The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-09-25
THE UNRULY TONGUE.
A Life Lesson.

Life Lesson.
Look you. Miss Palmer If you
stick yourself in the way again when
Mr.. Allen lie here you'll be likely to
get your walking-papers. Don't fat.
ter yourself with the idea that you
are a necessary fixture here. Because
your father happened to be my fathers
cousin is no reason why you should
put on airs--Don't answer me |!
I only ask you to keep out of nv
way. and especially do you keep out
Of Mr.. Aliens way. There, Go !!
You know waat | mean.
And with this Irene Minturn swept
proudly on her way thereby running
into the arms of her mother, who had
entered the room while she had been
speaking.
Irene Minturn was young lady of
two-and-twenty tall and shapely,-
she loved to fancy herself queenly,-
with face certainly handsome hair
dark and glossy eyes large and full.
with fiery snap in their changeful
lights the other features of statutes
que regularity; the one prominent
characteristic present in every look
and tone being pride.
Her mother was small, meek
faced woman, proud Of her queenly
daughter. and by her governed in
many things.
Lizzie Pa!mer-just now called
Miss Palmer by Irene,-was a blue
eyed, gplden-halred girl of nineteen !;
rather below the medium heigh1 of
woman. but of perfect form light
and graceful with bounding health
and vigor in ever motion and in every
tone. as we'll as in the hearty ring of
her genuine laughter. Her face was
a study. An artist looking for some
special type of beauty for his canvas
If he sought only beauty would
never select her but if he wanted a
face for Il Pandora, thinking more
Of character than of outlined beauty,
or did he seek face that should typi-
fy love. to he loved in return, then be
would nave looked no further.
Lizzie was a sort of Cinderella in
the merchants family. In the other
years, when she Fad been but q child
her father had been Mr.. Minturn's
partner 10 business. They were own
cousiDs-Minturn and Palmer,-and
had entered into business on equal
footing. At the end of dozen years
they had failed, but the failure had
not been at all disgraceful. The fail
ure of Western firms. deeply indebt-
ed to them, had brought them down,
and forced them to make the best
settlement they could. and they had
been able to offer q settlement that
was accepted so that their were once
again free to enter into business 10
their own names.
The shock of the failure, however,
had. proved too much for Thomas
Palmer. Never very strong, the
shame and chagrin on account of the
business collapse had so far worked
upon his sensitive nature that his life
paid the penalty. He passed awav
while the plans for renewal of bust
ness were being discussed. and on his
dying bed he had left one solemn
trust to his friend and partner .
and that was his child, Lizzie, then
ten years of age. His wife had been
dead four years, at that time, and his
darling daughter was all he had left
on earth, of his own kith aud kin, to
love. Almost the last words he had
spoken to his partner we're those that
placed Lizzie in his charge.
And Minturn bad promised, SOL
emnly, that he would not fail to watch
over her.
So Thomas Palmer had died con-
tent. He had left his child in hands
which he believed could not fell and
had no more to ask.
Nine years have passed away since
that tire. James Minturn went into
the new business shortly after the
death of his former partner, and he
has been prospecting iii every way. In
short, be has become wealthy man.
But-how has he kept faith with
Thomas Palmer? How do we find
the child that the dying father left in
his care and keeping =?
Still, if there has been failure, the
blame may not all be laid on him.
He has but little to do with his home
Nor can the blame be laid on his wife,
for she is naturally good hearted
woman, and would have treated Lizzie
as child of her Own, had not her own
child prevented.
Aye-her own child--.Irene Min
turn.
Uron her shoulders must rest the