The Newtown bee., 1880-03-10

and put another stick on the ire, please. It grows chilly, doesn't it? You might kiss me, just once, if you wouldn't mind. It's 100 years or so since any one kissed me-"
 And the next morning when Della carried up Mrs. Clements breakfast, her boarder lay cold and still upon the pillows.
 The first shock over, Della wrote di- rectly to the lawyer of whom she had heard Mrs. Clement speak as having charge of her affairs. begging him to notify that lady's relatives, if she had any. In reply, MT. Wills wrote: "The late Mrs. Clement appears to have no near relatives. Some distant cousins, who, having abundance of this worlds goods, yet served her shabbily when she tested their generosity, as she has tried yours, are all that remain of her family. In the meantime, I enclose you copy of her last will and testament, to peruse at your leisure"
 "What interest does he think I take in Mrs. Clements will," thought Della; but read, nevertheless:
 Being of sound mind, this sixteenth day of June, l8-, I, Della Rogerscn Clement, do hereby leave one hundred dollars to each of my cousins and be- queath the residue of my property, viz., thirty thousand dollars invested in the Ingot mining company, fifty thousand in United States bonds, twenty thousand in Fortune flannel mills, and my jewels, to the beloved niece of my first husband, John RogersCn.
 DELLA ROGERSON,
 "Qf CrQttsboroa4gt, Maiaae."
 "' For was a stranger, and ye took me in; hungry, and ye fed me; sick, and ye ministered unto me- "Geodness alive!" cried the neigh bors, when the facts reached tlIeir ears. What profitable thing it is to take boarders Every body in town will be trying it. Of course Steve Langdon will come home and marry her, if she were forty old maids. You may stick pin in therei"
 Della did not open her houseIto board CTS the next season. She found enough | to do in looking after her money and spending it; in replying to letters from indigent people, who seemed to increase alarmingly; in receiving old friends, who suddenly found time to remember | her existence. And, sure enough, among the rest appeared Steve Lang l don, and all the village said: T told you sol"
 'It's not my fault that you and are single yet, Delia." he said. | And we are too old to think of a change now, Steve" | Nonsense! It's never too late to I nIvrzya. z7011ss, enough for two and to spare."
 II wouldn't be contented not to drive in my carriage and have servants under me now," laughed Della.
 "IndeedP Then perhaps you have a better match in view. Captain iSey- mor,r asked me, by the way, if I had come to interfere with Squire Jones' interest"
 "Yes? Squire Jones proposed to me last week."
 "Now, see here, Della. Have I come all the way from Melbourne on a fools errandP There was, growing used to | uly u1SGIy duu 1OucIlucSSy Wl1On thO mail brings me in letter in strange | hand, which tells me that my dear love, Della Rogerson, loves and dreams of me l still, is poor and alone, and needs me me! And the letter is signed by her aunt, Mrs. Clement, who ought to know. I packed my household goods and came"
 I'm glad you did"
 "In order that may congratulate Squire Jones'"
 "But I haven't accepted him. In fact I've refused him-because-" Because you will marry your old love, like the lass in the song, Delia!'
 In Croftsborough people are not yet tired of telling how a woman made money by taking boarders.--M N. Prescott, daa Independent.