Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-09-22


old daughter Of her landlady.
In vain Miss Fidela Tilton went the
rounds Of the doctors patients, with a
long face, sepulchral voice, and cup Of
lukewarm cruel, sitting up night after
night with all who would submit to her
rather Off icious attentions, and waiting in.
variably the next morning till The doctor
made his daily visit, "just to ask, yox
know, what he thinks of poor dear John
or Sarah, as the case might be.
But doctor Warriner went his charmed
way with perfect GOODNESS, dispensing his
attentions with undertaking impartiality
and giving no one reason to suppose she
vas preferred to another. So Masty Moor,
after listening to his praises Of o new
book for haitian hour or 30, was not at all
surprised when he offered to sepd it to her.
Matty Moor. though she had seen plenty
Of trouble in her twenty-five years expe-
rience of life, was pleasant, happy.faced
they sometimes grew soft and humid as
she thought of her dead parents and lost
home, yet ofener sparkled with the light
of cheerful, loving spirit. She lived
ostcnsibly, as one Of the family, really as
waiter, nurse, cock and seam8tress, in the
house of distant relative
Mrs. Green, who she called aunt, was
| kind, well.meuning woman, but very diff
(erent in manners and elucation from the
parents Matty had lost three years before.
Ma'tys lot was not an enviable one, to he
sure, but she did no. shrink from her du-
lies, and tried to feel glad that by making
in some sort the DEFICIENCIES in Mrs
Green's rather slatternly housekeeping,
she could, % that lady phrased it, "pay
for her keeping
Doctor Warrner had often watched her
performing the many Guties required Of
her, and thought-no matter what-you
must not expect me to tell YOU everything
| at once.
There was no circulating library at Ash
vale, and Matty could not afford to buy
many books, so she was properly grateful
! for the doctors offer to lend her whatever
books she wished from his large and well
selected Ebrary. Stealing time often from
the hours which should have been devoted
to slumher, Matte fingered delight dly
over the volumes brought from the dec,
tors shelves, aud srent in their perneaI
some Of the pleas ,ntest hours she hai
rassed in A.hvale
And not the least p,easant Ctheugh
Nat,v woull not have owned it, were
those DAYS when, dinner fairly over. and
"the baby" securely sleeping, she hasten
ed away to return her borrowed treasures
and racei;e new, The nleasan, though
bssty walk through the quiet street, the
o,iekened breath of the refreshing breeze,
the momentary freedom from her still vn-
vonted burden of toll and care, and though
last, not least. the sight Of the doctor 5
kind, handsome face. and the sound OF bis
friendly voice, were pleasures only equal,
led by those gained from the books which
cheered her on her return to her unconge
NAL home.
But Mattys happiness was short-hved
one. Mrs. Green had seen with great
pride the growing friendship between her
niece and Doctor Warmer, and ct last
could not refrain from just mentioning to
Ma.ty her delight at the turn affairs were
taking. 81 don't see why you shoulder t
have him she concluded. You're as
pretty as any Of them old maids and wild,
ders, and highly tightly missis ,hat's after
him, and you are good, besides.
Matiys olaek eyes flashed ominously as
she listened. To be classed with that ar,
my of husband'hunters was too much
How did she know how many besides Aunt
Green thought her one - perhaps even
Doctor Warriner himself? Very well-he
should soon find out his mistake. The
book she had taken that very afternoon
should 20 back Immediately, and back it
went by the hands of lite Benny Green,
without word of Acknowledgement.
The doctor called the next day, but Mat
ty was absent, and absent she remained
not only that visit, but through many
another and the doctor found it to be
quite an impossibility to gain an opportu-
nity for an explanation with the obstinate