Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-02-06

tbeparlor. Three women are quite
enough. And you're.so young,yot
know
aI'm seventeen, aunt" falterei
Aileen.
sTwo or three years hence will
doyery we'll for you," said the re
lentless elder. "Try AID put such
silly nonsense out of your head"
And this was why Aileen was
crying.
Old Mrs. Harrington understood
it all very well. She had been
young once. She saw the folly of
interference in this particular case,
however.
aDan'l's wife likes her own way"
SAID she. "She amt pleasant if
she thinks.any one is meddlin'. I'll
tell you what Aileen-you and I'll
goout to the big chamber over the
stonesDarn, and get. Pomp to build
usJnp saTeal good fire of.pine logs ia
th1 old chimbl There 81 pet
loGm:t there and a spinllin wheel
andsall the fxin's and rllFshow you
hoE I used to spin fax when Twas
a GAL and 2Weayes rag carpet.D
sWillssyouf,' said Aileen. with
frightening eyes. aOh, grandma,
howvery, very nice that will be!
Aud can.I roast chestnuts and APP.
plesin the ashes!-and will you tell
me about your sailor.lover that was
drowned before you ever saw my
Grandfather Harringtonf'
EYES," said theSold lady-"yes!
Well hey our New YEARS. by our
seIyes-me and you, Child
So Aileen put away the pretty,
little, blue merlne gown that.she
had retrimmed for New Years Day,
and donned instead the brown
Merrimac calico that made her look
like robin.redbrest; and just
about the time that her three couS
ms were quareling for the posses
SIGN of the biggest dressing glass to
500" their hair, she and her grand
mother were adjusting the ancient
spinning-wheel in the stone barn
chamber, and piling wood in the
cavernous recess Of the hugetfre.
place.
They had a very pleasant New
Years day, after all, though the
tears came to Aileen's blue eyes
once or twice, when the carriages
rolled by over the hard. frozen road
toward the house.
And at dusk she lighted the
cheerful candles, and sat down to
prepare grandma's supper, with
fresh corncakes, baked in the hot
enlbers, according to the recipe of
Amt Felicia, the colored cook, fra.
grant coffee, and sweet apples,
roasted, and eaten with cream.
izBut Captain Dulany, riding his
Morgan horse, Hotspur, through
The pine woods, drew rein close by
the old stone barn, whence he had
out for ten years.
"What can it Def" he asked him
self. I'VE children used to play at
ghost up there OF All autumn even
ing, when the Vladimir family
lived there. Or perhaps the care
less servants have set something
OH fire."
He jumped off his horse, flung
the reins over projecting pine
bough, and went i'll to see hat the
meaning of this unwonted illumlna-
ton might be.
Tile door stood wide open-the
whole room was aglow with warm,
rudy light. Grandma, enthroned
in big splint.chair before the
blaze, was drinking her coffee, and
Aileen sat spinning at the old
wheel, with cheeks softly REDEEMED
and blue eyes sparkling-a very
picture of health and beauty.
Both started at the sudden APP
partition OF the captain OH the
threshold.
d. beg your pardon!" said
Captain Dulany, lifting his hat
81 saw the light shining out, and |
was afraid that something had
happened"
sSomethiAg has happened" said
Aileen, IaughingIy. II have learn
ed to SPIN. And grandma and
are having a picnic. Will you come
in, Captain Dulanyi"
"Wcll, since your coffee smells
SO good, 1 think will" said the
gallant young officer.
His cup-wilich for lack Of more
expensive china happened to be
mug-was scarcely poured out, be.
fore their numbers were augmented
by Mir. Ferrars aud young Fench.
urd, who had seen the lights, aud
had also observed ..Hotspur" fast
ened to the fence.
"May we venture to intruder"
said they, peeping IN lover the
stair rail.
"Ob, certainlyw said grandma,
smiling.
And Aileen distributed handle
less cups ana bountiful slices of
golden brown corn cake, yetstealn
ing from the fire, to her guests.
I'VE are hardly prepared to EN-.
terrain SO large a company" said
she, composedly; "but we can, at
all events, give you a sincere vel
GOMEZ
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