The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-30

open window near which Rosa was washing
the breakfast dishes, and while she was
hoping that the sun would come out and
whiten the neat clothes, she talked Of the
child incessantly, Rosa answering as she
rinsed and wiped the silver mug Mrs. Ray
mond had brought as the baby's drinking
cup, till at last, as if in answer to the good
wife's appeal, came the lady across the
neatly shaven lawn, with her little girl
clinging to her hand.
Through the window nodded Mrs. Har-
rington to Rosa, as if to say, "I'll find out
now - and, as they passed beside her, to
catch her busy at her work, she broke
forth abruptly
"What is this child's true name, Mrs.
Raymond?'
Mrs. Raymond's white hand wandered
over the little head half hidden in the folds
of her skirt; but her eyes never faltered.
"Tell her yourself, Tot she said, quietly
and firmly.
The little girl raised her sweet face to her
mothers ere she answered. Then she lisped
forth, timidly,-
"Jessie Ernestine Manning Raymond"
Good Mrs. Harrington clasped her fat
hands together in astonishment ere she
ejaculated,-
"Bless my heart! Four, names! How
does the child carry them all?'
Then, as the lady walked away, she
glanced at Rosa, leaning on the window
sill, and shook her head knowingly.
''There'sa mystery about them two," she
said. "I'm most sorry we took 'em. If it
wasn't that they pay good price, Id turn
em off, would!"
Rosa returned to her dishes ref9ctively.
81 wouldn't say SO, mother. 1t is moth
ing to us if there is a mystery. They pay
well, and give no trouble. Besides, think
the lady is vexing herself over something.
She looks like it. However, can't help
liking her, and the baby is darling"
"Well, well, Rose, keep still now, and
help me wash these potatoes for dinner
cried the good woman, bustling in with a
dish of the said articles. sect knife and
set to work, else it will be noe before We
know it, and l reckon your father will be
hungry, poor ma.
So Rose obeyed; the subject dropped, and
next day there came two extra boarders tc
the farmhouse.
These were gentlemen. One was tall
slender, nobly-lormed man, with light, curl
ing hair, and blue eyes the other hashy
gentleman, who made himself quite al
home, and wore diamond ring on his little
finger.
Mrs. Raymond carefully avoided both
after her introduction at table, much to the
} satisfaction of the hostess, who thought she
was true woman, after all Or she wouldn
have done so.
But after a few weeks, they all began tt
make the old kitchen their abiding-plac
: during the long summer evenings, for it wa
sheltered partly by dropping elms, and was
7 on the whole, quiet and shady. There tn
D good farmer could unmolested smoke hi
! pipe, and Vivian Wallace, the 1ashy, talka
tive gentleman, make love to pretty Ros
0 when her mothers back was turned Will
i Lincoln Patten played with baby Jessie an
b talked with baby's mother.
It For this man, Mrs Raymond felt stron
: liking, despite her determination to tn
S contrary; for there was something abou
e him which, reminded her of friend lon
since lost to her. So she was ever respectfu
e to him, and talked to him, because he talke
/ to her babe, till finally they began to tax
walks and rides together and at the end O
|, the summer months, Ariel awoke to tn
5, consciousness that she loved this Lincol
a Patten, the young, sturdy lawyer.
al As this knowledge came to her, she trie
ID to put the temptation from her, for he
q welded life had been an unhappy one, ant
n in spite of the wealth showered upon he
her husband had never had her heart.
J. Years ago, when but schoolgirl, 81
a had loved. The object of her choice boz
I'd the name of Manning Percival. lie VIZ
le her love, her ideal there were none lii
IS him and, before she knew it, she lovec
De But then her pride prevented her fro
showing her affection. Percival was di!
he nifed, sober young man, who showed hi
t, but little marked attention before the worl
Id though he dreamed continually of her whe
I'd in private. But he was poor. She lov'
S, wealth SO, when he found courage to co
ne fess his love, she refused him, and denied
return of his affection. The week followir
a she welded Squire Raymond, and took h
u, first lesson in life's misery. After that, h
er soul cried out more and more for Mannil
hs Percival. Yet, when she learned that
a had fallen heir to vast property, and HI
be gone abroad, she tried to forget, and liv
no on silently till her babe was born. Th
hopes grew triAe brighter, and, after t