Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-02-02


| he was looking over. Then at last, push.
| ing them aside, he said in matter -oi fact
tone:
We might AS we'll come to definite
understanding on this subject, Arthur, it
may save some time and trouble. You
know my plans Tor you about Emily
can plan better for yourself, ell ? Very well
now I'll make bargain with you. No
beggar enters these doors as my daughter,
and if you choose to throw yourself into
the gutter, why, you may stay there for
ever for any help Of mine; you shall, sir,
by the Lord Harry. and you know if l
generally mean what say. picked you
out wife and fortune; if you don't
choose to take the wife | shall look to you
for every cent of the money That settled.
you may marry when, where and whom
YOU like. The day that Miss Janet Hol-
lister can give you her hand with $40, 900
in II shall be happy to make her &c
quaintance until then don't care to hear
her name. SO now we understand each
other
And Mr.. Irwin with hard self-satisfac.
ton leaned back in his comfortable chair,
while Arthur, looking at the pursed-up
lips, bit his own hard to keep back GER
tain unfilial remarks trembling on them.
Months had passed since then and the
matter still stood exactly the same. Ar
thur once or twice, indeed, had attempted
10 reopen the question, but logged
Iou have my ultimatum,' from his
father, warned him that he would be urg.
ing his cause at its own risk. 1t was hard
tri al at,l that 40
never have borne but for Janet, who
would neither come between his father
and him nor consent to let his love for her
be the means of his worldly ruin.
Better ! am afraid, to give up at
once she had said but if you care too
much 10 do that, let us wait patiently for
possibilities
So Was she preaching hope to him out
OF her own hopelessness. For what
chance had she of ever fulfilling Mr.. Ir.
wins condition she, whose utmost efforts
were even needed to pay her way from
day to day? Was she not, after all, sell
fish 10 accept the sacrifice OF Arthur's
best years OF litcs Ought she not, even at
the cost OF some present pain to him, to
save him the long, wearing trial that
seemed SO likely to be unrewarded after
all? This was what, more sadly than
usual, she was thinking, us she shut him
out Of her sight and went back, with a
sigh, to her small daily worries
is Arthur gone 1T astY" was the
greeting that reached her on opening the
door, in voice sweet through all lis
querulous Impotence. Not that it
makes much difference to me, for now |
suppose you're going to that dreadful old
woman, ana she'll keep you forever, as
usual. How people caH be so seliish"
" Never mind, Angie, dear said Janet,
soothingly, bending down to the face
on the pillows, a face as white as they,
but with kind Of pathetic beauty in the
wasted outlines and oyer-large blue eyes.
" If she is eXacung, lis not for me TO
complain, for il gives me bread -and but
ter, you know"
spread thin enough, though" grum.
bled the invalid. Il declare. Jenny, in
common justice she ought to make il up
TO you in her viii. Besides, you're some
sort OF cousins, aren't you, like all the
ScotchEn
Rather too diiluse relationship to do
me much good, I'm afraid" answered
Janet, laughing, as she began putting on
her outdoor things,
Angie was quite right, however; there
was cousinship near enough TO reckon
between her halt.sister Janet Macdonald
HolIister and this old lady who bore the
same name. So, at least, Mrs. Macdonald
had declared, and demonstrated il to her
own satisfaction. Their acquaintance
was entirely a chance one, made through
the medium OF the advertising columns.
Janet leit with the charge of . sckly
hali-slster and young brother, locked
about for something to help herself out,
and thought she might satisfy the require
ments OF an old lady who did not expect
10 secure finished professor in music, art
ana languages for smaller stipend
than she would have paid her cook
The result was "a call ON Mrs Macdonald,
and an engagement which had lasted ever
since. II was not likely to last much
longer now, for II had grown but too plain
20 Janet tlud her employers DAYS were
numbered Her warm heart could not
help thrill Of pity sometimes, al thought
OF the stoical old woman, dying by inches,
alone IN the midst oi her riches, Not in
deed, that she need have been alone, a.
She grizzly remarked 10 Janet one day
when She had been amusing herself by
tracing out a relationship through twists
and turns too intricate for any hut
Scotch head
I've relations enough, | can assure
ye, Miss Janet, fond ones, too. that would
make uaught of giving up the pleasures
of this world to smooth my path into an.
other But I'd rather take the Will tor
The deed, you see they're welcome 60 my
Old shoes when I'm done with EN-, hut 50
long rs do stand in 'em III have no.
body ireading ou my heels Now. It's
different with you; you're one OF the clan.
10 ne sure, but then you weren't brought
up 90 look upon your rich cid cousin rs
your natural prey. Now | dare say il /
were 10 take a notion To leave You CROUCH
o buy some sort OF mourning fa.le-ro,
You are lust silly enough 20 IL, il
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