New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-14

Not IN the least don't know
what you mean, that is What I
wanted to tell you was that we're 90
ing to have a young man of our own,
also. Ny brother Jack is coming home
next week.
How coherent! I declare, Sue,
you make me suspect something.
Jack? He's the one who's been so
long in Germany. Well, hope you'll
enjoy him: but pray keep him to your
selves. I've had enough OF young
men, Johns especially. never want
to see one again as long as live-I
Think. Gracious! there's that tiresome
o. O. strolling up and down in hopes
of catching me as l come out. de-
clare it is uncomfortable. Good-by, Sue.
I'm going home by the back door, if
you don't mind" And catching up
her bonnet, Polly vanished, while
Susan Gilmore, with a guilty look in
her eyes, and pair of red, red cheeks,
tied hers on, and, issuing sedately from
the front door, encountered Mr.. Oil
plant, and presently, under his escort,
walked up the street. "After all,' she
thought to herself, "if Polly can't like
him, and doesn't want him, WHY notp''
Why not, indeedp It was unanswer-
able.
Another fortnight passed. Cousin
Fanny and her tonce went away, but
U. o. still fingered. Polly gave an ex-
clamation of despairing disgust when
she learned his intention; but, after
all, he did not prove the nuisance she
had feared. He lad other friends in
town by this time, other engagements,
and did not haunt the Pattens' house
every day, and all day long, as at first.
Polly heard of him often at the Gill
mores'. She saw little of Sue in those
days; Sue was occupied with her
brother, just returned after his long
absence. Mindful of Polly's interdict,
perhaps, she was in no haste to present
him to her friend--a fact which Polly
was disposed to resent, when, full
week after his arrival, she was at last
brought face to face with him. She
liked John Gilmore at once. He was
quite different from the other Johns,
and not at all formidable, Polly thought
tall and spare, quiet in speech and
shy in manner, wearing spectacles, too,
but altogether very "nice''. What q
myriad of diverse meanings may be
included in that word. beloved of girls,
"nice''l
In John Gilmore's case it meant that
he did not talk nonsense to Polly, and
yet that he seemed to like the non.
sense she talked; at least he frightened
under it always, and it made him laugh.
He never bored her with sense and
long explanations, but she was never
in his company without finding herself
aftcrward thinking about things which
he had said, and looking up little
points of information suggested by his
talk. He was so kind-hearted, too
always so kind! He didn't sneer at
her diatribes against love and lovers;
and he seemed to understand and be a
little sorry for her, left out in the cold,
solitary in the midst Of the sistcrly cir
Gle once so one in interest and so close
Iy united. Here was genuine friend
at last, she retlcctcd-a friend of her
own; and comforted thereby for her
| losses. she grew little more tolerant
of the happiness Of other people; and
| even when, a little later, great wave
! of surprises and sudden changes broke
over The home and all in it, still the
tolerance continued.
For, first, John Norman had q part
| ncrshir offered him in South America,
and he and Eunice had to be got ready
at two months notice to sail to their
new home. And while Polly was toll
ing over the hurried preparation, which
was all that time made possible, Susan
Gilmore, her one special friend, called
one morning, and. with q burst of emo
ton quite unwonted in the staid Sue,
! contided the fact that she was en-
gaged-cngagcd to o. o., who was the
loveliest, dearest man that ever was,
though Polly had been so unkind as not
to find it out--a fact she (Sue) was
| very glad of aaov--and they were to be
married in six weeks, and sail for
China directly aftcrward. And would
her dearest Polly forgive her, and
promise to love o. 0. all she possibly
could, just for her sake?
"You, too?'' was all Polly's reply.
But she put her arms round Sues neck,
with a tear and sob, and all was
smooth between them. Sue, who had
dreaded the interview, was amazed at
Polly's forbearance. A change had
evidently come over the spirit of her
dream. Trials, we are told, have a
| Christening effect on the character.
Was it her trials which were thus
blessed to Polly?
After that, all was bewilderment and
confusion dire till the two weddings
were over. Eunice and John departed
the day after theirs, and lull fell upon
the weary household. Mrs. Patten
went up stairs to lie down. Polly, who
sighed for fresh air, departed for a
walk with John Gilmore, who missed
his sister so much, poor fellow! and
Amy. the GAZETTE of the family, pre-
pared to celebrate their newly .recov-
cred freedom by adjoining and making
beautiful the dining-room, now rescued
from counting purposes, and restored
again to the common use of the house,
hold
A busy afternoon, indeed, did little
Amy make for herself, but it was a
merry one, and she sang as she worked.
Every vase in the room she filed with
violets and wild flowers, or apple blooms
from the just blossomed orchard. The
curtains were pulled to exactly the ideal
angle, the chairs regrouped, all the hor.
rid look taken away, Amy thought, as
If the room were meant for only two,
and for no one else. 1t was dusk when
she finished, and. curling up in the
sofa corner, she awaited with impa.
tience Polly's return.-Polly, who had
hated the love-making as much as she
had, and would be so pleased! Polly
was the one person in the house o.
whose sympathy Amy felt quite sure.
She was long in coming, but she
came at last. Amy heard her step or
the porch, and with it another step
louder, tirn1er. Surely that tiresome
John Gilmore was not coming in t.
spoil everything This first pleasant
night. No; he had come to see papa
Amy heard him tap at the door of tn.
"den," while Polly ran up stairs. II,
emerged as she came down; there wa
a long confabbing in the entry; but a
last the front door shut with q delight
| ful omnhaSiS and ANY iumnn6 n,