Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-06-12
KATIE'S PLAN.

sister was bending with flushed cheeks over the 1t
apron she was auting.
1T might just as well be fifteen thousand re- :
piled Sue, not stopping tiuting. Father said
last night that he had tried the last place he
could think about. l suppose the old place has
got to CO.
Kate lifted her iron and went 10 work, but
the great tears blinded her so, that she left the
iron rest moment too long on one OF her IA
theirs best shirts, and left 4 yellow mark; and
finally she said:
lifts anybody but the Greens we might
hope for little mercy; but they want the farm
too bad for that. 1 only wish we could find
some way of disappointing them. Sue, we
must think Of some plan to save it,
Her sister shook her head. ut would be like
all our other plans-they fall through just as we
think they are nicely fxed.'
If old Mr.. Green was bachelor now,
would try and captivate him, if he is old enough
70 be my grandfather and deaf as an adder
Trouble was banshed for moment from
Katie's heart as a vision of the old gentleman |
rose up before he'll and she laughed so heartily
that the mother came to the door or pale face
lighting little at the sight OF ka'ie's merry
cAe.
What Is the matter, girls?'
plan the sixteth, cried Kate getting up |
from the floor, where She had dropped moment |
before. Sue has been wishing Mr.. Green was |
unmarried, so she might captiva'e him and save |
the place.
lie lnOlHtT sIulltu ldiully. i AdN' hp uohhN |
but he would be a happier man. | fancy his |
wife is the prime mover in this. She called while
you were away, and looked all through the
house? She wanted to see where they could
improve it.
The old ,cretch, l wish ! could have been
here and Katie's eyes flashed.
you would have said something you would
have been sorry for. II won't do TO snub such
people. think we must give up all hope OF
saving our home. Your father and were talk
ing about the West
Prolonged obs from both the girls stopped
Mrs. Vaughn there, and each pretty head be-
fore her shook emphatically at the thought.
II know what you mean, said Sue; "a new
farm, and hard work.
Katie sat down in the door that opened out
in the orchard, and her mother took her place
at the ironing board.
There was a silence then; each heart was busy
with IFS own bitter thoughts. Mrs. Vaughn
was thinking Of the long years she had spent
under its honest rad roof since she came there
bride.
Each room was dear by its many associations,
Of 10th joy and sorrOw. How rGy hard it
seemed To be- torn away from 1t.
The girls thoughts were about the stme.-
The dear old home; what would life hold fol
them when they could no longer come 10 its
shelter?
Katie sat looking at the old trees, that were
literally weighed down with their garlands Of
blossoms. Her father had said the day before
that there would be great many apples thai
year, and pang had gone through the heart!
of those who heard. as they thought that othe
hands than theirs would gather the luciou
fruit. Then she thought Of the past. Why, it
seemed but a little while since she and Lilli
Harding, gay girls Of fifteen, climbed thos'
very trees.
But it was five years ago, when Lille spen
the summer in the country for her health. Sh
was Fashionable young lady now in New York
Judge Harding, Lilies father was very wealth
She remembered their elegant home, for she re
turned Lilies visit in winter Judge Hardin
was pleasant man--'Ohr and she turned sud
denly, her face radiant with a sudden, happ
thought. Mother, Sue, would you mind work
ing real hard to save the place.
"What question, Kit said Sue, impatient
ly. "You know we would do almost auythin!
But who, pray, will give lis fifteen hundre
dollars for a weeks work"
"Just let me go to New York to morrow an
l will almost promise yon TO return with it,
You remember Judge Harding? Surely lie wi
lend It to us and take mortgage on the place
Then shall ask him to interest himself in II
enough TO get us summer hoardrrs. There
where the work will come in, sue. New y orl
ers always spend the summer somewhere al
why not here. There is the lake, and all sol
OF charming places to 90 To, and
And YOU have got very crazy scheme
you head SAID her mother. do you think
let you 60 10 the city alone?'
Il heard Mr.. Brown say he was going tome
TOW W Duy goods, san sue
There, mother, you canno: say no. Till
how bafled The Greens must be. | must g
and she started upstairs 10 make preparation
hInging her magnificent voice out into a So
that seemed composed for the occasion.
There was another plan in Katie's lac
that she did not think necessary to unfold il
then.
She knew that her VOICE was sweet a
powerful. A cousin who had taken lessons
a fine master had impaired to her all that
had learned, so that ii was by no means unc
tured. few more lessons would make her
dependent, and summer boarding could accC
pish this.
1t was a very hopeful girl that found her v
into New York the next day She was del
mined to succeed.
Judge Harding sat III his inner office talk
with friend. This friend, Allan Thulst
had just returned. Drowned and bearded, fir
aforeign tour, and WAS making his first vi
on returning To his native city, to the Jut
who, although older than himself was lis iii
est friend.
Years, before, when Allan Thurston, p
boy, was trying to work his way up, lie attr;
ed the Judges attention, and he befriended
lad In a manner the latter never forgot.
studied IN his Office until Admitted to the
and when at last lie was ready to pract
Dame Fortune suddenly smiled upon linn,
sent him fortune from over the sea, Or rat
sent him over the sea to get it. This was Sc
Al years DelOrt, anu IL was his 0tSl return I
his travels.
They were discussing this same fortune
morning, and Allan was saying that, althol
he had enough to support himself in iden,
aslhe breathed once more his native air the
spirit of industry came back. In the fall
should commence to practice, if the Ju
would take him into partnership.
Before the Judge could reply, he was st
mOnsd into the outer Office, and telling "A
to wait, he passed out leaving the door Il
sja.
Katie Vaughn rose trembling from her q
as he approached for she saw that he did
recognize her, and for the first time she real
the nature of her GRAND. Sue almost wis
she had not come. But when she mentio
her name, he greeted her so cordially, that
soon became quite like herself and in repl,
his kind inquiries about the ones at home,
told her story. Not in the fine speech she
planned on her way down that morning
was all forgotten. But doubt not that
simple, earnest way in which she told II,
more touching than the prepared speech W
have heen. There was no wild appeal to
sympathy; she tried TO treat it as a matte
business, and except for the choking sob
would come when she spoke Of her father