The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-07-23

vantages of the premises, with th.
emphatic addition, ''call only betweer
eight and nine O'Clock. a m.
so as tn be sure | am ut home
the rascal ~ said Rupert Sniithson
laying aside the paper. 81 am sorry
madam" be said, that you have had
the trouble of calling upon a useless
errand"
"Then it is taken - said 4 very
disappointed voice, and the heavy
Grape veil was lifted TO show a sweet,
matronly face framed in that saddest
Of all badges, widows cap.
"Well no, said the perplexed baehe-
lor, il is not exactly taken"
Perhaps you object to boarders -
"You want 10 take boarders, he
answered thinking how lady-like and
gentle she looked and wondering il
she had been long a widow.
"Yes. sir: but | would be careful
about the references.
Have Won ever kept boarders be-
fore 81
No sir Since my husband died
six years ago the failed in business,
and brought on a severe illness BY
mental anxiety my daughter ard
myself have been sewing, but we
both have been in i'll health all win
ter, and | want to try some way of
getting living that is less eonining
| have kept house several years, bat
| have not capital 70 furnish, so We
want TO secure a house furnished ike
this one, if possible"
Quite unconscious OF the reason,
Rupert Smithson was finding it very
pleasant to talk to this gentle little
widow about her plans, and as she
spoke wondering if it would not
make an agreeable variety in his
lonely life, to let her make her exper-
iment of keeping a boarding house
upon the premises Seeing his hesi-
tation, she said, earnestly:
Il think YOU will be satisfied with
INV references, sir. | have lived in
one house, and had work from one
firm for six years, and if You require
il, | can obtain letters from nv hus-
bands friends in Cincinnati
Cincinnati"
" He was quite well known there.
Perhaps you knew OF him, John
Murry ;"
John Murrv,,''
Rupert Smithson looked searching
ly into the pale, sad face, that was so
pleadingly raised to his gaze. Where
were the rosy cheeks, the dancing
eyes, the laughing lips. that he had
pictured a. belonging TO John Mur-
rvs wife! Knowing not the truth,
he recognized the face before him,
the youth all gone. and the express
sion sanctihed by sorrow and suffer
ing.
You have children ?" be said after
a long silence
"0nly one living, a daughter sew
enteen years old, have buried all
the others
Il will let you have it on one condi-
ton" be said, his lip trembling lit
tie as he spoke.
She did not answer. In the soft
ened ewes looking into her own, in
the voice suddenly modulated TO a
tender sweetness. some memory was
awakened, and she only listened with
bated breath and dilating ewes.
"On one condition, Katie" he said,
that you come to it as nv wife, and
and It's mistress. | have waited for
YOU twenty years, Katie -
II was hard TO believe even then,
though the little widow let him ca
ress her, and sobbed upon bis breast.
This gray haired, middle-aged man,
was so unlike the Rupert she had be-
lieved false, Even after the whole
past was discussed, and Rupert knew
how he had been wronged, but not
by Katie, it was hard TO believe there
might be years Of happiness still in
store for them.
Rupert Smithson did not put in
an appearance, at his counting
house all day, and Rupert the Second
went home TO dinner in an uneasy
frame of mind regarding that April
fool trick Of his.
g must run over and see il / have
offended beyond all hope Of PARDON
be said, as be rose from the table.
But gruff voice behind him ar
rested his steps
so, so. you have advertised my
house to let" said his uncle, but in
spite of his efforts, he failed to look
very angry.
How many old maids and wild
ows applied ?" inquired the daring
young scapegrace.
4 don't know. After the first ap-
Dlicaiion Mrs. Jones told the others
he house was taken.
Taken :"
Yes | have let itupon life lease !
.o'-here he opened the dOor-"my
wife"
Very shy, blushing and timid, INV
wife looked in her slate colored
lress and bonnet, as her three hsurs', !
husband led her in, but after a mo-
nent's scrutiny Mrs. Kimberly called: I
1t is Katie Carroll -
Katie Smithson :" said the bride
room, with immense dignity, land /
nv daughter Winnifred. =
There was new sensation when .
! pretty blonde answered this call,
rat warmer welcome was never given
han was accorded TO these new rela-
ives, and TO this day Uncle Rupert
will not acknowledge that be got the I
worst OF the joke when his nephew
'layed him the April FOOLS trick by
his house To LET Go
ly's Lady's Booi. for Aprl