Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-01
WHAT DOROTHY FOUND.

VIA bNh''IIIt NlNiJ.
you can come and live with mo
and welcome if YOU can put up with
the same fare that | do"
The speaker was n tall spare man,
with keen black eyes twinkIing ont
from beneath a pair Of bushy black
brows. His clothes were shabby in
the extreme. but they had evidently
been carefully brushed before putting
on, and had Once been of fashionable
make and texture, although long past
those palmy days.
He was the s%tep-uncle of the chill
dren who stood before him. and to
whom his words were addressed.
say children. although the girl was
they were small for their age. and, al
though bright and intclligcnt-loo&inG,
had the appearance of being even
younger than they really were.
Dorothy answered shyly:
Thank YOU, uncle Jonas; we will
be glad of even a poorer shelter than
that hut" pointing to cow-shcd which
occupied a portion of the yard upon
which the Jonas Little'S cottage stood.
Wont we, Dayie?'
Yes, that we WILL" responded
Davic, turning his blue eyes from the
landscape they had been studying, and
fixing them wistfuIiy upon his rela-
tive's wizencd face.
You must have been poorly of. |
reckon was the reply; land / am
surprised at it. | thought that when
Robert Lane married my stcp-sis-
ter, Hulda, that he'd have taken bet
ter care of her children than to leave
them like this"
There was a tremble in Dorothy's
voice as she said:
I'VE were very we'll Off when father
died, and then mother took sick an.
followed him, and while we were at
the funeral our nice little house caught
fire and burned down. with all that
was in it. That is how we came to be
so poor"
Aud if YOU don't want us, uncle"
put in Davie. fired into sudden passion
thy's voice, 1--WE won't stay
Tut, tint. boy; who said | didn't
want YOU? Don't hc So hasty. Ny
living j. very plain, but such n. it is.
iiu.da', boy aud Girl are free to have"
80 il was settled,
iona, Littlc had The reputation Of
being rich. although he denied himself
ali but the uarc>t ncccssarics of lie.
lie had cuElr to the place years .%rfore.
and had bought the cottage with its
fny -..w.nnIInr ,.r,. orI b,I 49,
tied down t!gre to pass tine rest Of his
days.
He hadformcd no acquaintance, and
had made no debts. So that thc uroplc
really knew NOTHING about him. ~rxrrpt
that ON hi, occasional visit, tn the VII
larc TO procure provisions no paid cash
gor his n~urcb9>r..
He had since PASSED 4 lonely ana nm.
eventual life. unrl from fine, ,ky Dor
nthy and payir a~pur,r.d u,,a Li.
threshold a,kinu for shelter ana pro
lection.
Then . new era davncJ mon fine
rncller. The su.eat rln,r n,u.i, nf .
fresh younr voice sfroipr a5nut h.,
house as the oirl put her v~yiIlinr L,nd.
to the work of cleaning ana r~nopIa-
tine; the ,Erill notcs Of Dayia's vhis-
Tie rs he chopppd wood or drew wafer
from the old-G,hionad well whose tan
sweep rose above il Ike 4 rjpout;c arm
SUSPENDED i'm air it, Tina hoEorrd
.Ilos>-rrown huckct"-all sounded
strangely out Of Keeping with the half
alive airwhich had previously pcrvadcd
all the accrssorir, Of the scene.
He had spoke the truth about the
%plainnc>s Of the fare.
But Dorothy was Il born manager.
and with the aid of the milk from their
one COW, and the eggs from their few
l.,. - 800 ,-l 800. - -. ~
dish for the table outof the -four which