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Show 85 "I didn't want to disturb you, " I said contritely. "I didn't move. " "You can wake a person by just thinking sometimes, " she said. I tried to voice the things that were in my thoughts, but couldn't, so I left the room. Grandma said I shouldn't have gone in there, as Mama had had a bad nose bleed and they had to have the doctor come during the night to get it stopped. I was old enough to be told that she haemorrhaged. Grandma should have talked to me then, but it was the custom to keep children ignorant those days. I did not know then that I would never see Grandma after that visit. Because of our common birthday I had always felt specially favored by her. When I was six and she was living in Ephraim while Uncle Eli and Aunt Jane attended Snow Academy I had visited them by invitation. Mama sent me with Steve Baker, who was going to Salt Lake on the train. She had sent a letter ahead telling Grandma I was coming so they would meet me at the depot. Steve was to put me off there. All went as planned. When the train stopped in Ephraim Steve took me to the platform and sure enough, there was Aunt Jane in a circle of girls, laughing and talking, her back to the train. He pointed her out to me, and the train continued on its way. I went up to Aunt Jane and took hold of her hand, but she went on talking without looking down at me, so I waited. Finally she became conscious of a child's hand in hers and looked down at me. |