Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-01

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iveiy presented.
I'VE are to take our choicer' cried
Garcia.
.stopl'' said hrs. Chetwynd, leaning
upon her pillows and reading the letter
with flushed face, while EN- regar led
her anxiouslv. It is recommended that
the eldest daughter take the uni.np proved
Pennsylvania land. That's you, Grace.
Il won't Lave it, cried Grace 81 am
going to have the Gothic cottage on the
Hudsoar'
Recommended" went on Mrs. Chef
wynd. reading :thet the next take the
Hudson River estate"
"Grace has that! I'm going to hare the
prairie farm and new house out West. I'd
like to go West. Jack and Tom are do
ing first rate-making q fortune. Leu
tenant Egoert shall Leave the army and
turn farmer-he was brought up on 6
farmland I'll keep house in the West
ern style, and you shall all come and
partake of my hospitality once year,
cried Garcia, generously.
'out the Western estate is recommend
ed to En-, hesitated Mrs. Chetwynd.
"And those old marshy PENNSYLVANIA
lands left to mer' cried Garcia, angrily.
That is just as you and En- can agree, y
interposed Mrs. Chetwynd
Don't get into passion, Garcia
They all looked at EN-. She, rather
than toe others, seemed quite suited to be
the mistress OF y estern farmhouse; and
1t certainly was a home. and would en-.
aDle the owner to marry nicely; John
Melvin, too, preferred to 90 West for
practice. En- stoou silent and pale.
''If En- wants it, she must have If, I
suppose" said Mrs. Chetwynd.
Yes" cried Garcia, 'sand Lave moth
ing! Be doomed 70 stay and die in this
hoieI Take it, En-. OF course you will.
En had involdntarily looked up at
j In Melvin. He felt the delicacy of in.
terferlng, but his monetary gaze seemed
10 bid her hold her rights. But at Gar
cla's stormy words she started, and her
patient eyes dilated with pain as she
looked at her sister.
No, no, Garcia; It is harder for you
10 stay here than for me. You shall have
the new house and be married. John
and | can wait a while longer.
She looked up at him cheeifuliy, but
he turned white with bitter disappoint-
ment. As Tor Garcia, she had not even
the grace to be grateful to her sister.
She only exclaimed, pettishly:
wait? could wait as well as 70 u i
there was anything to wait for. am not
an old maid yet, if you are five years the
youngest. Em!"
Yes that is the way they took all her
sacrifices For Garcia, of course, took
the beautiful. highly cultivated Western
nome, and EN- was left with the marshes y
Grace and Garcia were marie q
Neltfler OF them offered to assume the
care OF their invalid mother, who would
certainly be an invalid all her DAYS.
Tney considered that Ems work, with
out q doubt.
Wei, the life at strawberry Farm was a
little easier after they were gone, certain.
~; and otter, while finding no better
opening, john Melvin and Em came
to think that it might do for home for
both, though there was already three doc
tors in the neighborhood.
At last they were married
II never was lucky, and there's 10 use
in our waiting until we are both old and
gray for our ship to come in, John,'' said
EN-. "Lst us be married, and take what
comfort we can at Strawberry Farm.
Perhaps one Of the equity Old doctors,
who neglect everybody about here to at
tend to their own ailments, may die some
day,eand you will find good practice
II this place after all.
So they made the best of o bad matter
John Melvin fell to work and cultivated
the stubble-ields until they blossomed
as a rose. Ems rose-vines grew around
the windows, and her pinks and mig
nonette perfrmed all the air, and the old
place came to be both profitable and pref
ty at last.
AT length, one day when John had
been to the post office, he came back
vi b a bit o. news.
Real estate has risen, En-. Your
Pennsylvania property is worth some
thing now"
''How much2n
"Iwo or three million dollars"
"What?'
"The land is full OF oil. And here Is a,
letter making you magnificent Offer for
it,
1t was true.
Ems ship was i'll at last.