News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-21

wants girl p pursued the city cousin.
Mrs. Torrance set the coffee pot on
the table, blew the horn for Job, and
then responded to her niece's query by
counter question
"Why don't you stay here9"
Because" said Emily, with spirit,
"I want to earn my own living"
swell, you can earn it here, can't
you? I was calculating to hire girl
this spring. And if you'll work honest
ly for it, I'll give you the six dollars
month I was going to pay hired help"
Emlly's pale face frightened.
"Should like that" said she. And
then Job came in, tall, handsome and
flushed, his curls yet wet from the
spring into which he had dipped them,
and sprig of trailing arbutus pinned
into the coat, and spoke frank welcome
to this young girl whom he had never be-
fore seen.
$50 cousin Shadrach Seely is dead,
he said.
eyes," said Emily, quietly.
"Did you like him p
"No," confessed the girl. "He was
cross and surly, and had no sympathy
with anybody. But tried to be kind
to him. And he kissed me once before
he died, and said had been ''good
girl"
"And then went and left his money to
the Refuge for Baptist Widows and
Orphans p said Mrs. Torrance. ''That's
Cousin Shadrach all over"
"He had right to do as he pleased
with his money" said Emily, a faint
glow rising to her cheeks.
"Well, it's all over and gone," said
Mrs. Torrance. "There's no use talk
ing about it now"
And she sighed softly to think how
many of hfe's hard angels might have
been avoided in the future, il only
Cousin Shadrach had been less inter-
ested in the Baptist Widows and Or
phans.
At the end of month, Mrs. Torrance
was forced to knowledge that Emily
had well earned her six dollars a month
and board. The girl certainly had about
her that wonderful magnetic power,
which philosophers dub Executive
ability, and New England housekeepers
call faculty" She was natural cook
she did things without seeming to
take any trouble at all.
81 don't understand It," said Mrs.
Torrance. "A little, dark, slim thing
that was always brought up to sit with
her hands folded.
And one sultry day in July when Job
and Emily came in from strawberrying,
with crimsoned fingers, laughing faces,
and baskets heaped high with the fra
grant fruit, Mrs. Torrance started in
the solitude of the dairy where she was
making cottage cheese"
81 declare" she cried. 81 wonder I
never thought of that before. Oh, dear
oh, dear never can consent to it in
the living world"
Job came to her that same evening.
'Mother," said he, emily has prom
ised to be my wife,"
Mrs. Torrance burst into tears.
you're only six-and twenty years
old, Job," she faltered.
"Just two years older than when my
father married you, mother. Now don't
turn your face away; but tell me plain
ly-have you any fault to find with my
choice 2"
"No-no," confessed Mrs. Torrance.
''Do you think could possibly win
sweeter girl than Emily Alden p
''No, 1 don't suppose you could" an
swered the mother-in-law elect; "but
it's natural, Job, to feel little jealous
when you see some one else taking the
first place in your child's heart"
But when Job brought Emily in to
receive her kiss of greeting Mrs. Tor
rance had sufficiently conquered herself
to bid her new daughter welcome.
"Though Is'poged, Emily" said she.
little bitterly, ''you looked higher
than farmer once"
81 never looked higher than one of
natures noblemen," said Emily with a
smile that fairly won the old lady
heart.
That same evening as they all sat to-
gether in the orange twilight, with the
scent of tall white air, Emily suddenly
broke the silence.
Sob" said she, "would you like to
be rich ?"
"Wen, yes" said Job, 'I'd like
money enough to keep my wife in lux
ury."
"Would you, Aunt Dorcas ?" said
Emily, turning to Mrs. Torrance.
"Of course 1 should" said that ma
troD, vigorously plying her knitting
needles "but don't ever expect it,"
But you arelich," said Emily, with
little tremor in her voice. "Job is
rich-we are all rich together with Cou-
sin Shadrach Seely's money"
But" cried Mrs. Torrance, "I
thought he left it all to the Baptist
Widows ond Orphans"
"Not all, said Emily, "It's secret
but may tell you now. Half was left
to the Refuge-the other thirty thou
sand is mine, to be paid over to me on
the day on which marry a man who,
ignorant of Cousin Shadrach's bequest,
has loved me Loyalty and well. 1t was
the old mans within, and 1 have respected
it. Oh, Aunt Dorcas, came to you
because in loneliness and bewilderment |
L knew not where else to go-but little
dreamed that L was entering directly
into the kingdom of noble heart"
1t was true, Shadrach Seeley, eccentric |
in life, had been equally eccentric in his
death-and when Mr.. Mustybid, the
lawyer, paid over the legacy, he said |
chuckling:
'1t's all right It's exactly as my
poor client would have it congratu-
late you, Mrs. Job Torrance"
And Mrs. Torrance, the elder, had
higher opinion than ever of her daugh-
ter-in-law's attractions, now that they
were set in background of gold.