Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-02

5HO QIO IsOt ueSeTVe.
eyes," she cried, chuckling, II can
manage. Let me alone! And first thing
in the morning, I'll go there with you
NOW" said she, selling her charge, WHIT
was beginning to squirm, "now I'll Sc,
what's to be got out Of your landlady."
Winking violently with first one eye
and then the other, she started to go
then, with sudden solemnity, she rein
serted her head in the doorway.
eff Pm summoned" !" she said, 'sit's above
all else. If Pm called, I must go, day o.
nightr' 9ae 8
"Certainly," said Tom, much puzzled
"but you won't be, Auntiep AS The
young man walked abroad to get his din
ner, he felt impressed with an almost roys
terious awe of the old nurse. h
"To think Of living always with deatf
grinnipg one in the face likethat," he NUT
tered.
In the night Toms dream of peace was
again dispelled.
Another knock on his door.
Gam l under -ban?" growled Tom
"what's the matter now?"
"I'm called" said the voice of Mrs
Primmins; "my summons has come /"
ooh the d-l" cried Tom, lost to all
sense of the importance of conciliating
the nurse. "Go to bed! Hold On till
morning!"
In the morning Tom, who, happy fel
low always slept soundest under sense
of depression, did not make his appear
ance until nine o'clock. He found that
Mrs. Primmins had actually disappeared
for parts unknown. In the arms of his
hitherto stern landlady he found his
charge nesting. A new light-that of
love-was bearniDg in the solemn
woman's eye-that woman, thought Tom,
who would see any Of her boarders starve
and rot for ten cents a day saved He
looked at his little. responsibility with
feeling of awe, almost suspicion Of
witchcraft 1t is customary to shake the
head, and wonder at the amazing Provi-
dence that sometimes removes mother
and throws a young infant upon the char
ity of othersi Why not also consider
reverently the innate instinct of mother
hood that rises in every female heart at
sight of baby so bereaved!
81 have undertaken" said the land
lady, giving Tom smile such as he had
never dreamed could rest on her features,
81 have undertaken to go with you in
search of Mrs. Primmins' niece, .Malvina p
Several hours later Tom Collins sprang
from light wagon in which he had driven
to the door Of pretty cottage.
We will make one last effort by in
quiring here" he said to his landlady,
who held the baby.
With his usual impetuosity he pushed
directly through into the little rear
kitchen. There, he forgot his errand,
forgot everything except what he saw.
a. young girl, plump, neat and rosy,
stood, with round arms barred before
table. She was assiduously occupied in
caressing, with her white hands, little
humps of dough into shape. Then she
placed them in rows in q big black pan.
For moment she did not see Tom. He,
unreasoning, impulsive fellow, forgot his
errand forgot everything, in short, and
began envying those Jumps of dough
He felt instinctively that he, too, pos
sessed great capacity for being moulded
by some such hands as those.
Suddenly she turned. Such a dimpling
smile such rosy embarrassment Tom,
crest black-haired, jetty- eyed giant that
be was, thought this little plump blonde
an angel. Thought! why, he was sure
Of it! A
After while he came partially to his
senses, and said, "I'm looking for one
Malvina Barker ~w
"And that is me-" said the rosy lips.
"Then I've brought you baby" he
sid, abruptly.
A good deal of astonishment can be put
into pair of bright blue eyes without
spelling them and so there was. For
tunately, at this point the landlady ap-
peared, and so, a moment later, did NAL
vina's mother, called up from the cellar
by the voices
Negotiations were soon completed.
Tom again in his little room, found it
the loneliest, dreariest place he had ever
in his life looked upon.
A couple of days later he concluded that
it would be inhuman not to go and in
quire after his little charge. In an in
credibly short space Of time he was seiz-
ed with the same impression again. Then
he went to take TO baby, who had not yet
learned that the moon is more distant
than the door-knob, box of geographical
blocks. Then he went to inquire if it
needed pocket money; and he told NAL
v1na that he knew she was not kept awake
nights with it, because her eyes were so
bright.
This time Malvina's mother told Tom
that Of course they were very plain peo-
pie, and no fit associates for q young
gent like him, but that if he sOiShed to
stay, there was plenty of Strawberries
and cream for tea.
Tom stayed, and after tea the moon
came out. On! that wicked, shameless
moon Tom, by its light, told Malvina
right out that her eyes were bluer than
Heaven--her lips sWeeter than roses
and all that.
When they parted Malvina went to her
room and cried.
What could such perfect king of a
man mean by talking like that to her ?
OF course, he could not mean to marry
a little school mistress only home on a
vacation
Tom scted queerly, too, when alone in
his room. He took pencil and paper,
and figured and calculated He made a
list of all the little properties he DOS
sessed. He added them up and he added
them down. Then he set down list of
all the things he was accustomed to
spend money upon that could be dis
pensed with. Then he brought out a
book on economy, where it tells how q
man can live cheaper with q frugal wife
than he can alone. He was astonisheo
to find that book SO intensely interesting
The next day Tom went again to see
the baby. In fact, it had seemed to him
as though the afternoon never would
ccme. He had more waiting to do at the
cottage, for Malvina's mother received
him, and she did not appear. AT last his
impatience spurred him to ask for her.
81 don't want you to see her again,
young man. viii be frank with you and
tell the truthp