The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-11-15


She has gone over now to Mrs. Simp
sons to finish her blue muslin, and she
can't help clean because it will spoil he1
hands, and they are so pretty. Julia is
lovely in blue, because her skin is sc
fair, If her hair and eyes are dark. She
will just be perfect when she is rich,
Tom. I hope she will have him, and
papa and can jog along forever. We
don't mind cheap things as poor Julia
does. There That paint can't be
whittier. I'm coming down, and you can
move the ladder over to the other win
dow for me, Tom"
But, cautiously descending the lad
der, Dolly only caught a feeting
glimpse of tall figure out at the gar
den gate.
Well" she said, tugging at the
heavy ladder, eff Tom was in such a
hurry that he could not move the ladder,
he might at least have waited to say
good morning."
Then, being the sweetest-tempered of
women, though merely passably pref
ty girl, Dolly assembled the ladder
again, and soon forgot Toms rudeness
in the absorbing duties she had under
taken.
In the meantime, Mr.. Thomas Bar
| dell, shaking with laughter, wended his
way homeward, inwardly determining
to make his next call at DIR. Lawlor's
when Miss Dolly was less engrossed in
| the task of cleaning paint and the diff
Guilty of maintaining her equilibrium.
For that must have been Miss
Dolly, with the natty little boots and
pink calico dress. She had lovely
brown hair, though I could not see her
| face"
The next call made by the heir of the
Bardell Place found the parlor shining
with cleanliness, Miss Julia Lawlor, a
really beautiful girl, arrayed in the blue
muslin at the piano, and Dolly, also in
blue muslin, knitting. The appearance
of the blue muslins was the result of
Thomas Bardell's apparently careless
intimation to busy DR.. Lawlor that he
intended to "drop in" that evening. For
wonder the Doctor remembered the
fact, and the "Lawlor girls" were ar
rayed to receive their guest.
Dolly, in half an hour, decided that
she liked the newcomer very much in
deed, and that he would make very
l. l. ell
Julia and married her, as of course it
was his manifest destiny to do.
unselfsh little Dolly, "and when he
hears her sing he must lose his heart. .
Apparently the singing was as power
full magnet as Dolly supposed it would
be, for scarcely day or evening passed
that Mr.. Bardell did not drop in. Tom
Lawlor, the Doctors nephew and stu
dent, declared Bardell to be a frst-rate
fellow, and was always bringing him to
tea. Then the garden of the Barden
Place, as the summer came Oh, offered
most tempting opportunities for the pre-
sentation of boquets to the fair ladies at
DIR. Lawlor's. To be sure, Thomas
Bradell did not know that Julia's share
always adorned the parlor, while Dolly
cried over hers In her own room, and
sometimes pressed her rosy lips upon
the card of the donor.
Silly little Dolly
For she knew Mr. Bardel was falling
deeper and deeper in love with Julia.
Did he not fairly haunt the house? Did
he not listen entranced when Julia sang,
even upsetting all the orderly arrange
ments of Dolly work box in his abstrac-
ton?
Was not the picnic on the Bardell
grounds, to which all the friends fer and
near had been invited, solely the result
of Julia's wish to see the place?
That picnic!
Somehow it Impressed itself upon
Dolly's mind that Thomas Bardell was
contemplating proposal on that June
day, when he was to play host to all the
people of Rushtown.
She could not have told why she
thought so, nor why she resolved to ask
"papa" for permission to visit her aunt
in New York few weeks. "Just to
give them chance to be alone" she
thought, and wondered what made her
heart tnrob SO very painfully at the idea.
She made Julia look like an exquisite
picture, by wreathing field daisies under
the rim of her chip hat, and fastening
her soft, white lace at the throat with a
bunch of the same flowers.
Then she dressed herself rather hasti-
ly, having curled her sisters hair, and
otherwise made Cinderella of herself.
She heard nothing of dismayed ex-
clamation in his fathers study of:
"But bless my soul, Bardell, can't
spare her She is my right hand and
eyes She is housekeeper and compan-
ion and-everything I thought it was
the ether one you we're"
And here the blundering, knd-heart-
ed father stopped, hesitated, and finally
said ::
WeH-welI, If she loves you, vii
not say nay, though I don't know wha'
shall do when you take her away"
Then Thomas Barde1 discovered tha
it was fully time for him to go home ane
receive his invited guests, and he de
parted, not seeing the girls, and leaving
the Doctor in dire dismay.
"Dear me-dear me, he kept NUT
| terino. sMhy couldn't he have fallen u