The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-04-25

we nave seen.
The DAYS passed slowly after John,
with his bright face and ringing voice,
was banished and Miss Barbara, half
/ regretted her harshnvSs. was often
/ tempted TO send for him again, but her
I obstinacv-ur pride, a. she calledlt.
preserved her, and 50 she fretted and
/ worried until Jane was almost driven 10
. distraction bv her irritabllIty and m
/ r~easonabIeness. She was so cross. so
/ hard TO suit. and so awfullv savage,
/ - John would have said, that Jane be-
came at LAST thoroughly worn u and
II dav. when her duties had been
more than usually hard, she surprised
her mistress by packing up her NOV
able property and departing from the
house. Then Miss Barbara was wretch
ed. For three days she sat in solitary
state, and then, sending for her lawyer,
she directed him to insert an advertls-
ment in the leading papers TO the effect
that she wanted "a young. neat and
iadylike person for a companion
No more old women for me" she
said savagely. in response to the law
ver's look of surprise, after the behav-
Tor of Jane, who has been with me for
thirty years" and then: authorizing
him to examine the applicant, she sent
him away, and walled.
Two DAYS afterwards the lawyer re-
turned, accompanied by a tall, slender
Young woman. who had come to see if
she Miss Barbara would engage her.
Miss Barbara's black eyes looked
keenly Mt her for fOme time, and after
inquiring sharply into her antecedents,
references. and the like, Miss Barbara
pronounced herself satisfied and Alice
Worthington (as the lawyer called her.
was duly installed in the office of com
paniOn, " and a most delightful compan-
ion she proved to be.
Miss Barbara was at first disposed to
be a bit critical and captious; but the
Young girl was so anxious to please. so
sweet-tempered and amiable, so quiet
and self fOrgetful, that Miss Barbara's
severity melted away by degrees, and at
last she began to love her attendantand
try in various little ways to make her
cheerful and contented in her new
home.
Alice" said she one day, as the
young girl sat opposite her before the
fire, chow old are you?"
Not quite nineteen" was the shy
answer.
"And Miss Barbara looked at her in
surprise. mot quite nineteen" and
vet so quiet, and dignified, and woman
ly-it was almost Incredible. Miss Bar
bara looked at her again, and with q
new appreciation IN her face, she saw
how sweet and pure the fair face looked,
with the shy brown eyes half hidden by
the white lids; she saw how smoothly
and plainly the brown hair was fastened
back, how neat and trim was the dark
dress, how snowy were the cuffs and the
narrow collar, and her heart was filed
with wonder. A girl In the nineteenth
century without a rufie, a puff, a crimp,
an overskirt, q sash. or a suspicion of a
pannier about her. Truly, wonders
would never cease; and AZ she gaZed at
TINS rars aris, her heart was filed with
pity for poor John, who had thrown
hinselfaway.
She's Just the wife for him, she
thought. If lac had only waited a little
he would have liked her. / am sure
And then she dismissed the thought
with a Eagh az.d ankaea &c Alice ffsF con
ISOLATION
As the days went by, Miss Barbara's
near began 20 yearn for her nephew.
che hre1 Alice dearly. but even she
did ngf take tie place of the absent one.
His handsome face haunted her day and
Night. ard often As she heard a sudden
noise In the hall, or at the door, she
wOz5d look up eagerly, half expecting
60 see hi1a as she used to do. "Pm
getting old = she said sadly to herself.
Perhaps i vas q little hard with him
my boz Ill ask Alice"
and 20 one night she called Alice to
her, and II she sat at her feet In the
freight, as John had done SO often, she
told her all aboutit, and how she longed
to see him again.
II am getting old. Alice" she said.
IL NAV die soon, and i want to zee my
boy. Perhaps / was wrong ABOUT his
wife. II would do me no harm to see
him Just once, Alice"
and Alice answered gently that per-
! haps ii would be better for them all ia
do SO but she avoided her kind friends
eyes. and there was a scarlet flush on
her face that was unusual.
The next day, Alice, under Miss Bar
bara's directions, wrote a little note *
John Barton
Tell him to come soon, she said ano
as Alice wrote this, Miss Barbara So
and thought intently for q time, he
face resting on her hands. Tell him,
she said again. tell him he may bring
his wife Il he likes-I can at least Sc
her TO please him And so the not
was written and the messenger dis
patched.
J After this decisive step was taken
Miss Barbara was IN aautter Of nervous