The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-07

ing an intimate knowledge of her fathers
will already-and if he had not been quite
heroic enough to forgive her for prefer
ring Toms welfare to his own, he must
have found a grim satisfaction in the
turn that Fate had ordered, in seeing
the Thone property shrinking day by
day, till there was hardly enough to but
ter their bpead-till it was plain that
Hitty's sacrifice had been for naught.
But when did ever sacrifice prove futile2
Though it fail of its direct purpose, does
it not enrich the soul not only of the
one who sacrifices, but of all beholders
1t was near twilight of an autumn day
that Miss Hitty put on her worn bonnet
and went slowly, with certain reluot-
ance, up the hill toward the Searle man
sion; she pulled the brazen knocker
timidly, and stepped into the house that
might have been her own like any beg
gar. The dead Searles looked down
from the walls of the oaken hall with
cold questionings in their pursuing eyes;
in the great drawing room the wood fire
snapped with a good will, and glinted
gayly upon bronze and ormolu, upon the
quaint mirrors set in garnets, upon the
yellow ivory keys of the old piano. An
son Searle rose to receive his guest with
flush of surprise.
SIS you-Hitty? he cried.
You ?"
"Yes. You did not expect me 2"
expect you No. Have 1 had rea-
son to expect you2"
ave sometimes expect without rea-
son. have come-expecting you to
grant me favor.
GA favor?"
eyes. 1t strikes you oddly that ]
should be brought to beg favor of
you, does it not? But there is no other
friend upon whom can make even sc
, shadowy a claim as upon you. Do you
think would ask anything of one whom
, have served $3.50 ill-if were not il
, extremity ?"
, & hope you will ask anything of me,
r Miss Hitty-anythipg you want.
! 81 have become mercenary, Mr..
Searle. / want money. Liddy and
/ have made up our minds to mortgage
the place; a0e must have So, 900 without
delay; the place is not worth so much,
know, but II thought perhaps you
: would take it for security, as far as il
would go, and then-Liddy and [ are
not too old to work, to earn money; and
, there's Tom; and we would all strive to
make it up to you, sooner or later, inter
+, est and principal. am dreadfully un
l businesslike, perhaps; but what can
do? And l must have the money.
5 can't ive-I can't die--without it. Dc
I make it clear ?"
4. 4 ",
fortune has all leaked away. am glad
of it. Pardon, but hold a grudgt
3 against that same property; it has cheated
, me out of twenty years of happiness
8 Yes, Miss Hitty, you shall have the
l money. I have plenty; am rich il
t everything but the one thing coveted
: But / cannot take the mortgage; you
4 shall have the money and welcome, bu
: ] can't accept mortgage on the OLE
4 place, Miss hitty; it is too sacred to me
r Think of mortgaging the old apple-treei
where we swung in the hammock to
5 gether, of bringing the garden where
, we dreamed in the summer evening"
1 into business transaction! But all tn,
same you shall have the money, Mis-
' Kitty"
"But. oh you know 1 cannot tax,
the money unless-unless-
"Unless you take the owner with it
Was that what you meant to say? In
= sure it wasn't; but, for Heavens sake
3 say it, Kitty. Don't you know VOWED
never to ask you to marry me twice
t Do you want me to break my word, eh
Now it is your turn to do the asking"
: 81 should think 1 had asked enough,
I said Kitty, the great tears standing IL
1 her eyes. "You are not in earnest, An
e son Searle. You don't want to MARI,
v me, an old maid like me! See how
v faded and gray am"
s "And if l swear / do want to MARI,
p! you, what will you say?"
"I shall say, then, why don't you d.
r so, Mr.. Searle?" She smiled through
: her tears. "What will Liddy say whel
p she hears that I've asked you to MARI.
0 e?"
8 "She will say you have done your dut.
Q like man !"
t "Well, Miss Kitty Thorne alaoayshat
i an eye to the main chance" said he
t neighbors. "She Tilted Searle when h
q was poor, and now he is rich she marie
him. What a fool woman can maxi
= of a sensible man-only it usually take
g a young one -
.
), Death Of Earl Russell