Butler High School - Magnet Yearbook (Butler, PA)

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THE SENIOR MAGNET 25 much of that; but then I come home and find Jack here with you, and Mrs. O’Brien. Then I buy a lately published book, and it contains the same story mother told us six years ago, and which she claimed was original. Putting two and two together. I have just decided that either you, Jack, or Mrs. O’Brien has published mother’s stories. Tell me, Faith, please! Am I not right.” Faith’s face was wreathed in smiles. “Elaine, you foxy old goose you!” said Faith. “You understand now. We kept it a secret for the last four months. I will explain. I had often wished for mother’s knack for writing stories, and never thought of having mother’s stories published until Mrs. OBrien suggested it. I got to work and wrote them out and gave them to Jack to have published. The day you met him in the hall, he brought me my first check for one thousand dollars, and—” Just then the door opened and an elderly woman entered. “My own dear little girls,” she cried as she burst into tears. Elaine ran to her side and helped her to a chair. “Mother, cried Elaine and Faith. Elaine fell to her knees in front of the woman and kissed her hand. Faith had by this time wheeled her chair to the woman’s side. Mrs. O’Brien sat with her apron to her eyes. I need not describe the scene of two daughters finding the mother whom they believed to be dead. Mrs. Drummond had been taken from the wreck to the hospital, and after months of untiring effort on the part of the doctors and nurses, she had got better, but her mind was a blank. She could not remember her name, and there were no means of identification. Two years ago she had married Dr. Stoddart, the doctor who was able to save her life, but not her memory. Up until today she could remember nothing that happened before she was taken from the wreck to the hospital. She had picked up Faith’s book at one of the stores, and that night while reading it, her memory suddenly cleared and she realized that she was reading a story that she composed and told her two daughters. She immediately inquired of the publishing company where she could find the author, and was given Jack’s address. As the Fitzgeralds and Dr. Stoddart were the best of friends, Mrs. Drummond, was sadly disappointed but, upon questioning Jack, she found that her own baby daughter was the author in question. The setting of the scene is a beautiful garden in full bloom; the characters are Mrs. Stoddart, a nice young man, Faith and a pair of beautiful grey hounds. Mrs. Stoddart is reading. The young man and Faith are laughing and talking. Dr. Stoddart makes his appearance reading a telegram. Faith runs to his side, (Oh, yes, the use of her legs was restored under the knife of her new father.) “We’ll arrive on 3:15. Love, Elaine and Jack,” read Dr. Stoddart. “Oh, Mother,” cried Faith “and it is now 3:10. Their honeymoon is at an end, and we will have our Elaine once again.”

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