Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-16

ing OF 'expedlency' and 'appropriate-
ness for do so much want somebody
to love and care for; and I've a sort of
premonition that this little fellow
will be nice, rosy and lovable. Think
I'll teach him to call me .Aunty.'"
Exactly week subsequently a prim.
legal note was received from Messrs.
Alias and Corpus, the deceased lady's
executors, stating that 'they saw no
valid objection to Miss Penro;'s very
laudable projects, and that in accord
ance thereto the child of the late Mrs.
Marchmont would arrive at Miss Pen
roy's residence on the following Satur-
day"
Saturday, and this is Friday" ejacu-
lated Blanche, with the new brightness
dancing in her hazel eyes. sOh. how
glad 1 shall bel Sanderson, tell Mrs.
Brown to have the blue-room fitted IN
Immediately for Master Marchment.
and you had better go yourself to the
station with the carriage at five o'clock
tomorrow afternoon to meet him"
eyes, ma'am," said Sanderson. stolid-
ly.
The apparition of a great. unruly
boy, tramping with muddy boots on
the velvet carpets, and disturbing the
house with balls. marbles and halloos.
did not posses the charm in Sanjerson's
eyes that it seemed to have in the ewes
of his mistress. And even patient Mrs.
Brown remarked with a species of ex-
ASPIRATIONS that "she didn't see what
put this freak into Miss Blanche's
head"
Saturday was day of hail and tenn
pest, and softly falling snow, and by 5
o'clock the drawing rooms were lighted.
and the crimson silk curtains closely
drawn, to exclude the stormy darkness
without.
Six times within the last fifteen
minutes had Blanche Penroy looked at
her watch, as she stood by the fire
waiting to hear the returning carriage
wheels.
She was dressed in a rich China-blue
silk dress. with pearl pin and ear-drops,
and a little point lace at her throat and
wrists, and tbs color in her cheek, and
the golden tinge in her bright hair
made her, unconsciously, very fair to
look upon.
"Oh, hope-IhOpe he will like me, "
thought Blanche, with that distinctive
yearning for love that enters every wo
mans heart, as the door opened.
Heres the young gentleman. miss,
said SandersOn, with half-suppresSed
sound, between a laugh and snort.
But instead of child of seven or
eight years old, a tall apparatiOn stalk
ed in, something over six feet high,
with black mOustache and merry
hazel eyes brimming over with mirth.
For an instant Blanche stared at him,
as if she could scarcely credit the evil
dence of her own senses.
"Gilbertp'
Exactly. You wanted to adopt me,
and here 1 am
mo, but Gilbert"
Eyes, but Blanche"
"You are not Mrs. Marchmonts
sonp'
II am-by her first marriage. And
although am by no means the penni-
less infant you seemed to suppose, as
all my fathers wealth comes to me,
am quite willing to be adopted-par-
ticularly as you are not married to
alter Birmingham"
Blanche struggled with tears and
laughter, uncertain which would best
express her feelings, but Gilbert Ev-
erlng drew her tenderly toward him.
off you adopt me, dearest, it must be
for life. Nay, do not hesitate-our
happiness has been already too much
at the mercy of trifes. You will not
retract your offer?"
swell, after ALL" said Blanche de-
murely, "all wanted was somebody
to love and care for, and"
"And L shall do very well in that
capacity, eh?"
And Sanderson, who had been listen
ing earnestly at the door, crept down
stairs to inform Mrs. Brown that "they
were going to have new master ~
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