Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-28

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| Miss Fox colnred and bit her lip.
| Madame Molini, with ominously dark
ened face, twitched the two yards and q
half Of silk off the shelf, folded it into q
paper and handed it to Miss Fortescue
muttering something about ga mistake
made by one OF her young women ;" and
the young lady departed, a little dubi-
GUS as to whether or not the fashion
| able dressmaker had intended to cheat
her.
She had hardly closed the door be-
hind her, however, when Madame Mol
mi turned upon poor Flora Fay, with q
scarlet spot glowing in each cheek and
lips closely compressed.
"Young woman" said she, "you are
discharged /"
discharged! /" echoed Flora. "Foz
| what2"
az want no one in my service" said
madame, "who is too conscientious to
fulfill my wishes. You have informed
died unwarrantably in the matter of that
silk, and I repeat that you are no longer
in my employment !"
So poor little Flora went crying home,
with vague comprehension that she
had been discharged because she had
spoken out the truth.
It was nearly fortnight afterward
that Capt. Drake noticed the absence of
| Miss Fay from the table at the board
ing-house.
''Is your little blue-eyed ledger i'll,
Mrs. Dodds ?" he asked. 'I don't think
I have seen her of late"
"No, she's not i'll" said the landlady.
"That is to say not exactly sick. But
she will be If she don't look out. She's
boarding herself, Capt. Drake, on bread
and crackers, and such like, poor dear |!
and wasting away like little shadow,
because she's lost her situation at that
dressmaking place, and don't see her
way clear to another. And she won't
run in debt, she says, not even for a
meal of victuals. All Z" the good woman
added, 81 can remember when she was
the pet and darling Of the old folks at
home, before they lost their all, running
about among the daisies and buttercups
like sunbeam"
"But how did she come to lose her
place ?" asked Capt. Drake.
And Mrs. Dodds, who liked to hear
the sound Of her own voice, told the
whole story.
"It's shame" cried the Captain.
"Just what I say myself" nodded the
landlady.
And the next day, Miss Fortescue
(who was Mrs. Arkwright now, came
to see Flora Fay.
"It was all my fault" said she, with
affectionate vehemence, "that you lost
your situation land oh, if you would
only come and stay with me, and help
me with the sewing for my new house, I
should esteem it such o favor. Would
you, please?"
care you qasite sure that I can make
myself useful?" said Flora, little hest
tatingly.
"Yes, quite, said Mrs. Arkwright.
And, in the sunny atmosphere OF the
brides pretty homo, the young country
girl seemed to expand into different
creature. Capt. Drake, the most do
| voted brother in the world, came there
nearly every day and little Flora, all
unconscious of her own feelings, began
to watch for his daily visit as hello
trope blossom watches the sun.
Until, at last, there was talk of anoth-
er long voyage to Japan, and then Flora
grew pale and nervous again.
ell have been here long enough, !"
she said. eff I go to the Exchange
Bureau they will probably tell me of
new situation. And [ need change"
But Capt. Drake went straight to the
root of the matter.
"Flora," said he, care you unwilling
that I should sail to Jeddo %
| 81 always had a horror of the sea-"
whispered Flora, hanging down her
pretty head. "But, of course, Capt.
Drake, you must do as you please"
eyes, of course" he answered, alb
sently, and when he had gone Flora
sted few quiet tears over the table
linen she was hemming for Mrs. Ark
wright.
elbow bold and unmaidenly it is of
me" she thought, "to let myself care
for man who does not think twice of
me! If he had cared one iota for me
would he not have said so then? %
But the next evening at dusk Capt.
Drake sauntered in with that swinging
gait of his, as if he were still treading
the deck of an outward bound vessel.
"Don't run away, Flora,'' said he, as
the girl caught up her work and pre-
pared for precipitate retreat.
| "Did-did you want to speak to me?"
she faltered with downcast eyes.
"Don't always want to speak to you?
Sit down, Flora" said he, "and hear
what I've been planning
CHOW it is coming" thought Flora,
with a sick feeling at her heart. "Hei is
going to be married, and he is coming
to tell me SC"
CT have decided to give up the sea-
faring business" said Capt. Drake.
"Have you ?" futtered Flora family.
"I am SO glad!"
"And I've bought farm in Connect
icut," he went on-"the old Berkshire
farm, Flora, where you were born and
brought up. I'm going to be farmer"
She looked at HIM, the rose and lily
following each other across her cheeks.
"Oh!" she cried, involuntarily. eff I
could only see the dear old place once
more"
"But I won't go there to ive," said
the Captain, determinedly, "unless
you'll go there with me, Flora, as the
farmers wife 1! What do you think of
it, little girl? Shall it be partner
ship"