Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-10-24
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one finger pressed tightly against her
lips and her eyes cast upon small, very
email parcel in her lap, she might have
sat for q picture Of Meditation. But an
anxious wrinkle corrugated the fair
brow, showing her cogitations to be Of
different order from those usually in
dulged in by naidens fher tender age.
For indeed Marian had been trying with
all the wisdom Of her twenty summers
--or win ters-to solve tbs problem OF
ways and means, and it was no package
OF love letters on which she gazed with
such dissatisfaction At it's meager pro-
portions, but whole years savings. 8
"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" lFE, IT
As ii to make the commentator more
decided, she vigorously. rolled aud
slapped the bills into the smallest com
pass possible. Then she carefully
closed the shutters most unnecessa-
~ precaution, for the room was in q
wing ON the third floor with vacant lots
On both sides. After that the little
hoard was put into a knit purse, the
purse iusinuated into the foot of a
stocking, the stocking wrapped in an
old dress skirt, and the who'd deposit
ed On shelf in the closet and every
thing done to give it an appearance OF
unstudied carelessness calculated to
deceive an ordinary burglar. This sa-
cred and mysterious rite fully over,
she opened the shutters and let in the
floods of yellow sunset light to glorify
her cosy room.
Poor Marian had no trust in
banks, and little wonder. Into the
"Store House Deposit" with its
plato glass windows, it's marble
floors, it's urLane clerks and golden
promises, her father had placed with
some confidence tho honest savings of
an energetic lifetime, and died calmly
thinking his orphan daughter above
want. If the blessed dead can be cog
infant 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 Thousand
sufferers, but it made her neither crazy
nor melancholy, as it did many other
unfortunates, to be thus rudely jostled
out of the lay of fortune. Gathering
together all the little mementoes OF a
prosperous and guarded childhood, she
secured room for herself and Elsie
with Mrs, Allen. An old friend of her
fathers, who kept few boarders "only
for company, my dear" A class Of
beginners in music soon kept her busy,
and no head of family, was ever prouder
OF his ability to support than was Mar
jan of the talent which earned home
for herself and the little sister whom
her mother had confded to her care
when Marian herself was only child.
Bravely she worked on. and Was dis
mayed for tho first time month before
when the doctor gave as his opinion
that the spinal disease developing itself
in the child needed for its cure resi-
dence in neighboring city in hospit-
al especially devoted to such COM
plants. '.., p, ..o.
After opening the shutters Marian
walked on tlptoe to the alcove, parted
the curtains which, hid the bed, care
fully covered the feet Of tho sleeper who
lay there, and pressed . light kiss on
the long curl which rested on the pill
low s~| r % $$s&E.l2aG @%7s. ~
"She must 60, !" she said, passionate
ly.} "Only we two in all the world (, If
I should lose her--but I won't think of
such = thing. She'll get we'll of course.
You ought to be ashamed Of yourself,
Marian Martin, to doubt it or feel blue.
Imagine what it would be if you were't
able TO send her at all. You must find
sons work to do, and may it be Of tho
hardest kind, for you will be q lonely
maid, Marian without your baby. Come
now yon'ra rettinp dolefuI aSain. This
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