McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-09-13

brought. The locket slips from man.
mas lap, where Miss Carlotta has laid
it, and falls on the rug.
Trotty is about to follow the others,
when the glistening bitsof gold attracts
her attention. The opportunity is too
tempting for Trotty to resist. She feels
that she must see the mysterious
erred" who looks like her, and who is
coming home in the still more mys-
FERROUS ship.
"Come right along, yemima," she
says, taking her long suffering doll by
the arm and starting for the fireplace.
Jemima, sympathetic as usual in her
wooden and sawdusty-way, submits pass.
lively to being dragged over the carpet
until she reaches the shearth-rug, where
she falls PROSTATE before the superior
attractions of the locket.
Trotty picks it up, opens it, and sees
a frank, boyish face, with a pair of
laughing blue eyes, very much ike her
own, only she does not know that.
There is nothing at all about the ship
which disappoints her. She had eX-
pected to find something quite different,
though she could not have told what.
She drops the loket, chain and all, into
the wee pocket, and proceeds to pick
up the fallen Jemima. just then nurse
comes in at the door
"Come, Trotty," she says, ''it's bed
time"
So Trotty is taken into the library to
say goodnight to papa and mamma,
and Miss Carlotta, and then walks up
the long stairway alone by herself like a
grown-up lady. Jemima goes too, car
ried by the head.
Nurse sits down by the, nursery fire
and takes Trotty on her lap to brush
out her pretty yellow curls. This is
soon done; the little white night-dress
is put on, ond presently Trotty is safely
tucked in bed.
| But before she has had time to get to
sleep, mammals own maid Anne comes
in to have little chat with nurse. At
first they speak in whispers, which is
rather foolish Trotty thinks, as she
watches them lazily. She does not pay
much attention, and is just about falling
asleep wnen she hears nurse say "Her
Uncle Fred"
She is wide awake in an instant.
"YOu know l never heard the whole
of that story" says Anne. 'Tell me
about it, won't you?'
Then, to Trotty's great joy, nurse
tells Anne how, long ago, grandpa's
pride and delight had been in his hand
some boy. But though he loved him SO
dearly, he was very stern to him some
times, too; and one day when grandpa
had punished him very severely for
some slight fault, the boys proud spirit
had rebelled against it.
"And,'' continues nurse, sinking her
voice little, che just ran away, and
we never heard a word of him since"
''Dear mel" says Anne.
"Dear mel" repeats Trotty under the
pink curtains.
"The poor old man," says nurse,
widing her eyes, 'his hearts most bro
ken"
''Maybe he would come, back yet,"
says Anne, in her funny Irish way.
ssMaybe he would,n replies nurse,
rather doubtfully.
Trotty, listening attentively, can not |
quite understand all they are saying.
She only understands that the hand
some boy who looked like her ran away
years ago, and that grandpa has been
very sad ever since. . ~
"But then," thinks Trotty, triumph
antly, ssmamma said he was coming
home in her ship l wonder if nurse
members thatp'
She listens once more to what nurse
and Anne are saying. But they are
,alking of other things now. Presently
he white eyelids fall gradually over the
pretty blue eyes, shutting out the rose
,olored curtains, the baby brother by
he fire, the Pickering light on the cell
Trotty is fast asleep.
When the morning comes, the sun is
inning, oh, so brig htly! The minute
Nurse has finished dressing her, Trotty
,oes carefully down the stairs, and runs
tut upon the broad piazza. How fresh
md green everything looks after the
ain! Over the gate at the end of the
,arden-walk she can see the blue ocean,
With myriads of little waves dancing in
he morning sunshine. She runs down
he walk quite close to the water. There
5 beautiful great wave rolling in to-
yard the sand. Trotty looks at it adj
niringly.
The wave breaks into long line of
7hite foBm, and runs back again, leav- I
ne a curious-looking star-fish lying on
he sand.
Then she suddenly remembers what ;
he heard the nurse say last night about t
Jncle Fred, and new idea comes into {
er mind. eff could only get the gate
pen, 1 would go and look for him. 1
1aybe could find him." she thinks. (,