The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-08-23

cheer that tbe young couple saw, as
they entered alone fov tbs old FOLKS
could NOS be prevailed TO remain after
they bad opened the tront door for the
returning travellers aud Wills eyes
beamed With pride and delight
There little, Mrs Hathorn, welcome
70 your home And. drst of all, tell ne
sandidly your opinion
4 aush 81 exquisite delight mantled
/ tie young uiies face.
Z Perfect more than perfect TIE car
pet suits exactly tie pictures are Sc
locted and hung better than any one
Else would have ever dreamed Of The
luruiture is splendid. Oh, VIII, don,t
deserve ali this
Don't deserve il You little darling.
yon Why that very minute was
saving to myself il is not half good
enough for her
Suspicious little tear-drops glittered
on Hattie's lasbe.s but she wasn'tg ing
to let VIII see even happy tears on
their first evening home
Come now, Will show me the bed
rooms and the dining.room.
She nestled her hand in bis arm and,
they went over the house Hattie's ad-
miration being nnbounded.
| And nog, husband, while we eat our
FIRST supper--don t II taste good off our
own dishes, and on our own table, in
our own house lyon must tell me how
ever ron eontrived to make your hoard
ed six hundred dollars purchased 50
many elegant things?
She was pouring liis chocolate as she
spoke, consequently did not see the
! flush that redeemed bis face.
You little innocent DO you for q
moment dream our furniture only cost
six hundred rollars
| He stroye to speak indifferently, even
layfully; but the sudden panied gray-
ity in Hattie's face made him regret, for
.he first time, his imprudent transac-
| tions.
Viii, you haven't bought these arti-
cles on credit?
Oh, the lost confidence in that calm,
yet eager question it cat to the quick.
Why not, dear? / could not have
had your home in readiness under
three months, at soonest, had / waited
until | paid for them. AS it is, | have
three months, time; we can easily save
tue amount by then.
He spoke sanguinely, he was of a
bright hopeful disposition. and laughed
rcross the table to her.
How much is it we have to pay, VIII II
Only four hundred dollars
Somehow the sum sounded great
deal larger, as he told it to his wife,
than it bad when hehad been repeating
il to himseli and Hattie's reply, simple
as it was, did not tond to encourage
him in the least.
Why, Will!
There was world of emotion in
those two words and when Will inter-
preted them to mean wounded conf
denee, unayailing regret, and honest
sorrow, he was not wrong.
Hattie slipped her chocolate in a
dreamy, troubled way; while Will lean
ed back in his chair, wishing Hattie
would not look quite so grave.
Directly she cleaned up smile on
her lips.
Well, Will, we won't let il make a
cloud in our house. Well pay it as fast
as we can.
How those three months did fly by |!
so rapidly that before Will Hathorne
fairly realized it, be found there re-
NAMED but fortnight Of the time in
which he had fully intended to lay away
the remang four hundred on his furni-
ture, on which the upholstor had taken
as security a chattel mortgage Tor the
whole VIII knew that, while Rose
wood & Walnut were an obIiging firm,
they were equally stringent when nec-
esity demanded it. Consequently he
knew that lie would have to endure the
shame aud disgrace, so it looked to him
certainly the modification, OF a fore
closure. His cheeks tingled as he
thought Of Il, not so much for himself
as for Hattie. who had been so much
opposed to it. yet bad accepted the
mistake--he saw now what mistake
| it had been so nobly without any
murnnring. any reproaching.
Several times Hattie had asked him
how he was getting along as regarded
the four hundred dollars; aud always,
in his light. merry way, be had told
her:
ThHt'il be all right darling.
And so he honestly intended II
should; but somehow OF other, when he
had An extra hee or ten dollars. and
they acre not very usual occurrences,
there was way for il 10 20 be had new
er thought of