The Osceola times., 1879-04-26
The TILE-RO0M At DEADWOOD.


Desdwood, with its gables, muliioned
doorwsys and embayed windows, had
stood unoccupied. Colossal elms swept
over it, rank shrubbery hid its lower
windows, and lush grasses and weeds
swsmpel the garden, yet still the place
was beautiful. 1t is said 70 have been
built after magnificent estate in Wales;
but no one remembered its origin. 1t
stood on a great hillside overlooking the
Sea, and sailors and bostmen going by
always looked up at it as something pic
turesque and grand.
The mansion stood solitary, yet was
but hali mile from the village by the
river crossing the plain beneath, and
when, after this great trial of Us inde-
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 air young
girl with mulatto attendant.
81 think its-il's iears0me like, don't
you, Miss QueenieG"
Nonsense; it's delightfully."- antique
and romantic. Only Pm not going to
live in the dark. Tell the men to cut
down these locusls, Patty; they shut out
the sun and are wormseaten beside. Oh,
it's going 10 be lovely here Patty I'll
have those walks leading down to the
gate just blazing with tulips in n
MONTH"
what will you do for company, Miss
Queenie?"
ooh, Guy is coming the first of May"
1t was early In April then. The brave
young heiress of Deadwood took boldly
hold OF the work in hand She called
sunlight in through curtains o. white
lace. She hung the chamber walls with
rose-colored paper. She spread bright
rugs over the black walnut floors and
filed 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 sat down 10 enjoy the
home she had made.
1t was the first she had ever had and
already her homeless lie 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 home with myself Il
she murmured over her wedding clothes
which she wss embroidering. "He shall
have buggy, and pick up nice Irac>
tice at the villsgs; and so we have our
good prospects after ALL"
For the matrimonial prospects of these
young people of eighteen aud twenty
two had looked doletul, very doleful,
until the woman suddenly rose equal TO
the emergency.
Dssdwood is mine, you say, Mr..
Quils" she said to the lawyer.
Yes"
"And it won't sell and it won't let.
And have only FIVE hundred dollars OF
interest money In bank stock 3'
"Just 3d."
"Then / will live at Desdwood."
"AloneT T'
"Well, yes, for the present; Patty
and ]" !" with smile, sweet, yet quizzi-
cal, at the old lawyers dismayed face.
So far all had succeeded better than
she had dreamed possible She had made
the old mansion habitsble and pleasant
and now II the fallow land were brought
under mans hand, the hitherto unprof.
liable piece Of property might even yield
an income for Miss Elinor St. Edgar and
her husband, Mr.. Quill declared.
But the things everybody expects eel.
dom do happen after all, and the things
nobody expected to trsnspire are always
confronting us. After blithe letter OF
invitation from his lsdy-love, Guy Blon-
del arrived at Desdwood one fine MAY
day, and found Queeuie, as everybody
called her, so pale, 80 grave, so almost
speechless, that he was dumbfounded.
Not a single smile yet, Queenie ?
Why, what has come over you? Have
you seen a ghost ?"
The girl winked as If he had struck
her.
"You do not believe in ghosts Guy 2''
Certainly not; no sensible person
Goes. But what hes changed you so
QueenieY You chill and astonish me
you have altered 90 in few weeks Anc
1 expected TO find you perfectly tri
umrhsnt over yanr succeu and ready t.