Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-11-20
The Seal Ring.

Gray, To himself, AS he guided his shag-
gy little horse round the Shtrp turn of
| the road and checked him under the
spreading shadow of the giant cherry
| tree, whose broad boughs we've all
sparkling with the ruby pendants, and
then walked to the house.
"Halloo - said the doctor.
He shaded his eyes with his hand and
looked intently in at the kitchen win
dow There was the trim figure of his
pretty daughter standing at the kitch-
en table, her sleeves rolled back, and a
pink checked apron tied about her ta-
per waist, apparently deep IN the sac
charine mysteries of pie-maKing. That
was nothing surprising but Dr.. Gray
could have sworn that minute ago
the apparition of a young gentleman
was maniieSting remarkable degree
of interest in the pan Of sliced apples
and various spice boxes and sugar
bowls that flanked it, and yet, now that
he lookedagain. Kitty was trimming
off the edges of her pie-crust all alone
He walked straight into the kitchen,
where the oven-tire was glowing so hot
| ly that Kitty's cheeks were like twin
carnations as she worked away at the
pies, sitting showers of powdered cln-
namOn and nutmeg over the juicy slices
of July apples, and drenching them III
snowy sugar.
kit 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 mouth 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 |
a medical dictionary.
"Been hard at work all day, ell ?"
said the old gentleman, taking off his
hat and tanning himself with its broad
brim.
"Yes, SIR" said Browne 1--WE writ
ten out that abstract you left ,and look
ed over the papers on fractures, and"
"All right; all right you're most |
industrious fellow" said DR.. Gray.
"You don't leave off work on all sorts |
of frivolous pretexts, 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?''
Yes, sir" responded Mr.. Henry
Browne, moving little uneasily in his
chair.
VERY 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 a minute ago. You
haye not seen it, suppose 2"
''No, not that know Of" said the |
Doctor, taking snuff as briskly as lie
did anything else.
II hope it Is not lost" said Harry. |
81 value it very highly as my fathers
gift. Where can it have gone ?"
Don't know" said the Doctor. |
Just give me that list of patients we
expect this afternoon, and then go out,
and ask Jack to look for your trinket. |
That boy has more eyes and ears than
most people, believe-I know he has
more mischief ~
Harry Browne adopted his precept.
or's suggestion and the old gentleman
was left alone, alternately taking snuff, |
rubbing his spectacles and congitating
whether his fair daughter was really |
deceiying him as to her innocent love
affairs.
"Confound it," soliloquized the Doc
ior, petulantly, sit takes sharper ewes
than mine to see through womankind's
mtnoevers. I'll ferret out the mystery
yet, though hanged if l don't -
The braZen throat of the old kitchen
clock had just uttered, in a sort of a
shrill tremble, the fact that it was two,
past meridian, and dinner was nearly
over at DR.. 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
pleasantly in the wind, and held back
| their green wilderness of leaves to all |
| NIT such delicious scents of new -mown
hay and blossOm-sprinkled woods that
the most delicate appetite could not re-
sist being tempted. And Kitty GRAY
looked so pretty at the head of the ta-
BILE, her brown hair brushed back and
her white throat edged with a dainty
lace and the faint color coming and 90
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