The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-04-10
NOT 4 HER0IuE.
By Mrs. F. Crawford.

A bright and winning child was Hctty Marvin, christencd Mehitabcl. but only called SO when II was necessary to i'm pose restraint on her exubcrant spirits, which sometimes carried her into con siderable lengths of mischief Then the tired mother would say, Mehitahel' and volumes of reproof dealt out in any other form could not have had its awe some effect
 Not much of awe or hardship had fallen to lIetty's lot, for though the eldest child in family where activity was the rule. it was cheerful kind of activity that does not fret and rasp the spirit
 Farmer Marvins place was only three miles from thriving village In his youth he had been obliged to call reluctant halt in his students career on account of the physical necessity tnrex crcise in the open air
 Hero robust, happy natural children Were growing up; ranging along in reg ular order Just like the series of readers and one to each class, the school-marm said at district school com meuccment as four Marvin children-= lIctty and Harvey, and Judd and Suey told her their names and standing Baby and Johnny, in pinatnrrS were at home waiting their turn
 Hettv s temperament was the dreamy. imaginative one. One own brothers are apt to tease, and hers were no cN- eertjon, ee llettN found il pl"aeanter to impart her thoughts and ianeirs to Stuart Earle, Il lad slightly her senior who, hay ing no sister had set her apart as the object oi his hoyisll cliNalrv and devo- tion
 Wasn't il grand she sald on one of these occasions in those old"n times the histories tell about when ther,. were knights and ladies and tournamcnts and famous castles, and everything SD different from what it is nowadays? When l am grown up | mean to do something grand and noble. like Jeanne D Are or Madame Roland
 But they were both put to death
 l know it, but they died for liberty They were grand and noble women.
 Now stuart admiration for lIctty rose. just whern-hcr- brothers fell off He liked her airy flights, all but the self sacrificing part That he was bound to pit himself against
 Tell you what you can be, lI"tty, when you are grown up. You can b" an American countess
 ll"w2 There are no titled ladies i'll this country
 know how You can become the wife of an earl That means marrying me, and, you know an "arlS wife k a countess
 And then they laughed, this boy and ui ipl in n h..ir gal side of his peculiar hit of Yankee adap- tation flashed across their minds The attraction about Stuart was that he laughed with. never at. Iietty
 Soon, according to local custom, they were transferred to the superior advan- tagcs of the village academy Here IIetty love of Knowledge for it's own dear sak", and naturally quick intui- tions, carried her so bra,~ly along that. though -hr had her music practice in addition, she and Stuart completed the cours" together Nothing disturbed their rare boy-and- girl friendship Many time in youthful gatherings. when merry banterng voices prevailed a pair of admiring eyes would seek her own. and voice gently modulatcd for only her ear would whisper. My countess
 
 showed the homage not all unwelcome
 When nineteen. Stuart received a let ter from merchant uncle. in a distant city urging him to come west and prom ising if h" showed an aptnc-- for th. business to takr him into partnership at twrnty-onc
 There was hurried parting between the two young people-no other tr0th- plight than this la-t injunction Don't forget n" H"tty Two years will soon be gone, and then will come back and claim my count"~, and she stood alon" in the hall, with un-hed tear in her eyes. and vague feeling of loneline-, i'll her heart at ti" departure of her boy cavalier
 So far Hetty had never faced r..pon sibility The kindly atmosphere of home had cnyeloped and shielded her So far only the diseases common to childhood had visited the family but at the autumn house-cleaning came the bleakest autumn weather, and the dear houss-mother took severe cold, fol lowed speedily by fever and compii- cat.-d form of disease. that baffied the physicians, and after weeks of torture left her paralytic invalid for th. rest of her life
 As this certainty settled down like pail upon the household. Hettys work came to her-not in any heroic sem blance but in very commonplace, mat ter-offact ways
 An ye plaz", Miss Hetty it was