South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-06-10

anu De KIM anu useIui generally, for
five dollars o week. / told SQUIRE
Carizal you was just the one they was
lookin' for. Not a servant, you un-
derstand, Annie, but kind of COM
panion like
Annie sat down, little bewildered.
Squire Carizal! That magnificent
mansion that was the wonder of the
neighborhood! Five dollars a week
scarcely anything to do 1t was like
n fairy dream-surely too good to be
true.
But / don't believe Mr.. Carizal
would be satisfied with me- she said
anxiously.
You go sec him after you get your
dishes done up-while lam talking to
Miss Silence
We'll, just one week from that very
minute, Annie Morton entered upon
her duties at Carizal Place. The
matter had been speedily arranged !;
Mrs. Carizal had been to Gee Miss ST.
lence, and that lady had been couvin-
ced that it would be great honor
for her niece to live Mt the house on
the hill. So Miss Silence had installed
q buxom young country lass in An
MES place, and Annie, up at Carizal's'
began to realize that life was only Just
beginning for her. She adapted her
self to her position wonderfully quick.
and unconsciously received the i'm
press of the Carizal's beautiful, re.
fined, quiet life. Her voice grew
lower and softer, her manner more
elegant and gracious, and by the time
December came in, glittcring and
shining with icicle and frost, Annie
had begun to dread the time when
the Carizals would no longer require
her services, for early in the new year
the family were going to Florida, and,
OF course, they would not need her
then; indeed, Mrs. Carizal had sew
erai times spoken Of the elderly lady
who was to accompany her as her
maid and attendant.
1t is Arthur's own arrangement
che told Annie one cold, bright night,
when everything was in readiness for
Arthur Carlzal's return from the city
"A time of day to which Annie looked
forward from the moment she awaken
cd III the morning until Mr.. Carizal
came-gravc, handsome, 80 kind, 80
entertaining. A grand young fellow,
who aiored his mother and was good
natured and quiet, politencss itself to
Annie Morton, who many time
wished she had just such brother,
Just such mother, Just such home
Somehow, of late, Annie had ceased
to regard tho garnet cashmere dress
M the height of her ambition. Some
how she thought much less of the dress
than ever. Arthur Carizal WAS As
courteous and kind to her in Plain at.
tire lib II She had been princess in
crmine and velvet Yes, he had once
or twice asked her to walk with him
in the despiscd alpaca dress and the
plain little roughed jacket and simple
black felt Derby, with = red wing in
1t, and in her innocent heart Annie
Morton did not dream how sweet and
fresh and bright she had looked, or
that Arthur Carizal had told his
mother what sensible, refined,
charming girl she was. But the days
went by, and the first of the new year
came, and with it the money that An
lie had earLed-S35-enought to have
bought two or three cashmere dress.
es, but the ardent desire for it was
gone. or course, she would get her
II pretty, suitable dress, but because
1t was necessary, and not because it
was the great object of her life TO pos
sessit. 1t was glorious day-almost
balmy, so powerful was the southern
breeze-that Mrs. Carizal handed
Annie her weekly installment toward
the $35 and with it kindly word.
Take an hour or two, dear, and
let John drive you TO the village to
make your purchases. You may not
have so fine day in long while
again. 1t Is Florida weather almost
exactly, SO far as the moist balminess
is concerned
Florida weather! Somehow "a
Annie leaned back i'm the Cariznl car
rage the hot tears stole to her eye.
lids "a she thought that 40 soon every
body she cared for would be enjoy.
ing Florida weather, while she would
be back among the pots and pans in
Aunt Silence's kitchen. The pros
poet was loathful to contemplate, AZ
ter the lovely 'elimpscs through she
had enjoyed, and then a wicked little
feeling of rebellion occurred 20 her
because the Carizals bad decided 10
take the elderly lady with them Mrs.
Oscar, who was TO come that very
day to DO initiated into her duties
/ Why couldn't they have taken her +
And Annie had to wink very hard %
/ force back the tears as the carriage
| drove up to Ferret & Fox's, aud she
bad to get out and buy her dress. a
number of times since her stay with
the CarizaIs she had come in the car
riage on orrands, so that il was no