“The Gardener”
Grady Eugene Barnes has been at Mrs. Blathersby’s
orphanage as long as anyone can remember. Grady was
never adopted and stayed on as the orphanage’s
gardener after he became an adult. The sisters would
often say he was “Non compos mentis” (not of sound
mind) Grady thinks they talked that way in front of
him so as he wouldn’t know what they were saying….but
Grady knew.
Grady has never been one to talk much but he does like
to hum a good tune….the gardens around the orphanage
has been his life…watching the flowers grow and the
children too.
It’s rumored that he fell in love once with one of the
young Nuns that worked at the orphanage. Sister Mary
Rose and Grady were often seen walking in the gardens
together…late in the evening after the children were
long in bed Sister Mary Rose would slip out to the
gardens and meet Grady.
The guilt being too much for the young sister she left
the orphanage with only a note behind for poor Grady.
He buried the note and some say his heart in the
garden behind the roses.
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