The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-04-23
THE TII.E-RO0M All DEADWOOD

THE TIIE-ROOM All DEADWOOD
For twenty years the old mansion al
Deadwood, with its gables, mullioned
doorways and embayed windows, had
stood unoccupied. Colossal elms swept
over it, rank shrubbery hid its lower
windows, and lush grasses and weeds
swamped the garden, yet still the place
was beautiful. It is said to have been
built after magnificent estate in Wales;
but no one remembered its origin. 1t
stood On great hillside overlooking the
sea, and sailors and boa1men going by
always looked UP at it as something pic
tureseue and grand ..
The mansion stood solitary, yet was
but half mile from the village by the
river crossing the plain beneath, ANA
when, after this great trial of its indie
structibleness, human life appeared there,
it was Immediately discovered by the
surprised villagers. Half score of men
had moved their way up the front door,
had set every chimney smoking from the
great fires built below, had hacked and
hewed mercilessly at the overgrowth of
intrusive shrubbery, and finally car
riage had come bringing g fair young
girl with a muiatto attendant.
IL think it's--it's fearsono like, don't
you, Miss Queen1e1' 1879. ...,...
Nonsense; it's delightfully."- antique
and romantic: Only I'm not going to
live in the dark. Tell the men to cut
down those locusts, Patty; they shut out
the sun and are Worm-eaten beside. Oh,
it's going to be lovely here, Patty! I'il
have those walks leading down to the
gate blazing with tulips in month";"
What will you do for company, Miss
Queenie?"
ooh, Guy is coming the first of May"
"Itwas early in April then. The brave
young heiress of Deadwvod took bravely
hold Of the work in hand. She called
the sunlight in through curtains of white
lace. She hung the chamber walls with
rose-colored paper. She spread bright
rugs over the blackwalnut floors and
filled the rooms with graceful bamboo
and softly-cushioned furniture. And
when her little dot was quite expended
upon further details of china, books and
statues, the girl st down to enjoy the
home she had made.
It was the first she had ever had; and
already her homeless life rested in it
with feeling Of satisfaction which had
been found in no other source
am glad Guy is poor, because now
can give him a home with myself"
she murmured over her wedding clothes,
which she was embroidering. ssHe shall
have buggy, and pick up nice prac-
tice in the village; and so we can have
our good prospects after all. ....,.~
For the matrimonial prospects of these
young people of eighteen and twenty
two had looked doletul, oery doleful, un-
Ill the woman suddenly rose equal to the
emergency. @I'9 @
'Deadwood is mine, you say, Mr..
Quills2" she said to the lawyer.
''Yes" .aa
"And 1t won't sell and won't let. And
I have only i've hundred dollars Of in
terest money in bank stock2"
"Just So" a.& n.s
''Then I will live at Deadwood."
''Alones" ...asg f#a " -
"Well, yes, for the present; Patty and
l." with smile, sweet. yet quizzical, al
So far all hadsucceeded better than she
had dreamed possible. She hac made
the old mansion habitable and pleasant
and now if. the fallow land were brought
under mans hand, the hitherto unprofit.
able piece of property might even yield
an income for Miss Elinor St. Edgar and
her husband, Mr.. Quill declared.
But things everybody expect seldom
do happen after all, and the things no
body expect TO transpire are always con
fronting US. After blithe letter from
his lady. love, Guy Blondel arrived a
Deadwood one bright Hay day, and found
Queenie, as everybody called her, so pale
so grave, SO almost speeches., that b
was dumbfounded.
"Not a single smile yet, Queenie
Why, what has come over you2 Hav
you seen a ghost2"
The girl WINGED as If he had strucl
her.
You do not believe in ghosts, Guy?
Is s'Certalnly not, no sensible person eve
does. But what has changed you SC
Queenie2 You chill and astonish me, yo
have altered so in g few weeks! And
expected to find you perfectly triumph
ant over your success. and ready to ODE
your directions and turn farmer-doctor q
once"
"Guy, we can never be married."
"Queeniel''
Something has happened to chang
all my pleasant hopes, Guy -somethin
strange and unexpected, yet none the les
conclusive. Then Queenie told her stor,
Gone of the rooms, Guy, I have NJ
touched or altered---an apartment on til
ground floor facing the north, fnishe
with tile, and so cold, dark and gloom
that found it quite hopeless matte
to make it healthy and pleasant. Yet
is handsome room, with inlaid fot
and tiles Of such great worth that
wonder the old mansion has not bee