The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-23


eyes. But in those few last moments
we we're all one again, and my darling
died in my arms and close to my
heart. But oh, wiz! Will! tremble
yet when | think how neal ! came to
being u scoundrel. My poor little
wife, We made q great mistake"
"How?"
II ought not to have married her
until | had in some prepared
her for her new life. The maiden
would have learned for my sake what
the wife could not humble herself to
learn
Inever thought OF marrying Nellie,
uncle, until she had been educated. |
was going to ask your advice on this
| very subject; she is herself anxious to
come to New York and go to school,"
"That is better"
Then we talked the matter over,
and the end of it was that Uncle John
said there was some woodlands for
sale in the neighbOrhOod of Nellie's
home, and that while he was trying to
make a bargain tor himself he would
see if he could arrange mattersfor me.
The next day Jacob Smith said,
"NIr. Whitfield has gone to Slocum.
vile to buy some land" and | an.
swered. $50 he told me-" Three
days afterward Jacob said, "Mr.
Whitfield has bought the land; he
bought it from that Israel Jones with
whom you staid last summer" and !
answered, "Indeed! rather expected
he would do So"
But it was a full week before Uncle
John came back to the Office. He
looked pleasantly at me as he entered,
and said, as he passed my desk, "Mr.
Lawson, l want to speakto youinmy
ROOM"
"NNill, l have seen your Nellie"
"Did you like her, sir?"
"She is pretty well-for a beginning.
| took her to school this morning
to Miss Hayden's, a very good school,
| am told. Nowyou arenot to trouble
her; she is to have a fair chance with
her lessons"
"How often may I see her in q week.
sir?"
How often do you think fair and
right, WHIP"
"Twice aday-that is fourteen times
a week, sir. l will help her with her
lessons"
"Twice a day. In that caseyou will
have to live withme. Idare say your
Aunt Huldah would like that"
Aunt Huldah! What do you mean,
Uncle John?"
ITO be candid, VIII, as l was up
that way l codld not help going to see
your father, and then and there it
struck me to ask your aunt to come
and look after my house and Nellie.
Nellie has lots of things to learn that
only a lady like Miss Huldah can
teach her, and | am going to supervise
Miss Nellie's education myself. /
have concluded it must be at home as
we'll as at school,"
"Dear, dear Uncle John"
Nov, Will, you never said, Dear,
dear Uncle John before; what is it
you want?"
II want to stay with you and Aunt
Huldah."
"And Nellie?"
Eyes, and Nellie"
81 am agreeable. If you can live
under one roof together for two years
while Nellie is studying and not get
tired of each other, and not quarrel, j
think at the end of it you may ven
ture to marry. So move your traps
tonight, and make the experiment"
1t is eight years since John Whitfield
began his educational experiment, and
Nellie and / have lived under the
roof ever since. We have been six.
years married, and Uncle John may
be almost daily seer walking or riding
with a lovely little girl, who rules him
with a tyranny at once absolute and
delightful.
"She is so beautiful" ne says in
apology, as he plays with her long
fair hair-''she is so beautiful that
she is almost worthy to be called Ber-
NICE" And though the child is as I'M
like as possible the dark, handsome
passionate picture which hangs in
John Whitfeld's room, she is, afterit
the dearest thing on earth to John
Whitfeld's heart.-Harper's Weekly.