The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-11-10

0ut II sue SnOUlu come OaCR 10 you
having run through with it, you'd divide
your last crust with her, I'll be bound"
II suppose should" replied Della.
The winter wore away as winters will, ant
the miracles of spring began in fields ant
wayside; and Delia's boarders returned
with the June roses, and dropped ava!
again with the falling leaves. and still Mrs
Clement STAYED on and on. Just now she
had been some weeks in arrears with hel
reduced board. No money bad been forth.
| coming for some time, and she was growing
more feeble daily, needed the luxuries o1
an invalid and the attention of nurse. both
OF which Della bestowed upon her, without
taking thought of the morrow.
| Il must hear from my man Of business
to- morrow, Della; I'm knee-deep in debt tc
you, she began one night.
Don't mention it," cried Della. I'D
rather never see q cont of it than have you
take 1t to heart. You are welcome to stay
and share pot luck with us; yon are such
| company for mother and me-"
"Thank you, nv 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 an
! other stick on the fire, please. It grows
chilly, doesn't it, You might kiss me just
/ b
! dred years or so since any one kissed me.
And next morning when Della carried up
Mrs. Clements breakfast, her boarder lay
cold and "till upon the pillows.
The first shook over, Della wrote to the
lawyer Of whom she had heard Mrs. Glenn
ent speak as having charge of her affairs,
begging h,m to notify that ladA's relatives,
if she had any. In reply Mr.. Wills wrote:
The late Mrs. Gle ment appears to have no
relatives. Some distant cousins, who have
an abundance of this worlds goods, yet
served her slabbily when she tested their
generosity as she has tried yours, are all
that remain of her family. In the mean
time enclose you a copv of her last will
and testament, to peruse at your leisure"
''What interest does he think take in
Mrs. Clements will" thought Della; but
she read nevertheless:
Being of sound mind that the 10th day of
June, 18-, L, Della Rogerson Clement, do
hereby leave one hundred dollars to each
of my cousins; and I bequeath the residue
of my property, viz. thirty thousand dol
lars in Ingot mining company, fifty thou
sand in United States bonds, twenty thous-
sand in the Fortune Flannel mills, and my
jewels, to the beloved niece of my first hus-
band, John Rogerson, Della Rogerson of
Croftsborough, Maine.
For vas stranger and ye took me in;
hungry, and ye fed me; sick and ye minis
tered unto me"
Goodness alive! cried the neighbors,
when the fact reached their ears. what
profitable thing it is to take boarders.
Everybody in town will be trying it. OF
course Steve Langdon will come and marry
her. il she were forty old maids. You may
stick pin there!'
Della did not open her house to boarders
the next season. She found enough to 10
in looking after her money and spending
it: in replying to letters from indignant
people. who seemed to increase alarmingly;
in receiving old friends, who suddenly
found time to remember her existence.
And sure enough, among the rest appeared
Steve Langdon. and all the village said: Il
told you so."
"It's not my fault that sou and are sin
gle yet, Della, >" he said.
"And we are too old to think of it now,
Steve"
Nonsense! It's never too late to mend.
I'm not rich, Della, but I've enough for
two and to spare"
Il wouldn't be contented to drive in my
laughed Della.
Indeed! Then perhaps you have bet
ter match in view. CAPTAIN Seymour asked
me, by the way if I came to interfere with
Squire Jones' interest"
''Yes. Squile Jones proposed to me last
week."
Nov, see here, Della. Have come all
the way from. Melbourne on fools errand?
There was growing used to my misery and
loneliness, when the mail brings in a letter
in q strange hand, which tells me that MY
dear love, Della Rogerson, loves and dreams
of me still, is poor and alone, and needs
And the letter is signed by her
aunt, Mrs. Clement, who ought to know.
1 packed my household goods and came"
I'm glad that you did,"
In order that may congratulate Squire
Jones?"
But I haven't accepted him. In fact,
I've refused dhim-because-"
Because you will marry your old love,
like the lass in the song, Della.
In Croftsborough people are not yettired
Of telling how woman made money by
taking boarders.