The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-09-25

ing SnauOW OF the giant cnefry Tree,
whose broad boughs were all sparkling
with the ruby pendants, and then
walked to the house.
'sHelloop said the doctor.
He shaded his eyes with his hand,
and looked intently in at the kitchen
window. There was the trim figure of
his pretty daughter standing at the
kitchen table, her sleeves rolled back
and pink checked apron tied about
her taper waist. apparently deep in the
saccharine mysteries of pie making
That was nothing surprising; but DIR.
Grey could have sworn that a minute
ago the apparition of young gentle
man was manifesting remarkable de-
gree of interest in the pan of sliced
apples and various spice boxes and SUI
gar bowles that fanked it; and yet,
now that he looked again.. Kittie was
trimming off the edges of her piecrust
all alone! He walked into the kitchen,
where the oven fire was glowing so
holly that Kittie's cheeks were like twin
carnations as she worked away at the
pies, sitting showers of powdered CHINA
mon and nutmeg over the juicy slices
of July apples, and drenching them In
snowy sugar.
exit! where's Harry Browne?"
Kitty stopped to cut a little star in
the centre of the white sheet of pie
crust wherewith she was covering her
pastry before she answered in low
tone: II don't know papa"
"You don't, eh?" said the Doctor,
quietly pursuing up his muoth in shape
suggestive of whistling. Il suppose
not!'
And the Doctor proceeded through
the hall into his little study, where sat
his hopeful young student, Harry
Browne, deep in the ponderous pages
of medical dictionary,
''Been hard at work all day, eh %
said the old gentlemen, taking off his
hat and tanning himself with its broad
brim.
Eyes, Sir" said Browne; "I've writ
ten out that abstract you left, and looked
over the papers on fractures, and"
Gall right, all right; you're most in
dustrious fellow" said DR.. Gray.
"You don't leave off work on all sorts
of frivolous pietexts, do you?"
"No, sir" said Browne, demurely.
"You are convinced that nothing but
steady perseverance will enable man
to succeed in the science of medicine? ?"
Eyes, sir, replied Mr.. Henry Browne,
moving a little uneasily in his chair.
Every sensible of you," said DR.. Gray
struggling his shoulders. "And now
but what are you looking for?"
"My seal ring, sir; thought it was
on my finger but minute ago. You
have not seen it, I suppose?"
"No, not that I know Of" said the
Doctor, taking snuff just as briskly as
he did everything else.
II hope it is not lost" said Harry.
II value it very highly as my fathers
gift. Where can it have gomez"
Don't know" said the Doctor.
"Just give me that list of patients we
expect this afternoon, and then go and
ask Jack to look for your trinket. That
boy has more eyes and ears than most
people, [ believe. know he has more
mischief"
Harry Browne adopted his precep-
tors suggestion and the old gentleman
was left alone, alternately taking snuff,
rubbing his spectacles and cogitating
whether his fair daughter was really de-
ceiving him as to her innocent love af-
fairs.
"Confound it," soliloquized the Doc
tor petulantly, cit takes sharper eyes
than mine to see through womankind's
maneuvers. I'll ferret out the mystery
yet, though; hanged if don't!"
The brazen throat of the old kitchen
clock had just uttered, in sort of shrill
treble, the fact that it was two, post
meridian, and dinner was nearly over
at DIR. Gray's. Somehow dinner tasted
better in the long, shady dining room
of the Gray mansion house than it did
anywhere else, for the climbing honey
suckles at the window stirred so pleas
antly in the wind, and held back their
green wilderness of leaves to admit such
delicious scents of new mown hay and
blossom sprinklcd woods that the most
delicate appetite could not help being
tempted. And Kitty Gray looked so
pretty at the head of the table, her brown
hair brushed back and her white throat
edged with dainty lace, and the faint
color coming and going on her cheek
like rosy shadows. No wonder Harry
Browne looked at her so often; we
should have done the same thing had
we sat opposite her at the table.
''I1l take another piece of that apple
pie, Kate" said the old Doctor, extend
ing his plate. Capital pie; where did
the apples come FROM"
ST believe Patrick gathered them
from the old tree that grows by the
south wall of the orchard, papa; the
apples hang there like balls of gold,
just streaked with red on the sunny
side, and I baked them this morning. +"
upon my word you're getting to be
Doctor, chuckling. 81 suppose some
young fellow'll be-Why, halloa-
here! what's this?"
For DIR. Gray's teeth, sound and
white as ivory, had struck against some
foreign substance under the snowy crust
of the much praised pie, with a jar that
set every nerve on edge.
"Do they make apple-pies nowadays
out of stones ?" demanded tho old gem
tleman, tartly. "No, I'm mistaken; it
isn't stone-it's q seal ring!"
And the Doctor quietly held up Harry
Brownies missing ornament heavy
carnelian, set in ring of chased gold.
Kitty turned scarlet; Browne looked
amazed and COMPOUNDED.
How seal ring should happen to
get baked in an apple-pieI don't know, !"
said the malicious old doctor, enjoying
the confusion of his companions.
young people, can you tell me what
this means ?"
IT can tell you, sir" said Harry val
iantly, seeing that now or never was the
time for his avowal. 1T means that 7
am in love with your daughter Kitty,
and that if you will give your consent
to our union we will be everlastingly
grateful to you"
Papa" whispered Kitty with her
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