The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-04-11

the thing he once haQ Spurheu-tnaG
when his child were grown she might
have lends among the best there were.
In return, the child was sweet and gra-
cious, affectionate with him as with any
one, liking all her pets and people mu h
the same, AMI none of them too much.
But little sufficed him. All the capa-
bilities for love pent up in his nature
found expression in her direction. He
lost himself thinking of her over his
ledgers and trial-balances; he hurried
home to meet her; he fingered in the
morning. loath to leave her. As she
grew older, he found himself reading
and stud, ing that he might meet her
with his sympathies: hed aged himself
out to operas and plays that he night
see her pleasure; he wound up his bus
mess and took her to Europe, that she
might have the last finish of art and
culture. He was proud and happy as
if the girl were the child of his love in
stead of "a waif of the streets, and his
whole being revolved about her.
Yet Rose had not won his affection by
any beauty or by any Lrilliancy; she
had won it by nothing. indeed; but the
circumstance that his heart had been
empty and aching. and she had hap
pened, unconsciously, to fill it and heal
it as only children can heal aching
hearts. She was very far from pretty,
if not decidedly plain; none of her love-
ly dresses became her, although they
had the deceptive effect of their
own beauty, and made you feel as if
something lovely was near at any rate.
Her Jewels only served to display ears
like vase handles, and collar-bones like
those on ancient ave-stones; for she
wa thin as one night not think posi-
BILE in view of the case of her life, the
dainties, wines and sweets of h daily
cons mption. Nor was she in the least
intellect al; she had. indeed, but a
81 nder intelligcncs. eked out by some
cunning; was never known to say a
wise or witty thing, nor was she the
eau # wise or witty things in Others.
She cared nothing for books; she cared
nothing for anything, indeed, BIT fl e
clothes. fine apa tments, fine no SEES,
and the fine speech of p ople. These
thi O. she has ad had now all her life,
and if depriv d of taem she won.d have
been wretched. She W rot at ii de-
mo lstrative; she | al he same word and
gesture for her adopted faith r tn she
ha for the Siberian greyho nd; but she
was unifo mly good natu ed perhaps,
with no wish ungratiied, having moth
ing to be ill-natured about.
But TO Mr.. Nancebo ough she was
perfection. 1t was she that rs beauti-
full and not her dress IS; she looked
neither scrawn, nor why in the dia-
phanous robes str aiming with Jew Is.
in e ich i'm on pushes, the azure
velvets sown with peIrls; he l~ok d
radia' t, and all that his fond pride
would have her; her least remark was
wisdom in his ears, and in the flow of
her good spi it he saw the wi of the
English humoris S. What life was be-
fore he had her he refused to remember;
W rat it might be should he Sc her h !,
shuddered to think. 1t was true that
his wealth. his servants, his daughters
attendants, kept his house b light and
beautiful; but to hi view it was simply
his d lughter that ma it so; and she
and the niends her matclessness g tn
cred about her. as a magnet e theirs
steel dust, made it place of heer.
Judge, th n, of his horrO. struck amaze
ment. OF the chill that shivered through
him second time, when he dis owe ed
his peerless Rose inclined to accept the
attenti ms of that ia kanapes e
fraunceston, the younger son of the
younger son of somebody, without
far hing above the pittan he spent on
his dress and lod ing, dining where he
might. species of unattached attache
with nothing to do.
MIR. marlborough loved his money;
but then, as you see, he loved Rose, and
under other circumstances he might
have felt moIe wiling to share the re-
suit of his life's laEor with he husband.
If the young man had had anything
whatever to recommend hirsel, in
deed, it mi hit have made difference.
He had, TO be sure, great physical
beauty, and he danced rs if it was his
profession. but he could not dance into
Mr.. Vanceborough's good graces as he
had into those of Rose. He had not
s.fac ilty" enough, it emed to Mir.
Vanceborough, to carry di,pat, hes.
And, m preover, he had made h S adj
vances stealth " in the dark without a
hint, and tn " sac med the treacherous
advances of a oe for Mir. NanbebOr-
o OH was an honest so II himsgl open
rs da ght, incapa BILE hitherto of doing
a thing by ind reCtion, and he only saw
in the Su tor fellow who had come in
and stolen treasure behi d his back
he could not call he dane n :. bowling
pCpin ay a man. The DE Frau lceston
fam IL h d sec Ired the youth place in
the legat on, probably aS a means of
dismis NC the care of him til he should
m lrry some rich America. b it wa
doubtful if his income were enough to
buy his dancing shoes, and it was GER
tain that he could not earn h $ salt N
any occupa ion Known.
But what did Rose think of that, or
ca e or it? De Fraunceston was poor,
but he was nobla. He had a real coat
OF arms to use. Papa had so much
money that it did not signify. Al d
tten it was triI mp to parade him in
her cha ms before the handerA eysens
and Marlborouehs and Meanse., who
were always iav ng love affairs and
wedd n IS and thing.
/ In truth, Mr.. marlborough, in his
plan OF lie, had never contemplated
marriage for hose at all. The posi-
bill ty had not occurred to him. T. e
time had slipped by swiftly that she
was still but little more than the child
he had picked up IN the street. Hi
vision had penetrated into no farther
future than one of harm ne summer
! travel and cozy winter ii e. dies W tn his
darl NJ. Still, if noble, sterl no
manly man-perhaps, but not ne e
sar lv, an Amer can-had come to him
enly. and said: "S.r, l 10 ycu
daughter truly; take me for YOU