The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-07
F0UND---A PLACE.

BET for picture of Meditation. But
hn anxious wrinkle corrogated the fair
brow, showing her cogitatons to be of
different order from those usually
INDUCED in by madens of her tender
age. For indeed Marian had been try.
ing with all the wisdom of her twenty
summers-or winters-to solve the
problem of ways and means, and it was
no package of love letters on which she
gazcd with such dissatisfaction at its
meager proportions, but a whole years
savings.
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 nv
darling2'
AS II to make the commentator more
decided, she vigorously rolled and slapped
the bills into the smallest compass posi-
Die. Then she carefully closed the shut
= Ts-a most unnecessary precauton, for
~, room was in wing on the third floor
on, vacant lots on both sides After
49, the little hoard was put into a knit
.i,O the purse insinuated into the foot
'cklng, the stocking wrapped in an
VI ". "a soe skirt, and the whole deposited
o.o 70 If IN the closet, and everything
49, -. We 1t an appearance of unstud-
~ .iSo ness calculated to deceive an
..L 90, glar. This sacred and mvs-
torinno rito ully over, she opened the
sbrttnrs ard Ia In the floods of yellow
go ILL., ~ -lorify her coy room.
pocr Harion :, vi no trust in banks, and
,,.,,o n"1i an nI TO the "Store House
Donosit ), With ;ts plate glass windows,
its marble floors it. eo uiDanG clerks ana
golden promises, her ha L nau paced
with some confidence [ IL Honesl savings
of an energetic lifetime, my uleu calmly
thinking his orphan daugl 'ei aoove want:
If the blessed dead can bt S"r%ant OF
our happenings what wcf MS Ieeilngs
when the oily president Of tn, store mousse
emptied the said store house u us con-
tents and left for Europc2 NJ arlan was
only one of half thousa nu SUI
ferers, bat it made her neither CT. Wy nor
melancholy, as it did many other unior-
tunates, to be thus rudely jostlcd Ut OF
the lap of fortune. Gathering toge, her
all the little mementocs OF a prospect 'us
and guarded childhood, she secured {
room. for herself and Elsie with Mrs.
Allen, an old friend Of her fathers who f
kept few boarders 'only for company, 1
my dear" A class of beginners in music i
soon kept her busy and no head of C
family was ever proudcr of his ability to p
support them than was Marian of the j
tale-lt which earned home for herself t
and the little sister whom her mother q
had confided to her care when Marian
herself was only child. Bravey she @
worked on, and was dismayed for the C
first time mouth before, when the doc i
tor gave as his opinion that the spinal '
disease developing itself in the child t
needed for its cure a residence in /
neignborng city, in hospital specially I
devoted to such complaints. {
After opening the shutters Marian
walked on tiptoe to the alcove, parted 5
the curtains which hid the bed, care
fully covered the feet of the sleeper who
lay there, and pressed light kiss on the
long curl which rested on the pillow.
Tears were in her eyes when she came
out into the room.
= NShe must CO. she sald passionatcly
y'Onlv we two in all the world. If
should lose her-but l won't think of
such thing She'll get well, OF course,
You ought to be ashamed of yourself,
Marian Martin, TO doubt it or feel blue. /
Imagine what it would be if you weren't
able to 0end her at all. Gou must find
some work to do, and may it be of the
hardest kind, for you will be a lonely
maid Marian, without your baby Come,
now, you're getting doleful again. This
will never do"
Having been accustomed all her life
to treat herself as party much prone to
sclf-indulgcnce, and needing rigid dis
cplinc, she straightway shook herself
into comparative ChecrfulncsS, and, in
order TO waste no time, began to search
the columns of the newspaper for the
one headed Female Help Wanted" 1t
might give her some hint as to employ
mcnt until her pupils returned from their
vacations. She found the list and read
with running comments between.
"Wanted-A middle aged lady to act
as housekeeper for widower."
Il might wear spectacles and a cap
she said disapprovingly to her image in
the mirror opposite where the dimples in
check and chin seemed to mock at such
a ridiculous idea. "IIere's another"
"Wanted-A young lady stenographer,
must understand the use of caligraph or
type writer
She shook her head at this and set III
loose, fluffy curls to dancing
81 must be dreadfully behind the age
for haven't the slightest acquaintance
with either of these Instruments And
foolish old Madame Beaudry called me
feenished.'"
"Wanted-A young, energetic bust
ness woman with $500 to invest in a
profitable enterprise"
mo, thank you. If had $500 does
anyone suppose that I'd be away from
Elsie moment2 I'll speak to Mrs. Al
len about it, she knows so many people
Thank heaven, have no prestige to lose
and nobody would notice in what way
occupied myself in summer. All, Elsie
dear, awake already" turning with low
ing smiles to the eightyear-old copy il
miniature of herself who came with pain
full slowness into her arms. "Here'
your old slow-coach of a sister doin.
nothing, when she ought to be preparing