Only in the Way

When Mrs. Gage's little savings were swept away and she found herself penniless, she naturally turned to her only son for support. Unfortunately for her, the son married and his wife objected to the introduction of a mother-in-law into the household. At first her objections were overruled, but after the unwelcome guest had been domiciled with them for some time, she induced her husband to send his mother to a home for the aged. But, in the meantime, the sweet-faced old woman had won a firm friend in the person of her little granddaughter Marie, who found "Granny" to be just the friend she needed, and when the old lady was sent away, Marie refused to be comforted. "Granny's" only fault seemed to be that she was more or less helpless, and little Marie was a cripple. If a good woman like "Granny" could be treated that way, the child argued, what could she expect? And so the little one decided to run away; and what was more natural than that she should go to the other person who, like hers