The Red Cloud chief., 1881-09-01

be- must advance ideas that SHOCK an,
wound US. lmaginc"-turnjno to bo-
prother Roland, who lay on ia. onIr
lounge IN The room, complacpn.lv rc
Sarotng himself in the mirror on ,I,o
opposite wall that impertincnt NJ
Dra0sneH coming here this morniSr,
Win me air OF doing a kindness TOO -
ouer me aposition in her academym
'reat ~heavens!' exclaimed Roland
70 his feet-and The cause
must De q mighty one that brine. Ro-
iand = his feet. Zone OF my 8 s,er. a
teacher! Great h~eayensrn and be went,
stamping about the room in the nov
suit u clothes aunt had just paid for
Dy parting with her handsome pearl
ring. ~
Whatever is done, IRE a do no.h.
ing" sobbed Ethel.
"Of course not" REPLIED Roland
grandly; 1.-THE women OF u family new
thought TO myself, Nor the men
neither. except poor OLD uncle, who Is
Tagging at a desk from morning until
night"
but our income must be increased"
said Alethea, looking up from her nov
ell, and joining in the conversation for
the first time. Alethea was our eldest,
and still wore her hair in the fashion of
her youth, a loose curl dangling over
each cheek-bone. being fully persuaded
that no other fashion was half so grace.
ful or becoming,
discharge the chambermaid,n pro-
posed Ethel, land let Dorothea (i am
DorO,hea) do her work. 1t is about
all she is fit for. She never had a bit of
line feeling or style abou. her."
mo, she never had; she always
Uoutd bite her bread" sighed nv aunt.
land she has seemed sadly out of place
among my children. She comes of a
working race, and her ideas and tastes
all smack of trate-trade trade" |
discovered in a'tcr-years that nv aunt's
grandmother on the maternal side made
a fortune out of tobacco.
But discharging the chamber-ma
won't help very much." said Alelhea.
"ltwill not" agreed Roland. What
is saved thereby will no more than find
me in the little extras no society man
L do without"
Dear! dearr" aunt took up the bur-
den again, "could | have foreseen that
your father would have come down in
this way, | never would have married
him. really don't know what is to be
done, unless we emigrate to some ouu
try place where We are unkno~n, and
where il don't matter how we live
The country" screamed her chill
dren, in chorus. Better death at
once"
l cant imagine where I got the cour-
age to do SO after my late sharp rcbuff.,
but At this moment | blurted out some
thing that had been in nv mind for sew
eral weeks: "Why could not Alethea
and Ethel room together, and Alethea's
room, which is the plcasantest in the
house. be let TO a lodger?-one who
would
But here | paused abruptly. Alethea
had tainted in the arms Of nv aunt,
who, CHANGING at me over tho top of her
eldest daughters head, commanded me
in her deepest tone taunt has rather a
bass voice) to leave tho room in
stantly."
But in 4 short time, during which
things had been getting worse, and
we had been reduced TO rice buildings
for dessert on weekdays and apple
tarts IN Sundays, | was allowed to pre-
pare an advertisement for the mornings
paper, in which was offered to IAN
elderly gentleman, who must have ex-
cellcnt references, n fine room i'm the
house of n family of refinement, who
had never before taken 4 lodgcr, for
the privilege of occupying which he
would be expected to pay a liberal
equivalent"
1 disapproved highly of the wording
of this call for help, but my aunt and
cousins insisted upon its being couched
in these very terms, and so | was COM
PEELED TO yield. inwardIy convinced that
it would bring no reply.
But it did. The very afternoon of
the morning it appeared, a carriage
with n trunk strapped on behind drove
up to our door. An old gentleman got
out, hobbled up u steps, and rang our
door-bell.
lyon must see him, Dorothea," said
my aunt, leaving the pa-lor, followed by
a train of her children. ..lt is voar AT
fair altogether. l will have nothing to
do with it,"
We none of us will have anything
TO do with it," chimed in my cousins.
.'He were not born with the souls of
clearinghouse Keepers" ard away they
sailed as | opened the door to the sec
ond-a little louder than the first-ring
of the caller.
He was a short, slightly-formed old
gentleman. with big. bright. back eyes,
bushy white eyebrows, and a long,
white mustache and beard.
You have q room to let" he
asked.
81 have" l answered, ushering him
into the parlor, where he glanced keen
ly around, and then as keenly into nv
face, while he announced in q decisive
tone:
IL have come to take it. NV lug
rape is at the door. BE SO kind as TO
tell me where to directthe man to carry
it."
..But"-I began, in a h~esitating way.
utterly confused by the strangers
brusque, not to say high-handed, man
ner.
".But me no buts,'" quoted the old
| gentleman. 81 am AmoS Griffin. late
" from England. where l have been
living for the last twenty years. Since
| landed in New York. q month ago to.
day. l have been boarding at the st.
Nicholas. Blu: where's your motherg"
[ fastened to assure him that L was
empowered to negotiate with him.
.:Ah. indeed! Well, then, I'll go on,
though it strikes me that you are rather
Young for the business. You have
never taken a ledger before l am
glad of it, for reasons which it is not
necessary to explain. You want a
liberal equivalent for Your fine room:
1 am prepared to give it. That leaves
only one thing 70 be arranged. should
like my breakfast at eight precisely ev-
cry morning"
but we did not propose to give
breakfast"
81 know you didn't; but III give YOU
another liberal equivalent for 1t. You