The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-01

unselfsh little Dolly. and when 81
hears her sing he must lose his heart. .
Apparently the singing wss q now
erful magnet as Dolly supposed It
would be, for scarcely 4 day or even
ing passed that M. Bardell did not
drop in. Tom Lawlor. the Doctors
nephew and student. declared BarieIl
to be first-rute fellow. ss,d wss u
WAYS bringing hin, III tea Then the
garden of the Bardell Place. as summer
came ON, offered most tempting oppor-
tunities for the presentation Of bou-
quets to the fair ladies at DR.. La xlor's.
To be sure. Thomas Bardell did not
know that Julia, 8 share ALWAYS adorned
the parlor. while Dolly cried over hers
iuher own room, and sometimes pressed
her rosy lips upon the card Of the donor.
Silly little Dolly!
For she knew Mi. Bardell was falling
deeper and deeper in love with Julia.
Did he not fairly haunt the house?
Did he not listen entranced when Julia
sung, even upsetting all the orderly
arrangements Of Dolly's work-box in
his abstraction
Was not the picnic on the Bardell
grounds, to which all the friends far
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 10 visit her
aunt in New York few weeks. "Just
to give them chance to be Alone, she
thought, and wondered what made her
heart thrOb sovery painfully at theidea.
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 has
tily, having curled her sisters hair and
otherwise made a Cinderella OF her
self.
She heard nothing OF dismayed ex-
clamation in her fathers study Of: .
But bless my soul, Bardell, l can't
spare her! She is my right hand and
eyes! She is housekeeper and com
panion and-eyerything! thought 1t
was the other one you were
And here the laundering, kind-heart-
ed father stopped, hesitated and finally
said:
"Well-well, if she loves you, l will
not say nay, though don't know what
/ shall do when you take her away. =
Then Thomas Bardell discovered that
it was fully time for him to go home
and receive his invited guests, and he
departed. not seeing the girls, and
leaving the doctor in dire dismay.
Dear me-dear me- he kept NUT
tering; 60 why couldn't he have fallen
in love with the other one?"
When the Lawlor carryall, driven
by Cousin Tom, drove into the avenue
OF Bardell Place, Thomas Bardell,
standing upon the porch to receive his
guests, thought his eyes had never
rested upon a lovelier vision than the
daisy-wreathed face OF Julia Lawlor.
The prettiest pink tinge came to her
cheeks as she accepted his help in leay-
ing the carriage and his arm to the
bouse.
Do,ly ;umnad ont uanvbow :, &c
Tom Tawlor said. and there was not
the faintest color upon her white
cheeks thouoh she talked and lauohed
-oaily enoupb.
But after the luncheon was over.
Dolly found an opportunity to escape
alone. and strolled over to a rustic
seat overlooking a nrettv lake and
Completely hidden by tall lilac bushes.
Here. with her usefri little hands idlv
clasned. she was looking STRAIGHT he
fore her. thinking. when Thomas Rar.
dell who had watched her fiight. also
strolled down the path that led to the
rustic seat.
Dolly was thinking.
at is lovely here, and the house is
splendid. Julia ought to be very hap
py, but / wished she cared more for
him. All she looks forward to is the
splendor and freedom from money
care. But perhaps that is best /
don't care about money, so it must be
best for me to stay at home and make
it cheerful and comfortable for rapa.
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