Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-07-07
From the Boston Traveller
A FORTUNE TELLER.

One day Mrs. Lorrimer's daughter,
Violet, was nowhere to be found; rel.
ther was thegentleman, Senior Espanol,
who taught the guitar. The whole
city was alarmed by the account of
the mysterious disappearance of a
beautiful belle and g. Woodworking,
gentlemanly foreigner. However, when
some one discovered that thelast gave
lessons to the first, an inference was
drawn by some looker-on.
"May they not havegone together ?"
The mother at once drove the
slanderer from her presence, preferring
the idea that her Violet was murdered.
However, before long, a penitent letter.
all blotted with tears, reached the
poor old lady, all alone in her great
Fifth Avenue mansion. Violet was
married to Senior Espanol.
The more one loves a person the
more furious does any deception on
her part make one. A less loving
mother might have forgiven. Stung
to madness, this one wrote a terrible
letter to the foolish girl who had so
hurt her. The husband, hot Span
lard, read it. It insulted him, and he
forbade his wife ever to see her parent
again. To do him Justice, love, and
no mercenary motive, had led him to
elope with the pretty heiress.
So the gulf was fixed between the on
" two OF the same blood who lived
on earth, and Senior Espanol began to
give lessons on the guitar for two in
stead Of one Then for three, four
and five If he had lived a little long
er it would have been forsix. But the
day the fourth child was born a coun-
tryman, who had mistaken him for q
rival, stabbed him in the back. He
apologized the next moment, but the
poor victim did not live to hear him
through, but dying tried to express
the fact that the gentleman was per-
fectly excusable
And so Violet, who had been very
happy with her music master, was left
widow with tour babies, no money,
and no accomplishment that had been
sufficiently cultivated to earn a living
by. OF course she took in sewing, and
of course a day came when there was
o. very DIOSDCCU vi 0OppC1 c1IO
not even dream of breakfast.
Not penny in the house, not loaf
of bread in the closet, not dollars
what was she to do? The poor little
woman walked up and down and
cried. That did not help her. She
looked over the relics of the past.
There were pretty pieces of jewelry,
WI Ill Ia, ~ \
all been sold long ago. She glanced
very new basket and no shoes, went
begging from door to door.
The basket was worth So. SO, the
shoes could be bought for 50. Two
singular circumstances preyed upon
her mind. She began TO take an inter
est in the ways and manners OF beg
CARS as the awful expectation Of be-
coming one began to haunt her.
81 could drown. myself" she said,
shut / could not we'll drown four chill
.dren, like litter of puppies. :"
Then leaning her chin on her hands
she watched from her window another
woman with ashawl over her head, 60
ing from door to door. Was she beg
ging? 1t seemed not. Once or twice she
entered and stayed some time. At last
she saw her at her own door, and
heard her going from room to room.
There was knock at the door, She
opened 1T and the woman was there.
"Well?" she said, inquiringly.
''Let me tell.your fortune, lady. ]
only charge 25 cents, said the WON
an. ~
'My fortune is told, since I have
not 25 cents in the world" said-Nio-
let.
The woman turned away.
stop a minute," said Violet. Gin
this age do people say you tell their
fortunes ?"
"No age is too DID," said the wom-
an. 81 just told an old lady's fortune
below. 1t was in the cards that she
was to have husband-her fourth.
She gave dollar. Look" She
opened her palm. 81 make money,
do. Pm a seventh child; see the flu
ture. I'll take take any bit of jewelry
if you have not any money. Have
your fortune told?"
But Violet shook her head and
closed the door hastily.
II cannot steal, and to beg | am
ashamed" said she to herself. CATER
it is dark tonight will 60 out and tell
fortunes" Then she took two fat.
irons to the junk shop, and bought a