New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-06-15


haps you take winter boarders ut re.
duced rates. Eli %
':Do you think my terms high?''
by no means. But when ones purse
is low
eyes, know. Do stay at your price.
can't spare you.'' She had grown such
fondness for the cd lady that to re-
fuse her at her own terms would have
seemed like turning her own mother
out of doors; beside, one month more
would not signify. But she found it
hard to make boil, ends meet, anil often
went to bed hungry, that her mother
and Mrs. Clement might enjoy enough,
without there appearing to be ''just q
pattern" At Christmas, however, came
ray of sunshine for Della, in the shape
of hundred dollar hill from an un-
known friend. 1T can't be meant for
me-" she cried.
'tIcs directed to Della Rogerson,
said her mother; s'and there's nobody
else of that name, now that your aunt
Dclia's dead"
"Wo are not sure she's Dead" OBJ
jected Della.
Horrors! Don't you know whether
your oW n aunt is dead or alive?' asked
Mrs. Clement, in q shocked tone.
1T isn't our fault. She is rich and
lives abroad. I was named for her. I
used to look in the glass and try to be-
lieve I'd inherit her beauty with the
name, though she was only our great
uncle's wife,
"She ought to be doing something
for you.''
Chow can she, if she's dead? don't
blame her, any way. Her money is! her
own, to use according to her pleasure.
Uncle John made it himself and gave it
to her."
''But if she should come back to YOU,
having run through with it, you'd divide
your last crust with her, I'll be bound. y
Il suppose I should" said Della.
The winter wore away, as winters
will, and the miracles of spring began
in fields and wayside; and Della
boarders returned with the June roses,
and dropped away again with the fall
ing leaves, and still Mrs. Clement STAYED
on and on. just now she had been
some weeks in arrears with her reduced
board. No money had been forthcom-
ing for some time, and she was growing
more feeble daily, needed the luxurieS
of an invalid and the attentions of q
nurse, both of which Della bestowed up-
on her, without taking thought for the
morrow.
II must hear from my man of bust
ness tomorrow, Della. I'm knee-deep
in debt to you," she began one night.
''Don't mention it!' cried Della.
I'D rather never see cent of it than
have you take it to heart. You are vel
come to stay and share pot-luck with
us; you are such company for mother
and me-"
''Thank you, my 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 another stick on the fire, please.
1t grows chilly, doesn't itP You might
kiss me just once, if you wouldn't mind.
It's hundred years or so since any one
kissed me-"
And the next morning, when Della
carried up Mrs. Clements breakfast, her
boarder lay cold and still upon the pill
lows.
The first shock over, Della wrote di-
rcctly to the lawyer of whom she had
heard Mrs. Clement speak as having
charge of her affairs, begging him to
notify that lady's relatives, if She had
any.
In reply, Mr.. Wills wrote: .'The late
Mrs. Clement appears to have no near
relative. Some distant cousins, who,
having an abundance of this world .
goods, yet served her shabbily when she
tested their generosity, as she has tried
yours, are all that remain of her family.
In the meantime enclose you copy of
her last will and testament, to peruse at
your leisure"
'What interest does he think I take
in Mrs. Clement s WILL" thought Della;
but read, nevertheless:
''Being of sound mind, this 10th day
of June, 49,, I, Della RogersonC Clement.
do hereby leave one hundred dollars to
each of my cousins; and l bequeath the
residue of my property-viz. thirty
thousand dollars invested in the Ingot
Mining Company, fifty thousand dollars
in United States bonds, twenty thousand
in Fortune Flannel Mills, and my jew
els. to the beloved niece of my first
husband, John Rogerson.
DELLA RoGERsoN,
Of Croffsboyo,4gh, Maine"
"'For was stranger, and yet took
me in; hungry, and ye fed me; sick, and
ye ministcred 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 Eangdon will come home
and marry her If she were forty old
maids. You may stick a pin in therer'
Della did not open her house to board.
ers the next season. She found enough
to do in looking after money and spend.
ing it; in replying to letters from indi-
gent 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 Lang
don, and all the village said: II told
you So"
''1t's not my fault that you and I are
single yet, Della" he said.
t'And we are too old to think of q
change now, Steve"
nonsense! It's never too late to
mend. I'm not rich, Della, but I've
enough for two and to spare"
II wouldn't be contented not to drive
in my carriage and have servants under
me now laughed Della.
Indeed? Then, perhaps, you have 4
better match in view. Capt. Seymour
asked me, by the way, If I had come "a
interfere with Squire Jones' interest"
Eyes! Squire Jones proposed to me
last week."
CHOW, see here, Della. Have come
all the way from Melbourne on . fools
errandP There was growing used "a
my misery and loneliness. when the
mail brings me in 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 me
me! And the letter is signed by he,
aunt, Mrs. Clement, who ought to know.
packed my household goods and
came
ssI'm clad You did,