Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-12-02
AAechancstown Frederick County, Maryland Thursday Dec Z, 1885,

child. | amt no right to keep their
treasure back from en-, though 1t
should break my old heart to part with
the little one | have learned to love so
dearly.'
Kittens blue eyes dilated, she shook
ncr brown curls back from her fore
bead and stamped her small foot reso
luteIy on the ground.
i won't go to them !! | won't | won t
| won't 7
Kitten ? demonstrated the good far
mers wife.
4 love you + screamed the child. 4
will stay with you, I'm going to be
Robins little wife, and / won't leave
him
But if it is right that you should 60,
Kitten "
. lol't care-1 don't care will
STAY with you all 7
Mrs. Bolton drew the sobbing and
excited child close to her, and signaled
tc her husband not to say any more at
present.
But when Kitten was fast asleep in
bed, with the tears glistening Oh her
long eve!ashes and one little hand-the
crescent-shaped scar distinctly out-'in.
cd npon it--lying upon the coverlet,
Farmer Bolton got out the ink bottle
and "A sheet of blue paper,and wrote the
letter b b, No. -, street.
For it's our duty, any way you can
fix it, said the farmer.
BY the very next train, after the mo-
mentous epistIe had reached the far off
city, tall, styIish-looking gentleman
came down to Bolton farm to claim his
htIIe treasure.
4 have passed nearly my life abroad
he said, 'ani it was not until my re-
turn home, few months since, that |
learned by some accident a clue might
still be "a ned to the whereabouts of
MY orphan nc;ce. Lad little hope Of
ever seeing her again when inserted
that advertisement and you can fancy
my delight when your letter reached
ne am alone in the world, and people
c4lI me rich-now, indeed | feel that
that | AIN so in very truth.
At first kittc Byington-'Kitten,'
as she WIS fAmiliarly. called by her
warm heated farmhouse friends, stead
tasrIy refused to accompany her uncle
to his city home.
/ love my father and mother better
than do you, she resoIutely persisted
lepelIing her uncIcs caresses, and |
have promised to be Robin little wife.
But he united remonstrances and
pyrsulaIons of her friends at length
Succeeded in overcoming her objections,
a,l Kitten was taken uway-a little
NIube, all IN tears.
4on'Il forget us all when you are a
fine lady, Ki;ten,' SAID Robert, as he
kissed her good bye.
4 neyer--never will forget you, Rob
in, so5bpd the girl. Ill be Your wife
Just tne same, See If In not.
And these were Kittens last words
You must forget en-, my boy, said
the farmer afterwards, when Robert
Bolton REQUIRED to them She'll be
richer and grander than ever you can
hope to be, and it isn't fitting that
etoneware and fine porcelain should
mat" together.
Robert Bolton was only a boy, but
he never forgot Kitten last words
4 wish you would make up your
m.Ld to like him, Katharine. He is
one OF the finest young men | know
/ do like him, uncle,' sand Kitty
Byington, shaking her brown curls just
as defiant as she had done in the old
Bolton farmhouse ten years ago. /
think nes perfectly splendid" "
'Tnen, my little pet, why do you
treat him with such marked coldness
and re-erye? 1t is plain to see that he
love, you truly and tenderly, and-why,
my iove, what's the matter: You are
crying
Its because am so very, very mis-
eraulo, uncle, sobbed Kitten. hiding
hel tce on her unce's shoulder. Il
do love Mr.. Beverly, bnt | can't marry
him because e-because-l III already en-
gagged.
My dear girl, surely you attach no
Importance to the childish compact en-
tered into with the farmers son years
ago
promised him, uncle, and must
n0l break my word