Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-31

full Ia mps: kind faces, kind voiceslsym-
patty, encouragement, help. So ievery
dark night--even the darkest--has its
friend.
& Before mcnring dawned Redolette.
urged with all the gentle and firm aid of
which she had need, was speeded forth
on ajourney that was to cast into q higher
plane her whole future life. Bv the time
night had glimmered into day Redolette
had made her escape.
Examination week at the famous girls
school of had reached its closing
act. Compositions were to be read in
the afternoon; prizes were 10 be awarded;
and at evening collation. would be
spread at half past ten in the not spacious
hut particularly attractive grounds of the
I - Sc mlna1y, to end in garden party
style, with Land CT music and merry
dance, the arduous exercise of the week.
Intense interest gathered about this
closing afternoon. Indeed, when one con-
slders how small part Of the great world
the female seminary Of N, with all
its tame. actually was, it was wonderful
how intense this interest became. One
would say, who happened to peep into
the greenrecm Of the mpcstion-readers,
waiting with cold fl ght or with hectic
agitation, each for her turn to be called
upon the stage, that tile result of this
evening would be something momentous
enough to cause an alteration in the
course OF our planer, or at the very least,
trembling in its onward step.
This impression would not have been
lessened by reading the titles of the com
positions: woman of our Century, . THE
Dead Past burying its Dead" ''The Flu
ture of the American Republic'-a very
fine thing, and winner OF the first prize;
" Spiritual Tendencies Of Astronomical
Research y Drawln's Development The
DRY confronted with Argyle's Rreign Of
Law" " Is Genius Hereditary, and if so,
from the Paternal or the Maternal Side?
with Statistics from Gallon, carefully
compiled" and so on, and so forth
Very simply, after this array, came the
announcement given by the principal of
the seminary, "a Mountain Brook" by
Miss r. Kane.
Closing exercises had been heightened
beyond their fixed time, and daylight
was departing as Miss Kane made her
appearance from the greenroom, compost
ton in hand. A side window had to be
opened to give sufficient light, and through
this opening came a rosy glow that al
most atoned for the lack of floral tributes
such as had overwhelmed the entrance
of every other reader. Not a single flower
was thrown to welcome the coming of
Miss R. Kane. "a friendless GIRL many
OF the audience thought. But no one in
the world is friendless girl, so the sud
denly opened window said; for the sunset
glow poured in and enshrined her feet,
and illumined her garments, and crowned
her young head with flowers of light.
And in timid but clear voice the COM
position was read "A Mountain Brook, .
not scientific or erudite, but a theme of
action, and taking as smile of useful life
the trite figure OF river bearing from its
rocky solitude, through wood and through
field of grain, and over mill wheel and by
the town, its ever-augmentiDg stream of
refreshing and compelling force.
The trite comparison was treated with
a novel grace. And one thing was quite
remarkable about the COMPOSITION
description Of the scenery in which the
Mountain Brook was supposed to receive
from high authority its mission through
the thirsting earth. This description was
so wildly accurate that any enc familiar
with certain mountain locality would
have recognized at once that the "Brook"
sprang to light under the fernfanned cav
ern of Block Height,
No one among the audience, however
was familiar with that particular nook
of upland scenery. No one excepting a
handsome young man who had drawn to
himself during the afternoon the shyly
admiriDg chances Of very many of the
girls. He had been restless, like the
watcher who impatiently awaits the strik-
ing Of the hour. When Miss Kane enter
ed he became still and satisfied, like the
watcher when the hour has struck.
''Redolette! She has fulfilled her
promise"
These two urspoken sentences ex-
pressed the mental impression, complete.
For to this young man, through the five
years, including his Senior Year at college
his law study, his energetic establishment
of law practice, "Rodelette" had been the
embodiment Of all that is sweetest in a
girl. And "she has fulfilled her PROMISE"
referred not so much to the fact that this
sweetest girl had kept her word to him
as that she had kept her word to Time
kept the promise Of the lovely child to be
the lovliest woman.
"Redolette" said Willie.
They had entered one of the arbors that
had been ir' provised of cedars to adorn
the garden fete. They had been walking
arm in arm through the grounds for a
long time; for one of the earliest guests
had been Willie Locke, and he had rushed
Immediately to Redolette's side, and had
kept her to himself all the evening. They
chose to walk in the garden rather than
join in the dance, for they had so much
to say. And they had talked over their
five years Of separation and its leading
events before they went into the arbor tc
rest.
The last thing Redolette had said in
the walk was, $50 now, Willie, thanks tc
the inspiring leader of my choice, 1 am
ready to take some part in the movement
of my time. Ny schooling here is ended
My little inheritance is made secure.
am my own mistress now. I should like
| if nOssible TO do a little poOd in the world