The Newtown bee., 1889-09-13
FROM THE KING.

dent to the last hour before starting on her regulur weekly trip from Baltimore to Norfolk. Boxes and bundles were being trundled aboard, baggage slowed In place, and belated passengers rushing to secure seats on the shady side of the sunny deck. Among the latter, q slender girl of lG stands for A moment, as If bewildered by the confusion, the quick color coming and going in her cheeks, and glances wistfully around as if in search of some one. As if ill answer to this anxious look,a hearty voice close be- side her said:
 "Ah! Miss Dorothy; I've been watch ing for you; your train was on time, evidently, and trust you had no diiii- culty in making the transferY''
 ''No; none ut all. Knowing that my time was limited, l took a cab which could bring my trunk, too. But it is good to feel myself safe in your charge" was the rather wlstful reply.
 "oh! you're all right, now. Here's Il pleasant seat I've been saving for you; but after settling you I'll have to run; there are thousand things to be attend cd to--or perhaps you'd like to rest af- ter your early starty'
 'No, indeed; I'm used to early rising and much prefer staying here; every thing Is full of interest after my quiet village home and have my book, if l grow tired"
 So, after few more kind words, good Capt Bell betook himself to his work, murmuring as he hurried away:
 "what brave little thing she is, full of spirit and courage"
 A brave girl, indeed Barely l6, she had that morning left her mountain home in the Blue Ridge and started out to help, by her earnings, the widowed mother and little brother and sisters to whom her thoughts so tenderly turned. Despite the loneliness and sorrow at leaving them, there was "A feeling of ex- ultent joy, as sitting all alone on that crowded deck she thought of all the things they needed and which her earn ings could supply.
 Thirty dollars month! What tt for tune 1t seemed and how little she had dreamed, when Mrs Barry answered their advertisement for Summer boarders, that this would be the outcome. For poor little Mamie Barry, a helpless little crip- pie, had grieved so at parting with her, that Mrs Barry, herself far from strong, feeling that here was girl with whom she could trust her little daughter, had proposed that Dorothy should come to her as Nannie's companion, in some sort governess, at salary of thirty dollars per month and travelling expenses paid.
 And this was her destination now, for Mrs Dent had accepted the offer, and ar- ranged for her daughter to make the trip under Captain Bells charge, he being an old friend.
 Dorothy's heart is very full of grati- tude and hope as she thinks it all over. "What lucky girl l am," she muses, ESQ young, so full of faults, and yet this good fortune has come to me. Though mamma would not call 1t that-she would say it was but part of the Divine plan, that 1t came from the King" and a smile 80 unconsciously sweet and glad H. lumined the girls face, that sad look ing man who had been watching her some time rose and, seeking the captain, said:
 nen .afl.s hat fFfF. Ia tD whom you were talking some time ago the one wearing the brown plaid suit and brown hat with the red feather. She has the truest, brightest face I've seen this long time, and strangely familiar"
 s'Familiar! shouldn't wonder, why that's Melville Dents daughter, plucky little girl, too. She"
 ssIIe was the dearest friend 1 ever had" interrupted Mir Taylor; "eome and introduce me-"
 So before the Captain had time for fur ther explanations, he was hurried away to the shady nook where Dorothy sat and was presenting MT Taylor, an old friend of your father, Miss Dorothy"
 II should say so,n said Mir Taylor cor dially, taking the girls outstretched hand, s'and here I've been watching you for an hour wondering who 1t was you remind ed me of. You are very like your father as knew him first. But tell me of your mother, yourself, where you are going, everything"
 And Dorothy, in her simple, honest way, told her story of their fathers sud- den death three years before, their pow erty since and of this place as governess which she was on her way to fill.
 '.I'm very young and know very little to fill such place, y she added, but Mrs Barry knows all this, and think wants me more as companion for her little lame girl, Mamie, than anything else. Nannie Is l3 years old, though one would not think to see her, she Is so small. When only nine years old, she had < fall which injured her spine, and she has new CT grown since. Last Summer, Mrs Bar ry brought her to our village for the brac ing mountain air, and the little thing be came much attached to mc. It Is to this think, I owe my good fortunc.n
 There was d suspicious moisture in NJ Tayior's eye as he listened to the earnes speaker and, rising abruptly, lie said ssChild, you bear your troubles bravely but no life Is free from them. Come,
 think you will do my poor boy good
 rhc doctor tells us sea air Is good flo him, and so bright days, when he
 strong enough, we bring him on this lii tle trip. We cannot hope to keep hil
 with US long, he added, brokenly.
 ny this time they had reached she
 tered nook where q pale, fragile youtt his feet propped on aeamp stool, was \ clIaing in a large, easy chair. He wa about her own age and his face' sn . rIs n<tSs< f.F sxst1.I