The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-09-24
"Yes; long, long, time age"
t.Tell me about him-it2"


Australia. / couldn't leave father and
mother, you know (they were both
feeble), and he couldn't stay here.
That's ALL"
"And you--you-"
"Now oil men besides nte to me like
shadows"
"And you have never heard Of him
SINGER
"Yes. He wrote; but where was the
ust2 1t could never come to anything
II was better for him to forget me aud
marry. was q milestone about his
neck. didn't answer his letter"
And supposing he should return
some day, would you marry himY'
Il dare say" laughed Della, gently,
as if the idea were familiar, "let the
neighbors lad3h ever so wisely. I've
thought 1t sometimes, setting alone,
when the world was barren and common
place. One must have recreation of some
kind, you know. Everybody requires
little romance, little poetry, to favor
every. day thinking and doing. I'm
afraid you think me a silly old maid,
Mrs Cl, ment."
No. The heart never grows old.
The skin shrivels, the color departs, the
eyes fade, the features grow pipcbed /;
bat the soul is heir of eternal youth--it
is MS beautiful Mt -four score as at sweet
and twenty Time makes amends FOR
The ravages of the body by developing
the spirit. fou didn't tell me your
lovers name. Perhaps you would rather
not"
His name was Stephen Langdoti.
Sometimes Captain Seymou+ runs
against him in Melbourne, and brings
me word how he looks and what he is
doing though never ask, and Siephc n
never asks for me, that can hear"
Delia's summer boarders were not a
success. to be sure. Ii they took no
money out of her pocket, they put none
in. She was obliged to exc out her
support with copying for Lawyer Dun
moresand einbroideripg for Mrs. Judge
Dorr. One by one her boarders dropped
away like the autum leaves; oil but old
Mrs Clement"
II believe viii stay on" she 5aid.
I'm getting too old to move often.
Perhaps you take winter boarders at re-
duced rates. Eh?"
DO you think my rates are high?"
by no means. But when ones purse
is low"
"Yes. know. Do stay at your price.
1 can't spare you." She had grown
such fondness for the lady that to
refuse her at her own terms would have
seemed like turning her own mother ont
of doors besides, one more month
would not signify. But she found it
hard 70 make both ends meet, and went
to bed hungry that her mother and Mrs.
Clement might enjoy enough, without
there appealing to be just a pattern
At Christmas, however, came ray of
rsunshiue for Della, in the ehape
of a hundred dollar bill from an un-
known friend.
''lt can't be meant for me-" she cried.
Its diercttd to Della Rogerson.
said ler mother; 'and there's nobody
else of that name. now that your aunt
Delia'S dead"
1--WE are not sure she's Dead" OBJ.
jected Della.
''Horrorsl Don't you know whether
your aunt is dead or alive?" asked Mrs.
Clement, in shocked tone.
at isn't our fault. She is rich and
lives abr1a was named for her.
used TO look in the glass and try to be-
lieve I'd inherit her beauty with the
name, though she was only our great
uncle's wife"
''She oguht to be doing something for
you"
"How can she if she's dead? / don't
blame her, anyway. Hcr money is hel
own, to use eccording to her pleasure,
Uncle John made it himself and gave il
20 her"
"But if she should cmoe back to you
having run through with it, you'd di
vide your last crust with her, Ill bt
bound"
Il suppose / should, replied Della.
The winter wore away as winters will
and the miracles of spring began il
fields and waysides; and Delia's boarderi
returned with the June roses, anG
dropped away again with the falling
leaves, and still Mrs Clement stayed OIL
and on. Just now she had been somt
weeks in arrears with her reduced board
No money had been forthcoming fol
some time, and she was growing more
feeble daily, needed the Injuries OF an
Ahfoiiu huu tuo httcHtiOn VI uuIStt DotL
OF which Della bestowed upon her, with,
out taking thought for the morrow.
II must hear from my man Of bust
ness tomorrow, Della: I'm knee-deep in
debt to you, she began one night
Don't mention III" cried Delia. I'd
rather never see a cent Of 1t than have
you take it to heart. You are welcome
to stay and share pot-luck with US you
are suoh company for mother and me-"
THANK you, my dear I've grown as
fond of you as if you were my own flesh
and blood. There, turn down the light
please. Draw the curtain, dear, and
put another stick on the fire, please. Il
grows chilly, doesn't il2 You might
Kiss me just once, if you wouldn't mind
Its number of years since any one
kissed me-"
And the next morning, when Dehl
carried up Mrs Clements breakfast, hel
boarder lay cold and still upon thu
pillows.
The first shock over, Della wrote Il
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