The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-05-07

but he was impatient for the afternoon
for tho netting lesson. What an ex-
quisite voice the girl had! Yet she
could only bs / servant; Perhaps her
voice was her only good point-a COM
pensation from Dame Nature for coarse
and vulgar looks. The idea was q
shock. all the same; Johnny thought q
good deal over it. He had plenty time
for thinking.
The netting lesson was q success
and soon it came to he understood that
Lolita was his favorite attendant. When
he grew impatient because his big fin.
gers were 20 awkward with the mesh;
Lolita would take it, and set everything
tight; When he grew depressed Lolita
would cheer him up. When the hours
seemed interminable, Lolita found some
thing fresh to interest him.
She was mystery to the young man.
He questioned her about her family but
when he reflected afterward upon her
answers he found himself very little
wiser. He felt rather ashamed to ask
others for information which she seemed
inclined so withhold, but he even
stopped to that to crafty his curiosity.
He gained nothing. Nobody seemed
inclined to tell him much more than
Lolita herself.
One day she was busting his room
putting his books, brushes, papers, etc.,
in order. When she came upon his
unfinished picture she exclaimed in sur
prise:
"Carlotta Won Werdenfels!
''''Do you know it," he asks eagerly.
"'Yes, indeed, very WE'LL"
"How is that? It is small-it is not
celebrated; besides, you told me your
self you had never been to Innspr,ick. -
II have seen q copy elsewhere"
johnny threw himself back in his
chair with sigh of weariness.
II shall never finish her! That daub
gives no idea of her beauty, her grace,
her exquisite charm.
"On the contrary" said Lolita decid-
edly' you have made very pretty
And poor Johnny was gratified with
her words, though, he said to himself,
"What can dienstmadchen know about
art"
Nov Lolita" he said, "where is nv
work? I shall finish the cabbage-net
for Frau Werner before I go. Why
did you start? Did hurt you?"
Eyes, little. My finger is sore; it
is nothing"
"Ah, poor childl What is the mat
ter with it,"
Johnnys tones were full of sympa-
II cut it peeling potatoes"
He felt as if he had received q cold
douche. For some minutes he netted
in silence.
= "Shall I read to you?" said his willing
handmade, seeing he did not seem
disposed to talk ; and she took up VOL
ume of Heine, and read his scornful
contempt of fine ladies and gentlemen,
and his honest admiration for the worth
of the peasant; and Johnny sat and lis
tened, and wondered whether this kind,
patient serving maid wasn't, after all
worth all the fashionable girls he had
ever known.
The Doctor came that evening and
gave very favorable report on his pa
tient. There would always be scar,
but the eye was uninjured; and if Herr
Lupton was prudent, he might be able
to travel in q week."
In spite of this encouragement, John.
ny was out of sorts. Nothing pleased
him. Lolita was in despair. At last
she said, timidly:
Would you like me to sing to you? ~
"Can you sing?" cried johnny, start
ing up in establishment. ."'But there is
no piano. If had my violin, now.
But perhaps you don't care for an &C.
COMPARTMENT"
''There is either in the house.
can-play little; if you like. that is. "
OF course Johnny liked, and he sat
lost in wonderment while Lolita sang
volksheder; very simple things they
we're, but her voice lent them an addi-
tional charm.
Johnny reused himself at last, and
interrupted her with very irrelevant
remark.
Lolita, I wish you could speak Eng
lish."
She hesitated.
"Iknow . little-a few words; oh, it
is nothing. So many English come over
here. I have learned some from you. u
Impossible we have always talked
German. Lolita, believe you are a
WITCH"
Eyes" said Lolita. gleefully. II am
0 witch, and it was my broomstick you
fell over; and when you get we'll
shall mount it and ride away in the air I!
"The doctor says I may take my
bandage off tomorrow for an hour"
said Johnny, after pause.
II am 80 glad!" said Lolita, heartily.
~ am so glad, too; 1want to SEQ my
kind little nurse"
But, though johnny sat nearly two
hours without his bandage, no Lotta
appeared.
1T was 80 unfortunate" the landladv
said; "Lotta had been sent on an or.
rand. She had been delayed" ETC.,
etc. :
But Johnny was very angry, and
would not be pacified. He scolded
Lolita in the evening. She began to ex-
cuse herself, when suddenly her voice
faltered, and he knew she was crying
and before he could ray . word she was
gone. s So
Johnny did not sleep that night
The situation, was becoming delicate
The Lolita of his blindness had grown
dearer than the Carlotta of his dreams.
What ought he to do?
One thing he determined-whateve
the consequence might be he would sec
her! The next time abe annaarad he
would tear of his bandage.,
The morning passed restlessly away
One thought engrossed his mind-What
would she be like?
Three O'Clock came-her usual time
The door opened, Johnny started up
tore OF hls bandage, and beheld-Frar
WeFaerl