Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-08-07
HER FIRST WARD,

There ought to be law against ~
said Alice Hawkes.. eyes. there ouoht
She was q tai, handsome girl, will
great dark eyes, hair Of lustrous brown
all lighted with changing CLEANS, lik,
satin when it lies in folds.
well, then sad Kate Jennings
you have no business to be left al
HERES, with no one to look after vom
rights and privileges. 1t is natura
enough that You should become the FREY
of your needy relatives"
''But this Mrs Whyte Wayte was thu
most disagrceayle of them ALL" cries
Alice.
Then let u be thankful that she ha
departed to a ettcr world" observed
Kate.
Eyes, but to leave her great clums,
boy to my guardianship-I that AWAY,
dete ted bo.s. kat, its actually ticnd
ish!"
''oh well. Alice, l wouldn't take sucl
. gloomy view of it as all that" sug
G sted Kate. "lIe may be an infanl
cherub for all you know. You can sen
him to boarding school"
ssh Is not cid enough for that"
Nv" VIZ w tIucllCu Mare.
II don know; I have only a da k
prcsentment. h, dear, what do people
want to ic for z Or, if tn must d e,
why couldn't it have been Alcxaade.
Adolphus instead of his moth"r p
''When does he arrive" asked Kate
"To-morrow,' was the mournful re.
joinder.
And what are you going to do with
him.
I've fitted up the north room as a
nursery, with tops and balls and all that
sort oil thing, and o d Hannah has pr m
lsed to have IN eye to him at night, in
case OF Group or dlphtheria, or any other
Of those meiciful dispeasations. And
I've bought sic and pair of skat s
for him, and perhaps he may break his
neck without MICA further trouble on
my ralt.'
Alice Hawkes. laughed as she spoke
but there was Il sigh mingled with the
mellow ling of her mirth, and thereby
Katherine Jennings KIN W that her fair
friends soul was inwardly t,oubled at
the unwelcome beuuest.
"Poor, dear Alice" thought Kate.
'But she'll make the best of thlngs-she
always does. And perhaps it won't be
so bad after ALL"
Miss Hawks countenance was very
dee ted, however, the next day, when.
wrapped in subles AMI velvet, she dro, c
to the depot. about mile and half
distant from Hawkes. Hall, to take pos
session OF her new trea ure
But the horses were fat and the roads
were heavy W til t! e mud following on a
January thaw, and the noise of the re-
treating train had long since ceased TO
echo among the hills when the carriage
drew up in front of the station.
II knew we should be too late, Ralph, -
said Miss Hawkes., sigh 'n", as she de
scended from the carriage, with little
sugar dog-the result OF a last Sudden
uncertainty whe; her her future charge
were three or thirteen years Of age-iD
her gloved hand.
There was but one inhabtant of the
waiting-room as Alice Hawkes. swept in
"a tall, fine looking man, somewhere in
the twenties, with hanl eyes, a nut,
brown mustache and valise Alice
looked dubioIsly 1T him. lie looked
with puzzled air at the fair apparition
In blae velvet and ermine.
For one minute and then tie whole
situation seemed to fla h, as it wee,
upon Alice Hawkes. mind. Mrs. Whyt
Waytc had never IN ntioned the age Il
her son. Could it b. po ;>ihle that til,
young man was the charge She felt
aer checks ggeG scarlet az she drop2sd