Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-10
A COMPLETE STORY.
lAll the Year Round.l
CHAPTER /.

u,;n the nursery. Harry vas an in-
,syloper, and the terror OF the methodi-
e,l nnrse who would hsve the children
- exact order. She had given up
Harry ,hree years ago, and nov no
So thirteen, and, as she declared, he
isd grown quite rampsgeous, and ne
20 mise, the children SOP"
The BOYLE children were three,
t,,ded BY Maud above her was a
y,csnt space Of three years when Hsr-
~ showed his "rampsgeous" self
,icye him came two girls. There is
,le family list, headed by father aud
mother.
There was not more charminely
commonplaoc, more pleasantly sue.
Ctssfrl family in the three kingdoms.
Thev lived in a London suburb, and
thew bad plenty Of friends and CON-
,,You arc vulgar >" Maud had cried.
sod you be If you got such and.
Ucoray / say, where's the mater"
"Gone cut, Master Harry" nurse
answered.
what a bore Now mind, MUSE,
hats my sixpencc. Just you keep ii
safe. III hadn't to play 10 that match
ibis afternoon I'd hang about till
mother was back"
DO they want you very much =
This was an infantile remark of small
Uayy's.
Don't you make any mistake"
Harry was grand. "Should | be in
PmmmeI's eleven II wasn't some
lirs? Just see me bat, that's ALL"
ia ike 10 sec you
L don't doubt you; bat we can't
lave kids on our ground"
At which Dsvy subsided, and Harry
took himself of to don his cricketing
taluelS.
when be had gone the nursery in
mates looked at his sixpence, and each
child handled it a. i there we're some
msgic IN 1t.
What did Harry mean when he
called out that long word dndins-
lscrins .'" asked Maud.
"Bless YOU, Miss Maud lie only
meant COS he'd had the Gndins he'd
have . right to the keeping"
An accent on each word did not
make the good wOman's explanation
cl,sr 20 the child.
Nurse went on mending socks and
.le children returned to their play.
Maud kept silence; not common cir
cuus,a1ce, to pass unremarkec. All
., once She spoke this
"u0 YOU mean, nurse, that If l
u,k,d up hundreds Of thousands OF
s..I soycIdsns they would all be
n.1,:'
Her eyes wero slight and quite a
1Csy color was flushing her round face.
% Nonsense. Miss Maud What
ttU'd you be wanting gold sovereigns
i.."
.Tat. 1T found them
Ave. 'I' You're not likely 10
lri ,lcm. never did. They don't
Bic about nursery floors, not they
All, Do outside somewhere . 80
AID The cllld made a gesture, as i.
with her round arms she would encir-
lt Tie great. vague world.
Years vent b., and the Boy lenurse-
?, hsd become a.m05. forgotten thiog.
Nurse ha3 come 70 logd it over another
nursery good many degrees higher IN
the monetary n rot ia the social scale,
All she. y ben her D." family was 10
!.au. brought a l,;tle lady now aul
s,su 10 see The growH.ap children
who hal once been her babies. Bat
csa 30 this there came an end
tcrrImy cut--f0r lairgs happened 60
de Hlg.cs which carried them out o..
Nurses" radius altogether,
y fortune bad seized the B1yle5,
ard tLsy were e. their worst when
some ten years later, we meet them "a
tt.r1-rate street At New-Cross.
ihe years had been sunny, pros
Porous years. then Mr.. Boyle was
stricken by dire mAlsdy, aud hal 10
leave business. He was a stock
broker, bot in the year when illness
made 10 necessary that his city affairs
should be wound up there was panic
upou paIlc. there were wars and IL
mos cf wars, and loss followed loss
ID rapid succession.
o. tie eve OF his fathers failure
Harry bad sailed for Canada, lie had
bought plot OF Government land, aud
lie vas going TO reclaim it, and so,
,ley al hoped, dig fortune out Of It.
L.ta moderate family can live or a
small income II, as the saying is, they
".-. their coat according TO THEN
c.,t." Mrs. Boyle was ! wise go-
uao. and she moved II cheaper
Lase. Daisy or Margaret Boyle was
married katherine was useful Maud
roE nineteen. might. if need showed
IaelL tri work, bat Dayy and Dick
must sill 90 to school.
Yes: cvcle Of misfortune had be-
gun, TIE i've plentiful years we're over,
and tie beginning Of another five had
o.ue--ycars Of trouble upon trouble,
81. Boyle died, unwilling Of the
o4lanlio-s times; another, and then
,lud move bad TO be made. each one
Carrying the family step downward,
How did Mrs. Boyle's blood rebeI
when the day came fer her to take ut
tie Dick 10 Seacroft's school. where ne
was to be taught and fed and clothed
Tor 20 many years iree of expense tC
her. Milionsires have been known to
grow out OF boys brought up al Sea
Goft's school, but what cheer IS there
~ that thought 10 the poor mother
Who sees her little son srrayed in the
school gsIb, and who sees the gay
summer sun glintiog down from th'
tears in bis blue eyes 10 the fine new
brass buttons Of his jacket:
But Dick became quite happy lac
tteie, and he did not know much o
the home troubles be got his holidays
ard be saw two more new homes, 5u
tbirgs were not sad to him. He had
come 10 be fourteen they were keep
Ing him on at school because he was 81
clever.
Harry had not made his fortune IN
tho five ve.re mt that many detail,