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meath its weight of heavy, despairing

and mother had had one Of her very badsI
spells; and lady customer had just been
in and abused me-yes, abused; can use
no other word; women do fly in such
temper at their dressmakers-aboutt the
tit of her dress, declaring it to be 'sutterly
ruined," when it only wanted taking up
a little on one shoulder and letting down
an inch or so in front; land Wills right
arm was almost disabled from a heavy
load of books he had carried a long dis
tance the day before chow men can have
the heart to give a mans burden to a
child can't see when aunt's letter fell
like bomb-shell into our very nearly
disheartened little camp.
'DEAR FoLks:-A friend of mine-an
Inglishman' (aunt's language was correct
enough, but at times her spelling was
somewhat peculiar )-sswho came here,pur-
posing to start in business, took the fever,
fingered few months, and died, leaving
Heaven knows why, his only child, a
daughter, who will eventually be not
-sniffed-at airess, to my care. Hav
ing been delicately reared in the midst Of
devotion and tenderness, this place, only
suited to bold, strong natures, is a little
tOO 1OuSl 1OI uel. CO S4AC NcSAltS-dI
least I desire for her-a home in the
North, and wish that home to be with
you.
MY neice Mary, who inherits the dis
position of her father to great degree
and he would have gone out of his way
| and day to give even a dunn brute pleas
ure-will, l am sure, be kind to her.
Carroll will love her for her beauty, if for
nothing else, and the rest of you will
love her because she. is. most lovable
Her maid will accompany her.
! ''At present her affairs are in a tangle,
but hope to unravel them in the course
Of few months, and then you will be
recompensed for whatever extra expense
she may cause you. would inclose a
check at present writing, but ali my
funds are invested in the speculation from
which l expect to reap much profit. Do
the best you can until you hear from me
again, when will farther unfold my
plans in regard to Miss Ashbell, who, by
the by, starts tomorrow. AUNT
No wonder CONSERVATION and dis
may were depicted on every countenance
when ceased reading this letter. No
wonder we looked gasping at each other.
What in the world were we to do with
this fine young lady in our humble home:
| What could aunt be thinking about!
True, she didn't know exactly how poor
we were, for we'd been too proud to
acknowledge our extreme poverty in oul
few and far-between letters. On the con.
trary, / am afraid we had led her to be-
believe we were in quite t!ourishine
condition. But for all that she might
have known that we were not fourishine
enough to support a delicate and beauti
full girl, used to luxury, tenderness, anG
devotion, for even few months. Was
ever anything SO malapropos and vexa
tious? OF course Miss Ashbell woulc
look with scorn on our seven-roome6
dwelling, with back garden twenty -fiv'
by twenty-five, and courtyard ten b,
ten. And suppose-as aunt, with
short-sightedness very unusual to her
, complacently emarked-Carroll shoMt
fall in love with her? The proud Eng
lish girl would no doubt regard him as
fortune-hunter, and inviduously compar
his frank impulsive, rather brusQue man
r ners with the repose and ''awful'' dignit
, of the languid swells of her own land.
And somebody else might be attracts
q toward .her-men are so susceptible
t woman's beauty-somebody who no0
r thought my brown face the sweetest i
= the world. The very thought made M
: heart stop beating.
q And the maid? Even if we could max
8 arrangements to accommodate her-and
S seemed utterly impossible for us to d
= Society, our faithful servant for tn
l last fifteen years, would look upon her il
r the light of an interloper, and treat he
r as such. Betty had been used to bein
f monarch of all she surveyed Even i
e the housekeeping times-those time
o that try mems souls and women's soles-
: she scorned the idea of an assistant
t "No, ma'am, I'll have no stranger
pokin' roun' me. When I'm not able t
e do the work of this house alone, I'll 90.
ID And mother-dear, shrinking, grie1
It stricken mother-how would she bear tn
l., advent of this dainty Miss Ashbell? Blu
;. we could do nothing to avert the impend
y ing misfortune. Even if we had though
n of disobeying our fathers last command
). and refusing aunt the favor she had nc
# asked, but, in her usual decisive wa,
), taken for granted, the young lady wa
t, on her way, and would be here in a da
# or two. .,s .sN7
l The news must be Immediately broke
\ to mother and Betty. I, being the hous,
d keeper, undertook to face the latter.
st will confess l did it with fear and trem!
e, ling. She heard me grimly, never ceasin
J. to pare to potatoes she held in her la
y and when l had ended, looked up with
t. sharp nod of her head, and said, slow
d and emphatically: "Betty'll have to $
10 now, sure. She can't stand no fine your
er ladies and sassy young ladies-maie
about for notbin'.'
It about her neck, and with kiss and
smile told her of the expected visitor, a.
OF ding, with an assumption of gayet
ne "She sha''n't come near you at all, mar
ne ma dear, if you don't want, her; but y
'd know aunt has been SO kind to US, al
re father loved her so dearly, it would
as impossible to refuse the first favor S
a. ever asked of u.s.
Mother said never word, but beg
III brushing the hair back from her tempt
IT. with both hands in nervous way s
TX had when anything grieved or annoy
w her
And then we began preparing for Nj
OF Ashbell. Willis room. was to be Civ
ad up to her, and Will CAROLS room "
ed scarcely large enough for himself and
er art traps, as he called them) was to
IN slowed away in the loft-a proceedi
tn which he viewed with immense dissat
ito faction. "I'll smother up there in /
'Or weather. he said with a Wry face. q