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

house, while Mrs. Kent eat and en-.
joyea herself under the green awning
OF the apple-boughs.
Mamma shall not drudge hsrself
to DEATH" said Patty, while 1 arr
able to work for her,"
Patty Kent was dark-syed and
plquaat, with a warm olive skin, lips
like ripe cherry, and jet-black hair,
full OF peprle1ed lights. like the petal
OF black pansy.
She looked up from her work as a
strange foot-step echoed on the road.
81 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. Keturah
Kent said he. "sbout nephew of
her's-one Robin Hardy-who went
10 1OanO sen years ago.
Poer Bob! interrupted Mrs. Kent,
whipping her spectacle-glasses; he ran
away and patty and ! were sorry
enough-for he VAS a good, we'll
meaning lad. only a bit head
strong"
Pstty's liquid black eyes brimmed
over with tears.
"He is dead said she softly.
"We heard it a month ago, from some
who had lived in the same 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 bis last sick-
ness," said the stranger. II did what
could for him, but"
"God bless yeu for tAAtl" said Mrs.
Kent. earnestly. Eve are not rich,
Patty and I. but il there are any bills
unpaid, or any wSy Of re0onpensing
yeu. cir. for your trouble, We are
ready to help according to our poor
ability-are We not, Patty"
Mother" said Patty, gently, "the
gentleman is very pale and tired. II
you we're to get him q cup of tea"
~ will do it. and thankful for the
the chance" said Mrs. Kent, busting
to her feet. Poor Bobl-Warm-hearted,
heGdlong Boil 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 tell man, of which
you would be among the natural
heirs."
"Poor Bobp' said Mrs. Kent. 81
would q good deal rather he should
have lived to enjoy it himself"
Would youi" said the stranger,
tarting up. "Then You shall have
your wish, aunt Keturah. Patty, is
it possible you do not know me-littls
Bob, grown into q long-legged,
swsrthy-skinned miner7"
Patty uttered q 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 soWn to tea
behind the emerald shadows Of the
hopvine, Robin Hardy told his adven-
tures-how be had bufieted with good
fortune and evil, until finally he had
struck vein of luck that had made a
rich man OF him.
"And when / 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, /
thought l would see how Robin
Hardy's credit stood among his rela-
tives."
So Robin made his home with aunt
Keturah and married black-eyed |
Patty, to Miss Ellington, chagrin.
t'It VAS very shabby OF Robin |
Hardy to let me suppose he WAS dead,
said soc. ITO besure he never said |
90. in direct words. but ell the sane,
he led me to suppose itl'
eyes," said Mrs. ELLINGTON. rather
bitterly, land Patty Kent is the one
to marry rich, after all"
Mrs. Ellington began to think that
possibly she had been mistaken after
all. in the system she had followed in
Ethers education.