Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-28

are fatlgueu Dy your Walh an" WIG
confusion of il all The patient l
have Just left is an agreeable old lady,
and She is quite alone. Would you
not like to sit with Der and rest for q
little vhile9 | could then call for you
and take you home" .,
ooh. thanks. / shall be SO glad, "
answered the girl, who could have
sobbed from very WEAKNESS.
And 50 Fay Orrelle was courteous
lly escorted into the cool, dim parlor
| where Mrs. Grey was lying, sore at
heart and racked with fever pain.
And as DR.. Vernon Hardy left there
and turned from the house again he
smiled rather knowingly.
Nothing more opportunate could
have happened" he thought. Fay
is a shrewd little thing; she will be
quick 10 comprehend the trouble OF
that neglected mother; and she is SUI
6cently wise to know that the bad son
makes the bad husband.
Perhaps the policy Of the young
physician was not altogether unset
| fish. For certainly an exquisite girl
ish vision, with innocent gray eyes
and hair Ike meshed sunbeams, had
haunted his dreams with significant
consistency. Certainly the wide earth
could hold for him no dearer treasure
than the simple heart of sweet Fay
Orrelle--the simple heart that had
turned all too readily and kindly to-
ward polished, persuasive, and un-
worthy lover.
eff she cares much for the grace
less fellow, that tender heart will suf-
f, fer. OF course. But the brief agony
! Of the lancet is better than 9 lifelong
pain the sage doctor meditated as he
went his way.
Meanwhile the girl was sitting be
side Mrs. Grey, who had become much
too i'll to wonder about the unfaGlil-
lar guest.
And while Fay rested in Toms big
easy chair the sick woman babbled of
him in a strange, half-cOnsclous way
that was rather startling to the pretty
heiress.
"Tom will marry the simple little
stranger-he viii marry the girl who
is as good as gold-as good as fifty
Thousand dollars in solid cash, " she
maundered, ia the weakness OF her
mental alteration, and laughing curl
ously as she repeated Toms coarse
pun. ''But he does not love her-the
girl with the pretty name, that sounds
| like the refrain of some foreign song,
like the tinkle of fairy bells Tom
was never loving, never unselEsh,
never frank; though he has bonny
face and nice, polished manners of his
own. AS he has neglected and beg
cared the mother, so will he neglect
aud beggar the wife-the fairy girl
whom he will marry only because she
is an heiress. / can loretell it all; |
can hear the clink of the wineglass
and the click of the cards; | can see
tears on the fair cheeks of her who
will watch and wait, hope and pray
all in vain for him till the gold is
gone and all her fresh young beauty. .
The pitifui muttering ended at last
in an undistinct utterance, succeeded
by dreary sigh, and then she slept,
unconscious still that Fay Orrelle,
/ for whom she feared so much mishap,
was beside her.
AS the girl began to comprehend
the whole meaning of those half delir-
i0Bs murmurs, all the wild-rose red
faded from her soft cheeks, and her
eyes sparkled with indignation.
She was dainty tender creature,
but she had sufficient spirit to battle
for her own scruples or against the
wrongs of another, Dr. Vernon Hardy
| had interpreted Alright the latent pride
/ and resolution of her nature.
When he presently returned and
noted the new, stern lines ABOUT the
dimpled pink mouth, he was not sur
prised; but he thrilled like a woman
when she turned her shy, grave eyes
toward him with a trusting glance.
He knew that she understood some
thing Of bis sudden stroke of policy,
end that she did not resent il.
II ana grateful to you, she said SIM
ply, as he led her out to his coupe.
But not yet would he venture to
suggest how sweet a reward she might
make.
And some weeks alterward the
polished and affected Tom Grey be-
came aware that the girl "as good as
gold' was not for HIM,
That charming girl Is engaged 10
DR.. Hardy, really" he drawled. "She
was stupendously fond of me, you
know, till she missed that excursion.
l can't understand it at all, you
know"
And if Mrs. Grey ever really guess
ed the whole truth she was much too
meek and forbearing a mother to
point a moral for his instruction.
A new kind of evening entertain
ment is being tried for youny people,
which may afford a pleasing variety
for Winter evening gatherings. 1t
is called a costume concert, aud the