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The Unwelcome Mother
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/ must go, " Ellinor said.
She seemed held in a
sort of trance.
then lutiful things about my world
too. Won't you let me send you away for a few months, perhaps a year, to a dear rid of mine, and learn to be at home in this other world — to return then and be my wif<
"Do you think I could?"
"Of course you can. Will you?"
"We must ask Peter. He has been so I to me."
And they sought out the old man at his cabin near the lighthouse, and told their story. Ellinor was the spokesman, and she broke the news simply and without affectation. Peter listened in silence, imperturbable but manifestly doubtful of the wisdom of the plan.
"We sea folk don't take kindly to the cities." he said.
"But Peter, perhaps I am not of the sea folk at all. I want to know." Ellinor replied.
Peter shook his head doubtfully, but the girl's earnestness and Hudson's evident sin
cerity outweighed his objections. Besides. he knew there was more than a touch of selfishness in his desire to keep Ellinor with him. So he consented at last, and in a week she had gone.
A YEAR later. George Hudson led a ■^^ transformed, elegantly gowned Ellinor to the altar, and to his home. In the intervening months he had devoted a great deal of time to preparing Ann for the event.
"Wouldn't you like to have a new mother?" he asked her one evening.
"A new mother? There never can be another besides Mamma." she replied, in a puzzled voice.
Her father explained as best he could, but the child could not be convinced that in some way her sacred memories were not being slighted. So it was a somewhat grave and silent wedding party. From her first meeting with this child, Ellinor's alert instincts sensed antagonism. She wanted to draw back, but said nothing. She loved