Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-06-06

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to Sleep"
"Yes ma am" said Kate feebly.
"And if you should happen 10 hear
me snore, you may read on just the
same. Itwould wake me up at once
il you were to stop"
And Kate, obeying orders, read her,
self nearly into congestion of the
brain.
The next day was harder still. Moth
ing went right. Miss Beverley seemed
determined to be suited with nothing
that was done for her; and the old bach
elor from his corner growled chorus
to all her fault-fndings.
This Cruel tastes very oddly, Miss
Raymond" said the spinster. II don't
believe the saucepan was scs!ded be-
fore you put the milk in"
YES, ma am il was; because -"
Don't contradict me. | can never
bear to be contradicted."
Don't contradict my, sister" echoed
the bachelor; and Kate subsidized into
meek silence.
"And don't think Mutf has been
properly washed, Miss Raymond-with
two tablespoonfuls of rosewater in his
bath"
Il forgot the rosewator,' admitted
Kate, ingeniously; but"
Forgot tho rose-water?" shrieked
Miss Beverley. holding up both hands.
My poor, poor Muff!''
"Well!' eroaned the blue spectacles,
" l can believe any thing now! Forgot
the rose-waterl"
"And you have got on that rustling
dress again, as live-the rustling dress
that plays the very mischief with my
nerves. | beg you will change it at
once. Miss Raymond"
And before you so upstairs, wish
you would put those newspapers straight
on the table. l can't bear to see them
all crooked" growled Mr.. Beverley.
Kate set the newspapers mathemat-
icaIly straight, changed the obnoxious
crape-trimmed dress, gave Mutf sec
ond bath, with the regulation quantity
of rose-wat i'll it, and prepared new
basin of gruel-and even then Miss
Beverley was not satisfied,
think the parrot has dropped ever
since you came, Miss Raymond. Are
/ try to do my best, ma'am, but"
Don't answer me" groaned Miss
Beverley, with both hands uplifled in
front Of her. IF there's anything that
upsets my nerves, it is being answer
ed"
Day after day passed by in very much
the same style, and Kate Raymond
grew paler and quieter with each re-
vclviug sun. AT first, her proud spirit
had rebelled.
Il cannot endure it," she had
thought.
But then came the bitter remem-
brance that she must endure it-that
she had neither home nor friends to flee
to.
And when, ut the weeks end, Miss
Priscilla Beverley paid the astounding
sum of ten shillings into Miss Ray
monds shrinking palm, she felt that it
had indeed been hardly earned.
There's one good thing about you,
Miss Raymond" said the splnster, pa
renthetilally, as she counted out the
coin-"one quality that none of my 9TH
er companions could ever suit me in;
you never get out of temper You've
never lost Your patience the whole
time you've been here; and | used to
hear, a year or so ago, when my nephew
Charles was at home, what n change
able, tickle, impatient little thing Mrs.
Raymond's daughter was"
Kate colored, and the tears started
quickly to her deep brown eyes.
NO." said tho old bachelor in the
corner, whose whole life seemed moth
ing more than an echo to Miss Bever-
ley's theoretically expressed opinions;
mo, Miss Raymond never gets out of
temper nolo!"
81 suppose | must be very much
changed" said poor Kate; as she went
on with her wearisome work of thread
ing steel beads for purse which Miss
Priscilla intended to manufacture some
day. "And, indeed, hardly feel like
the same person that | was on my
eighteenth birthday"
GLOW old are you now. asked Miss
Beverly.
81 was twenty last month.
"Humph! only twenty Well. sup
pose you'll be getting married some
day, and | shall lose my companion"
But Kate gently shook he head, with
out even looking up.
Il shall never marry she said, NO
body cares for me now"
"rhere, James, told you you'd
knock that vase oil the window-seat if
you insisted on leaving it there" Ia
mented Miss Beverly, as sudden crash
of breaking china interrupted Hates
voice. run" Miss Raymond, and
don't let the water sog X into the carpet,
for PHYS sake! | don't see how men
can be so careless"
And, for once, the old bachelor had
no excuse to plead for himself.
" Miss Raymond" he said, in a low,
hurried voice, when his sisters tenn
porary absence had CHANGED to leave
them alone together half an hour or so
later, "you said a little while ago that
nobody cared for you. That Was a
mistake.
Kate Raymond looked up into his
face with surprise.
"My nephew, Charles Beverley, cares