The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-06-06

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 Thorne property shrinking day by
day, till there was hardly enough to but
ter their bread-till it was plain that
| Hitty's sacrifice had been for naught.
But when did ever sacrifice prove futile?
Though it fail of its direct purpose, does
it not enrich the soul not only of the
one who sacrifices, but of all beholders
It was near twilight of an autumn day
that Miss Hitty put on her worn bonnst
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
a flush of surprise.
els it-you- Hitty?" he cried.
I" You 2"
eyes. You did not expect me 2"
expect you No. Have I had rea-
son to expect you2"
"We sometimes expect without rea-
son. I have come-expecting you to
grant me favor.
GA favor? ?"
eyes. It strikes you oddly that
should be brought to beg a favor Of
you, does it not? But there is no other
friend upon whom can make even so
shadowy claim as upon you. Do you
think | would ask anything of one whom
I have served $3.50 ill-if 7 were not in
extremity"
Il hope you will ask anything of me,
Miss Hitty-an anything you want"
81 have become mercenary, Mr..
Searle- I want money. Liddy and I
have made up our minds to mortgage
the place; aUe must haze SIS, 900 without
delay; the place is not worth SO much,
know, but II thought perhaps you
would take it for security, as far as it
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. I am dreadfully I'M
businesslike, perhaps; but what can I
do? And I must have the money. I
| oo,o34 I've r ooyo'+ do no
make it clear?"
"You make it clear that the Thorne
fortune has all leaked away. I am glad
of it. Pardon, but ! hold a grudge
against that ssme property; it has cheated
me out of twenty years of happiness.
Yes, Miss Hitty, you shall have the
money. 7 have plenty; I am rich in
everything but the one thing I coveted.
But [ cannot take the mortgage; you
shall have the money and welcome, but
[ can't accept a mortgage on the old
place, Miss hitty; it is too sacred to me.
Think Of mortgaging the old apple-trees
where we swung in the hammock to-
gether, of bringing the garden where
we dreamed in the summer evenings
into business transaction But all the
same you shall have the money, Miss
Kitty"
"But, oh you know I cannot take
the money unless-unless-
"Unless you take the owner with it I?
Was that what you meant to say? I'm
sure it wasn't; but, for Heavens sake,
say it, Kitty. Don't you know I vowed
never to ask you to marry me twice :?
Do you want me to break my word, eh :?
Now it is your turn to do the asking"
g. should think had asked enough, I"
said Kitty, the great tears standing in
her eyes. "You are not in earnest, An
son Searle. You don't want to marry
me, an old maid like me! See how
faded and gray I am"
"And if swear ] do want to marry
you, what will you say?"
I" shall say, then, why don't you do
SO, Mr.. Searle ?" She smiled through
her tears. What will Liddy say when
she hears that I've asked you to marry
me ?"
"she will say you have done your duty
like man |"
"Well, Miss Kitty Thorne olaOays had
an eye to the main chance" said her
neighbors. ''She Tilted Searle when he
was poor, and now he is rich she marries
him. What fool woman can make
OF sensible man-only it usually takes
a young one!''
Death of Earl Russell.
! lord John Russell. bY which name he