The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-16
A BLESSED BROTHER.
ny wlNTuA CHESTER,

ny WINTIIA CHESTER.
"Whoopee, Katel Look at thisln said
Bobby, entering theroom with all boys
clatter, and pulling a beautiful pink and
blue valentine out OF a large envelope,
"IOok what Igot!"
"RmH" said Kate, abstractedIy, from
her big easy chair by the window,
"Don't bother me, Bobby, I'm interest.
ed in Ramona"
Outlook, persisted her brother, "Its
valentine. Such a beauty! Whew!"
he added, having exhausted his slender
stock ofadiectives. Kate good naturally
looked up.
"Yes, that Is pretty. Como here, let
me see 1t, Did Jessie Gwyn give It to
youP It's lovely" said Kate, remember
ing with sigh the happy childish days,
when she had looked forward SO eagerly
to st. Valentines coming.
VI guess she did. l told Jessie was
going to give her one, and she said she'd
give me one, too. We don't keep those
things secret like some people do" said
Bobby In superior tone.
mo, you and Jessie arc little sweet.
hearts, and you tell each other every
thing, That's right, and it Is really very
pretty, beautiful" she added taking up
her book, "now run away. ! want Ia
finish my reading"
"Well, | say, aren't you any more GU
rious than that? Don't you want to
know II there's a valentine for youPp
Kate laughed. "Young ladies don't
receive valentines any more. It isn't
fashionable. But" for the first time no.
ticing package OF letters under his arm,
where did you get all that mail?"
"Postman gave 1t to me Just as was
coming up the steps. Better look and
see ifthere's anything for you"
Letter from Fannie" murmured
Kate, 1.-TWO for mamma; here's one for
me in largo envelope, addressed in a
strange hand. Who can 1t be,-why,
Bobby" delightedly opening it. "a val
enine-such q pretty one? What beau-
tiful pen work. Who could. have sent
1t was a little picture OF youthful
couple, sketChed on thick, roughly.
finished paper. Branching trees were
over them and a fence between but serV-
cd US rest for youthful elbows, while
youthful lips met in kisses. A true love
knot was represented in one corner, and
long grasses bent gracefully over the 70.
mantle sketch, all executed with the ut
most nicely and skill, Kate, glRneing
up, met her brothers. mischievOus eyes.
Bobby" suspiciously, "did you send
me this2"
mo, course not, couldn't do nice
work like that. Ono OF the boys at
school sent 1t to you-that's enough for
you to know"
Kate, who had many admirers among
Bobby's school friends, suggested several
names, but 1t was none OF these. Who
Coulditbe thenP Hereyes turned again
to the valentine.
"0h, here Is something in the spray OF
grasses that may tell me-" But when
she spelled it out 1t was "Je taimO en-.
core, 10 t'aime." She caught her breath,
looked yet closely at the words and said:
bobby, tell me, do any OF the boys un.
derstand French? Can you yourself
say, I love thee yet | love thee, in
FrenCh2"
"No, Kate; you know can't. French
doesn't come In our course for year,
and the boys don't know 1t either"
"Then this didn't come from the boys
at school, for there's French init, be-
sides no boy could sketch so beautifully
as this. Bobby, tell me, l have particu.
lar reason for wanting to know who did
this2 II you don't I'll tell Jessie Gwyn
you sent Maude johnson q valentine,
too, and she'll DO so mad at you she
won't speak for weeks"
"0h, she'd get over 1t sooner than
that. She couldn't help speaking
to me, cause she likes me so. However,
don't mind telling you, now I've had
all the fun wanted. You sec, Thought
1t was too bad when everybody else was
getting valentines that you shouldn't
have any, cause I'm fond OF you and
hate TO see you neglected. So got a
sheet oi that etching paper at the store
and took 1t to our bead professor. l told
him you were a young lady and wanted
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