The Press., 1884-06-19
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Then began strana ,,onrnad nv h,,s was not unhappy. I L 1ienation from band, l grieved over my a. >ction to my my father. Rut gave satisfa <, narfac employer, because could cook C> tion. A .. servants looked upon me as rGr0 vgH' :T but I managed to secure their good w. n i By feeding my employers well gaine, their esteem also, and after having been there six months Mrs. Davidson one day told me that she had never known what 1t was to live till I came to her. did not presume upon my education, or the fact that was a lady so if Mrs. Davidson had felt doubtful, as know she did, regarding the expediency of employing "lady help, she had found her doubts groundless. l attended strictly to my work.
 So the time passed until l had been cook 8 year. I had been required perhaps dozen times to serve the dinner l had cooked, and those were the only times l had seen the gray eyes of MT. Temple MT. Davidson's nephew-who had entirely recovered on the regime of good food l had prepared for him.
 One day Mrs. Davidson came down stairs and said
 ''Mrs Howard, I am going to give din ner next Wednesday, and you must do your best, for I expect valued friend from the east whom especially wish to honor. v
 I did my best, and the dinner served at eight o'clock would have tempted a king.
 When it was time I went in with the cream, but I nearly dropped the tray l carried, for at the right of the hostess sat my father, Judge Dellaire
 Strong man that he was, he grew white to the lips as he sprang to his feet crying !:
 'Madge Madge! My daughter r
 Chauncey Temple, grasping the situa- l tion more readily than the others, took the l tray from my hands, thereby saving some lovely Dresden china from destruction, and @ moment later I was crying in my | fathers arms.
 Mrs. Davidson behaved with the utmost presence of mind Turning to the aston- ished guests, she said: ''You will excuse us for few minutes, '" and leading the way to the library she left me alone with my father, saying, as she kissed me, ''I am re- joiced."
 Dear old father! He was delighted to get his little girl back. Shortly after Ha- rold's death he had concluded that he wanted his daughter bad enough to put up with her husband Receiving no answer to the letters addressed to the place where he had last heard of us, he began vigor- ous search. He traced us to Pearl, and : there learned of my husbands death, los ing of course further clew, because I had told no one where was going. MT. and Mrs. Davidson were friends of his younger . days, of whom I had never heard him speak. Being in San Francisco on busi ness, he naturally stopped at their house
 "Mrs. Davidson will have to advertise for another cook at once," he said T I could see that he was shocked at my plebian calling, but joy at finding me out weighed all other emotions.
 That was four years ago. Father tool me back home, and tried by everything tn at money could buy or love suggest tt make me forget my sorrow. Sometime' Channcey Temple visited us, and yea, after my return home he asked me to bt his wife; but said ''no." Another mal would have given me up; not so MT. Fem pie he waited patiently.
 ''I don't ask you to forget the past," ht said, "but I love you so dearly that know I can help to make you happier" I Six months ago father said to me:
 ''Madge, my daughter, I should be glat to see you the wife of Chauncey Temple Not that expect you to forget, but yor are young, and would be happier with new l interests in life"
 f Mr. Tnnafala had been several weeks il l Albany attending an interminable law suit That nlgnT ne sttfu to 't-Madge, will wait forever if need be- don't want to take Harold's place in you1 heart but can you not love me little too? As for me, shall love you always and none other? Can you not trust your self to me ?"
 thought about it week longer, an6 the day he left for home I gave him the final answer To-morrow-no, to-day il is past midnight now-I shall be the wife of Chauncey Temple.