Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-03-20

| on anu INC lIttlc Ihu yOu huON-
| ] see why yOu are weeping So
Your flower of love lies bleeding!'
--Scribaer's for March.
Barbie Gilmore's Reward.
"Lillie will be so disappointed"
elbow is it about Barbie?"
"You know very well, Mr.. Gil
more, that it does not make so much
difference with Barbie. Another
thing, l don't think the child cares
very much about it. Now Lille
has Just set her heart on going, and
this season will be everything to
her. Everybody in our set is going
and it is expected Of u.s.
"a great deal more is expected of
us than we can Afford" said Mr..
Gilmore with sigh that went
straight to the heart Of the child,
who had been sitting in the shad-
owy twilight in corner ofthe back
parlor; and had unwittingly become
a listener to a conversation not in
tended for her ears. Gas | said be-
FORE" continued Mrs. Gilmore, ig-
noring her husbands remark, sit
does not matter about Barbie; l can
never hope to marry her well, as
Lilies pretty face is near, and OF
course l am anxious to have both
my girls do well. Let me take Lii
lie to Long Branch this summer,
and Barbie can stay here with the
children and look after things for
you'll believe you said you did not
care to CO. =
d, 81 dare not. Unless the business
is carefully looked after iu the next
few months, fear we shall be ruin
ed. Our bills last summer were
enormous. If we could only man
age to economize little now, l
might be able to come out all right. "
"There is another reason why we
should lose no time in getting Lille
settled. / am dete4.nined that she
shall make a brilliant match, and |
had it from Mrs. Ford's own lips,
that Sidney Ford, her husbands
nephew, expects to be one of that
party, and you know there is not a
better match in the city. He has
already shown Lille some attention
and to let him 60 without us, would
be to let the prize slip through our
fingers. Can't you manage some
way to let Lille and l go?"
There was a little silence, and
Barbie leaned earnestly forward to
catch her fathers reply, and CRATE
full, loving tears filed her eyes as
she heard him say with another sigh:
"Perhaps ! can manage it; but re-
member, if Lille goes, Barbie shall
60. My girls shall always share
alike, and Barbie is the eldest
An hour later, Barbie Gilmore
sat in her own room communing
with her own thoughts, which were
anything but happy ones. She had
Just discovered a skeleton in the
house" that had hitherto been con
cealed.
Money had always been plenty
with the Gilmores, and they had
spent it freely. Here was the first
check, and it wakened Barbie rude
ly to the fact, that they at home had
been leading very selfish lives,
while their father had been worried
and troubled to furnish them with
the money that they valued so little.
At the same time she discovered
that she held no second place in her
fathers heart. He had always been
kind to her; but she had been SO &C
customed from a child to have Lille
supcrcede her, that she always felt
as she did in this. How could she
repay him for those kindly words!
this waswhat she was thinking
about. Her heart had told her the
way; but shewas trying to persuade
herself that after all it was not her
duty. "Things will come rigL'
some way; they always do," she
thought; "and / want to 60 SC
much" Then she thought Of her
fathers trouble, and how lonely il
would be at home for him, and she
felt herself utterly selfish to even
wish to 60.
She pictured to herself the gay
times they would have at Long
Branch, and saw Lille walking and
rowing with Sidney Ford, while she
would be at home alone. Then the
tears came. Poor Barbie had reach.
the hardest part of her sacrifice,
''lt's always Lille, Lille; must
give up to her in everything?"
Everything did not mean jns'
then the seashore, the fine dresses
or the fashionable world. It meant
all that comprised her little world
Sidney Ford. 1t was no new
knowledge that forced itself upon
her. She had known for several
months that this man, or none,
would rule her future life; and ii
was hard now, just as she fancied
that he liked her little better than
at first, to resign all chance of win.
ming his love. 1t would be Difficult,
to define Barbie Gilmore's position
in her fathers house. The eldes,
and yet without the position that
such title wins. Small, dark and
shy, she had let her younger sister
take the lead in everything. o.
rather, Lille, who was bright and
beautiful, had taken it as her right
Barbie had never felt this as keen.
ly as now. She had resolved to
stay at home and help her father
all she could; but in doing SO she
knew that she would resign forever
the hope she had SO fooishly cher
ished. 1t would be better, no doubt