The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-12-03
Selected miscellany.
FANNY CHESTER's DESTINY.

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duct with an anxious eye. Having no chill
dren of his own, he had taken the little
orphan left to his care into his heart as
well as his home She had proved affec-
tionate, good and everything to satisfy
him, save the horrible propensity of f1irt-
ing, which she had evinced almost from
her s'baby days"
In vain the Judge demonstrated with
her; his words had no effect whatever.
IF men are so weak, she would respond
T1tb Tek sh9 IheT must bear the
sequences"
do you ever intend to marry?" the
Judge asked her one day.
She looked at him gravely for q mo-
ment.
mo" she responded frankly. "My in
tentiOns are to remain always as now.
have wealth, beauty, youth and all affec-
tionate guardian; what mere do want?"
cat present, nothing" he returned.
''But the day may come when all these
may be swept away. Your wealth may
disappear, your beauty fade. your youth be
bat the remembrance of the past, and 1.
your guardian be moldering in the dust.
In that day what recourse would you have
left?"
She smiled and then laughed outright.
what doleful picture you have con-
jured up," she calculated. 'It ever such an
extremity comes 1 will teach, or sew, or do
something 10 support myself Anything,
suardie, would be preferable to marrying
one OF the deceitful handles of the nine
teenth century"
''You are TOO hard, the Judge rejoined
quickly There are some men left. All are
not dreaming popinjays. For instance,
look at John Wallace"
The beauty curled her lip disdainfully.
John Wallace to be mentioned to her !
John Wallace a poor, friendless orphan,
that had entered her guardians office as an
orphan boy, and had studied and worked
himself up until he was admitted TO the
bar, was too much beneath her in social
rank. for even his name to be tolerated.
John Wallace" she reiterated. why,
guardie, am surprised that you should
refer to man like him. One without
blood or lineage; one who knows net but
even his very existence may be an in
eff2ceable disgrace !"
.'You have too artist cratic ideas for Re-
publican America" he responded, and
then he louged to tell her something of
her family, Of which she he'd lived in bliss
tui ignorance.
From that time forth she seemed to flrt
even more desperately than before. Ifshe
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came to the house to consult the Judge,
she treated him with supercilious con
tempt. The Judge flushed with shame.
Fanny, dear" he ventured To say to
her, after she had been more than usually
frlgld IN her conduct, ''Sou wound me.
What pleasure can you find in humiliating
John Wallace as you have done? Why not
Sc lsast treat him in o lady-hke and polite
mannerg'
s'Gccause his airs annoy me-" was the
reply. "He bears everything with that
cold, calm, unimpasSioned bearing that
seem TO say, I am as good as you, and do
not heed YOU, which l consider insuffera-
BILE insolence from an inferior"
The Judge sighed, but made no CON-
merits.
New Years came at last, and Fanny was
preparing for ball. She looked into the
mirrors that reflected her with evident sat-
istactiOn, and then swept down from her
apartments to the Judges library to ask
his opinion Of her toilet. Voices within
attracted her attention.
81 wish to address Miss Chester, and
FIRST ask your consent, she heard some one
sag.
The puppy" she CALCULATED as she re-
cCgniZed his voice as that of a young Eng
lisbman with whom she had recently been
made acquainted.
The Judge hesitated for moment.
Miss Chester must please herself" he
returned; ''but as you have mentioned il
to me, I ieel in duty bound to correct you
IN regsrd to q popular belief. Miss
Chester's fortune, as well as my own, has
been lost through an unfortunate specula-
lion.
The fellow fairly gasped.
us II really So he asked.
The Judge bowed his head.
"But OF course that will make no differ
ence with YOU" has suggested, "as you
wish to seek my ward through no MERGE
nary motives"
The dandy WINGED.
Pardon me-" he stammered 81 have
laboyed under n mistake. Not" he ad-
ded, 'thgt l wish TO seek her wealth, but
now that she is reduced, she might be in
dUced TO follow her mothers profession
IN actress"
The Judge rose to his feet.
''Be so kind as to leave my house, sir"
the Judge commanded, and the fellow
skunk out.
For moment Fanny stood like one
transtixed. The calamity-that of losing
her wealth-wsuld have appalled, her, but
the other-that her mother could have
been an actress-chilled her blood. She
rushed into the library.
Tell me-is it so?" she questioned ago
nizingly.
"Which2' he asked, hoarsely, her white
face appealing to his heart.
''AIy mother?"
YES" ne said slowly. "Child, / did
not know you were there"
She heard him not She stood and
stared, ana at last threw herself upon his
fatberly breast.
"Do not think weep for my wealth, -
said she. II can stand that, but the other
humiliation; vel was so proud of my
good family"
She took of her queenly robes and re-
manned at home.
The intelligence of the Judges failure
ew through that city as if on wings of fire,
and the friends who had admired the ''rich
Miss Chester" dropped off enc by one.
The Judge left his stately mansion and
they took rooms IN a small, neat boarding
house. He watched how bravely she bore
her T. verses and sighed.
Fanny insisted upon the old programme
which she had marked o0t for herself be.
fore she had ever dreamed of being re-
duced.
Il viii nos be burden to YOU" she
replied to the Judge, when he pleaded
with her to abandon her scheme.
Sac went bravely to the trustees of the
school where she had been educated, and
laid her case before them. They listened
attentively. They believed there must be
sterling qualities within the girl. that she
could so readily face her fate. They gave
her the position she desired.