The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-03-28

, had been he would have found some means
Of communicating with her. a tho usand
spies, with sleepless eyes all around their
, heads, cannot keep a man from telling
his love somehow, il he really has any
! love to tell.
He observed often during the week
, that Huldah was depressed. He could
not exactly account for it, until he noticed
something in his sisters behavior toward
her that awakened his suspicion. AS soon
as an opportunity offered he inquired Of
Huldah, affecting at the same time to know
something about it.
II don't want to complain Of your sis
ter to you, Mr.. Harlow :"
"Phew call mc JOHN, aud as for Try
sister, I know her faults better than you
do"
"Well, it is only that she told ms that
Miss DuntOn wasn't used TO eating at the
same table with SERVANTS, aud. when one
of the boys told father, he was mad. and
came to me and said 'Huldah you must
eat when the rest do. II ynu stay away
IN account Of these city snobs, I'll make a
fuss ON the spot So, to avoid fuss l.
have kept going to the table
John was greatly ve1ed with this. He
was q chivalrous fellow, anu be knew how
much such remark must wound per
SON who had never learned that domestic
service had anything degrading in it.
And the result was just the opposite OF
what his sister hoped, John paid more at
tent;on to Huldah Manners because she
vas the victim of oppression.
But, sitting in the old "best room ,"
in the dark, while the ladies were get
ting ready and trying to devise way by
which he might get an Oppo- unity to
speak with Miss Dunton alone, it oc,
Cured to hin, that she was at that time
in the sitting 70 IN, waiting for his sister
! To step out To whelc she was and present
the case would not be difficult, and it
might be all settled before the sister came
down stairs The taJes W ere against him
however, for, just as he was.about to act
upon his thought, he heard Amanda
Holmes abundant dresses sweeping down
the stairway. He could not help hearing
the conversation that followed.
You see. Janet, git up this trip to
night to keep John from spending the
evening in the kitchen. He hasn't a bit
of dignity and would spend the evening
romping with the children and talking
with Huld4h, If he took it into his head. >"
"Well," said Janet, one can overlook
everything IN man OF yuur brother
culture. But what a queer way your
country servants have OF Furnishing them
selves Wouldn't [ make them know
he'll placrs!'
| And all this was said with the kitchen
door open, and with the intention of
woundlng Huldah.
Johns castle tumbed. The erudite
wife alongside tie silver tea urn faded
out of sight rapidly. If knowledge could
noe give touch of humane regard for
the feelings OF u poor girl, tojling duJi-
| fully and seIfdenyingly to support her
| family, of what account was it?
Two minutes before he was about to
give his lie to Janet Dunton. New there
was gulf wider than the world between
them. He slipped out of the bsst room
by the outside door, aud came in through
the kitchen. The neighbours sleigh that was
to call for them was already at the door
and J0hn begged them to excuse him.
He had set his heart on helping Huldah
make mince pies, as he used to help his
mother when boy. His sister was IN
despair, but she did not say much She
told John it was time lie was getting over
his queer freaks. And the sleigh drove
off.
For an hour afterward, John romptd
with his SISTERS children, and told stories
to The boys and talked to his father
When g man has barely escaped going
over precipice, he does rot like to think
too much about 1t. John did not.
At last the little children went to bed.
The old gentleman grew sleepy and
tired. The boys went into the sitting
room and went to sleep, one ON the
lounge and one on the floor. Hudah was
just ready to begin her pies. She was
| deeply hurt, but John succeeded in max
ing her more cheerful. he rolled up his
sleeves and weHt to rolling out the pastry
He thought he had never seen swee err
picture than ths young girl in clean dr ess
and apron, with her sleeves rolled up
above her elbows TAcre was statues
que perfection in the we'll rounded arms.
The heat OF the fire had flushed her face a
little, and she was laughing merrlly at
Johns awkward bIunders in pie making
John was delight ed-hs hardly k evwhy.
La fixing pie crust, bis fingers touched
hers, and he started as though he had
touched galyanic battery. He looked
at Huldah, and saw a half painful ex
preston on her flushed face.
For the first time it occurred to him
that Huldah Manners had excited in him
feeling thousand times deeper than
anything he had felt toward janet, who
seemed to be now in another world. For
the first time he realized that he had
been more in love Nith Huldah than with
Janet all the time. Why not marry her
And then he remembsr what the gsv