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C I l A P T E l t V I I I . — (Continued.)
There was a strange light in the doc
tor's eye as he answered, half s a d ly :
*'No, Maddy. I am not what you call a
Christian.
I hive not
renounced
the
pomps and rani tie« yet.”
“ Oh, I ’m so sorry,” and M addy’s eyes
expressed all the sorrow she professed
to feel.
“ Tou ought to be, now you're
got so old.”
The doctor colored crimson, and stop
ping bis horse under the dim shadow of
a maple in a little hollow., he s a id ;
“ I'm not ao rery old, M add y ; only
twenty-fire— only ten years older than
yourself; and Agnes' husband was more
than twenty years her senior.”
“Oh, o h ! orer twenty years— that's
dreadful.
She muat be 'most glad be's
dead.
I would not marry a man more
than fire years older than L ”
“ Not if you loved him, and he lored
you very, very dearly?” the doctor asked,
hia voice low and tender in its tone.
W holly unsuspicious o f the wild storm
beating in his heart. Maddy untied her
white aunbonnet, and. taking it in her
lap. smoothed back her soft hair, saying,
with a long breath: “ O h ! I'm so hot,”
and then, as just thinking o f hia ques
tion. replied : “ I shouldn't love him— I
couldn't. Grandma is five years younger
than grandpa, mother was
five
years
younger than father, M rs. Green is five
years younger than M r. Green, and, o h !
so many.
Tou are warm, too; ain't
you?” and she turned her innocent eyea
full upon the doctor.
“ I wonder why
she married that old man? It is worse
than if you were to marry Jessie.”
“ Money and position were the attrac
tions, I imagine,” die doctor said. “ Agnes
w as poor, and esteemed it a great honor
to be made M rs. Remington.”
“ Poor, w as
she?” M addy
rejoined.
“Then maybe M r. G u y will som? day
m arry a poor girl.
D o you think he
w ill?”
A gain Lucy Atherstone trembled on the
doctor’s lips, but he did not speak of her
— It was preposterous that Maddy should
have any thoughts o f G u y Remington,
who was quite as old as himself, besides
being engaged, and with this comforting
assurance, the doctor turned his horse in
the direction o f the cottage, for M addy
w as growing tired and needed to be at
home.
M addy would never forget that morn
ing or the nice ride they’d had.
She
had enjoyed it so much, and she thanked
him many times for his kindness.
He
w as a very nice doctor, much better than
ahe had imagined, she thought, as she
went slowly to the bouse and entered the
neat kitchen, where her grandmother sat
shelling peas fo r dinner, and her grand
father In his leathern chair was whisper
ing over his weekly paper.
/ “ D id you meet a grand lady In 1 car
riage?” grandm a asked, as Maddy sat
down beside her.
‘ “ Y e s ; and I)r. Holbrook said It was
M rs. Remington, from
Aikenside,
M r.
G u y ’s stepmother, and that she w as more
than twenty years younger than her hus
band— isn’t it dreadful?
I thought so;
but the doctor didn't seem to,” and in a
perfectly artless manner M addy repeated
much o f the conversation which had pass
ed between the doctor and herself. A p
pealing to her grandma to know if she
bad not taken the right side o f the argu
ment.
“ Yea, child, you did.” and grandma's
bands lingered among the light green peas*
in her pan, <s if she were thinking of an
entirely foreign subject. “ I know nothing
about this Mrs. Remington, only that she
stared a good deal at the house as she
went by, even looking at us through a
glass, and lifting her spotted veil after
she got by. She may have been qs happy
as a queen with her man, but as a gen
eral thing these unequal matches don’t
work, and had better not be thought on.
8 ’posin’ you should think you was in love
w ith somebody, and in a few years, when
you got older, be sick o f him. It might
do hhn a Might o f harm.
T h at’s what
spoilt your poor greatuncle Joseph, who's
been in the hospital at W orcester nine
years.”
“ I t w a s !” A nd M addy’s face was all
a g lo w with interest. “T ell me about it.”
“There is no great to tell, only he was
m any years younger than I.
H e’s only
forty-one now, and w as thirteen years
older than the girl he wanted.
Joseph
w a s smart and handsome, and a lawyer,
and folks said a sight too good for the
girl, whose folk were just nothing, but
she had a pretty face, and her long curls
bewitched him.
She couldn't have been
older than you when he first saw her, and
ahe was only sixteen when they got en
gaged.
Joseph’s life w as bound up in
her; be worshiped the very
air
she
breathed, and when she mittened him, ft
almost took his life. H e was too old for
her, and then right on top of that we
heard after a little that she bad married
some big bug, I never knew who, plenty
old enough to be her father.
That set
tled it with Joseph; be went into a kind
o f melancholy, grew worse and worse, till
w e put him in the hospital, usin’ his
little property to pay the bill until it
w as all gone, and now he’s on charity,
yon know, exceptin' what we do.”
Grandm a bad an object in tillin g this
to Maddy, for she w as not blind to tbe
nature o f the doctor’s Interest in her
child, so she told tbe and story o f Uncle
Joseph as a w arning to Maddy. It made
an impression on her, and all that after
noon she w as thinking o f tbe unfortunate
man. whom she had seen but once, and
that in his prison home, where she had
been with her grandfather the only time
she hsd ever ridden In tbe cars. H e had
taken her in his arms then, she remem
bered, and called her his little Harsh.
T h at must hare been the name o f his
treacherous betrothed. 8 b * would ask if
It were not so, and she did.
“ Yes. Harsh Morris, that was her name,
and her face was handsome as a doll,”
grandm a replied, and wondering if she
w as as beautiful as Jesele, or Jessie's
mother, M addy Went back to her reveries
o f the poor maniac, whom Sarah M orris
SS cruelly.
C H A P T E R IX .
It w as rery pleasant at Aikenside that
afternoon, and the cool breese blowing
from tbe miniature fish pond in one cor
ner o f the grounds, came stealing Into
the handsome parlors, where Agnes Rem
ington, in tasteful toilet, reclined lan
guidly upon the crimson-hued sofa, bend
ing her graceful head to suit the height
of Jessie, who was twining some flowers
among her curia, and appealing to Guy to
know “ if it w as not pretty.”
In his favorite seat in the pleasant bay
window, opening into the garden, Guy
was sitting, apparently reading a book,
though his eyes did not m ore rery rapidly
down the page, for M s thoughts were on
some other object.
W hen his pretty
stepmother first came to Aikenside, three
months before, he had been half sorry, for
be knew just how his quiet would be dis
turbed, but a s the weeks went by, and he
became accustomed to Jessie’s childish
prattle and frolicsome ways, while even
Agnes herself was not a- bad picture for
his handsome home, he began to feel how
he should miss them when they were
gone.
H ad ahe been more agreeable to
him be would not have hesitated to offer
her a home as long as she chose to re
main, but, as it was, he felt that Lucy
Atherstone would be much happier alone
with him. Lucy, however, was not com
ing yet, a n d until she did come Agnes
perhaps might stay.
It certainly would
be better for Jessie, who could have a
teacher In the house, and it w as upon
these matters that he was reflecting.
A s if divining his thoughts, Agnes said
to him rather abruptly :
“Guy, Ellen L au rie writes me that
they are all going to Saratoga for • time,
and then to Newport, and she wishes I
would join them.
D o you think I can
afford i t r
“ Oh, yes, that’s splendid, for I ’ll stay
here while you are gone, and I like
Aikenside so much better than Boston.
Mamma can afford It, can’t she, Guy?”
Jessie exclaimed, dropping her flowers
and springing upon her brother’s knee.
Smoothing her bright hir and pinching
her soft cheek, Guy re p lied :
“T h at means, I suppose, that I can
afford it, don’t it? but, puss, I was think
ing just now about your staying here,
where you really do improve.”
Then turning to Agnes he made some
inquiries as to the plans proposed by the
Lauries, ascertaining that Agnes’ plan
was as fo llo w s : H e should invite her to
go with him to Saratoga, or Newport, or
both, and that Jessie meantime at Aiken
side, just as she wished.
Guy could not find much pleasure In
escorting Agnes to a fashionable water
ing-place, but he decided to m artyr him
self and go to Saratoga. B u t who would
care for Jessie?
She must not be left
wholly with the servants.
A governess
of some kind must be provided, and he
was about speaking of this to Agnes,
when the doctor was announced, and the
conversation turned into another'channel.
Agnes Remington would not have confess
ed how much she was interested in D r .
Holbrook.
come to-morrow? I shan’t care how long
you are gone if I can hare M addy here,
end the doctor w ill come up every day.
will you, doctor?” and the soft eyea look-
ed up pleadingly into the doctor's face.
It is not settled that M addy comas,
the doctor replied, adding as an answer
to G u y ’s question: “ I f Agues could bo
willing, I do not think you could do bet-
ter than to secure M iss Clyde’s services.
T w o children will thua be made happy,
for Maddy, as I have told you. thinks
Aikenside must be a little lower only
than Paradise.
I will gladly open nago-
tiations. If you eay eo.”
T H A Jn O B F O B B A R T H ’S B O U N T I E S ,
■
Through the gray dawn In the meadowe wa
heard the reapere singing—
Tba 1*on* ° .{
,who
who
Lika the hare blades of an army th# keen,
swift scythes want swinging,
I And «°>d«€i In their wake lay piled the
1
‘ ° ° d lj •po,U of ~ rth'
And I said: “Give thanks, O heart of mine.
. » » conquerors may do
WUh W
£ * * * ¡ 5 ? ° * whaB * * b* t‘
To Him who gave us strength and skill to
force the stubborn eoll,
For •*•*? of “ ?• l i n i n g and the triumphing
“ I ’ll ride down and let you know / to- '
m orrow,” Guy said.
“These domestic
ful1 noon In tbe orchard we heard tha
maidens' laughter—
matters, where there la a difference of
Bare-armed among the laden tress they
thinking, had better be discussed alone,”
pulled the branches low ;
and he turned good-humoredly tow ard A g Home at twilight went tbe wains, with ns
to fellow after,
nes, who knew it w as useless to oppose
Light of step and gay of voice, as marry
him.
children go.
B u t oppose him she did that night,
taking at first the high stand that sooner And ? aald:
“Give thanks, O Heart of
than have a country girl Uka M addy To H im ' wV^v.™?. “TowlX“*^ the
Clyde associated dally with her daughter, !
cunning of the seed,
she would give up Saratoga and stay at For beauty of the growing and tbs joy of
J T * P?W h “ S
d* t8rmln
ed that M addy Clyde ahould come to
Aikenaide an Agnea was that ahe should
not.
H e knew. too. how to attain this
end without further altercation.
"V e ry w ell,” eras hia quiet reply, “you
can remain at home i f you choose, of
And g rn n riu 0of*the harvest from th . prom
.
lee of tbe Spring.”
1
Th*
of " ° rd* f° r * ' * * • * aarth’ °
j But never yet gave mouth ’ of man meet
1
thanks for gifts divine;
N€r m,rth nor acclamation but to Him who
course. I had Intended taking you myaelf
wherever you wished to g o ; and not only
that, but I w as about to ask how much
w as needed fo r tbe necessary additions
to your wardrobe, but If you prefer re
m aining here to giving up a most on-
founded prejudice against a girl who nav-
er harmed you, and whom Jessie already
loves, yon can do ao,” and Guy walked
from the room, leaving Agnea Brat to cry,
then to pout, then to think it ail orer,
and finally to decide to go to Saratoga
and N ew port.
Accordingly, next morning a . G u y w as
In his library reading M s papers, she
went tripping np to hhn, and folding her
white hand, upon h i. shoulder, said, r e r ,
prettily-
The great, glad tears of gratitads and «1-
lences thereof.
•Theodosia Garríaos. In Harper’s Weakly.
I w as real cross last night, and let
my foolish pride get the ascendency, but
I have considered tbe matter, and am
«T ilin g l o r this M is . Clyde to come, prtr
rided you still think it best.
A s I am
Jessie’s mother, it will be perfectly p ro jr
er for me to hire and manage her,” and
as G n y acquiesced In this suggestion, the
at down at tbe w riting desk, and com
menced a very pleasantly worded note,
Thanksgiving at
Lonesome Hollow
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‘° w w bo
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>lde th* biasing hearth. “ I haven t the
bea*
to « * up * bl* dinner for
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and b* wouldn’t corns.
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b7 w ay of being neigh-
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1 “And be turned aw ay for our pains,
the woman laughed.
’You can’t even go out on the ’high-
road, not on the trail.
W ill yon coma
over to-morrow?"
“ W ell, being as you’ro a* kind as to
lake the trouble to invite us we'll be glad
to accept your hospitality, and thank
yon.”
“ Very well. I shall expect you prompt
ly at 12. There are eight o f you, aren’t
there? I want you all, remember. Now ,
I ’ll go, for the walk is rather long. You
cross the bill and go straight aouth till
you reach the Sunrise wagon road, which
will take you directly to our shack, going
west. Good-night.”
M illy returned In great good spirits.
Jhn looked dubious at first, but he was
loth to damp tbe ardor o f bis good little
helpmeet by voicing hia doubts as to the
wisdom o f Inviting eight strangers to
their home.
“ Y ou don’t mind, do you, Jim?” M illy
asked, anxiously.
“ Not a bit. I f it pleaaoa you let’s have
them by all means.”
“ You should have seen them ! Greet,
gaunt, hungry looking fellows who prob
ably haven’t had a good dinner for a year.
1 do believe Providence sent me across
their path expressly to
give
them a
treat.”
“ I hope w e have enough stuff on hand.”
aald cautious Jim.
“ It w ill take heap*
to satisfy eight hungry men, you know.’’
“ O f coure# we have plenty. W e ’ll kill
both, turkeys and I ’ll make four pies in
stead of one, and two boiled puddings be
sides.
W e ’ll have potatoes and turnips
and the canned corn I pat up myaelf, and
ns much cider as they can drink.
For
dessert we’ll have real good coffee and
iced cake.
Oh, we’ll have enough, you
may be sure. Jim, you must rig up a
table big enough to seat them all.”
They worked ¿111 bedtime that night,
peeling apples, seeding raisins and picking
the turkeys. The next morning M illy rose
long before dawn and set about her bak
ing and brewing, while Jim put up a b u
deal table that stretched almost the length
o f the room, and by noon It was set with
all tbe luscious viands of an easterii
Thanksgiving dinner, set with
homely
platters and dishes to be sore, but not
rougher in appearance than the men who
finally seated themselves about the steam
ing board. Jim beamed hospitably from
his place at the head of the table and
H IS
■crap o f white paper crept m ysteneusly
under the door. Jim rose hurriedly and
threw back the door, bat no one was In
sight, and not a sound broke th* deep
stillness of the Icy night.
M illy read the note over hia shoulder,
and thla ia what it said:
“ Some curious whim prompts me to tall
you that It was our Intention to break
into and rifle the little eggshell bank at
Sunrise before quitting these
diggings,
but for the sake o f M illy ’e “ bit o f money”
it shall go unharmed. T hanking you for
a pleasant hour.
B L A I8 B D A L E .”
— N ew York Times.
T h e O a n l s 'i T h a a lu a r t v fa * D l a a s a
The gamin eat there at the board
That groaned with things to sst.
Around him wss s goodly hoard
Of bread and cakes and meat.
And aa be viewed it all with grins
He said: “I wisht dat I v m twins.”
J
He ate with growing appetite
And fed upon that store.
He put much food away from eight.
Then looked the table o'er.
And then with sundry sighs snd grins
II* said: “I wisht dat I wus twins.”
Th* viands vanished like a dream,
Th* turkey soon was gone.
But then cam* cake and rich Ice cream
And he at* on anfl on.
And still be wore those greedy grins
Aed said: “I wisht dat I wus twins.”
On nuts snd fruit ha also fed.
And pie snd candy, too.
He gloated on tbe sumptuous spread
That loomed before his view.
And fumed and elghed between his grins I
“Gee wbls, I vtsht dat I wus tw in s"
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But by sad by he had to stop.
For he could hold no more,
HI. knife and fork he had to drop
And then began to roar,
For all at once be' lost hia grins
And groaned : “I'm glad I ain't ao twins."
— Chicago Chronicle.
T h a n k s g i v i n g finnans.
A n Interesting contest Is for each per
son at the Thanksgiving feast to tell the
story o f some historical personage or
event connected with N ew England colo
nial history, and require the others to
name the person or place. A prise may
be given for the largest number of cor
rect answers. There Is no end of m ate
rial for such stories. The names o f M as
ts soit, Roger W illiam s, Miles Blandish,
FORTUNE.
in which Miss Clyde was Informed that "¡ay* " * * * * - . * “ ?
she had been recommended as a suitable
ancient host of Bible fa » « -
person with whom to leave Jesaie during *‘ ayba ** U, Ju* “ wel> B0‘ to
the summer and a part of the autumn, ‘ be worb » « « t m g up a T h a n k *! ring
and that she, J eu ie'. mother, wrote to
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th? F£ * lo<*
ask if for the sum of one dollar per . tlr^ . * . illy' TJWb* ' tbe
week she were at liberty to come to Aik- I t Notbl.^;
; 1 * ue» 1 B* fd ‘
enside a. governess, or waiting maid.
I 0U‘ ,B*; . 1 “
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“ Or w h . t r Guy asked, a. she read to tnd £ bacb
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him what she had written.
“ Maddy '. ,Mil y put 0,1 h*r cl(* k„ and went
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Clyde will not be waiting maid in this
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lar a week, as you propose. I hire her
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man habitation was visible, and not a
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long as» Guy paid the bill Agnes
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save the
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remembering a time when she had taught , „
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a district school for one dollar per week
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it in cheerful
and boarded around besides, she thought
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three dollars far too much. But Guy .
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obeyed, so .he wrote another note, which
homelike appearance
They had
he approved, and seal.ng it up sent it ^
the w
Eajt
qUMt of
down to
e re co age.
* health for her young husband, who was
■ It w a. the doctor who carried M addy.
h « |o>t str’
„ #nd
answer to Agnes, the doctor who made
bracing climate of Colorado,
“u
«ucceed.ng arrangem ent^ decld,ng
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a ,one k
M i„
hwlrt Ught and
that M addy would not be wholly strong
in 8pite of
joyful U c t
until the very day Axed upon by Agnes
not di
1 (l , W ver of ,OQeIlDeM
for her departure for Saratoga. F or this , wheQ ghe tho ht of the long> drear, win.
G uy was sorry. It would b a r . been V ,
bpfore them.
easy matter for him to have ridden down
» r m ^ tin
morbid - m p l j for the
to the cottage and seen the girl in w >nt of . |iule campany,.. , he u i d , „
whom he was beginning to feel so much #he w aIkni down the untrsveled road in
interest that in his last letter to Lucy (he face of th, cri, p north wInd. -T h a t
he had mentioned her as about to become , w il, neT, r do wou you> MilIy B ennet. For
his sisters governess; but he did not care ] j ( m>a
you muatn’t give way to such
to see her there. It seemed to him that ' foolishness.”
the surroundings o f that slanting roofed ' Suddenly M illy ’s ear caught the sound
house did not belong to her, and be woub
of chopping which seemed to come from
rather meet her in his own f enore Inxuri- I the
H U ollow
divide.
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ous home.
B ut the doctors word was ; ^
made h#r way ga(,„y through q , ,
law, and eo, on the first day of August, I laafle„ thicket, walking briskly over tbe
he followed Agnes and her three huge • kjj| and down the opposite descent until
traveling trunks to the carriage, and w a s . ah# di, tlnct]y heard voices. Further on,
driven from the house to which Maddy at the edge o f a natural clearing, she
w as coming that afternoon.
came npon a party of travelers camped
(T o be continued.)
beside a newly kindled fire, where a lean,
H is arrival dissipated her sadness in
a measure, and after greeting him with
her usual expressions o f welcome, she
said, half playfully, half spitefu lly ;
“ B y the way, doctor, who was that old
lady, all bent up double in shawls and
things, whom you were taking out for an
airing?”
“ T hat old lady, bent double and bun
dled up in shawls, was young Maddy
Clyde, to whom I thought a ride might
do good.”
“Oh, y es; that patiept about
Jessie has gone mad. I am glad I have
seen her.”
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There w as numlstakable irony in her
voice now, and turning from her to Guy,
the doctor s a id ;
“T b e old man was telling me today of
your kindness in saving tbe house from
being sold. It was like you, G u y ; and I
gaunt appearing fellow busied himself
wish I, too, had the means to be so
with preparations for tbe evening meal.
generous, for they are so very poor.”
P tllla a r a T i r e w it h San d.
They were eight in ail, a rough, unkempt
“ I ’ll tell you,” said Jessie, who had
A p arty o f tou rists w h o fo u n d them
lot In leathern Jackets and rusty boots.
stolen to the doctor's side, “ You might
'o f 'f l o u r " 'a
give M addy the doctor’s bill. I remember selves quite a fe w m ll4s from nowhere j g ^ , d# ' S T o w k l i i j ' »
how mamma cried, and said she never w ith a tu be w ell beyond re p a ir and raaher o f bacon and two Jugs stopped with
could pay papa’s bill when it was sent n oth ing to take Its place hit upon nn corncobs.
M illy stopped abruptly when she found
expedient, w hich If not deserving to l>e
in.”
“ J essie!” said Agnes and Guy, simul high ly recom m ended to others w ho find herself observed by the enriona eyes of
taneously, while the doctor laughingly them selves In a s im ila r predicam ent at i *i*b t strangers, then changed her mind
pulled one o f her long, bright curls.
least served Its purpose o f avoid in g a 1 ™ d " ® " « d tha
» “ >• brook and ® ad*
“ Yes, I could do that. I ’d thought of
b a d ly
rim cut shoe a s w ell as a j
A b ff
blark.whiak, rad man dropped
it, but they might not accept it, they are
bent rim. M Ith a tube that w a s little b l- ,„ „ ^ 1 0f horse feed and looked at her
proud as well as poor.”
“ Lost?” he asked brusquely,
“ M r. Markham has no one to care for m ore than scrap ru b b e r and no «p n re plapcingly-
at h an d It w a s eith er a question o f .
*«Xo. I live two miles up the divide. I
but his wife and this Madeline, has be?”
d riv in g on the rim o r not at all. T b e happened to hear you diopping, and stop-
Agnes asked, and tbe doctor replied: ~
“ I did not suppose so until a few days ro ad w a s rough and uneven w ith m ore ped out of curiosity."
T h e man’s insistant gase annoyed her,
since, when I learned from a M r. Green o r less rock so that even a fe w m iles I
that M rs. M arkham ’s youngest and now
w o u ld mean the end o f the rim. It w as b “ ‘
forlorn. gaunt appe«rance o f the
,
.
, , ___ T______
.
little group incited a little throb o f pity
only brother has been an inmate o f an
d o w n in Southern N e w Jersey, w hore ‘“ d em‘ de {¡er thlnk
o/ her own
asylum for y ears; and that though they'
cannot pay his entire expenses, o f course «a n d an d p ine tre e « abound, and the ^ c o tj t cheerful little shack, with Jfcm wait-
for her beside the glowing hearth,
they do all they can toward providing him shoe w a s c a re fu lly packed fu ll o f the i ^
fo rm e r m aterial a ll tbe w a y round and (
suppose you are simply camping here
with comforts.”
Agnes' cheek was rery white, though c a re fu lly replaced on the rim so as to fo r the night,” »he ventured, looking about
her face was turned away.
F o r a mo p erm it none o f It to escape. A s a sub- j at the meager comforts o f tho camp,
ment there was silence In the room, and stltu te fo r com pressed a ir it had th * (• “ W ell, no," answered the black-browed
her . t o n « » , being
then G u y told the doctor o f what himself d is a d v a n ta g e o f bulk, w eight and stiff. : — b . who
and Agnes were speaking when he a r
ness, but It served the gnd desired by
a Wt. There’s talk of gold
rived.
p reven tin g the «h o e from flattening and
c|a |m# and if lt'a worth our while
" I suppose It’s o f no use asking yon to
rim cutting and the rim Itself from bo. w a may M t Up for a week or two.
join ns for a week or so.”
lo g ruined.— M o to r W o rld .
“O h, then yon’ll be here over Thanks-
“There w as not,” the doctor said. “ H is
g lvlng, w on’t you? I ’d like to have jp h
patients needed him, and he must stay at
ail take dinner with ue to-morrow.”
home.”
■upM ees,
T h e man looked at his fellowe with a
“ Doctor, how would this M addy Clyde
“ D o n ’t you think, my d ear,” rem ark
do to stay here with Jessie while w e are ed the A m erican self-m ad e m illlo n a lr* enriona smile, half (inestlonlng, half cred
ulous.
“ It’s rather unexpected,” be ro-
gone, partly as companion and partly as
to h it helreoa
d augh ter,
“ that
t h # ! ¿ a r t i d humorously!
her teacher?” was G u y ’s next question,
y oung E n glish m an w h o la com ing h e r*
“ Oh, we’re all neighbors out here, yon
wMch brought Mrs. Agnes at once from
h as ra th e r fre e an d easy m anners fo r know,” M illy explained cordially.
"M y
her reverie.
I husband would be very glad to have you
“ G uy,” she exclaimed, “ are you craay? the n o bility ? "
“ Oh, but, pa, th at’s his tact. W h ll * with us.
W e are from the East, and
T hat child Jessie's governess 1 No, In
to r Thank»-
deed!
I shall hare a teacher from Bos he’s o v e r here he d ro ps much o f th# w#>r* *J,"*d 10 b* rhl*
ton— one whose manners and style are n a t iv * h au teu r o f the aristo cracy ."
t
tnA T
unexceptionable.”
“ Y es, but does be have to d ro p big |
' ' * pTOap* ctar’ ^
1
G u y had a will o f his own, and few
•H ’ff too?"— B altim o re Am erican.
“ Oh, no.
H a came out here for hia
could provoke It Into action as effectually
health two y e a n ago, when he w as all
as Agnes, who, in thus opposing Mm, w as
Jmmt P o s s ib le .
rh a down w ith overwork. W e ex 3 >ect to
working directly against herself. Paying
“A
little
learn in g Is a dangerous stay here until he's quit* well,
her no attention, except to bow In token
“ W e didn’t notice spy hen«#* as we
that ha hoard, Guy asked Jessie her thing,” quoted the m orallser.
W h ere 4> y e * live?”
“Tee,” rejoined the demoraltaer, “and
* a (k *
ft vtO be
I
Cha
I
tried dutifully to “act a* if the company
belonged there,” as M illy had aald. The
big black-whiskered fellow whom the oth
ers addreased as Blaisedale had the place
of honor because he seemed to be the lend
er of the gang by natural selection, as the
reet all deferred to him. H e watched Milly
with a curious intentness which brought
a flush to her cheek and made hev slight
ly uncomfortable.
Y o u ’re mighty comfortably fixed for
these diggings,” said he presently, look
ing about the w all* with their homely
prints and ornaments.
“ Yes. we are rather comfortable, thank*
to M illy'* ingenuity," Jim answered, with
a glow of affectionate pride.
“ Y o u ’re lucky to be able to afford such
luxuries, for all those fancy fixings are
luxuries In Colorado,” Blaisedale remark
ed significantly.
“ Yea, I count myself one of the luckiest
men in the world.
I owe everything to
Milly. even my life.
I was a poor law
student when we were nywried, and when
roy health broke down .he .im ply took all
the responsibility into her own hand*. It
was her money that enabled me to come
here. It’s her bit of money that we’re liv
ing on now.
A ll that she has in the
world is in the little bank at Hunrlse,
where ahe goes once a month to draw the
necessary sura for oqr provisions.
But
now that I ’ve got to work we're mak.ng
our w ay along without much help from the
bank.
I tell you 1 hated to use that
money bad enough, but if it hadn’t been
for that the Lord only knows what would
have become of me.”
M illy blushed deeply and becomingly.
“ W h y, it doesn’t amount to that,” said
she, with a snap o f her brown fingers.
“ A ll the money in the world would be
worthless to me If I didn’t have Jim.”
“ I ’ve heard a saying about a ‘good
w ife being a treasure,’ ” Blaisedale re
marked.
“ Y o u r w ife provea the truth
o t ft.”
T he dinner waa a great success. B laise
dale, who seemed to exert a mysterious
Influence over M s fellows, grew very talk
ative and eatertainlng.
H e told stories
o f queer places and queerer people which
savored of fam iliarity with lawlessness
and lawbreakers, bat which kept Jim
breathlessly Interested until th*
eight
strange guests made their adieus. When
the company had filed oat of the little
cabin door Blaisedale, who was last to
go, turned at the threshold and held ont
hi* hand to M illy.
“ Yon remind me o f some one I once
knew,” he bald, simply, “and for her sake
I ’d’ Ilk* to shake hands with flron. Thank
yon for your hospitality. Yon won’t re
gret your klndneee, by the w ey.”
“ Queer fellow, that one,” Jim remark
ed, as he watched the gang recede down
th* w intry roed. “Yon may be sure ke
has a strange history behind him.”
T h at night when Jim and M illy set
their ebeerfei hearth, a
K ing Philip, John W inthrop, Judge Sew
ell and others are at once In mind.
The hostess should warn her guesta
that they may read up a little on colonial
history, and thus be prepared to contrib
ute their quota.
Or, sbe may write a little story o f tbe
early coming of tbe
Pilgrim s, leaving
blank* for,tbe guests to supply tbe names.
T hu s:
“ A colony o f (p ilg rim s) consisting o f
(1 0 1 ) persons arrived from (E n g la n d )
and landed (I>ecerober 21 ) at a place w#
now call (Forefathers’ R o ck ). They be
gan the first settlement In (N e w E n g
la n d ), catling It (P ly m o u th ) ; and so on.
These may be mimeographed, leaving tha
part in parentheses blank, and tbe guests
he asked to fill them In. A little prlaa
for the most correctly filled paper may
be given.
W hatever game* are played should in
clude the whole family and should be sig
nificant o f the day.
Nuts, apple*, popcorn and cider should
be served in the evening.
A a * Thoa, B ro ta «!
Mother Gobbler— W h at are yon sweep
ing for, Brutus?
Brutus— W ell, I just beard a man say
he wanted a good turkey, and I want him
to understand that I ’m as tough as they
make ’em.
T k a s k a g t v l s e Ttase.
Colonel Kalntuck— Raatus,
you
old
rascal, how did you come by that tur
key?
Uncle Raetue— D at am Jee’ d* trubhlej
couldn’t git by dat turkey nohow, O un-