The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-08-03
THOUGH ALL CONDEMNED.

miller. sir? No. sir; there's none o.
that name lives here
Philip Carlyon had Il VAGUE idea that
to cross the palm with silver would bring
him u better fortune from the lips of the
rough-haired, slipshod sibyl, who stood
with arms akimbo in the doorway
through which he was casting eager
glances.
But the woman only shook her head,
as she turned it over i'm her hand.
If you was TO give me all the money
in the mint, sir, ! couldn't SAY no more.
There's no Miss Miller in this house,
nor hasn't been since I've been here,
that : been six months this very day"
"But, my good woman, SAW her
come in, with my own eyes, not five
minutes ago. She did not stop to ring,
but entered with her latch-key, as she
would not have done unless she was at
home here
She shook her head obviously.
I'm sorry not to obliye YOU, sir, but
| cant show Won i'm TO see Miss Miller,
reason good, because there's no Miss
Miller here. Mrs Hammond, lis she
that keeps the house; and there's three
gentleman boardcrs, besides Mr.. and
Mrs. Simmons and the children, and
old Miss Jessup and Miss Mernier.
..Mernier?'
"Eh! don't know rs | call it right.
ly, sir. I'm not much given to foreign
names. It's the French young lady rs
gives lessons. sir. '
"Mernier?' Philip Carlyon repeated
to himself. Then Il flash of joy lighted
up his dark eyes, bent upon the ground
".Ucu,li.r. and that is French for Mil
lcr!'
lie did not say it aloud, however: but
he knew now that his eyes had not de.
ceivci him. and that the girl whom he
had been following at Il distance. upper.
ccived by her. until She disappeared
from his eyes into this house, was tn,
GIRL whom he had come i'm search of.
MilierS -there We're Millers enough in
the great city certainly: but i'm all these
six months he had been searching to an!
fro in it. he had been able To learn moth
inc of her. And now to find her ut last
l-Meunier!
.And does she give lessons i'm the
mouse. here?" he asked. rs steadily rs
he could.
well, most ut the scholars houses,
sir: but she's got n class or two comes
here, and she's bit of Il room she makes
q parlor Of"
"Show me up, them" CarlyOn says,
catching ut the hint.
And. if his informant were at all in.
clined TO demur. another piece of silver
crossing her palm settled the matter.
But the Observation-Disclosures did not think
it necessary to lead the way further than
the head of the stairs.
..It'S the first of them two doors, al
the head of the corridor. back, she said,
pointing them out; and CarlyOn follow
ell her direction, nothing 10th 10 see hel
go downstairs again.
He reached the door in question. and
was Just about to knock, when he saw
that the door stood ajar.
As he paused, the breeze from Al
open window opposite pushed the dool
wider; and through the aperture, as ne
stood he could see agirlish figure kneel
ne before the window, her arms crossed
on the sill.
1t was not for an instant that he could
make out what she was doing. Their
he saw that there was tiny pot of Eng
lish daisies on the windOw-sill. and hel
tears were dropping down over the plan
as if such briny shower could b'
good for blossOming!
Suddenly she bent her head yet lOwe
she touched the little pink-tippet
lowers with her lips. English daisies
his English. Daisy" he just caugh
she murmur.
Was it an echo? For ''his Englisl
Daisy" she heard the words breath
al out quite close to her.
She started up. She turned--Only t.
De caught in Philip Carlyon's arms, tt
be drawn close to his breast.
my English Daisy-my own!"
For long moment she lay on hi
breast so, her yelled eyes half hidden
the lovely color flushing all her face
Then she started, as if some sharp mem
Dry had aroused her, and she made
sudden effort to free herself.
"Let me 60, Philip! Philip, you d
"Do | not? More than you think
perhaps"
What do you know?" she asked hin
oreathlessly.
THAT you are my darling-that yo1
are to be my wife,"
But she drew herself back.
"No. Philip, no. Twill never be tn al
I will never do you that harm. Philip.
There is only one way you can harm
me, my darling, and that is, to driv
me away without you. But, no; yo
cannot do that. ! came here to find you
and after six months search. do yO
think ! shall again risk losing what
have found?,'
"But how did you find me, Philip
"When you fled l followed you here
and for all my efforts and paid ASST
lance. might have still been seekin
vainly, had l not CHANGED to see 20
4 stopping to buy this pot of daisies of
fiower-girl there. Did they bring bac
the old garden to you, Daisy mine-an
the fact that you are my Daisy?"
"But-but, Philip-you know whs
i they accused me of there at the old hon
while you were travelling in the East!
); know what set of blOckheads the
! were, Daisy, begging your pardon, {
thew are YOUR sisters and hrothars-i'