Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-03-25

Bryce"
headed" murmured the anxious little
mother. Sim sure Mr. Bryce"
Weighs 259.
"Well, what if he does? How foolish
you are He's very"
Cross-eyed with her worst grim
ace.
"Not the least that ever was. It's
only little cast that is peculiar and
pleasant.
And at that Evelyn went off in peal
of laughter which she suddenly checked
on hearing the manly foot of her brother
in-law mount the stairs, probably to in
quire the cause of the connection, for
little went on in the house into which he
did not inquire; and if there was one
thing more than another that Mr.. Osric
Carlson hated it was the sound of Eve
lyn's laughter He had never liked it,
In fact, since the day that he proposed to
her, and his false teeth came down, and
in this awkward predicament he had
struck bracket and his wig caue off,
and her sudden and irrepressible laugh
ter had sent him hastily and Indignantly
from the room, to be consoled by Julia,
who met him on the way, accepted him,
with his three little girls, out of hand.
After the marriage it was not TIL Julia
was thought to be dying that Evelyn and
her mother were invited to the house,
and while they were with her their own
house had never been insured, and their
few bonds that had never been regis
tered, were burned together, and of
course they had to stay.
But Osric dismissed the nurse and the
second girl the next day, and Evelyn did
the work, and succeeded in getting her
classes, and attending to them besides
At the end On every week she paid her
board to Julia; she considered that her
work in the house was a fair return for
her mothers, in her poor health and Old
age; and they kept ont of the way in
their room together all they could. As
for poor pale Julia, she was a nonentity
and shadow, sick part of the time
and with no spirit at any time; she knew
that home was noa happy place, but
she could not bear to blame her hus-
band, and gradually came to join him in
blaming Evelyn, who might make things
very different for everybody if she would
only marry Mr.. Bryce-Mr. Bryce,
whose half million was at the feet of this
young beauty for her to pick up and en-
rich them all; Mr.. Bryce, who had met
her at the house OF one of her pupils,
who had made Osric's acquaintance pur-
posely to gain an ally in his siege, and
concerning whom neither Osric nor Os-
RIGS wife, nor Osric's mother-in-law in
fact, ever afterward gave her any peace;
for the one saw business opportunities
for himself, the other saw peace in the
house, and the third saw kindness, escape
and liberty
"Now what's the use, Julia ~ Evelyn
once exclaimed. "Marry the man? l
can't | won't! How can you want me
TOP"
"The idea," said Julia, "of letting
such a chance as that slip through your
fingers p
"The idea of not selling myselfw
"Of letting that artful widow, that
Kate Grey, outgeneral you and come in
the mistress of those millions %
cts only half million"
"Only half million -
"Well, Wen stick to the truth. And
Mrs Grey is his cousin, and loves him
to distraction. | don't see why. But
she always has. She's welcome"
Glow can you be so unnatural, when
you might do SO much for your family :?
You'd marry him soon enough" cried
Julia, through her angry tears, eff his
name was Pierre Gilland Y
And then Evelyn rose and left the
room swiftly. But where should she
go? There was no corner Of the house
where she could be alone for single sob
for Osric was here, and his children were
there, and one does not mt MI times wish
even ones mother to see the tears with
which she has no sympathy. There was
always all outdoor; she threw her shawl
over her head, and ran out into the street.
1t was a pleasant summer night. She
moved along quickly, thinking only of
walking away from her trouble-the
trouble of an old love for the handsome,
headstrong boy who had been the friend
and companion and lover of all heryears,
who had demonstrated with her one day
when he heard that Osric was calling
frequently ut the house, and storming
with resentment at the gales of laughter
VIII WHICH sue iutt every sthteuct lie
uttered about it, had marched out, meet
ing Osric in the hall, in the act of taking
from his pocket a little solitaire ring,
which Pierre hadn't doubt was for
Evelyn, and eff which Julia, as she used
to turn it on her finger, never had n
doubt that 1t was not a real stone And
Pierre had left the town for the Pacific
coast that night; and if she had wished
take, she had no address, and she only
knew he was so much rs alive by now