The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-10-03

Why don't the servant bring up tho
chocolate? !? pursued Mrs. Tracy, eleva.
ting her eyebrows.
Shall ring and inquire p
No, it isn't worth while. If we had
on y remained in Ia belle Paris, where
the servants understand their business
Then you preferred Paris as a resi-.
denco,' said Leigh.
20, by all means, but Frank never
cod be contonted there. 1t is the most
absurd whim ofhis, returning to Amori
ca
You forget, Leonore, said Frank
somewhat gravely, that America is
home,n
Mrs. Tracy tossed her head and took
refuge in bottle of smelling salts. ITel
husband turned carlessly to Leigh and
resumed the conversation that her petu-
lance had disturbed
Il haven't asked whether my old
acquaintances, the Walton's, are living
or dead. You have not forgotten my
penchant for the beautiful baby
ooh, the Walton's disappeared long
ago from the current of Now York life
He failed or something-blew his brains
out believe She died of a broken
heart. La Belle was sent, I understood,
to an orphan asylum, where she has
already sproutcd up into gawky, red,
haired woman
Tracy was silent moment, comment
ing upon the sad facility with which peo.
pie slip from the cares and memoried of
their friends in the whirl of large cities
All at once the door was thrown open,
and two or three rosy little children
bounded into the room, with long, shin
ing curls hanging on their white shoul-
dcrs, and eyes all in a sparkle with in
fantine merriment.
Don't come near me, you noisy little
monsters = lispod Leonore, waving
them away with her snowy, jewe!ed
hand you'll crush my silks and laccs
ruinously 4
No word Of rcprofe, however, fell from
Frank Tracy's lips, as::..the little ones
climed on his knee and hung around
his neck. Those children were the sun
shine of his life he endured his wife
but he idolized his children.
Poor Tracy, it's plain to sec that he
is not happy said Leigh, that even ing
as he was taking his case within his
cozy home circle. That wife of his i,
enough to drive man distracted.
wonder he don't commit suicide
And so some days afterwards, whcr
the sudden death of Mrs Tracy wa
announced in the newspapers-ailment
disease of the heaIt-his first though
was
| What lucky thing for Frank
1t was scarcely year after Mrs. Ira
cy's decoasc and the widower was sit
ting alone in his study, when Howard
Leigh was announced.
well my dear friend : vas hi.
smiling salutation, what news do yol
bring me p
Capital news !! said Leigh. Do yor
know, I've just engaged splendid gov
erness for your children!
I am heartily glad OF it; the little reb
els are getting quite boyoud my manage
ment. They need some gentle, affec
tionate female inhIence.'
And they will have it. This is on
of the finest girls I've seen for a Ion!
time she has been teaching in al
academy, but thinks she wonld prefer
situation in some private family. Sh
is all grace and gentle dignity-a jewe
of a govcrness !
Il am delighted at your success
when will she come to take charge o
my children ?
This evening. But I haven't toll
you the strangest coincidence OF all
Who do you suppose she is =
I'm sure | cannot imagine
Her name is Agness Walton, she
,, the same whom you took such fancy
in the days Of her babyhood. | can te
, you she don't know you were an oil
beau of hers, else she would shrink fror
3 assuming this responsible situation i
your family
, Nonsense, said Tracy, halflaughiue
half embarrassed. 'ButI AN sorry sh
is reduced to the wretched life Of
governess.'
Z Nothing more was SAID on Tho sui
0 ject, and several times that afternoon