Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-07-23
NORTHERN TRIBUNE,
SATURDAY. JULY 23, 1881.


"But you have not seen the wine cellar
vet. 1t is treasure of its kind. Let's
go down again"
They went down the stairs together,
he talking gaily, she with troubled
look on her face. After duly admiring
the place she put q timid hand on his
arm and said: But, Arthur dear, let us
have no wine in it"
"Why?" he asked in surprise.
Because l have resolved if ever am
the mistress of house, there shall be no
liquors kept in it-nO social glasses for
friends"
"Why, Katy, you are unreasonable. I
did not know you carried your temper
ance opinions as faDas that. OF course
L shall keep wine in my house, and en-
terrain my friends with it, too
She raised her face appealingly.
arthur she said in tone of voice
he knew how to interpret.
Arthurs brow grew cloudy.
"But you cannot fear for me?" he said,
with half offended pride.
IL must fear for you, Arthur, If you be-
gin as he did. And | fear for others be-
sides-fOr the sons and husbands and
fathers who may learn at our cheerful
board to love the poison that shall Stay
them"
They went up the steps again and sat
on sofa in the dining room for a few
minutes, while Katy put on her hat and
drew on her gloves.
The argument was kept up. 1t is un-
necessary that we should repeat all that
was said on both sides. 1t ended at last
as similar discussions have ended before.
Neither was willing to yield-Katy, be-
cause she felt that her whole future hap
piness might be involved in it; Arthur,
because he thought it would be giving
away to wOman's whims, and would
sacrifice too much of his popularity with
his friends.
He had bought this house, paid for it,
furnished it handsomely, and in few
weeks was to bring Katy as its mistress.
All the afternoon they had been looking
1t over together, happy as two birds with
newly-finished nest. But when Arthur
closed the door and put the key in his
pocket in the Chill, waning light of the
December afternoon, and gave Katy his
arm to see her home, 1t was all broken
up" between them, and a notice ITO Let"
was put over the door of the pretty house
the very next morning.
1t was the most foolish thing to do:
but then lovers can always find some
thing to quarrel about.
They parted with cool good even
ing" at the door of Katy's lodging house.
She went up to her room to cry; he went
home hurt and angry, but secretly re-
solving to see her again, and give her
chance to say that she was in the wrong.
lie would wait few days, however: it
would not do to let her see that he was
in Il hurry to make it up"
He did wait, nearly a week, and when
= IioI 40 hA nof InI.r
where he had been wont to visit so often,
gone three day..
"GOne where?" he asked, slow to be-
lieve.
"She did not tell me, sir. She said she
was not coming back. Her aunt lives at
Bristol"
He then took the next train to Bristol
and investigated; but neither there nor
in any other place, though he searched
for months afterward, did he find sign or
trace of Katy Gardiner.
All this happened more than year
before saw Katy; out we three factory
girls" who lodged at Mrs. HOwelPs with
her, of course knew nothing about it.
She came to the factory and applied for
work. The superintendent thought her
too delicate for such labor, but she per-
sisted; and, In fact, she improved in
health. spirits, and looks after she be-
came used to the work and simple fare
of the factory girls.
She was a stranger to us all, and it
seemed likely that she should remain so.
But one day Mary BascOmb's dress
caught in part of the machinery, and
before any one else could think what to
do Katy had sprang to her side and pull
oI I, al OF noeth n
terrible danger that threatened her. AZ
ter that, Mary and Lizzie Payne and l.,
who were her dearest friends were Katy's
sworn allies.
We all lodged together then in the big
factory boarding house," But Katy
took il into her head that we should have
so much nicer times in private lodging
to ourselves; and when she took anything
into her head she generally carried it
through. In less than week she had
found the very place she wanted, arrang-
ed matters with the superintendent, and
had us sheltered under Mrs. Howell's
vine and fig tree. We four girls were
the proud pOssess0rs of q tOlerable large
dOuble-bedded apartment, with gu eer
little dressing-rOOm attached, -"and the
liberty of the parlOr to receive callers
in" provisO at which we all laughed.
This was "home" to us after the labor
of the day. Indeed and in truth, Katy,
made the place so charming that we for
got the factory girls" when we got into
it. She improvised cunning little things
out Of trIfes that are usually thrown
away as useless, and the flowers growing
in broken pots in our windows were a
glory to behold. She always had fresh
book or periodical on our table; and bet
ter than this, she brought to us larger
cultivation and tho nurar taofo vvbiob