Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-06

I became perfectly miserable.
No more talk about gallons of milk,
London market, home consumption,
etc. She was tired, she said, and if
Hannah did not mind, they would re-
turn TO the house. They reached the
drawing room windows, just as Ag-
atha, accompanied by Arthur, stroll
ed mp the terrace towards the wood
The sight was past bearing; this
/ then was to be the end of all her low
! ing care for Arthur; he was TO marry
| Hannah's pennlless companion. Nor
did Hannah's remark, as she too per
celved them, tend to calm the excited
mothers fears.
"Ohl they are going to have little
chat. l told Akgy the sooner it was
over the better
"a chat with my SOM Has this
this Miss Burghley met Arthur be
fore2n "Oh then / must not tell the
secrets Of the prison house. But pray
/ don't look so rueful, aunty mine. The
secret is not of very dreadful ma
ture"
Lady Best was, however, by no
means comforted by this intelligence.
arthur had been carrying on with
this girl unknown to her and hence
the reason of his detection and list
| lessness. OF course the neighbors
were right; love was the root of the
evil. And to think of the mink fore.
I ing herself in here nder Hannah's
auspices. Ohl il was too bad-very
much too bad; she had been treated
shamefullyW
And her heart too full to speak
without committing herself, which
pride prevented, when she remember
ed that this niece had been conniving
to deceive her, she went indoors, up
into her room, of which she locked
| the door, and then INDUCED in the
luxury of a tempestuous burst of
tears.
For more than an hour she remain
ed there, sobbing and composing her
self by turns, till mt last she heard
voices under the window. Carefully
concealing herself, she stepped from
behind the curtain.
There they were, all three laughing
an talking, woke up look on Ar
thurs face which she had not seen for
months
1t was strange, very strange; as she
stood and watched them she could
not make up her mind whether she
had not made a mistake in asking
these people TO come. after all if his
love for Agatha saved Arthur from
dependency and made man of
him, she ought to consider her object
gained.
ANY way, she made up her mind to
be silent for the present and take
notes; and 50 deciding, she washed
her face, smoothed her silver hair,
set her cap daintily on her head and
went down stairs, where the luncheon
was decidedly more cheerful than the
dinner had been on the previous even
ing
And the days passed on-life at the
cottage seemed very bright to all but
it's mistress, who could not reconcile
herself to the fact that she had been
deceived not even though it glad
dened her heart very much TO hear
Arthur laughing so merrily, as he
sometimes did at his cousins sallies,
or to see him take an interest he never
took before in the farm and working
sits.
Agatha's pale, beautiful face would
come between the mother and the
change her presence seemed to have
effected. and Lady Best felt that she
could never love Agatha even though
Arthm's whole happiness was entered
in her.
But if she had lost son she had
gained daughter, for appreciatln 9
| Hannah's merits as she did to the full.
est extent. she felt that each day she
was learning more and more. Many
times was it on her lips to tell her
how grieved she was at the direction
Arthur's fancy seemed to have taken,
but pride held her back.
AT last, almost before the they could
believe in its approach, ST. Partridge
arrived, aud with it letter from Mr..
Milton, saying he should be back IN
less than a week that he would take
the cottage on his way, see his sister
and escort his daughter home.
What tears and heartburnings did
this letter produced Hannah was evl-
IDENTIFY i'm despair at leaving the cot
tage. Arthur became as respondent as
he was two months ago; only Agatha
seemed to have no regret.
"Of course not, since she expects &c
stay here always; not with me though.
She will not live here with me, rageo
Lady Best to herself.
And in this mood Arthur found hel
one morning when he sought her II
) the little morning room she called hel
, den.
He broke the ice without any pre-
liminary skating over it.
Mother, will it not be a pleasure
, to you if / bring you daughter t.
welcomed"
'Oh, Arthur, if you only knew how
| have dreaded this question "
! Dreaded it, motherl | thought yol
= would be delighted"
p How could youl a pennies
Y lackadaislcal, intriguing'-the rest o
her sentence was a sob, interrupted
t however, by an exclamation iron
/ Arthur.
en.iless-HauDah Why, he