St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-15
Romance Of u Glove.


suited myself half so well, had been
| left to choose"
But you have not seen the wine eel
lar yet. 1t is a treasure of its kind.
Let's 90 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 Il timid hand on his
arm, and said: But, Arthur, dear,
let's have no wine i'll it,"
why ?" he asked, in surprise.
Because | have resolved, if | am
ever the mistress of Il 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 tenn
perance opinions so far as that. OF
course | shall keep wine in my house,
and entertain my friends with it, too"
s,She raised her head appealingly.
''Arthur!" she said, III IA tone of voice
which he knew how to interpret.
Arthur's brow grew clOuded.
''But you cannot fear for me?" he
said, with f-otfendcd pride.
81 must fear for you, Arthur, if you
begin as he did. And fear for 9TH
ers, besides the SONS and hus-
bands and fathers, who may learn at
our cheerful board to love the poison
that shall slay them"
They went up the steps again and
sat on Il sofa i'll the dining room for a
few moments, while Katy put on her
gloves.
The argument was kept up. 1t is
unnecessary that we should repeat all
that was said on both sides. 1t ended
at last as similar discussions have end
ed before. Neither was willing to
yield Katy, because she felt that her
whole future happiness might be in
volved in it; Arthur, because he
thought it would he giving way to Il
woman's whims, and would sacrifice
too much of his popularity with his
friends.
He had bought this house, paid for
it, and furnished it handsomely, and in
Il few weeks was to bring Katy as its
mistress. All the afternoon they had
been looking over it together, happy
us two birds with newly finished nest
But when Arthur closed the door and
put the key III his pocket, i'll the chill,
waning light of the December after
noon, and gave Katy his arm To see
her home, it was all "brolen up be
tween them, and notice, ''To Let"
was put up over the door of the house
the very next morning. 1t was the
most foolish thing to do; but then low
ers can always find something to quar-
rel about.
They parted with 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
secretly resolving to see her again, and
give her IA 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 ''makc
it up
He did wait nearly week, and when
he called at the modest lodging-housc,
where he had been wont to visit so of
ten, he was told that Miss Gardiner had
been gone three days.
Gone where 80 he asked, slow to
believe.
"Shc did not tell me, sir. She said
she was not coming back. Her aunt
lives at Bristol"
He then took the next train to BIis-
tol, and investigated bat neither there,
nor i'll any other place, though he
searched for months afterwards,
did he find sign or trace of Katy Gar
diner.
CHAPTER IL.
All this happened more than year
before saw Katy but we three .'fac-
tory girls" who lodged at Mrs. How
ellis 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 i'm
proved in health. spirits and looks
after she became used to the work and
simple fare of the factory girls.
She was stranger to us all, and it
seemed likely she would remain so.
But one day Mary Bascom's dress
caught i'll part of the machinery, and
before any one else could think what
to do, Katy had sprung tn her side,
and pulled her away by main strength
from the terrible danger that threatened
Payne and /, who were her dearest
friends, were Katy's sworn allies.
We all lodged together, then, i'll the
VIZ dtboIN DpdTulnp mousse Dui
Katy took it into her head that we
should have so much nicer times in
private lodging to ourselves and
when she took anything into her head
she generally carried it through. In
less than a week she had found the
very place she wanted, arranged mat
tiers with the superintendent, and had
us sheltered under Mrs Howell's vine
and Zig tree. We four girls were the
proud possessors of a tolerably large,
double bedded apartment, with a queer
little dressing room attached-"and the
liberty of the parlor To receive callers
ina prOvisO at which we all laughed.
This was ''homen to us after the la
Dor of the day. Indeed and in truth,
Katy made the place so charming that
We forgot we were factory girls" when
we got to it. She improvised cunning
little things out of trifles that are us
ually thrown away as useless, and the
flowers growing in broken pots in our
window were a 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 to
use opportunities within our reach.
'What made you take TO our style of