Daily Republican., 1882-07-06

| responded TO her nleces query Dy q
counter question.
"Why don't you stay here"
Because, said Emily with spirit, ~
want to earn my own living"
"Well you can earn 1t here, can't
your"
81 was calculating to hire a girl this
spring and if you'll work honestly for
it, will give you the $6 mouth that
l was going to pay hired help"
Emily's face frightened.
81 should like that" said she.
job then came in, tall, handsome,
flushed, his curls still wet from the
spring into which he had dipped them
and sprig of trailing arbutus pinned
into his coat, and spoke frank well
come to the girl whom he had never be.
fore seen.
$50 cousin shadrach Seeley is dead"
he said.
eyes," said Emily.
"Did you like him."
"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 a good
girl"
Sand then he went and left his money
to the refuge of Baptist widows and
orphans |" said Mrs. Torrance. THAT'S
Cousin Shadrach all over"
"He had d right to do as he pleased
with his mouey, said Emily, a faint
glow rising to her cheeks.
swell, its all over and gone" said
Mrs. Torrance. "There's no use talk.
ing about 1t now"
And she sighed softly to think of
how many OF life's hard angles might
have been avoided in the future, If only
Cousin Shadrach had been less interest.
ed in the Baptist widows and orphans.
At the end OF month, Mrs. Torrance
was forced to acknowledge that Emily
had well earned her six dollars month
and board. The girl certainly had
about her that wonderful magnetic
power which philosophers dub "execu-
tive ability" and New England house
keepers call faculty" She was nat
ural cook-she did things without seem.
ing to take any trouble at all.
II don't understand it," said Mrs.
Torrance.
"a little dark, slim thing that was
always brought mp to sit with her
hands folded"
And one day In July when Job and
Emily came in from strawberrying.
with crimsoned fingers, laugl ing 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.
II DECLARE" she cried, II wonder l
had never thought of that before. Oh,
dear Oh, dear 1 never can consent
to it in the living world"
Job came to her that evening.
"Mother," said he, Emily has pro-
missed 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
plainly-have you any fault to find
with my choioe?"
"No-no," confessed Mrs. Torrance.
"Do you think could win sweeter
girl than Emily Alden?'
"No, don't suppose you could, an.
swered the mother.in-law elect; "but
its natOral, Job, to feel 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 her.
self to bid her new daughter welcome.
Though I s'posed, Emily" said she
little bitterly, "you looked higher
than a farmer once"
~ never looked higher than one Of
natures noblemeD," said Emily, with
smile that fairly won the old lady's
heart.
That same evening as they sat to-
Gether in the orange twilight, with the
scent of tall, white lilies in the air,
Emily suddenly broke the silence.
"Job," said she "would you like to be
rich?"
"Well, yes" said Job, ard like
money enough to keep my wife in lux
ury."
"Would you, Aunt Dorcas?" said
Emily, turning to Mrs. Torrance.
"Of course l should" said the ma
tron, vigorously plying her knitting
kneedles; "but l don't ever expect
it."
"But you are rich," said Emily with
q little tremOr in her voice. Job is
are all rich together, with
Cousin Shadrach S3ely's money"
"But," cried Mrs. Torrance, "I
thought he left it all TO the Baptist
widows and orphans"
"Not ALL" said Emily. cts a Sc
cret. but may tell you now. Half
was left to the refuge-the other thirty
thousand Is mine, to be paid over to me
on the day on which marry man who
ignorant of Cousin Shadrach's bequest
has loved me Loyalty and well: 1t was
the old mans within, and l have re-
spected it. Oh, Aunt Dorcas, came
to you because in my loneliness and
wilderment knew not where to go
but l little dreamed that l was enter
ing directly into the kingdom OF noble
heart.
1t was true. Sbadrach Seely, eccen-
trio in life had been equally eccentric
In death-and when Mr.. Mustybill, |
the lawyer, paid over the legacy, he
said chuckling.
cts all right. Its exactly as my
poor client would have had it! I con-
graduate you, Mrs. Job Torrance.
And Mrs. Torrance, the elder had a
higher opinion than ever of her daugh- |
;er.in-law's attractions, now that they |
IRE set in a background of gold.