The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-01

a servant showed her in, and asked
her name; but Miss Miner wanted to
surprise her sister, and sent word that
friend wished to see her, while she
seated herself in the parlor, where a
little girl sat curled up III a cushioned
chair, reading.
You want to see my mamma sup
posep'
Yes said Mrs. Miner with an af-
fable smile.
You are Hetty, I suppose2'
The child gave heavy sigh.
Yes, I'm Hetty. Oh, don't I hate
that namer o.. ...
why, think it's first rate name.
You are namesake of somebody, 1
guess?'
Yes, am.
odd Hetty Miner, my aunt, who
lives out in the country.
II never have seen her, and I don't
want to either, 'cause mamma says
she's the meanest old thing in creation
a regular old Miss Nancy, papa says
Miss Miner smiled-a little queerly.
'Ohl that's what they say, is it? Well,
Ietty, am your aunt Miner
The child opened her eyes wider.
Are you?
Then won't mamma be mad!
we expect company after awhile, and
mamma won't want you at all.
Wed be dreadfully ashamed of you
before the Argernons.
YOU'RE going to leave us your money.
amt you!
Papa and mamma said they were
most tired Of waiting-you had as many
lives as a cat.
We're going to Paris as soon as you
die
Are your said Miss Miner, with an
insane desire to shake the pert self-pos-
sessed venomouS youngster.
We'll | wouldn't depend upon it if I
were you.'
And before Mrs. Carl came down.
stairs, Miss Miner was out in the street,
on her way to. her half-brother's
house.
"A pretty nest of vipers those Carl's
THANK Heaven, I've found them out
in time
Going to Paris on my money!
why, ungrateful as that little Ellice
Is, she Is not as treachefous as my own
flesh and blood.
'Humph y
And her complacency was not yet re-
stored when she left the street. car on
the nearest corner to Mr.. Parker Doling-
by's bachelor quarters, that was a-light
In a perfect blaze Of bright cheer.
1t looks like q party she thought.
But all the same she did not hesitate
to go up the imposing stone steps and
ring the bell, to which no response COM
ing, she tried the door-knob, and adj
mitted herself into q large brilliantly
lighted hall, at the end of which was a
room, from which came the sounds of
reyelry and jollification that had pre-
vented her ring being heard.
Miss Miner went into the first door
that stood ajar, and through another
partly closed door she saw the gay bach
elor party--some ten or fifteen--morry
over their wine. .r III
so that's the way Parker Dollingby
does, is it9' she asked herself grimly,
just at the same instant that gentleman's
voice, distinct, boisterous, rose high,
and for second silenced all others.
Here's to the health Of my most re-
anacf ed apriopt no ri,,or ooo a 1,or;t,l>Jo
old maid all forlorn, whose legacy is a
long time coming, but sure to got here
some time.
"A cool, hundred thousand dollars or
so, boys; and imagine the swell we will
cut when the venerable Mehitable kicks
the bucket.
Drink to her, boys =
Somehow Miss Miner took herself out
of the house.
She was silent all the way to the hotel
and then, once in the room, locked her
! door, and sat. down and actually cried,
and then went to bed, wondering If 1t
was ever granted to mortals to come
nearer to being made q fool of than she
had been--and at two o'clock In the
morning to awaken with q strange sick
feeling that WAS awful to endure in that
big lonely hotel, where she did not know
living soul, .....,. q
But she rang for assistance, and the
! servant brought her q physician who
happened to be staying over night and
her life was saved from the terrible at
tack Of gastralgia by DR.. Frank Olevin,
IN pay you Whom | get home she
! said 'tersely, = i, .ae ~ ~ S.D
You can go with mo, If you don't
mind my green veil and bag
And so after reaching home, where