Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-07-30

i've just month to STAY here before
must so back to my dingy old law Office
again, meditated he. "A man can do :
great deal in month"
And he sat himself regularly to work tc
WIN the treasure which he had yearned for
deeply.
Day after day he strolled to the old farm
mouse, now with this excuse, now with
tilat, a handsome, courtly, middle-aged
man, whose winning manners would have
attracted any one, and who was as much at
nome under the white washed ceiling of
the widow Wallis's best room as in a man
sion.
One day he spoke of the old cream-pot.
''Ruth's cream-pot :" said Naomi. the
elder sister, Manufactured, loud-voiced
splnlster of nine and thirty. .'Wasn't it a
strange provision of Grandmother Crocus's
Will that Ruth can never part with that old
piece OF cracked absurdity, unless
"Noami, hush :" and Ruth had sprung
across the room and laid her hands ON her
! sisters lips, and with blazing ewes and
| color as deep as one of her own scarlet
geraniums said, ''Our family affairs shall
not be talked of to strangers"
'.Am ! stranger!' SAID Mr.. Napier.
gravely. Il am sorry for that Ruth. ''Only
-only-Naomi, please 20 remember that
this is never TO be spoken Of a"
''i)ear me-" said Naomi, bristling up,
Heres pretty how-to-do about an old
cream pitcher"
That self-same evening Mr.. Napier fol-
lowed Ruth out in the garden where she
had gone to water her carnations
Ruth, said he, ''are you determined
not TO tell me the secret of that cream pot -
Yes, said Ruth. resolutely.
Nor let me have it on any terms ?"
please, Mr.. Napier. said Ruth. don't
ask me. | cannot"
''Well. said Mr.. Napier, there is vet
third demand. If can't have either secret
or cream pitcher, can have your"
Me -
YES" said the staid lawyer with
strangely softening eyes. Dear little
Ruth, | have somehow lost my heart to you
these last three weeks. | can't 20 back To
the old life without you. lam not young
man, but have never loved before, and
But, interrupted Ruth. with mantling
cheeks and II quiver in her voice, ''am l
good enough 2"
BY way of answer he took her in his
arms and looked tenderly into her face,
and to Ruth Wallis it seemed as if the
whole of paradise had opened to her in that
moment.
''IIere il is, said Ruth. with glistening
eyes and smiling lips. THE old cream
pitcher, dear Wynfield.
The ccrimaniac forgot even true love in
the fascination of the piece of old English
ware that Ruth laid in his lap.
He took it up with a loving touch.
but | thought il was decree of the
Medes and Persians that YOU were not To
part with il -
You didn't understand" said Ruth,
coloring radiantly, Il was never To part
with it-so Grandmother Crocus's VIII
said-eXcept to my husband"
why didn't YOU say so before
SO that YOU NIGH, have takcu me for
the sake of the old cream pitcher said
Ruth, a little piqued-
He drew her gertly to his side.
Ny own darling, said he, II love you
better than all the old china thai is in the
world
Which was great admission for Wyn-
field Napier to make.
4 month later there was a wedding in
the village church, and after the wedding
came the wedding breakfast, and not few
of the guests wondered that the centre or
nament on the table, on such an auspicious
occasion. should be an old cream Jug.