Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-12-15

Dout Oh' yes, it was a queer thing
'e' l do' but it is something | never ha,
'o"! regretted yet; first. because she is
De- Jewel OF a girl, and second, because.
Dry, wen, all that comes afterwards.
sat did not realize how greatly | ba
Ner sci my heart upon the companionshi
s"u OF this new niece, until | received
anu letter from her mother, who greatl
III l hesitated about trusting her darlin,
among strangers in this way. / like,
Vi that IN Ruth, (oh. by the way, | hay,
no found out that her name is Mary, bu
OF she will always seem like Ruth" IL
'he me), but couldn't get over a kind O.
" "hurt' feeling that she ought to be
Wiling to trust her daughter to her
an W aunt without question.
W. Don't suppose that ! am so oucer
mat didn't know that | wasn't her
aunt. 1t was only "A kind of varue
III feeling, you know, that sort of battled
~ with my reason in the matter. Well.
H. anyway, she came. the dear pirl. and
; then she was established in her own
io little cosy room that | had arranged
er Tor her, directly off mine.
~ IL was a little of a shock to me TO
le LOOK at her first, because she should
e nave been tall and fair ruth was).
Il out she was short and dark. How |
ever, she was a little round, kittepisb |
: PLAYFUL, thing, and as soon as she had |
g recovered from her inconsistencies and |
. Snyness somewhat, we got along ad-
= mlraoly, How | did enjoy talking to |
I .he enid. loved to see her face |
5 light up with new thoughts. We
TAXED about every thing under Tn,
sum- out the twins, | never mentioned
them; was afraid she would think
was Il mlld lunatic and want TO 90
nome That is, | never did, till one
hiShtthat am going to tell YOU about
now.
MY little girl had been having a BAD
cold and "A pretty hard tine of if. 50 =
determined that on my birthday She ;
should go to the Observation-Disclosures" '
IL was, beautiful ~''Lohenrrinw car
see her lace now, all alame with do =.
llsh'' can see her now turn pale A. I,
some new, exquisite strain struck he, y
ear All! how wildly it BROUGHT +, u
my MIND the first time | heard IL i
'E(Sa' E2Sa! Bt'adoro," sang Cam y.
pagninl IN soul-melting strains. an, ~
amy sat with bated breath drinkiro ~.
lhe passionate pleading of the son, ~
ana the singer; knowing NOTHING. see -
ing nothing, hearing nothing, I'm, ;"
what was before her, until | clutcbe, -
her arm convulsively. She started g
violently, had brought her back f. y
earth so rudely. 10
"hat Is the matter, Aunt Amy? H.,
i had taught her to call me sol sh, Nv
alarmed. nj
"Allred's SON. 'ns
''Alfred?' she demanded woraon In
ngly. ra
ies! answered impatiently. 'o'
SON." Mt
"Who is Alfred, Aunt Amy?" IS
"Why, Alfred is one OFT WA, hg
ISL on the point of saying, zone o. SIX
he twins" when | caught myself. IS q
back and covered my face with m, 10
ands when thought what a fool us
ust be making of myself. Amy. boo, Is Il
llld' was disturbed beyond descrjn. paf'
On. his
Aunt Amy. let us 90 home. | feel 1rlo
re you are not WE'LL said the de,, ua'
nd with infinite pity in her sof, Just
found out afterwards that She men
II al once woven a little romance 'u9t
q mad settled in her mind thai ehce
Aired was an old lover of mine from upof
ION some cruel circumstance had wore
me in days gone by. one
consented gladly, aud we passed nave
letly out of II box. There was .he
one holding the door open fo, Juiio
it was Alfred's son abov
When we reached home and were
ING quietly in our rooms in on,
'sslhg gown, as was our custom al. Singh
Us before going to bed, | confessed
my weakness to Amy and told he, Rev
u aired was "A myth, but that tbi. the |
'hse young man looked so much which
the image had in my mind that sixty
I'd been unnerved, a uui
chlld did not turn from me in wich,
m as feared she would. She by sou
Soothed me, patting me and mr. ton a
over me in a way that was Ink. jacent
i'seli 10 me, saying: Poor auntv Z gat,
: Aunt Amy as She smoothed hundr,
'he halr from my fcverish fore. hedge
l. There, dear" she said finally procee
TO forget it all and 90 to sleen secmir
Il send for DIR. F%lereut2 Tomorrow rock a
ne IL soon set you straight" iaunty
course protested that | wasn't forty 0
ou' 'he next morning the little sable
sentforDr. Flereutz, spite ofme. ~incessa
5 up and looking out of the win. outer
"heh ne came; and who do Won dreds,
uroVe up with him? Alfred's greater
ana VINO was Alfred's son %reallyp tested
; he was DR.. Flereut2' nenbew Even
mad come to live with him. Trpal about il
u amy come to live with me. lint absorb,
oo'h changed their minds, and failed t
'hey Doth changed their minds tor. A
o" they live together lust around the acc
,rhef' Amys mother and little complet
I'VE around the other corner. his VIII
i-weh' the doctor and I live family,
ye. another corner, and the inner CT
est pressure OF our lives are the pecked
our niece and nephew" whom leaving
tn mini of-for the doctor has The VIII
. .ne lrlck from meas the chill mendou
Inc iWlns.-E Emma G.. Hcwen. some st
i&ec Biade. but III
W away
War Without B~loodshed common
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