The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-11-22

ANA the more | pondered on the matter
the more uneasy | grew.
Perhaps she is dead ~
And with the last, overwhelming thought
came the full revelation of my own heart.
/ had grown to love Hetty Dorrance
Well, why not ? could afford wife as
well as most men. Hetty was only work
girl, and lame also; but she had face like
one OF heavens angels, and heart as white
as a lilly. OF that felt certain. | loved
her-why should not marry herr
SO | sat down and wrote her little note
saying simply thatI loved her, and asked
her if she could consent to become my wife
and | concluded by saying that | would
call ON the morrow to receive her answer.
just as | had sent my letter off, there
came knock at the door.
MIR. Harvey, are you alone? Can /
speak to you for one moment2"
is that you, Helena Arden Why, |
| thought you were married and gone to Cali
fornia = | cried.
g am married-to a spendthrift and a
villain " said she, with little, hoarse laugh,
land | am going to California tomorrow
but | want to say word to you first.
wanted to pay you for something"
"For what ~
That roll Of work which people accused
| Hetty Dorrance, the lame girl, of taking
Helena did You take that ~
| Eyes, she cried recklessly, " | took it
| wanted money sorely then; the landlady
| wouldn't let me have my trunks to be mar
ried until | paid her what | owed her. |
was standing by Lame Hetty that evening.
| saw her lay the piles of work on the desk
i saw them slip and fall off the heap. |
was just going away, and 1T was an easy
thing for me to stoop, as if for my own
pocket handkerchief, and pick them up. |
pawned them, thinking | could easily re-
deem them; but | never did. Here is mo-
ney to pay Tor them. / hope Hetty was
not blamed"
"She was, though, y said |, slowly
Il can't help it,'' said Helena, tightly.
| have done my best. Will you see that
she is righted ~
CAS- far as | can"
And Helena went away, muttering to
herself something about all her accounts
being closed at last. L paid but little atteu-
ton to it at the time, but | remembered ii
afterwa ds
| went the next evening to Hetty simple
lodgings, over baker shop.
9 Miss Dorrance +" said the bakers wife
coming out Of a back room, with a baby IN
her arms. why, didn't you know She's
moved away"
"Moved ! And my letter ?"
eve got a letter here yesterday, sir and
forwarded it to her. No. SO Avenel Square
SIR
So | went to No. Sc Avenel Square
little gem of brown stone house, all bay
windows and balconies, standing i'll its own
grounds, and there was Hetty at the case
ment, watching for me.
-" Hetty,' said l, . did you get my letter.
9 Yes, Mr.. Harvey"
''And what is your answer? o
. That | will be your wife, Mr.. Harvey
and that | am-oh, so thankful to have
gained good mans love"
| stopped and kissed her daisy face.
g suppose you are working here Hetty f'
said |. . 1t is a handsome house,
9 No" said Hetty, half laughing and hall
crying. $ | live here"
q Hetty You {"
my great-uncle died. said Hetty
"He was an old bachelor and hated us al
but he couldn't take his money with him
| had inherited his fortune
g 1t can t be possible, said / rubbing my
forehead.
:" But it is possible" said Hetty, and il
is true. | was going TO send to you to pay
that so bank note back when | got YOU
letter"
g have been paid, my girl" said |, and
| then told her about Helena Arden.
The next day ] saw a little paragraph il
the papers, how an unknown woman, will
the words Helena Arden written on her
pocket handkerchief, he'd drowned hersel
at the foot of one OF the crowded East river
piers.
That is nay story. 1t is simple enough
and yet think it has the elements of TO
nance in it.