Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-11-16

| you should prefer to purchase mirror
| yourself in place of the one broken by
you, we will consent to receive it provid
ed it is in every way as good as that left
us by our grandmother. And in that
case we will agree to refund the eight,
dollars, your last months wages, which
we have retained as the first installment
than could have been expected of us"
"Oh, yes, indeed, very much more
than could have been expected of us"
murmured Miss Georgette.
For such gross carelessness-" Miss
| Cameron went on.
Indeed, ma'am," interrupted Molly,
her cheeks flaming and her eyes spark
ling, 'as have told you I never touched
it. l wasn't even near it. was sweep
ing the other side of the parlor when it
fell, and the cord it hung by was all moth.
eaten and had parted just in the middle,
as l showed you at the time"
Should be punished" continued
Miss Cameron, not paying the slightest
more. Please to remember that we
have your signature to an acknowledge
ment that you consider yourself respon-
sible for the breakage."
| "Gou frightened me so that scarcely
knew what l was signing" said Molly.
"But as have promised, will pay you,
for it shall never be said that my fathers
| daughter broke her word. I'd give ySu
the few dollars have saved if had not
to keep them for my own support until
l get another place. Poor Aunt Nanny
can only give me shelter. for, as you
know, she had depended almost entirely
on me for food and clothes ever since
my father died,"S
"Ies, and a very ridiculous thing for
both Of you," snapped Miss Cameron,
with cold snap. ''She might much bet
ter sell the hut she lives in for kindling-
wood, and go to the poor-house, and
you might much better save Your wages
to pay for the things you break. For
| break you will to the end of. your days
l never saw person with such ty-away
hair as yours that was not vain, careless
and frivolous. You may CO."
Yes, indeed, you may co." added
Miss Georgette.
And the poor child went out into the
road, homeless and almost friendless,
with a shadow on her fair young face and
a pain in her young heart. But she had
only turned into the long lane that led to
old Nanny's cottage, when some one
came quickly 10 her side and said, in a
kindly voice: "Molly! poor little Mollyr'
andithere was Mr.. Malcolm. And Molly,
in her grief, thinking only of him as the
friend of her childhood, who had known
her as the darling of the kindest of ia
theirs, flung her bundle down and brust
into passionate flood of tears
''They were hard on me, your sisters,
Mr.. Malcom.' she sobbed-"very hard
on me. did my best for them. l.
worked-and 1 am not very strong
though l am a blacksmith's daughter
from morning till night and yet l could
not please them. And it was not my
fault about the mirror. It was motif
was motif was not. Though Miss
Cameron insists that stopped sweeping
to look at my curly hair-I can't help its
curling; 1 did everything to make it
straight; tied it back so tight, over and
over again that my head ached awful
and knocked it with the broom. She
was little better before you came, but
after you came, and complained so much
about the tea and the coffee, and your
shirts, and and everything"
Il complaint" exclaimed her listener,
breaking in upon her rather confused
narration of her wrongs. "Why new
er complained of anything. How could
l? There was nothing to be complained
off, eo;a -, j., .so,
Gil lllC
ence between the candy-and- kisses time
and the present. "She is your sister,
and-my troubles are nothing to you"
''She is my sister an extremely long
step off," he replied, gravely, land
your troubles are a great deal to me;
and furthermore, l think see a way-a
pleasant way out of them. Let me walk
with you to your Aunt Nanny's, and
there, with her to advise US, we'll talk
matters over"
"Oh, it's such a poor place Mr.. NAL
colin! Miss Cameron called it a hut, and
said it was only fit for kindling wood"
GIVE been in much poorer places,
Molly" said he, and picking up her
bundle, he walked by her side to the
old woman's cottage.
Two weeks passed by. A poor drudge
from the workhouse, whose chief, Gin
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| arrival.
'sHe must be coming; think I hear
wheels" said the elder, in her usual
precise tones.
"Wheels," repeated the sister.
And "wheels" they were, out not the
wheels of carriage but those of truck,
and this truck, on which lay a long
wooden box, stopped before the cot
tage door.
"a mirror for Miss Cameron" the
driver called out as he jumped down.
ga mirror!" repeated the spinster, I'M
able to restrain gesture of surprise.
And "a ,mirror!" said Miss Georgette,
with another gesture of surprise.
eyes, ma'am, from Wizards, New
York. Where is it to be taken" -7
First unpack it out here" command
ed the lady, recovering her self-posses-
sion. 81 can't have the house Uttered
"No, indeed" chime in Miss Geor-
gette, also recovering her self-possession.
"Splinters and shavingsp'
So the box was unpacked at the road
side, and the mirror taken from it
proved to be better and handsomer in
every respect than it had been sent to
replace. :. -, !,
said the man, as he carried it into the
house, $50 there'll be no danger from
moths this time"
s.Moths?" said Miss Cameron, glarine
at him: And "Mothsw echoed her sis.
ter, also glaring. And they both con
tinued to glare, as though called upon to
superintend piece of work highly re-
pugnant to their feelings, until the mir
ror was hung, and the driveragain in his
place on the truck
"Of course, George sent it," said Miss
Cameron, when the man had driver
away. s'But Mary Brown must pay fol
the other all the same. Our having this