The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-24
LOVES REWARD.
ASKED Tilly?'

asked Tilly2'
yes, actually. heard him myself.
Did you eUer|
Miss Rosie Green, for an answer,
looked unutterable things. Miss Posie
Green took off her sundown and famed
herself vigorously with it. She looked
warm; her face was flushed with feeling
no less than the weather. She and her
sister were no longer as youthful Es their
names suggested. Moreover, irritation
brings out the lines and wrinkles of
face, and it is unquestionably irritating
to be passed over for a slip os q thing
with adoll-baby face, not ones own flesh
and blood at that.
There they go nowl' cried Miss Rosie
in an excited whisper, flying to the win
dow, and peeping through a crack in the
shutter.
For goodness sake, don't give her the
satisfaction of seeing you look at her.
Il don't care whether she sees me or
not-not lusb. That old pink calico
onl I do think she might have had the
decency to make herself look respecta-
bic, riding out with pas young man.
PAS young mani What q way to put
it,
well, isn't he, for the PRESENT. He's
reading medicine in pas offioe, I'm sure,
and he takes the messages that are left,
and tells pa afterward. For my part,
think he is bound to be civil to pas
daughters
We'll, he is being civil TO one OF them
Yes. That's the worst of the way pa
treats lilly. It's real unjust TO us.
Hateful little piecer
A case of cruel step-sisters, you are
thinking. However, there was no tie
either Of blood or Of marriage in this in.
stance. DR.. Green had adopted Tilly,
brought her with him when he moved
to Woodbridge fifteen years ago. She
was mere baby then, and his wife was
still living, and cared for the child like
her own. She was motherly soul, and
loved babies. Her own girls had left
infancy half score years behind them.
Since her death life had not been so
smooth for lilly. Perhaps the Green
girls would have been kind to another
person in the same situation, but they
certainly made life burden to their lit.
tie adopted sister.
Mr.. Loonard-he hoped to be DR..
Leonard this time next year-1rove
fast horse before shining new buggy.
1t was bright day. and he had a pretty
girl beside him. His spirits rose to
the level Of the occasion. lilly and he
laughed and talked in way that would
have driven Miss Posie frantic. / speci-
fy Miss Posie, because her sister had
acquired two or three years additional
resignation in which TO bear the ills of
spinsterhood; wall-Aowering had become
almost q second nature. But lilly
laughed on regardless. She was happy,
John Leonard was the haudsomest, the
best hammered, the best.dressed young
man che had ever known, and he had
singled her out for his especial favor.
She was willing to believe anything Of
an auspicicus fate.
Nor was that the last drive they took
together, He esked her all the oftener
when he sawit made the wicked sisters,
as he dubbed them, angry. As it prov.
ed, he asked Tilly far oitener than was
good for her. This was only an episode
with him; with Tilly it was the most
real experience OF her life. John Leon.
ard seldom talked Of his plans, but she
had mapped out his career for him.
When he graduated in medicine he
should become her fathers partner, and
finally relieve hvr father OF the burden
OF his practice, and then-and then
lilly always herself shared the air castle
with John.
This was long, long while ago-be.
fore the war, almost; accurately, at the
very breaking out of the war. At first
John Leonard, who was an Englishman,
escaped the warfever, but gradually the
soul Of the war clarions passed into his
blood He must have hand in this
himself. A man must belong some.
whore. So he coolly informed DR.
Green one day that he had enlisted; ht
was going to fight for his shoulder-straps
AS for my diploma, Ill wait awhile
for that.
When he came to bid Tilly COOS bye
she burst out crying, That settled th,
question rs to their manner OF farewell