The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-03

little children, with a litter of dolls and
dolls clothes, and a lady neither young or
old, who welcomed them with a quiet
friendliness, pushed away a great work
basket, brought forward another chair,and
made them comfortable without fuss or
disquietude.
Ernest introduced himself; then, MY
uncle Your brother promised to be here
to introduce me to you," he said; "but,
like the rest of the world, he has been
tempted out. see. Have you had many
calls to-day, Miss Dickson!"
counting yourselves, replied his
hostess, with pleasant smile. LET me
show my welcome with a cup of coffee"
She filled two cups from a cafatiere which
stood before the CRATE on genuine hob,
and advanced tiny sugar bowl and cream
jug.
| Miss Dickson half started at the sound
Of the voice, and looked straight at him
for a second Unconsciously he returned
the gaze then, coloring, and half en-
barrassed, he leaned over the table to ex-
anime plate of green moses in which
small ferns and vines and minute scarlet
berries were imbedded like bit Of
mosaic.
"Straight from the woods" he OBJ
served. lone rarely sees anything SO
country like in the middle of city IN
winter
"They are all Of the winter-growing
, Sorts" said Miss Dickson. 81 dug them
up at Orchard Bay only little more than
month ago, SO they have not had time
to lose their freshness
"Orchard Bay! That is one OF the
!. new seaside places i'll Connecticut, isn't
it9" Hid Ernest 1.-The Pooles were
there last summer, | think. They liked
!, it."
Yes. people like it, believe. There
is an excellent hotel now, and good fish
" ing and sailing. To me it is spoiled, for
| knew it in the old days when there was
no hotel and no summer people and no
: fine new name, and hardly anyone had
heard of it except the few families who
lived there. The place was delightful
then"
/ us Orchard Bay new name?" asked
Ernest. What was the old one9"
> dragon"
: "What queer name Was it your
- :. home, Miss Dicksong"
= Il beg your pardon, with a little smile.
= Harry should have explained that | am
4 not his sister only his sister-in-law My
name is not Dickson. 1t is"
T. "Hope!'' cried Mr.. Lotus, with sud
u den certainty of recognition.
9 Yes. Hope Meyrick And l almost
think you are Alick Lotus"
ct The old friends shook hands warmly.
he ITO fancy that should hot have known
a. YOU directly !" said Mr.. Lotus.
n 1T is twenty years. you know. | die
r. half guess you from the sound OF your
a voice, but your nephew forgot to mention
+ the name ; and that it could be really yo,
ia seemed so improbable that hesitated t.
III think So"
e, Your grandmother heAitated Mr.
;" LOTUS
u Hope shook her head.
N. GRANDMOTHER died five years after yol
he sailed" she said. And Julia, my little sis
o. ter Julia-do you remembcrl-these ar
er. her children. We are all scattered now
er Nv brother James is settled In Chicago
y Tom in California; Susan you never knee
on her; she was our eldest lives in Pernam
BE buco ! keep the old homestead still, bl
ar this winter poor Harry Dickson needed nj
50 / come to him.
lat A,:.,. ia ru.. ,.,.,o;rr
al Inclc IAlICk. SAIL
ma his watch, Il don't like to hurry you b,
aSh we have forty-four calls on oul list still
40 and"
W. my dear boy don't apologize. I've
49, idea of being hurried. Go and finish til
- calls by yourself. ! shall stay here
y! little while longer-that is, if Hope-Mis
lhs s Mevrick will allow me to do So
to PRAY stay as long as you can, sal
,sy Hope, cordially; and Uncle Alick stage
&c STAYED till dark, stayed to dinner, an
oa through long evening; and, homewar'
[;ss bound at last, glanced at the still lightt
"a windows of the Brixham mansion as
went by. and muttered something throul
u. his beard, something that sounded lik
~ IAN escape, by George! What an escape
That was last New Years day. Ali'
!. LOTUS makes no calls this year. He sta
ny in his own house to enjoy, as he says, t
80 sensation of having home to stay in.
81 il an ample handsome house in a fashlo
/. able street; but all over it, from attic
y 1t basement. reigns the same atmosphere
md graceful use and comfort which made t
me dainty little rooms in Fifty-ffth street
Dor attractive to their guest "A twelvemon
In since. No wonder: for the same han
h 70 preside. the same taste directs, and eve
peT day is made plcasanter, and all LIE
4 10 Frightened bv the new-Old love, win
yDu waited so many years for its reward, a
II II whose embodied perfection Uncle Ali
II calls bv the pretty name --Hope.-H
Eas pers Bazar.
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