The Van Buren press., 1878-10-01
MISCELLANY.

AddlSOn UaylOfu was ABOUT TO lock
his office door, and start for the bachelor
apartment he rented from old Mrs. Quirk,
and where he WAS often lonely, when a
low voice caused him to turn hastily and
drop the key on the hall -four.
Please, sir, have you any copying to
do ?" asked the sweet voice.
DO you do copying2" asked Mr..
Gaylord, looking with evident admira
ton at the pretty face and the dropping
eyes Of the girl who stood before
him.
"It's only an experiment, sir. / think
l could cory, for | write very good
hand, sister says, and ! must do some.
thing"
Now. Addison Gaylord had really no
copying in bis law Office which he could
not do very we'll himself, but he was
touched by the piteons pleading of the
girls voice, and then there was such a
world of entreaty in the large brown
eyes raised to his.
~ really don't know; suppose you
come in minute and write your name
aqp slip of. !nanes wd.eaer iy'ddrc6pJfBg
will answer
"Oh, thank you; if you can only
give me work. Sister and need it SO
much
She went into the office, and Gaylord
handed her pen and paper, and she
wrote Emma Tyner," and handed him
the sheet with look so questioning and
anxious that Addison Gaylord did not
have the heart to tell her what he really
thought, that although her writing was
pretty and ladylke, it was too delicate
and feminine for copying.
~ think you may come to morrow"
he at length said, ''if you are willing to
write here in the Office. may find 9th
er little things besides copying for you
to do. l can give you seven dollars a
week. Will that dor
30, yes, thank you ever SO much.
Alice will be so glad when tell her that
my experiment has succeeded She was
sure could not get work, but we were
SO poor l was determined to try. l
could only fail
"Alice is your sirter2"
"Yes, she is a cripple, and cannot 60
out at oil. She sometimes gets work at
millinery-Allie has 80 much taste-all
the poor people around US get her to
trim their bonnets. We have lived some
how. But seven dollars will pay tor
everything every week.
Into the girls fair, childish face came
look of such delight and happiness
that Addison Gaylord felt rewarded for
what he had done.
As he walked slowly home, or rather
to his lonely room, he could not help
thinking of the girl he had befriended,
and caught himself wishing it was the
next day that he might see her again,
On reaching his clearinghouse he
found his brothers wife, Fannie Gaylord,
waiting to see him.
"Tve come to get you to 60 home
with me. Add" she said. "You must
DC duii:cnouyh here sometimes. Rob
ert often says he wishes you would come
up to the house frequently. The fact is
you ought to take my advice and come
home with us for good. 1t would be
lively enough for you if you would live
with u.s."
AuulSDH IuuuSuU Vi nlo olSlOi-ih low
miserable housekeeping, of the untidy
house, and of the slatternly appearance
Fannie always presented on her entrance
to the breakfast room in the morning,
and he was fervently grateful that fate
had not obliged him to make his brother
Roberta house his home.
But he went to dinner as Fannie de-
sired, and tried to make himself agreea-
BILE and entertaining, and as he was an
able conyersationalst he succeeded ad-
mirably during the dinner hour. but at
ter the trio had returned to the parlor,
be caught himself falling into meditativo
moods from which he could with Difficult
ty to arouse himself.
"What on earth is the matter with
YOU, Add ?" asked Robert. From the
syn ptoms l should say you we're in love,
old boy.
Addison started violently from the
brown study which Roberts words had
interrupted, aud blushed guilty, for he
had been thinking of Emma Tyner, and
of the earnestness which had lain in her
brown eyes, and lent to them such
charm
Fannie looked up from the stocking
she was darning as Robert spoke, and
said, quickly
addison has no such nonsense in
lilo haod Iowa indeed | hone he