Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-09-13
WANTED--AN HEIRESS.
DY EMMA a. HOPPER.

Her jolly, matronly facc broadcned
with smiles at an apparently divcrting
recollection.
''You wouldn't credit the incident if
you read it; but as was an cyc-wit-
ness, can vouch for it, You'll be paid
for listening; it's really too good!
al took what called vacation af :
ter we got done with Asbury Park and
Saratoga last summer. Sl-. Gerry was
going west on a two weeks business
trip. and said I:
"I'vc worked hard this summer, and
I'm going to take rest. I've talked
amiably to five hundred thousand pco.
pic l haven't cared for; I've 70 we'd and
sailed all summer, though it makes me
sick, and bathcd rc'igiously, when
bate it; I've chapcroned a million girls
.o doings of all sorts, and even succeed
ed in getting one or two cngaged-and
I've earned period of peace. I'm GO
ing to spend the two weeks OF your
absence, Mr.. Gerry, in a woodland re-
treat
"Wcll, it wasn't that precisely, but it
Tas passablc. l went to n little hotel
In the Ca;skills. found too many pco-
pie there to suit mo. though. Old Col
oncl NARROW came the next day-an en-
tomological old crank, craving his par
Ion; he carries truniful of dried
beetles and things about with him; and
Harry Fosdick was there with his friend
Dir. Pierson.
81 had me. Fosdick before, and abom-
mated him for conccitcd sprig and an
hercss hunter. Mr.. pierson was a lanlS
young creature, with an innne smile and
middle parting TO his hair.
"They were two of kind, and most
congenial, till the new waitress burst
upon the scene. If the new waitress
didn't stir things up!
"Poliy, her name WAS. The other
girls were the regulation sort, imported
from the city, l imagine, frizzcd hair,
red jerseys pert ways-you know them.
'Polly was IN oasis in the desert.
Polly wasn't exactly pretty, but she was
IS fresh and blooming a, rose, rs nca.
as wax, and MS bright as a dollar. |
fairly nabbed her for mi table, and KEEP;
her; and We got to be very good friends,
Polly and l.
cod Colonel NARROW was at ms
table. lie mooncd Mt me three times
lay through his spcctac.cs, and talked
moths and mosquitoes to me till
[ felt like one of his pin-s,uc.S spcci-
ulcns.
"But after Polly came the colonel
oent the light of his glasses on her with
vivid interest. thought at first tina,
the old absurdity was in love with her
"But that wasn't it. He followed me
out to the piazza one day; he looked
excited.
"'Mrs. Gerry said he, Il hav, male
4 remarkable 1iscovcry-exiraordinary
Do you know the identity of the young
woman who serves at our tablet
"I know she lives dowa the road
somewhere, said |, 'in Il vinc-cl.d cot
tage, probably. and that The propri ctor
OF the hotel, having bought butter and
eggs from her father, mldc bold to ASK!
Polly to fill the vacancy left by the sud-
den departure of waitress, and that
Polly being obliging and not too proud
to turn an honest penny, came along
"The colonel looked sly.
"Thats wha. the landlord has given
out said he. 'The story is fabrica-
ton. Listen, Mrs. Gerry! That young
woman is Miss Mayor Polly, as she i,
called by intimates-Miss Polly Gard
ner. am an old friend of her grand
fathers, and have seen her frequently.
You have heard of herr She is hciress
20 half million
81 had heard of her. She wa, n
friend of the Lcmoynes, ani the La-
moyncs are friends of mine I laughed
full minute.
"'Thc last 1 heard of Miss Gardner.
said l, she was in Europe. don't
think she's returned
"'That young person is Miss Polly
Gardner, said the colonel, pcrcmptori
ly. d recognized her at q glancc-at
aglance, Mrs. Gerry
"'You are short sighted, colonel ]
ventured, and perhaps little absent.
minded
Possibly, Mrs. Gerry said the
colonel with dignity, the fact remains
that recognize Miss Gardner beyond
doubt, strange though the fact NAV
SEEM
"'She is, then, out of her senses?
said I, patiently.
"T trust not said the colonel.