River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

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| house, and cut a slice"
a slice! Great grief interrupted
Aunt Lorinda. "A piece big enough
for the breakfast of a whole family"
And | buttered ii"
You buttered ii"
YES aunt; | only took the butter tina
was left in the dish ?"
Half pound You gowithout but
/ ter for week"
''And | ran out again. and into the
| lane. as fast us | could, continued Do
rothy, apparently undismayed by thi.
threat, flor fear i might lose courage
and stopping suddenly before him, put
| the bread in his hand and said, 4 am
50 sorry for youn and turned to run
away. when he seized my hand and
1 kissed it," Miss Lorinda Cross became
rigid as marble) ''and said, These are
! the first kind words I've heard since
came to this beastly country Tell me
your name little one Dorothy Waldo,
said Dorothy Waldo he repeated;
shall never forget it, and he raised his
hat and went away. Dear aunt, had
you been in my place would you not
have done as | did ~
?" cried Aunt Lorinda-'I carry
meals to strange men on the public high
way? | let foreigner who called my
country "a beastly country kiss my
hand? No, indeed; he never would
kissed my hand"
Perhaps not" said Dolly, with a
momentary twinkle in her eyes, and
then she added, pleadingly, But don't
be angry any longer, aunt. I'll make
another loaf of bread right away"
But that won't bring back what you
have wasted said her inflexible rela-
tive? "A pretty wife you'd be for man
who hasn't dollar to call his own, Civ
ing away bread by the loaf and butter
by the pound" Miss Cross had retained
at least one womanly trait-a slight ten
derneSs to eXaggeration) ito all the
thieves and tramps who happen to come
along
"Oil, aunt exclaimed her niece che
looked like prince"
"A princen'-with a snort of scorn.
''Your head is turned by that trashy
poetry you read A princel A likely
story-in shabby clothes and nibbling a
crust, 4 disguised burglar, in my opin-
ion. But burglar or no burglar" She
continued, it must be confessed with
some irrelevancy, "vou shall never mar
nv a man who hasn't Il dollar to call his
own, 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 | never would. | have not for
In L.,
"Then don't be encouraging that Dan
iel Howell To meet YOU every tack and
tum and if you must have some one
to. walk home from church with you'll
can go and come by myself, thank
heayen.-there's Arthur Brown, and he
mas thousand dollars in the bank"
But, aunt, I've known Dan SO long,
and he is away so much, that when he
is at home feel as thought mean, |
mean, | wouldn't like to hurt his feel
ings"
"Bah.' retorted the grim maiden.
Men have no feelings. And as for
knowing him a long time, | think
you've known him quite long enough. ;"
But if he had thousand dollars in
stead of Abner Brown questioned
Dolly, with more spirit than she had
yet shown.
That would be in his favor, certain
IT, But he hasn't and never will have,
with that old father and mother de
pending upon him A thousand dollars,
indeed. Where would he get it? The
sooner YOU forget Daniel Howell and
the sooner Daniel Howell puts you out
of his head, the better"
There's no need for You to talk SO
loud, aunt" said the little girl, indig-
llantly; and then startled by the look of
malicious 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 heard me, said Miss Cross, Pm
glad he did; twill save trouble"
ooh, Aunt Lorinda, how can you be
50 cruel?" said poor Dolly, bursting into
tears.
A year and a half passed away,
during which, owing to his frequent
absence and Miss Lorinda's watchful
care, Dolly and her lover had met but
three or four times. Its hard" said
the young man, on the last of these oc-
casions, ito know that | can not ask
Your aunt for your hand because | have
not Il thousand dollars ofmy own, when
| know that there is plenty of room and
love and everything for you at the old
stone cottage Oh, Dolly, I'd make you
my wife this moment y
Dan" interrupted the girl, with
dewy eyes, sit isn't her anger-thOugh |
feel that it would ke most ungrateful in
me 20 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, | should
have been the inmate of an orphan asy-
lum. and we would never have met"
Adding the sunshine coming back
again, Don't yousee how much worse
things could have been?"
"You are right, my darling, rs you al
ways are, said Dan; "but think-it may
he years before | have ''the bond"
II can wait, Dan Yes, with a
mischicvous little laugh-'I can wait
until am so old as aunt Lorinda."
God forbid, love !" he said. catching
her in his arms and kissing her sweet
lips. and now goodbye; | am going
away tomorrow, to be gone | can not
tell YOU how long. Oh, Dolly, heavens
speed the time when Il little wife shall
be waiting with the old father and moth
or ut the stone cottage to welcome me
home
She raised herself on tiptoe, clasped
his face between her two tiny hands,
gazed into his eyes with n wealth of ten
derness in her own, and said, "Who
knows Good fortune may ut this very
moment he on its way To us.
And the very next day, January Sd,
1850, rs Dorothy, with a crimson shawl
thrown over her head, was out in the
garden scattering crumbs on the snow
for the Sparr0ws, she heard the jingling
OF sleigh-bells, and Farmer Beers came
down the lane with Il sled-load OfwOod,
tMornin,' Miss Dorothy" he called, as
lie reined up at the back gate. They
thought il might be important at the
office. and so KNOWN how keCrful | be,
and that | was comm this way, they
asked me to fetch it to YOU. And the
old man tossed the letter over the
hedge, into the girls outstretched
hands, and drove off.
"A letter for mew said Dolly, in tones
of great amazement. why, | never
received a letter before in all my life
Then She turned itabout, and inspected
it curiously. The envelope was COM
mon large yellow one, and bore the
printed address of law firm in an adj
ioininO ,.itv as we'll As her own address,