb, 1.942
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.,..Jean found some paper easily
enough tui there were a couple of
sewspa•pers under the kitchen table,
hut wood was not such an easy
matter.
She did not want to disturb •Mrs.
Roberta by asking her questions, for
she realised that the hopeless, aban-
doned grief was by its very violence,
acting most effectively as its own
cure.
So once more she began to hunt
about in the kitchen, and finally dia•
covered a few sticks of firewood in
the dry end of the sink.
She removed the 'battered doll out
of the coact box and found to her joy
that there was a little coal beneath
it,
In a very few minutes she had the
fire blazing cheerdully, then, putting
the kettle on the gas stove, she made
a con of tea for the poor woman.
°'Now." she said persuasively,
"won't you tell ane what is the
matter?"
Mrs. Roberts sat up and dried her
eyes.
I (Ton,'t know what you must think
o1 me for making all this fuss in
front of a stranger, "she said, in
tones of ,broken apology, 'but I simp-
ly couldn't help it. I've been so
terribly worried at the thought ot
those two poor children of mine
waiting and wafting for their supper
and not able to come and give it to
them."
But why eouldn.'t you?" asked Jean
gently.
'well, you see." said, Mrs. Roberts
doubtfully, 'It was because my aunt
is not so well; at least," she added,
with another of these weary smiles
"she thought she wasn't so well, and
that comes to very much the same
think so far as my getting away was
con cern,ed. "
'What's the matter with herrn
asked practical Jean.
Mrs. Roberts shrugged her shoul-
ders.
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Nerves mostly," she announced,
together with a Title bronchitis and
asthma, but she's terribly poor and
can't afford to have anyone to have
anyone to look after her; which
means that I have to go every day
to see her, and sometimes she keeps
1100 for ages and ages, as she has
done to -day. I think she does it on
.purpose, because site's very un-
certain in her temper and she knows
I am an:cfous to get back to the
ch limen, so she makes excuse after
excuse for detaining mei'
"Wouldn't it be simpler if you
were to have her to live with you al-
together " asked Jean.
Mrs. Roberts shook her head,
"Of course it would—very much
simpler," she replied', "but she won't
come. ;She thinks that the children
would make too nnich noise, and as
a matter of fact I am not anxious for
her to come, because it would be a
case of continually hushing the
children."
The very thought of this appeared
to upset her, for she once more pro-
duced her handkerchief and wiped.
her eyes with it.
Jean sought to divert her atter.
tion,
"Won't you tell the the rpt of
your troubles " she asked.
"Oh, I don't know that it's any-
thing in particular!" returned her
hostess wearily. "Its just that life
is so hard! You see, we are so
terrible poor and everything I do to
try and make a little more money
seems to go wrong. My husband
died when Jack and Ann were quite
tiny babies, and ever since then it's
been a question of trying to make
both ends meet."
"I know," .said Jean' sympathetical-
ly. "And, as r read in a hook the
other day, one no sooner gets the
two ends to meet than somebody
comes along and moves the ends!"
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Mrs. Roberts nodded.
"Yes,, that's just about it!" she
agreed. "You see, my husband was
only able to leave me very little
money, but I've tried all sorts ot
schemes for adding to it. I kept
fowls at one time, but they never
seemed to lay any eggs," Jean did
not say anything, but she privately
wondered on what, and none regular-
ly tate fowls had been fed. "At Pres•
ant," went on . Mrs. Roberts, "I'm
trying to snake a little additional
money by growing vegetables•" She
She wodaled vaguely at the garden
fork,.rake and pruning shears which
adorned the kitchen table. "You see,
I was doing some gardening just
before I went round to see my aunt"
"And doesn't that pay?" asked
Jean,
Mrs. Roberts gave a despondent
shake of her head.
"No," she said, "the only thing that
seems to grow really well is weeds.
"But what about your lodgers•?"
asked -Jean. "Don't you find they
pay „
"Well," said Mrs, Roberts dubious-
ly, "they might pay all right if they
ever stopped here for any length of
time, but I no Monger think I've got
somegody for a nice Tong stay than
they find they have got to make
other arrangements,"
Jean, looking ,round the untidy
kitchen, was not altogether surpris-
ed to hear this.
"If only," Mas, Roberts continued
vistfaliy, 'I could find someone to
]p ane. I never seem to have
me to get everything done myself.
hen the children are not as tidy as
ey might be, bless them, and they
ake a. great deal of extra work, and
is having to go round to see
ntie every clay is a great tax on
y time. I wish I could get someone
ally competent to help, but then
can't. afford to pay anybody"
She lapsed• into silence, and sat
taring at the boiler, Jean. said
othing; her mind was working
riously. Here seemed• to he the
ssible solution to her own MI5-
11y.
She had. never liked the Idea of
Ding to stay with Mrs. Sands, for
e had realised all along that she
as not wanted in that house, and
w that they had illn.ees there she
.ew that her presen,ee would be
finitely unwelcome. Om. the other
anal, Mrs, Roberts. seemed to need
r help,
he leaned forward suddenly In the
air front which, she had cleared. its
stent aa, dntsfpalu and brush, and
a an impulsive hand on Mrs.
yert's knee.
Would you let me help you?" site
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ed to you just now, my aunt doesn't
want Inc to stay with her, and as our
own house is IL the hands of
strangers. I've nowhere to go till
daddy coupes home frons Germany
again. So wont you let me conte
here as your assistant? .Between ns
we'll get hold of some boarders, once
they are here, and, what is more,
^'e they are here we won't let them
go again."
"My dear"—Mrs, Roberts showed
the first gleam of hope and anima
tion—"do you really mean it?"
"Yes," said Jean earnestly, "I do.'
"Well, I should simply love to have
you!' 'Mrs. Roberts told her en,
thusdastie ally.
"And I should love to come!" Jean
spoke joyously, for here was a way
of avoiding Aunt Margaret for good
and all. "I'll go down to the station
first thing in the morning and get
the porter to bring my suitcases up
h ere."
Mrs. Roberts seemed scarcely able
to believe her good fortune.
"You're just the sort of person
I've always dreamed of having to
help me,' she' said wistfmlly, "1 mean,
someone who is really kind to the
children and can grapple with the
kitchen range, as you grappled with
it just now. I dont know how it is,"
she added pathetically„ "when I
light it it always manages to go out
at least two or three times. I never
seem to stop working, and yet
nothing is ever done and the place
is always in a muddle.'
"Oh, we'll soon get it out of a
muddle!„ Jean assured her. "And
before you know where you are we
shall have it Dull of visitors."
1s ;non a. she had helped her
hostess to wash up the supper things,
lama, who %vas very tired after all
the exertions and emotions of the
day, mated if she might see the
room {'ler ,she where 0 � B 1 was to sleep.
'The bed in the big spare room is
all aired, and has got clean sheets on
it" Mrs, Roberts told her, 'T always
peep R like titpt just in case anyone
conies here as a boarder."
She led the way ma to a Large eh'y
room, which, like the rest of the
house, was cleats enough but wildly
untidy.
When firs, Roberts had left ler to
herself, Jean took writing block and
envelopes out of her suitcase and sat
down at the {writing table to think
cut a couple of letters.
The first one was to her father,
She explained the situation to him
exactly, and told him that she
thought she was going to be very
much happier helping the absent.
minded and untidy Mrs. Roberts
than site could ever have been In
her aunt's house.
Then she wrote to Aunt Margaret,
expressed her sorrow at .hearing of
her worries. her hopes that the
children would make a speedy re-
covery and that none of the others
would catch the complaint, and told
her on. no aocount to worry about
her as she had .made .other arrange-
ments.
When at last .she was ready for
bed, and turned down the clothes
Preparatory to putting out the gas,
she found in the bed a toy dog and a
teddy bear, evidently put there by'
ore or other of the twins.
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David to the Rescue.
In spite of her great fatigue over-
night Jean v:as awake early the next
morning.
Por a while she lay watching the
first rays of spring sunshine creep in
through the, window, the curtain os
which she had drawn back before
getting into bed.
Viewed by the cold light '01 day,
her new undertaking did not look
half so rosy as it had done when she
was discussing it with Mrs. Roberts
the previous evening.
Her heart sank as she thought o1
the hopelessly untidy state of LIN
house and she wondered, a trifle
despairingly whether she could
ever contrive to make it sufficiently
comfortable to satisfy even the
least fussy of boarders.
At any rate, she reflected, she was
definitely committed to the enter.
prise now, so she might as well.
snake the best of it. At any rate it
was better than being cooped
up an unwelcome visitor in the
house or. Mrs. Sande.
With a little gesture of resolution,
site pushed back the bedclothes and,
springing out of bed;, grossed to the
window to see what sort of a Place
it was into which site found herself
pitchfork -ed so unexpectedly.
So far as site could see front the
window it looked very promising
indeed, The houuse stood by itself,
as tive stationmaster had told her,
and commanded a wonderful view
across the Yorkshire Wolds.
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