The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-08-12
ROMANCE OF A GLOVE.
Does il please Won. Katyp"

Does IL please you, haty!
"Oh, it is splendid L could not
have suited myself half so well, had L
been left to choose"
"But you have not seen the wine
cellar yet. 1t is a treasure of its kind.
Let's go down again."
They went down the stairs together,
he talking gayly, she with a troubled
Aok on her face. After duly admiiing
Vie place she put timid hand on his
arm and said But, Arthur, dear, let's
have no wine in it."
"Why? he asked, in surprise.
"Beoause l have resolved if am ever
the mistress OF house there shall be no
liquors kept in it-no social glasses for
friends"
"Why, Katy, you are unreasonable.
1 did not know you carried your temper
ance opinions so far as that. OF course
shall keep wine in my house, and enter
tain my friends with it, too.
She raised her face appealingly.
Arthur she said, in a tone of
voice which he knew how to interpret.
Arthurs brow grew cloudy.
"But you can not fear for me?" he
said, with haf-offended pride.
" / must fear for you, Arthur, If you
begin as he did. And L fear for others
besides-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 to the steps again and
sat on a sofa in the dining-room for a
few moments, 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
happiness might be involved in it, Ar
thur, because he thought it would be
giving away to woman's whims, and
would sacrifice too much of his popu-
larity with his friends.
He had bought this house, paid for
it, and furnished it handsomely, and in
few weeks was to bring Katy as its
mistress. All the afternoon they had
been looking over it together, happy as
two birds with a newly-fnished nest.
But when Arthur closed the door and
put the key in his pocket, in the chill,
waning light of the December af ernoon
and gave Katy his arm to see her home,
it was all "broken up" between them,
and a notice, "To 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 obout.
They parted with a 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 Sc
cretly resolving to see her again, aud
give her chance to say that she was in
the wrong. He would wait a few days,
however it would not do to let her see
that he was in hurry to "make it up
He did wait, nearly week, and when
he called at the modest lodging-house
where he had been won't to visit so
often, he was told that Miss Gardiner
had been gone three days.
"Gone where?" he asked, slow to be-
heve.
"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 l saw Katy but we three "fac-
tory girls" who lodged at Mrs. Howell s
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
persisted 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 stranger to us all, and 1t
seemed likely that she would remain so.
But one day Mary Bascom'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
pulled her away by main strength from
the terrible danger that threatened her.
After that Mary and Lizzie Payne and
/. who were her dearest friends, were
Katy's sworn allies.
We all lodged together then In the
big Factory boardiDg-house." But
Katy took it into her head that we
should have SO much nicer times in 9
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, arranged matters
with the superintendent, and had ut
sheltered under Mrs. Howell's vine anc
FIG tree. We four girls were the prouc
possessors of tolerably large, double
bedded apartment, with a queer little
dressing-room attached" and the hb
erty OF the parlor to receive callers In
"A proviso at which we all laughed.
This was "home to IA after the labol
of the day. Indeed and in truth, Kat,
made the place so charming that we for
got the "factory girls 4" when we got tt
it. She improvised cunning little thing
out of trif.s that are usually thrown
away "a useless, and the flowers GROWING
in broken pots in our window were I
glory TO behold. She always had
fresh book or periodical on our table