The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-14

house, while Mrs. Kent eat and en-
joyet herself under the green awning
of the apple-boughs.
Mamma shall not drudge herself
to DEATH" said Patty, while I arr
able to work for her,"
Patty Kent was dark-eyed and
plquaRt, with 6 warm olive skin, lips
like ripe cherry, and iet-black hair,
full OF peprle1ed lights. like the petal
OF black psnsy.
She looked up from her work as a
strange foet-step echoed on the road.
II wonder who that can be, said
patty, suspending the quick glitter OF
the needle.
He ia coming here said Mrs.
Kent"
CAT all events" said patty. with 8
laugh, "he can not be customer"
But she rose up. laid aside her
work, and asked him politely into
the house.
II have called to see Mrs. Ketursh
Kent said he. ''about nephew of
her's-one Robin Hardy-who went
to Idaho ten years ago."
Poer Bob interrupted Mrs. Kent,
whipping her spectacle-glasses; ne ran
away and patty and / were sorry
enough-for he Vas q good, we'll
meaning lad. only q bit head
strong"
Pstty's liquid black eyes brimmed
over with tears.
"He is dead" said she softly.
eve heard it month ago, from some
who had lived in the Rsme part of the
country. Poor Boil We liked him,
mother and l. And mother always
said Bob would make his way ia the
world yet"
II was with him in his last sick
ness," said the stranger. IL did what
l could for him. but"
God bless yeu for thAtl" said Mrs.
Kent, earnestly. ''We are not rich,
Patty and I. but il there are any bills
unpaid, or any WVy Of reSon;pensing
yeu. air. for your trouble, We are
ready to help according to our poor
sbility-sre We not, PsttY?"
Mother" said Patty, gently, "the |
gentleman is very pale and tired. If
you were to get him q cup of tea"
II will do it. and thankful for the
the chance" ssid Mrs. Kent, bustling |
to her feet. poor Northumberland,
headlong Bob! Ny sister Msry's only |
child To think that he should have
died, away in that desolate country,
and never relation 20 close his
eyesl"
"You are, perhaps, unaware that
he had made large fortune of later
years." added the tall man, of which
you would be among the natural
heirs"
"Poor Boil" said Mrs. Kent. 81
would q good deal rather he should
have lived to enjoy it himself"
would your" said the stranger,
tarting up. Then you shall have
your wish, aunt Keturah. Patty, liz
il possible you do not know me-littls
Bob, grown into q long-legged,
swsrthy-skinned miner7"
Patty uttered little shrek; Mrs.
Kent dropped her spectacles and ran
to clasp Bob in her arms.
'God bless you, my laddie," said
che II have had sore heart for your
sake this many . long day."
And when they all sat soHn to tea
behind the emerald shadows Of the
hopvine, Robin Hardy told his adven-
be had bufieted with good
fortune and evil, until finally be had
struck q vein Of luck that had made q
rich man Of him.
"And when l bad that long. dreary
sickness, five months ago." said he,
''home and home faces came into my
mind, and resolved l would come
back east again. And when I saw
Ethel Ellington did not know me, /
shought l would see how Robin
credit stood among his rela-
ives"
So Robin made his home with aunt
Keturah and married blsck-eyed
Patty, to Miss Ellington, chagrin.
+'It Was very shabby Of Robin
Hardy to letme suppose he Was dead"
aid soc. ''To besure he never said
10, in direct words, but ell the sane,
10 led me to suppose iti'
eyes," said Mrs. ELLINGTON. rather
"and Patty Kent is the one
10 marry rich, after all"
Mrs. Ellington began to think that 4
possibly she had been mistaken after
III. in the system she had followed in
Ethe's education.