Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-08

son S inquiry concerning the matter:
Let the child be as she IS; we viii
raise her and do by her as if our own.
and so the matter rested. And the
years went by until Dot was 16, when
calling her to him one evening, Mr..
/ Sheriff. said "WeI. my little sun
beam, do you know that you are grow
| ing to be quite a young lady Just l6
! to-day, Dot, and mother and | have
been thinking that it would not do
for our little girl to grow up without
an education, and so we have decided
TO send you away to school, where
you can study music and learn to talk
/ French like member of the legion,
TO wear a chignon and TO be a flirt
and a polished lady Of society. l
would much prefer to keep you, Dot,
/ a child, Just as you have been. VIII
our little girl like to goF And big,
warm harted Charlie watched the
child's face, and knew her answer
before the words were uttered.
"Will | have to go away from
home, Uncle Charliel"
yes; mother thinks that there is
no school suitable in the city. "
"Then can't see you every day,
and you will not hear my lessons any
more. Nor can you go with Prince
and | TO walk in the park o. | don't
want TO grow big and be stylish and
proud like Miss Edmonds you were
riding with the other day. | saw you
as you drove by the library,
where aunty had sent me to get a
book, and ! don't like her, if she is
pretty. She looks so cold and cross
And tears began to gather in Dots
eyes.
what crying, Sunbeam Hi, no,
little girl, that will never do. | won't
20 riding with Laura any more, or, If
! do, viii have her smile and be ever
so pleasant looking when We drive by
the next time And we viii try and
talk mamma out of the idea of send
ing you away. There is Mrs. Highs
school over on High street. | wonder
why that would not dol Come, dry
your eyes and we viii go and see her
highness and plead our cause to
gether."
But Mrs. Sheriff. was firm, and fin
ally even Charlie and Dot, the latter
very unwillingly, seeing it was for the
best, consented. And so "a few days
later, Dot left her home and went
away TO the New England school
where Mrs. Sheriff. had been when a
girl and, thought at first the days
were long and she wanted Charlie and
Prince very much Time and youth
and new companions soon filled the
void, and the letters she wrote home
told how she improved and that she
was happy.
AT her foster home she was indeed
missed. Even Prince went around the
house and whined, smelling her chair,
and when he couldn't find her laid
himself down by the door to watch and
wait in very sulky mood. Charlie
declared that the house was silent as
a grave, and was much inclined to
follow Princes example, and be, if
not sulky very quiet, while Mrs Sher
rill perhaps missed her more than any,
bat women bear all kinds of sorrow
better than men, and she was in a
manner satisfied, for wasn't her dar
ling improving} Didn't her letters
show she was becoming quiet a polish
ed lady, Losing all her wild ways,
and would not the years pass quickly,
and then Dot would come back
young lady, refined and elegant, and
thus she allayed her Impotence ana
loneliness as only a woman can when
it is for the best for those they love
With Charlie it was different; the
letters he was wont TO get We're chang
ed the school girls attectionate ut
teranCes We're transformed into for
NAL sentences, and 1t was now plain
"AIr. Sheriff. instead of the Dear
Dear Charlie" that at first was sprin-
killed. SO frequently through the little
pink missives, and he, foolish fellow
could not guess the reason for the
change Men are so dull always
about anything not pertaining direct
ly to their business, and so he worried
and wondered what could be wrong,
asking his mother if Dot had changed
so toward her But she only smiled,
telling him that they were rs warm
and full of Joy and love as ever And
he, poor fellow, wondered and wished
never once thinking that one year at
that time in a girls life made themaid
"A woman, and that with the coming
of womanhood came thoughts and
ideas that made the childish regard
either indifference or love. and in tins
case it was love, for Dot as the child
/ had thought Charlie Sheralll the beau
ideal of big brothers, and worshiped
him as few brothers are cared for by
real sisters. And now, when separa-
ted from him and home, and as her
young life opened like bursting bud
under the warm spring sunshine, she
came to know that her love for Char
lie Sheriff. was more than a sisters
love- and her warm, impetuous south
ern nature longed for the hearts love
that She knew could never be given.
For had not Miss Edmunds once said,
when visiting Mrs. Sheriff., that Dot
should live with them, and the tuum-
plant smile ON her face at the child's
NAMED eNureSSion did moi assure Dot