Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-27


( at hand. He would fam have visited his
/ Rosalinda at her home in Surrey, but she
/ besoupht him not to come; he should not
+ first look upon her in the halls Of slavery
! Her Rupert must wait till fate smiled up
on their path, and she enclosed little
poem on the subject which made him
/ happy for days. He sent her a ring two
golden hands casped together and he
wrote her long letters every day, which she
answered at first once a week, and then,
once a fortnight At length there came
{ day when he had not heard for a whole
month He was frantic with yexation;
some of his friends had begun to talk and
tease him: should he lose her now just as
he was about to have his salary raised,
He could not brook the thought.
In despair he wrote q few hurried lines,
begging to be allowed 20 see her bemOan-
I ing her long silence. Life without his
/ Rosalinda was iusupportable to him. etc.
/ I'm answer to his appeal he received a
short epistle in n shaky handwriting
RosaIinda had been i'll; she had parted
with her employer, and had gone to be
I the companion Of maiden lady of wealth
in Yorkshire. 1t was a long journey from
/ London; she dared not invite her Rupert
?
/ home. If better. she would write again
next week Adieu, and again, adieu!
/ But she did not write. Days went by
and, at last, one foggy morning toward
the end Of November, Septimus received
a communication from stranger gen
/ tleman who signed himself Thomas
/ Gawkroger." His worst fears were real
lied: the gentleman wrote that it was his
I D.. hot
Mis- Rosalinda St. Claire was suffering
/ from so severe an attack of illness that
the doctors declared there was no hope Of
her recovery. As Mr.. Potter and the
young lady had never met, the writer
/ hoped that time would soften the blow
and reconcile Mr. Potter to the inevitable.
The ring and Other trinkets would be for
wardod tomorrow per rail The postmark
on the cover was Oharlhill.
Not SO will / be batlled!' cried Septi-
mus. "DUca this impertinent stranger
think to tear two loving hearts asunder!'
And then descending from the heroics, he
confded to an intimate friend his inten-
ton of checkmating old Gawkroger in
the long run.
The two young men laid their heads to-
gether, and between them hit on the fol
lowing plan;
Septimus was to tell the firm that a re
lation of his was alarmingly i'll in North
shire, and to- beg for a few days holiday.
He was not TO answer Mr. Thomas Gawk-
rogers letter TO write to Rosalinda on
bed of sickness would be worse than use
lessl, but to take ticket TO Charlhill and
burst upon the conspirators like bomb
she'll
Miss St. Claire:" he inquired, Of
buxom, high-colored woman-servant. ~
am her intimate friend How is she? Is
she better?"
Beg pardon" said the servant.
Miss St. Claire the lady who is so
in!"
There is nobody sick in the house
now, said the woman soldly: but they
have got tine whooping cough down the
lame"
$40. no," exclaimed Septimus, arrang-
ing hi- fur collar HecDuld see in glass
in tae hall how well it looked. This is
Miss Dyuoch' house. IS DO not:'
Aye bot she's ut home"
well then. / have come 20 see the
young lady VINO is companion TO Miss Dy-
uoch"
81 dunno what's to DO, said the servant
cycling him -u4piciou-ly; but the mis-
trr-s is within. Win you give me your
uamet'
Strange thut they are all in league
with Gawkroger' said Sepumu7 TO him
self as he handed hi- card to- this alarming
parsonage.
1t was very neat, glazed card, which
. me had Intply had printed.