The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-07-28


was left in the dish. +? ...- 81
=" Half a poundi You 20 Mitliodi
| butter for a week" -ffs 3 III hA.
''And / tli,. out again, and into. the
lapo, IS fast as ] could, :" continued Do
rothy, apparently undismayed by this
threat, for-fcar I might lose ctJ{iE54ac.
and stopping suddenly before him, II5ut
the bread IN hts hand, and said. [ aln Sc
sorry ges yottli and turned 10 iTIn away,
when lie seized my hand and kissed it. .
miss LorjDda Cross became ricid rs
maTble) and said, 'These are the first
kind words I've heard sinJe / came to
this beastly county Tell me your name
little Gle. Dorothy Waldo, said /.
| Dorothy Waldo, he repeated; : eliall
neverforget it; and lac s4.i5e,i his hat and
went away. Dear aph1, had you been in
my place, would you not have done as l
i didsHa ( FvF 80 Or -
| ?" cried Aunt t43ffnda-"I carry
meats 70 strange men ON the public high
w@yP ilet a foreigner who called hay
country "a beastly country kiss hay
hand2 No, indeed; he never would
kissed my hand. ;! 10Y kAtf
8 Perhaps not shii Dolly, with a
noanentaag twinkle IL beFeyes, and then
s''e a'ided, ,pleadingly, "But don't be
ila9i,y'. g , any longer, aunt. III make an
otLerloaf Of Thread right away.
g But tlat won't bring back what you
have wasted 7 said her indexible rela-
tive, "A pretty wifoyotid be for .. ntpn
who hasn't a dollar 70 call BIS own. giv-
ing away bread By the loaf and butter by
ii.p fotild " Miss Cross had retained at
least one womanly trait-asieht tendon
cy to exaggeraton) "to eli Tile thieves
and tramps who happen to come along. -
/ Oh, aunt !" exclaimed her niece
:" he looked Ike prince !"
IA prince i''s-.with snort of scorn.
"Ydttt head is turned by that trashy
| poetry you read. A prince A likely
story-in shabby clothes and hibbling a
crust A disguised b{ifgiar, in my opin-
ion. But burglar or no burglar, she
continued, e must be G6hfessed with
some irrelevanSe; you shall never mar
| " = man who hasntra dollar to call his
| Ohyn, with my consent, and if ever you
marry without my consent you make a
liar of your mother in her grave,
Aunt / have told YOU again and
again, said Dorothy. firmly but gently.
:" that i never would. L Have iBt for
| COTTON my mothers lA55 Commands"
% Tl'eh tion't be encouraging that Dan
I'al Howell to meet you every tack and
turn; ard if you must haYe some one to
walk home from church with you-I can
| go and come by myself, thank heaven!
there's Arthur Brown, and he hos
thousand dollars In TIE bank.
g But, atinb, I've known Dan SO long,
and he is away so much, that when he
is at home I feel as thcTgh-I mean,
mean, wouldn't like to hurt his feel-
ings - Z 81 ea@ @c
:. Bohr" retorted the grim maiden
9 Men have no feelings, And as for
knowing him e long time, think you've
known him quite long enough, "
. But if he had thousand doilars, in
stead of Abnef Brown" questioned
Dolly, Nith more spirit than she had yet
shown
." That would be in his favor, certain
ly. But he hasn't and never wiz have
with that old father and mother depend
ing upon him. A thotisand dollars. in
yleedl Where would lie get it? The
sooner you forget Daniel Howell and
the sooner Daniel Howell puts you out
out Of his head, the better"
."There's no need for you TO talk 50
loud, aunt said the little girl, indig-
nantly; and then, startled by the look of
p,aditlous Triumph ON her aunt's face,
Dorothy looked around, just in time to
receive a farewell bow from Daniel
Howell as he turned from the door.
"He i,earl me" said Miss Cross, '1'm
glad he did; twill save trouble.
:" oh, Aunt Lorinda, how can you be
SO. cruel?" said poor Dolly, bursting into
testrs.
A year aud ahaB passed away. dluill2
which, owing to his frequent absence
| and Miss Lorinda's watchful care, Dolly
and her lover had met but three or four
times. sIts hard, said the young
man, on the last of these occasions, ''to
know that I can not ask your aunt for
/ your hand because l have not thOtls-
and dollars of my own, when [ know
that there is plenty of room and love and
everything for you at the old stone cot
tage, Oh, Dolly, I'D make you nay wife
this mOment!" ........
"Dan," interrupted the girl, with
dewy eyes, sit isn't her anger though /
| feel that it would be most ungratefuI In
me to provoke it-but the promise my
! mother made for me on her deathbed.
| And if it had not been for that promise,
/ Dan, You must remember, I should have
| been the inmate of an orphan asylum,
and we would never have met. Adding,
the sunshine coming hack again, Don't
you see how, much worse things could
have been?'' 8 @
"You are right, my darling, as you
always are" said Dan; "but think-it
may be years before l nave the llond. 7
g i can wait. Dan. Yes"-with mis-
! chieyous little laugh-SI can wait until
:, I am as old as Aunt Lorinda."
God forbid, lovel'' he said, catching
her in his arms and kissing her sweet
lips "And now goodbye; 1 am going
away. again tomorrow, to he gone L can
not tell you how long. oh, l'oJly,
heaven speed the time when a little wife
shall be waiting with the old father and
mother, at tie stone cottage to welo )me
me homep 1tfsgREEI
5G she raised herself On tipt6e, clasp,ed
his face between her two tiny hands,
gazed into his eyes with wealth of ten
derness in her own, and said, ''Who
knows? Good fortune may at this very
moment besOn its way to u.s."
And, the very next day, January 3d,
/ 1886, as Dorothy, with crimson shawl
thrown over her head, was out In the
garden scattering crumbs on the snow
tor the spaTows, she heard the jinglinG
! Of sleigl-bells, and Farmer Beers came
down the lane with sled load of wood
/" Mornin', Miss Dorothy" he called, as
lac reined up at the back gate. "Here's
n letter for you They thongh+ it might
be important, at the Office, and so. know,
IN how keerful I be, and that I wa
fcomip' this way, they asked me to fetcl
it to you. And the old man tossed the
letter over the hedge, into the girls out
stretched hands, and drove off
/ = A letter for mel " said Dolly, in tones
of great amazement s'Why, [ never re
ceived a letter before in all my lifel'