Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-25

Iney were nOI very agreeable One6s
She had been taught that we could not
be too suspicious was ready hence
forth to deny the assertion entirely.
81 wish [ had been robbed rather
than have put my hand" she could 60
no further even in thought. A hot
blush always interrupted her. 81 hope
Imay never, never see that gentleman
again!" she declared, energetically; yet
even as she said so, she knew she did
not mean it. There was time for no
further mental confict-thank goodness,
there was the city! it was two in the
afternoon.
Lily was just in that mood when one
ceases to be confidential even with one
self. She would not acknowledge that
she saw the stranger as she crossed the
depot; she would not admit that she
was dubious about the direction she
should take to reach her brother; in
fine, she was excited, and could not re.
cognize herself as the resolute young
heroine who had left Greenville that
morning relying on store of good
counsel, backed by her own sagacity.
At little distance from the station
she hailed a car, after hastily reading it's
lettered sides. When she consulted the
conductor, she learned she was being
carried out Of her way, and with a
shouted line or two of directions ringing
after her she descended and took another
with varied but unsatisfactory result.
She wished that she had not imbibed
prejudice against hacks and their drivers
as being the accessories of mysterious
disappearance she had read of in those
awful city papers; but, tired and dis
tracted as she was, after two hours
aimless car-changing and installing OF
points of the compass, she still could
not trust herself, with night approach
ing, to one Of those conveyances. She
resolved rather to go on foot, asking
her way block by block, and she swal-
lowed back her tears and set out stur-
div despite the cold She forgot to be
hungry, and was at last fairly on her
way.
Then she saw-she could not tell just
With what feeling directly in advance
of her the gentleman with the sable col
lar going the same way. After time
she ceased to ask and followed him
blindly. She was half -numbed now, and
she murmured to hersef-"I began by
suspecting him-now am trusting him
in the darkr' True enough, night was
coming on; they were turning into mean
little streets, having come back in the
neighborhood of the depot. A hand
some carriage, whose driver seemed to
have waited for the stranger, stood at
the corner and received : ~sture OF d.
rection from him. All tlree-he, Lilly
and the carriage, paused at narrow
door. It bore the number, and was IN
the street, Lionel had sent to Greenville.
The gentleman knocked, then stood
back for his companion to enter; the
door opened into close, dirty little
room, where poor Lionel lay, on an I'M
tidy settee, in the act OF being made
ready for removal by kind and genial
old gentleman, little hasty in temper,
it seemed, for he called out at sight OF
the young man whose pocket Lily had
explored-"Well. you've got here at
last, have you, Frank Bently! I've
waited long enough, l should say, and
this poor boy suffering from fracture
and fever in place like this. The peo-
pie who picked him up insensible off the
ice in the next street, have been very
kind" he added, to the German shoe
maker and his wife who stood by. "You
found him with his head cut by his fall,
his pocket-book lost or stolen, and car
ried him here where he wrote home-and
this morning got his senses sufficiently
about him to send for me, which was
what he should have done at first. The
aoctor-for he was doctor with whom
Lionel had it in mind to study by-and-
by-talked on in this strain to relieve an
evident embarrassment.
Young DIR. Bently, his son, explained
(while the sister and brother INDUCED III
a singularly fervent embrace, consider
ing that they had been but two days
separately, that ne had received his
fathers message per family servant on
his arrival at the depot, at two O'Clock,
but he was detained by pressing and
most imperative engagement-(he did
not explain that said engagement was
his own resolution to follow respectfully
and unseen to her destination the pretty,
timid little Lily, of Greenville, who had,
by the odd process Of entering his
pocket, stolen his heart). Such things
will do to keep, as will also Lily's pleased
amazement at the family misinterpreta-
ton of poor Lionels letter, written IN
pain and fever. He, too, proud OF his
early recollections of the city ways,
started on foot over its icy pavements
and met with physical, not moral
fall. That little mistake was explained
and laughed over, but Lily did not want
hers to share the same fate-to keep 1t
secret she even bribed Frank Bently.
Once he threatened-"Oh, do not tell
about my handl' she whispered, en-
treatingly.
ST won't if you will give it to me, " was
the answer, in the same key.
Well-Aunt Keziah liked him, Uncle
Adonijah found him suitable, and they
we're married on Christmas Eve, a year
after her adventure I'm Pocket"
Deaf and Dumb BARRIERS.