The Press., 1883-08-02
ing extrayaganoes if she indulged this

ling extravagances if she indulged this other fancy.
 ,s'As if there could be any choice" she said to herself, and then she got up and went softly across the grass to where Daddy .Mifin" sat. .o.
 s'Do you like this place ?" she said, soft ly.
 "Its home my dear, he answered, ,seem- ing to arouse himself out of reverie. 'sIts home. have lived here just eighty years. could not live anywhere else. 7
 "But there are many other places pleas anter."
 "It may be my dear, it may be-" he said, looking at her with troubled eye, through the convex lenses of his glasses. 'tBut they wouldn't seem just the same to me-"
 Helen went to Mrs. Daggett, who was cake all at once.
 "Mrs. Daggett, q she said, "here are ten dollars which Mrs. sDardanel gave me to do as pleased with, and I please to give it to you to keep old MT. Miffin here for five weeks longer"
 "Mercy sakes alive P said Mrs. Daggett, The ain't no kin to you, is he?"
 "No," said Helen, ''but he is old and feeble and friendless, nd-and-please Mrs. Daggett, take the money. And, per haps, by the time it is gone shall be able to send little more. My employers are going to pay me generously in the city, and I feel myself growing better able to work every day." So Helen H yde adopted the cause of one even poorer and more friendless than her self, and for 8 year she paid g 6 week steadily, and MT. Mif6n never knew what danger had menaced him! .....- At the end of that time the old gentle mans grandson came from some wide, wild region across the sea, 8 tall, dark-eyed young man, with the mien of prince in disguise
 My father has been dead for year, " he said, "and his papers have only just been thoroughly investigated, so, that l have just learned for the first time, that there is an arrearage due on my grand fathers allowance. I hope he has not been allowed to suffer" "Oh, he's all right" said Mrs. Daggett. "We've taken excellent good care of him. v "You are 8 noble hearted woman, said the young man, fervently clasping her hand, ''and will see that you are no loser by your generosity"
 it ain't me, " said Mrs. Daggett, turn ing red and white, for Helen Hyde, now spending her vacation at the farmhouse, sat by, quietly sewing in the window re- cess. "I'm free to allow that and Dag gett got out O patience and were going to put him on the town, but Miss Hyde here, one of our boarders, she's paid for him l over since." s.... ''I beg your pardon if have interfered,' '' said Helen, blushing scarlet as the large, ! black eyes fell scrutinizingly on her face, | 'sbut then, he scanned so old and helpless 1 that"
 "God bless you for your noble deed r said he. [ But there was something in Helens manner which prevented him from offer ing any pecuniary recompense to her. s'My grandfather will need your care no longer" said he. "We have been fortu- nate in our Australian investment, and now am prepared to buy the old farm back again and then settle here perma- nently."
 And when Mrs. Dardanel began to think about getting her winter ball dresses made uw, she received note from Miss Hyde, as follows
 ''Dear Mrs. Dardanel am sorry to dis appoint you but cannot undertake any more orders, for am to be married next month to Ambrose Mifin, and we are to live at the Daggett farm. And Oh how proud should be if you were to come here and visit me next summer, when the roses are in bloom and the strawberries ripen. Ambrose is all that is nice, and shall have the dearest old grand father law in the world. Afectionately, t' HELEN HYDE"
 And all this life's romance had grown out of Helen's month at the seaside.