The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-05

"Does it please YOU, Katy !?

"Oh, it is splend d ! l could not
have suited myself half SO well, had L
been left to choose"
But you have not seen the wine
CELLAR yet. 1t is treasure of its kind.
Let's go down again.
They went down the 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 in it,"
"Why I? F." 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.
did not know you carried your temper
ance opinions so far that OF course
shall keep wine in my house, and enter
tain my friends with it, too"
She raised her face appealingly.
Arthur " she said, in 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.
% l must fear for you, Arthur, if You
begin rs he did And fear for others
besides-for the sons and husbands and
fathers who may learn Mt our cheerful
boird 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 a
few moments, while Katy put on her hat
and drew on her gloves.
The argument was kept up. 1t is un-
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 she felt that her whole future
happiness might be involved in it; Ar
thur, because he thought it would be
giving away to a 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
a few weeks was to bring Katy as its
mistress. All the afternoon they had
been looking over it together, happy as
two birds with newly-fnished nest.
But when Arthur closed the door aud
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 a notice, "To Let, was put over
the door of the pretty house the very
next morning.
1t was the most foolish thing to do;
but then lovers can always find some
thing to quarrel sbout.
They parted with a cool Good even
ing" at the door of Katy's lodging
house. She went up to her room to cry
he went home hurt and angry, but Sc
cretly resolving to see her again, and
give her 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 in q hurry to "make it up"
He did wait, nearly week, and when
he called at the modest lodging-house
where he had been wont to visit so
often, he was told that Miss Gardiner
had 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 saw Katy; but we three fac
tory girls, who lodged at Mrs. Howell's
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 a stranger to us all, and it
seemed likely that she would remain so.
But one day Mary Bascom's dress
caught in part of the machinery, and
s'9Es dc Tsty sS spss ss9S p as and
pulled her. away by main strength from
the terrible danger that threatened her.
After that Mary and Lizzie Payne and
/, who were her dearest friends, were
Katy's sworn allies.
We all lodged together then in the
big " Factory boardiDg-hous 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
generally carried it through. In less
than week she had found the very
place she wanted, arranged matters
with the superintendent, and had us
sheltered under Mrs. Howell's vine and
fig tree. We four girls were the proud
possessors of q tolerably large, double
bedded apartment, with queer little
dressing-room attached" and the lib
erty of the parlor to receive callers in "
"a proviso at which we all laughed
This was "home to us after the labor
of the day. Indeed and in truth, Katy
made the place so charming that we for
got the "factorY girls when we got to
L. She improvised cunning little things
out of trifies that are usually thrown
away as useless, and the flowers growing
in broken pots in our window were
glory to behold. She always. had
fresh book or periodical on our table;
and better than this, she brought to us
the larger cultivation, and the purer
taste, which taught us how to use OPP
portunities within our reach.
"What made you take to our style of
life, Katy ?. asked Lizzie, one evening,
as we all sat in the east window watch
ing the elt-coming Of the stars and tell
ing girlisb dreams.
destiny, my. child" answered Katy,
stopping 10 replace the Little boot she