Abbott, Jane - Keineth
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for you some day! It is a wonderful gift to tell your thoughts in
music! When you have built up a strong body and a good mind you can
work with all your heart and soul!"
Keineth told him then the story of Pilot and Mr. Grandison. Her father
was deeply interested. He recalled that he had heard his father speak
of him once or twice. "He must have had a very lonely life," he added."
We must see something of him now and then, my dear!"
"Oh, he will be glad!" Keineth described the big house on the outskirts
of the city where she had gone with her check; its lonely rooms that
all his money could not make cheerful. That led her to tell of the
beautiful books and how Mr. Grandison had one day taken her and Peggy
to see "Pollyanna"; of riding there in the big limousine and wearing
the precious pink dresses!
The afternoon sun was dropping. The concert had ended and the crowds
were slowly moving away. John Randolph's face wore its far-away look as
though he was dreaming things. His eyes, as he turned them upon
Keineth, were very serious.
"You know--child, we're given things in this world--good health and
fortune and gifts like your music--and my writing--but I don't believe
we're given them just to enjoy them ourselves! We're meant to share
them! I haven't told you the other picture, my dear!"
"Oh, no!" cried Keineth. How could she have forgotten Aunt Josephine!
"I've had a dream, Keineth, these months that I've been gone! It's been
a dream of the little home we'd make in some quiet corner where I could
write and you could grow and play. It'd be a simple home, but we'd have
a great many friends around us. There's a lot in my head I want to
write, too--I long for time to do it! I couldn't help but think as I
travelled over almost all the lands of the globe that people are alike
after all--only some of us have learned things faster than others and
some have a lot to learn. If those who see the vision could teach the
others--well, to live, as we said, like respectable, happy families in
a peaceful street--then this world would know a brotherhood we haven't
got now. It could come after this war--we could all be comrades, always
going forward shoulder to shoulder! I feel as if I want to write and
write and write about it until that picture goes all over the world!
Couldn't I do more for all my fellowmen that way than giving up my time
to the immense duties of a Cabinet official?" He turned a frowning face
toward Keineth, as though from this twelve-year-old girl he expected
help in his perplexity.
Keineth's face was aglow.
"Could the little home be near Peggy?"
Her father nodded. "For a while, anyway."
"And could I go to school with Peggy?"
"Yes, I want you with your friends."
"And you'd have time to play with me?"
"Lots of time--I'd take it! That was part of my dream."
"Oh, Daddy, I like that picture lots best! Only--" She suddenly
recalled what her father had said. "It would be such a great honor for
you to be in the President's Cabinet! And he told me I must make you!"
"Keineth, dear, that honor would not mean half as much to me as the joy
of serving my fellowmen through my writing! We'll show the President
the two pictures--I know he will understand!"
Still Keineth hesitated. "Would we--would we have to have Aunt
Josephine?" Then she added, as though a little ashamed, "but Aunt
Josephine can be awfully jolly when--she forgets."
"Forgets what, child?"
"Oh, that--that she's so--so rich!" Keineth stammered.
John Randolph laughed. "We'll have her part of the time and maybe we
can make her--forget."
"You have decided, you are very sure?" he asked after a moment, and he
swept his hand toward the nearby buildings of the city as though to
remind her of the interesting life that might lie there.
But Keineth's shining eyes saw a vision beyond them--long, happy days
with Daddy and Peggy and the others; a home, too; real school days,
such as she had never known in her life--perhaps another summer at
Fairview.
"I'd love Washington, but--I like your dream best, Daddy!" she
answered.
"I knew you would! And now, kitten, what do you say to finding Peggy
and her father and going somewhere to have some cakes and hot
chocolate?"
Through the soft April sunlight they went towards the White House and
the thronging streets. Keineth walked quickly, eager to find Peggy and
tell her everything! How glad Peg would be!
She hummed a few notes without realizing that it was a strain from her
own music! She stopped suddenly and lifted laughing eyes to her
father's face.
"Isn't it funny, Daddy? I called my music 'The Castle of Dreams'! We
were both dreaming the same dream!"
"And we're going to have our Castle, Keineth!"
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