Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11

not mind going to him; 1t Is indeed
the only thing to be done. In great
haste,
"Your loving aunt,
'MARY NEWTON"
The coachman had also given Hugh
Lambert q note.
"I was to have left it at Leytons
sir" he said; shut I heard you was
coming by this train"
Lambert glanced at the contents,
and then turned to Dorothy.
"Your aunt has kindly trusted you
to me; so now you won't mind &C.
companying me home, will you ?" ne
asked.
"I think it is you that ought to
mind" was Dorothy's answer. 81
am afraid we shall be giving you SO
much trouble. 1t is very good of
yor."
A minute later she was seated be-
side him in the dog-cart, spinning
along the dark roads into what was
to her an unknown country.
Dorothy was very tired, and was
thankful to reach the house and be
handed over to the care Of the house
keeper. Very soon she was fast
asleep in an old.fashioned oak-pan-
eled room that would have seemed
very ghostly to her, but that she was
too much fatigued to take much heed
Of her surroundings; and, beside, her
maid was in the dressing room and
within call.
The next morning Dorothy was
down for half past 8 breakfast, and
was shown into bright little morn
ing room. Mr.. Lambert met her, and
was SO kind and anxious to make her
happy and at home that she very
soon found herself talking to him as
If she had known him for years, in
stead OF his being an acquaintance of
few hours only. She was rather an
unconventional little person, and by
no means stiff or cold. She had
warm. hearted Irish manners, and
looked at the world in q trustful way,
believing people and trusting in them
firmly, unless she found that they
were not to be depended upon, instead
of proving before trusting, as colder
natured and perhaps wiser folk do.
She had been brought up by an old
uncle, for whom her elder sister kept
house. They had no brothers, and
their parents had died years before.
Mrs. Newton was their mothers sis.
ter-in-law; but ner husband had quar-
relied with the girls uncle and guar
dian, Mr.. Nayton; so it was not till
after the death of the latter that Dor
Othy and her sister had been allowed
to GO to Priarton. Now, however,
they hoped to spend good deal of
time there; but this was Dorothy's
first visit.
Mary Nayton, her sister, was about
p and exceedingly placid and sensi-
BILE; but she took things so quietly
that Dorothy was always ALLOW we'd to
go her own way and do whatever she
liked; consequently at 23 she had
learned to think and act for herself,
and as her nature was impulsive and
Warm-hearted, she INDUCED in great
many theories OF her own, hated con-
ventionalities. believed firmly in Pla-
tonic friendships, and not unfrequent-
ly got into troubleln consequence.
It very soon struck Hugh Lambert
that she was different from most OF
the girls he had met, and she inter
ested him accordingly.
1t was with q feeling Of relief that
he found the road would be impass-
able for some days; so he wrote to
Mrs. Newton, begging her to let Doro:
thy remain with him instead OF re-
turning home, and asked an elderly
cousin VINO lived d few stations Off to
come and act as chaperon.
The old lady accepted theinvitation
and the post allotted to her; but, as
she was a great invalid, Dorothy and
Hugh were constantly left alone to-
gether. He liked to sit in the dusk
and hear her sweet voice singing to
him, to watch her arranging flowers,
and to consult her about the garden.
The girl felt supremacy nappy-he was
so kind to her, such an agreeable
companion in every way that she
thoroughly enjoyed his society.
A fortnight went by and the road
was pronounced perfectly sale; even
the floods had subsidized. So Hugh
had no excuse for OBTAINING his fair
guest longer, and, though very re-
luctant to part with her, he drove
over to Priarton.
She was standing in the hail as he
left that night, after dinner, and held
out her hand to say good-by.
81 can't thank you enough for all
your kindness" she said softly.
"Nay, my child, can not tell you
what pleasure it has been to me: but
perhaps you will know some day." he
replied, and she went up stairs won
dering what he meant.
She believed 80 firmly in Platonic
friendship that she would not let her.
self think that her feeling toward
Hugh Lambert was anything else;
and, although she knew ne disbelieved
in her theory in the abstract for
they had argued the subject very
she thought that his
sentiments were well defined in her
case.
Hugh Lambert felt as if something
very bright had come into his life
since he had known Dorothy. She
was SO quaint and naive in her speech,
new and fresh with her ideas and
thories, SO free and unaffected in