Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-01-02

AtLuldtQTe# %InttelSGrOrn IT Id his sLeHel1p,S
tits douced queer Miss Field didn't.
arrive. The sugar, Toppy. pleased!
and she doesn't know you've q son and
heir. mother minep How did you keep
it to yourself, thought Thought you'd
have told It from very pride" .
"Dick, my dear son, Miss Field is
Just the lady should choose for you
handsome, sweet-tempered wealthy
and young. II Will annoy me beyond
all things If you fail to secure her for
your vile. All, Silvertop, you are
looking unutterable things at me; but
you know I'm a. plain-spoken woman,
and talk plainly to Dick because I
mean to get him Off my hands as quick
Qs' as possible. Miss Field is the one
woman to be his wife"
Violet steals cautious look at Sill
vertop. His mouth is working fruit
lessly to kill Il smile that hath amuse-
1nont and contempt for it's ingredients.
y''You should have received the lot
ter two days ago-confound the mail
train. any howl" goes On Dick. ut
went off the track at Jones' station yes
terday, and an honest farmer who
CHANGED to be passing brought on the
sacks like a couple of meal-bagsr'
But the grand topic under discussion
is Miss Violet Field She is sweet
morsel to Mrs. Torresharn's MATCH
making palate; and her virtues are
proclaimed until the new girl, Lefty,
feeling her checks grow deeper than
any carnation, locks up to find Silver
tops clear, dark eyes fixed curiously
upon her.
"A glass Of water, please, Lofty"
says the voice Of the curious gazer, In
gentle consideration Of what he deems
mere fit of bashfulness; but Letty's
eyes, looking into his own, glow with
a something that astonishes him.. AS
a rule servant girls eyes are not SO
expressive, speak they never so in
telligibly.
All that day Lefty is busy as q bee
learning the manifold ropes of Torren~
sham house; and by nigh tall she is
hungry and tireda thing she hasn't
been since childhood; and after eating
hearty supper and creeping into h
plain little bed somewhere up in the
attic, Miss Field forgets to be haunted
by an indifferont-looking pair of brown
eyes, but glides into new dream-land
where all objects are statuesque and
sllyer-topped!
The next day the vases are filled
with exotics and the lovely rarer bios
SONS of the north; but in Silvertop's
room, as the library is usually called,
in Silvertop's vase and Silver
tops exclusively study table, q
bunch of violets CLEAN in purple
gloom from between volumes OF
Tennyson in scarlet and Longfellow
in brown. She puts her name flowers
there because she dares, and enjoys the
very bolduess OF the: act. Then the
china in the pantry is overlooked and
is about to be set again upon abe high
shelf when the door is opened cautious
ly and Dick peers in.
Peers in and then walks in.s There
is a miscellaneous laughter in his boy
ish eyes. and as Violet holds aloft the
half dozen green dragon cups OF very
ancient china he comes closer AUDI
Crash! Poor Violet! Out she runs
away from Dick and the pantry--runs
straight to Silvertop's room, and. at
last, painting and breathless, stands be-
fore him.
"What is it, Letty9"
Dick; I have broken the china.'
''Ah---I see!' and scowl gathers
darkly above the dark, flashing eyes.
Violet doesn't know whether to laugh
Or to cry; so she does neither, but
comes over to him and holds out d
small white hand in token OF something
he knows not what. But he takes it
in the one strong right hand left to
him, and says: "Be comforted; shall
intercede for you"
Mrs. Torrensham walks into Silver
tops room as Violet is about to leave
it. "Letty!' calls she; and Miss Field
stops.
Now Mrs. Torrensham, not three
seconds ago, determined to pack Lefty
off ''for good and ALL" but beyond
the new girls strange gray eyes burn
darker ones that have u meaning in
them; and reading their message at q
seconds flash, the aunt's visage is
forced to grow gentle, the hard lines to
relax, and Lefty is told to see that the
bed in the guest room is made up
freshly, as Miss Field is to arrive
that evening. Silently Violet moves
away.
And, now that evening has gloomed
down upon them, the house is softly
ablaze with the lights from many
waxen candles in consideration of Miss
Fields expected arrival. and in honor
OF q party OF guests from O. neighbor-
ing town, who have come in friendly
fashion to give her greeting. THERE'S
a continuous sound Of wheels about.
Numerous school and society friends
have brought their best toilets and
sweetest expressions to honor. her
coming-why, then, this delayp Z
Silvertop is alone in his sanctum.