The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
FOUND A PLACE.

small parcel in her lap, she might have
sat for a picture of Meditation. But an
anxious wrinkle corrugated the fair
brow, showing her cogitations to be Of
a different order from those usually in
duIged in by maidens of her tender age.
For indeed Marian had been trying with
all the wisdom of her twenty summers
or winters-to solve the problem Of
ways and means, and it was no package
Of love letters on which she gazed with
such dissatisfaction at its meager pro
portions, but a whole years savings.
by close economy it will pay Elsie's
expenses for the summer and leave me
ten dollars. But no matter it's blessed
money that will be spent to cure my
darling"
AS If TO make the commentator more
decided, she vigorously rolled and
slapped the bills into the smallest com
pass possible. Then she carefully
closed the shutters-a most unnecessa-
~ p~reoautiou, for the room was in a
wing on the third floor with vacant lots
on both sides. After that the little
hoard was put into a knit purse, the
purse insinuated into the foot of a
stocking, the stocking wrapped in an
pld dress skirt, and the who'd deposit
ed ON a shelf in the closet and every
thing done to give it an appearance Of
anstudied carelessness calculated to
deceive an ordinary burglar. This sa-
cred and mysterious rite fully over,
she opened the shutters and let in the
Goods of yellow sunset light to glorify
her cosy room.
Poor Marian had no trust In
banks, and little wonder. Into the
Store louise Deposit" with its
plate glass windows, its marble
floors, it's urbane clerks and golden
promises, her father had placed with
some confidence the honest savings of
an energetic lifetime, and died calmly
thinking his orphan daughter above
want. If the blessed dead can be cog
aizant of our happenings what were his
feelings when the oily president of the
store house emptied the said store house
Of It's contents and left for Europe?
Marian was only one of half a thousand
sufferers, but it made her neither crazy
nor melancholy. as 1t did many other
u~nfortunates, to be thus rudely iostled
out of the lay of fortune. Gathering
together all the little mementoes of q
prosperous and guarded childhood, she
secured a room for herself and Elsie
with Mrs, Allen. an old friend of her
fathers, who kept a few boarders "only
for company, my dear" A class of
beginners in music 500 kept her busy,
and no head of family, was ever prouder
of bis ability to support than was Mar
ian Of the talent which earned a home
for herself and the little sister whom
her mother had conided to her care
when Marian herself was only q child.
Bravely she worked on, and was dis
mayed for the first time a month before
when the doctor gave as his opinion
that the spinal disease developing itself
In the child needed for its cure q resi-
dence IN a neighboring city in a hospit-
al especially devoted to such com
plants.
After opening the shutters Marian
walked on tlptoe to the alcove, parted
che curtains which hid the bed, care
xnlIy ecsered the feet of the sleeper who
lay there, and pressed q light kiss on
the long curl which rested on the pill
low
@She must co. she said, passionate
Iy. Only we two in all the world. If
/ should lose her-but I won't think of
such a thing. She'll get well of course.
You ought TO be ashamed of yourself,
Marian Martin, to doubt it or feel blue.
Imagine what Il would be IL you were't
able to send her at all. You must find
some work to do, and may it be OF the
hardest kind, for you will be a lonely
maid. Marian without your baby. Come
nov, you're getting doleful again. This
will never do"
Having been accustomed all her life to
treat herself as q party much prone to
self Indulgence and needed rigid discip-
line, she stralghtway shook herself
into comparative cheerfHlness, and,
Ia order 10 waste no time began to
search the columns az the news
paper for theone headed Female Help
Wanted Il might give her some hint
Is TO employment until her pupils re-
burned from their vacations She found
She list and read with running comments
between
Wanted "A middle aged lady to ACT
A. honsekeeper for awidowor.
q might wear spcctacles and = cap
she said aisapproysngly to her image