Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-05-09
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Miss Carrie ?" he asked, as she let him
out.
Neither Staccato nor anybody else. to
speak of. laughed Carrie.
The season is remarkably dull, as they
say; everybody with the exception of Miss
PARROT. is preternaturally healthy Just
now; so mean TO dissipate this evening
Staccato sings here tonight Could YOU.
will you make the pleasure greater by lis
tening with me ?" DIR. Gilbert found him
self greatly embarrassed in speaking tc
this plain, poverty-stricken girl in the
shabby alpacca, with chapped hands, and
certain pnched expression about the lips
But how the wan. colorless face Frightened
al this request, what tint Suffused the
cheek; how her eyes deepened to violet
and glittered almost as if there We're tears
in them while her smile grew and faded,
developing new expressions and shy dim
pies No one. in all her life. had ever OF
fered her such a pleasure before: and here
was DIR. Gilbert begging her To accept il
as if it were favor to him.
II would give all the world to 20, said
Carrie. How kind YOU are But poor
mamma has a headache. and there is no.
body but me to look after Aunt PARROT.
oh. dearl Well, thank You very much !:
| am glad You asked me. ?"
II shan't enjoy it half as much without
vou," he said
Carrie had gone out marketing when Or.
Gilbert made his next professional call on
Miss Parrott
Dear. dear" cried that lady, ''you
were here only Wednesday; do You think
I'm worse? Feel my pulse. look ut my
tongue; I'm not grain weaker, my ap-
petite's growing; I'm good for some time
yet. You don't feel anxious about me !?
I'm an old woman to be sure, but creak-
ing gates. hang long on their hinges
Yes, said Dir. Gilbert, $50 they say.
but our breath is in our noStrils II had
anything particularly wished to do. any
wrong to right, any cherished plan to full
fiji, should to make sure of it before the
breath left them
You mean you'd pay all of your debts
and make your will if YOU were in my sit
uation. That's exactly what I've done.
Now would YOU not like to know how I've
disposed of my filthy lucre? IIa ha :,
you'd be coming here too often if told
you. Carries no beauty, but I've known
money to gild palmer face
Had he been coming to see Miss Parrott
more frequently than necessary, and had
the old lynx found it out?
Your affairs are nothing to me, Miss
Parrott,' he said, gravely, ''thev are be-
tween your own conscience and yourself
AT the same time ! must confess that |
have no respect for those who devise their
estates to Borioboola Cha. and leave their
relations as a legacy to the town. BY the
way, | heard of ease the other day: \
man having come into Il fortune through
the estate of his wiir's father, died lcav-
ing her paltry portion other own money.
and the bulk OF it 10 his own sister, and
brothers There's justice for You -
'Blood's thicker than water" said Miss
Parrott peevishly. Can't you give me Il
sleeping potion, Doctor"
And then he Went down and met Miss
Carrie on the staircase. and asked her if
she could spare the time, and had the in
clinatlon, to drive into the country, where
he had patient ''It's half holiday at
your school, believe; am going to-day
instead of Tomorrow for that very reason"
What charming drive it was through
the autumn woods, away from :: sic, bed.
from ragged school, leaving all the dus-
ty and sordid cares OF every day behind
her, What if fortune was nigoardly toward,
her was not nature rich in bounty? Leave
sorrow and trouble for tomorrow, but for
the present moment it was happiness
enough to listen 10 DR.. Gilbert, to meet his
kindly glance, to know that he thought of
her pleasure and planned for it, That he
cared for her. that he was growing inter
ested in her in any but a friendly fashion,
that he might fall in love with her, did not
once occur to her mind she was simply
little pauper whom he ptied. She had
only known him since Aunt Parrot, hay
ing quarrelled with her old physicians and
installed him in the others place, and She
had heard that he was going to be mar
ried; and now as she had drove by his
side and he favored her with the familiar
courtesy one accords to ones best friend,
she found it hard to suppress half-iormed
wish that that fortunate and beautiful
woman did not exist
As Carrie was preparing Miss Parrott
for the night, the latter said, ''now you'd
like something interesting to read, I'll he
bound. just take the KEY. the skeleton
key. What a hateful word, it suggests
all sorts of horror. However. il unlocks
my desk. You'll find my will there read
it while drop of to sleep; it's as good as
a novel;
Il don't want to read ii. said Carrie.
Nonsense you're dying to get it this
minute. Read it aloud: perhaps it will
lull me to sleep"
Without more ado. Carrie produced the
document, and began Il, Rebecca Par
rott, being Of sound mind this 9Th day of
June 1860 do hpreby-''
stop, What IL mean mess YOU make
of it. 1860? Haven't made will since
that? My minds growing cloudy; |
must have been dreaming. You found it
in the desk o.
Yes
well, what are You waiting for9
Real"
And Carrie read to the bitter end then
the will slipped from her hand, upon the
floor, and she sat before the slight blaze
which the autumn weather dcmaned in a
sick room-and SAT and gazcd at it with
an air Of depression and hopcle,sncs, quite
foreign to her, as she had got over the
habit of making the best of things.
Only a string of gold beads" she
sobbed, land all my grandiather's for
tune left to strangers. Only string of
gold bead -
Continued Tomorrow