Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-06

toner's lips, as Miss Dexter appeared in
the shrubbery, emerging from its re-
mote dusk, hand in hand with the dis
reputable Fritz. A prolonged good-by,
and then the young schOOl-mistress pre-
sented herself in the drawing-room,
somewhat diffident and flushed. When
the clergyman had made his adieux,
Mrs. Perricastle expected an explana-
ton. None was given.
care you engaged to him, my dear ~
she asked at last, direct.
'Oh, no."
SIS he relative?"
"Oh yes. He is a relative. He is "a
he is my brother" said Miss Dexter,
blushing and then turning pale, and
evidently, as Mrs. Perrycastle remem-
bered to remark aflerward, Gin the very
face of the discrepancy of surname TOO,
telling an untruth."
'Please don't ask me any more, y
Miss Dexter plead.
at does not do" lamented Mrs. p.
to her husband the night of her guests
departure, ''to invite these people To
your house. l was persuaded there
should be no such familiar recognition
on our part"
"a very nice girl, 1 thought" Mr..
Perricastle said.
"Mr. Gillette was carried away by
her too," observed Mrs. p, blandly.
'He has fallen in my estimation. AS
for myself, L am too ready to show
kindness. Another lesson in human
nature, that's ALL"
'sMamma, NTH Dexther'th gone
home and left her wild planth," said
Tommy Perricastle, peeping into the
parlor the following day, while his
mother was receiving morning call.
The morning caller seized upon the
mentioned name at once. Her curl
osity had been excited by rumors of Mrs.
Perricastle's guest. and the interview
with the disreputable Deming, which
she had witnessed in the church porch.
She had hundred questions to ask,
and, as she was not of the peace-making
sort, Mrs. p, in answering these ques-
tions, found herself growing more and
more suspicious of Miss Dexter, and
mere and more, to use her own expires
sion, ''indignantly wrought up"
The result was she felt constrained to
write to several patrons of Miss Dex-
ter's infant class that circumstances,
singularly brought to her knowledge,
compelled her to believe Miss ID. not
the proper person to have charge of in
FAINT minds. "We cannot" she wrote,
''be too careful into what influences We
introduce these precious buds.''
Edward Elting did not relax his af-
fectionate care of the poor little widow
and her troublesome brood, who recog-
nized the authority of Uncle Ed, even
though they rebelled against all other.
One night, after an unusually severe
case of discipline, during which the
offenders had been sent ignominiOusly
to bed, Jeannie drew her chair eonfid-
ingly near his, and said:
"Brother Ed, you are always so will
ing to help people who are in trouble, 1
wish you weuld help some one who in
terests me very much, or at least give
me some advice how may help her."
Not since her husbands death had
Jeannie looked so like herself as now
in speaking these words. iIer pale
face lost for the moment its expression
of all-absorbing grief.
"You know Miss Dexter, Mays and
Kittie's teacher" she went on, ''or at
least you have heard us speak of her.
Well, she has been here to-day, and she
is in great trouble. The school was to
have opened tomorrow, but it appears
that more than half of her scholars have
been taken away. She does not know
why. She came TO me to ask if would
send my children, in view of possi-
bility that the class might not be sus-
tanned through the term. l declare,
my heart aehed for her. She said not
much of her troubles, but L know she
has been cruelty overburdened; she
shows it, A year ago she was quite
young and pretty; now she has that
old look, the look that comes with-that
comes with" JEANNE paused. Her
eyes filled with tears, her lips quivered.
"Oh, Edward" she exclaimed, 81
have been ungrateful. l knew that to-
day, when / was listening to that lonely
oppressed girl. With my babies cling
ing to me-little hands on my knees,
my cheeks, my breast-they ought to
sustain me. All, other hearts than
mine are bleeding. must not forget
this in my desolation. 1 promised her
May and Kittie, and perhaps little Ed
die, if you think so. And L went in to
Mrs. Granger's, and she will send Lot
tie. But these are very small additions
only two, and she has lost sixteen"
elias she secured her classroom ?''
asked Edward.
81 don't know; fear not. She said
something about needing the half-quar-
ter advances. Her brother has just
gone to Texas, / think she said, and
required all the funds that had been
laid aside. Oh, Edward, you under
stand about business so well, wish
you could see the poor girl yourself.
Could you. But no, that is asking
too much. l was going to say, could
you take, on your way down town to-
morrow, a note from mel promised
to send word about Lottie Granger
and so make an excuse to see her? i
suppose she would be cheered by few
words of clear advice"
"Why wait till to morrow" said
Edward. "Write your note, JEANNE,
and I'll take it tonight P"
"Another proof" this elder brother
thought, as he set off on his kind er-
rand, hnrrying briskly along the rainy
streets-"another proof that ! am needed
for other people, not for myself"
can sich fine-looking gintleman,