The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-31
ROMANCE OF A GLOVE.
6 Does it please YOU, Katy?"


have suited myself half so well, had [
been left to choose"
"But you have not seen the wine
cellar yet. 1t is treasure of its kind.
Lets go down again"
They went down tho stairs together,
he talking gayly, she with troubled
look on her face. After duly admiring
the place she put timid hand on his
arm and said "But, Arthur, dear, let's
have no wine i'll it.
"Why?" he asked, i'll surprise.
"Because | 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.
I did not know you carried your temper
ance opinions 50 far as that. or course
i shall keep wine in my house, and enter
tain my friends with it, too"
She raised her face appealingly.
"Arthur " she said, i'll II tone of
voice which he knew how to interpret.
Arthur's brow grew cloudy.
"But you can not fear for me?" he
said, with half offended pride.
81 must fear for you, Arthur, ii 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 slay
them"
They went up to the steps again and
sat on n sofa in the dining-room for
few moments, while Katy put on her hat
and drew on her gloves.
The argument was kept up. 1t is I'M
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 size 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
q few weeks was to bring Katy rs its
mistress. All the afternoon they had
been looking over it together, happy rs
two birds with q newly y-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,
it was all "broken up" between them,
and notice, "To Let" was put over
the door of the pretty house the very
next morning.
1t was the most foolish thing to do F.;
but then lovers can always find some
thing to quarrel about.
They parted with cool "Good.eyen-
ing" at the door of Katy's lodging
house. She went up to her room to cry !;
he went homo hurt and angry, but Sc
cretly resolving to see her again, and
give her a chance to say that she was in
the wrong. He would wait few days,
however; it would not do to let her see
that he was i'll a hurry to "make it up. )"
He did wait, nearly week, and when
he called Mt the modest lodging-house
where he had been wont to visit so
often, he was told that Miss Gardiner
hal been gone three days.
"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 I saw Katy; but We three "fac-
tory girls" who lodged at Mrs. Howeifs
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 IL
seemed likely that she would remain so.
But one day Mary Bascom's dress
caught in part of the machinery, ana
before any one else could think what 10
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
T. who were her dearest friends, were
Katy's sworn allies. ~
We all lodged together then in the
| big "Factory boardipg-honse;;,' But
KATY took it into her head that we
should have so much nicer times In a
private lodging to ourselves; and when
she took anything into her head she @
than a week she had found the very
nlace she wanted, arranged matters ~
With With the superintendent, and had us us
sheltered under Mrs. Howelfs vlno ana
40 tree. We four girls were the PROUD
nossessors Of tolerably large, double ,:.!,
beJSed apartment, with a queer little
dressinr.room attached" and tho no, ;,
erty Of the parlor to receive callers In "
"a proyiso at which we all laughed;
This was "home " to US after the LABOR a.
of The day. Indeed and In truth, ha.y
made the place 20 charming .nas a.. we s,ot i0s, 70
got the "factory girls " when we gI; y. ~
4. She improvised cunning M little things thugs
ont of trifes that are usually thro"n