Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-05-08

the informer, and lIortensc glacly
svailed herself of this To thrust
down the uSurper into what she
considered her proper place. And
from this time poor Lulu was sub
jcc'ed to all the petty mnoyances
which a bold, LauShty gill could de.
wise and a sensitive mind could feel.
The girl grew thinner and paler
than ever for she was a loving ch III,
and to feel herself looked upon with
suspicion aud hatred where she had
before CXi eI icEctd only Kindness.
was indeed n sad blow To her. At
home she had never met with any
thing but indifference, for her
mother was 6ead, her father, Il poor
SpiritleSs done, and her step--moth-
er, a course woman who meant we'll
but understood nothing uf the sen
Sitive child'S nature. had made no
secret of the fact that she consider.
Ell Lulu dead weight on her hands.
When Miss Chandler had offered
TO take her into school and teach
her for some slight services, Lulu
heart leaped for joy. Her teacher
told her that in time she, too, might
obtain her hvelyhood by teaching
and this lad stimulated the child
To almost superhuman exertions.
which had soon, by making a rival,
gained her an enemy III Iortense.
The Kindness and affection Of her
schoolmates had made her young
life full of sunshine and now the
sudden change plunged her into ten.
fold deeper gloom than bC fore. The
light Of happiness faded from her
blue eyes she dropped visibly, and
one could hardly have recognized
the gentle, smiling Lulu Allen in
the now pale AID thoughtful Child.
She brooded over her troubles in
secret, but her teacher noted moth
ing of the change. 1t IS needless to
say that she was guiltless, of the
charge and had Miss Chandler been
aware of it she would have clea,e
her at once. But she was not All Oh
servant woman and saw none of the
mental troubles of her pupil and
Lulu, who longed some times to
speak TO her teacher OH the subject,
shraLk nervou+ly from dong So
from a dread of deserving in reality
that dreadful appellAtion, "tattler,"
that seemed ever sounding in her
ears, Il character so abhorred hv
school children. Sle would have
been utterly wretched had it not
been fer the little Maud, fury like
Child an sister of uortcnSe, who
now cam3 to school and who had at
once taken great fahcy to Lulu, |
aid on whom in Ietmn Lulu Law.
ished al the depressed affection OF |
her loving heart. llortense looked |
upon this with the deepest annoy
ance. Maud was her da ling and |
size could not bear to have any rival |
in the child's heart-least of all was |
it to be borne when that rival WAS a
washerwoman'S daughter.
Hortense had gained her point in
Lnlu Stunned by her school
mates, but all this Was nothing so
ong as her darling sister loved her
md too proud to appear TO notice
hat she had a rival she coull not
deprive Lulu of this. 1t Was agony
% er to have the child spring from
ler side as she did in the morning
o meet Lulu, to see her white arms
twined round the girls neck and
ne + sweet lips pressed to hcrs, but
here was no remedy for it.
Thank God there are no arlsto.
Gratis among children.
So time passed on and hnally Lu-
u was missing from school. She
lad been absent for day or two.
When little Maud. too, stayed at
home, she begged hel mother to let
her GO to see her faverite. aud Mrs.
Lee consented. The servant took
her TO the washerwoman's house
whtre Lulu lay sick. The child
;lung TO her and ais, bore home
viii her the seeds Of the contagious
disease, the scarlet fever, which
Lulu was herself unconscious of
having as she had not been attend.
ID by physician.
Poor Maud was stricken down
and after short and severe illness,
lied, while Lula recovered to mourn
over the sad loss of her child friend
md to look hopelessly toward to her
own uncertain future.
1t was the morning after the fun
erAl of Maud that Lulu, mere
entered the school room.
Hortense was there, pale and haugh-
ty in her mourning drsss. None of
he girls dared address her "a she
sat there fearless and still, though