The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-08-07

- Siic ttdu, MIS-. Dent was vefy t0nd
OF her, but between her pride and Let
ty's jealousy poor Rob had a life of
'IhereH be no peace in the family
I'LL Mrs Dent dies, said Pamela, our
eldest.
"Or is married" added I. "There's
as much hope Of one as the other.
shes fair and forty-better chances
OF lie than you or /, Pam"
"Oh, she'd never marry" Pam de-
clared. "She wouldneverleave Lefty.
II she would, there would besomeh hope
Tor Rob; and he's such q dear good
fellow, If they didn't expect impossi-
b%llitles; for, because she don't care for
music, is he never to 60 to concerts,
or come yer here for an evening of
slnglng-he with the best tenorin Rock
dale' Oh, it's all very well to say it's
because she's ailing, and I'm sure /
hope 1T will be better after the baby
comes; but / don't think it's a nice
prospect for Rob"
They say the first year is always
the hardest Annie said. cts lust
excess of affection on her part, you
see. She loves him so much that she
can't bear his loving any one else-Apt
even us, his own sisters. When She
gets something else to love"
But If it was better for a rapturous
month after baby came, it was only q
truce. She was the lovliest young
mother in the world, and Rob adored
his Madonna, clasping his boy with an
ardor that satisfied even Mrs. Dent.
But when she was we'll again, over the
baby's name, and the baby's medi-
cines, and the baby's clothes and the
baby's nurse, there we're chances
enough of disagreement between the
proud grandmother and the prouder
maiden aunts. Wewere homeepathic,
and Mrs. bert insisted on an old
school allopath whenever the baby
sneezed; and we couldn't help saying
one day, seeing the shelf of medicines
he was accommodating, that twas a
mercy he had the Graham constitu-
ton. We wanted him named for
his grandfather agood Scripturalname
that had always been in the family;
but he had to be Harold, straight
out of a novel Lefty had read. And
when we caRedi him Pet and Blossom
and Princeling, half to avoid that de-
testable name, half because he was so
sweet, Lefty declared that wedespised
her and her baby, and he wasn't
worthy, she supposed, to be the heir
of the Grahams unless he was called
Mark, and presently we were as badly
of as ever. 1t was absurd, of course,
We laughed over the trifies that made
our miseries; but it was no trifle when,
with only a block between us, she
wouldn't let Rob come to see us for q
month. 1t ended in our going down
to the mills mornings when he was
there. and SO getting to know the new
superintendent. Presently masked
him to the house, in the Lady Bounti-
full way she had toward friendless
people of all sorts and conditions.
She never thought that he was no
match for our Annie, theyoungesta and
prettiest of us, and though she called
herself an old maid, actually only
twenty-five, and not looking that.
But when she saw what she had done,
and that something serious might
come of it, though nothing had yet,
/ lOT GIdilk lIullllll Ncbc DC PlOu9 as
he was poor, she put the blame where
it belonged-on Letty's shoulders.
"For If it hadn't been for you, my
dear, we should never have known him.
Inever before knew a superintendent
socially, | mean"
II don't know that it's so deplor-
able / said. cts the family way,
and we can afford to overlook his pow
erty, since he's really very much OF
a gentleman, I'm sure" And | smiled
at LettE, for we were reconciled now,
and she had run in to show us howthe
baby was learning to take steps.
saThat must be such q consolation
said Lefty, flushing, and taking 1T
wrong, as I might have known she
would-eto Annie, / mean-that she
is only followingin her brothers steps;
but | should think, out of regard at
least to him, and courtesy to Inc"
sWhy. I never meant to reflect on
vou," / cried. eve W disap-
proved"
ssYou never had q chance; and III
wouldn't have done the least good ii
you had she cried, defiantly.
mo, mdttQ, dill cdttt SObihc ~
INV rescue. Rob was too thoroughly
in love tomind if we had talked all
day at him. 1t was a clear case oil be-
witchment.
sIm much Obliged, I'm sure" Lefty
said. picking UP Harold; "but if you
mean to intimate that / tried-that
we tried-to capture my husband
III only meant to intimate" Pam
said, sweetly, ''that you were then, as
YOU are still, SO very pretty that
Rob"
"Oh, then, I've nothing but my pref
ty face
(Which baby has inherited" | put
in. "Reelly, dear, the child gFows
more like you every day Of his life"
aHe's the image Of his father, cried
Lefty. "Eyes, mouth, everything. 1
wouldn't own him if he was not. And