Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-08-01

heavy gold, set in rim of small, sparkling
diamonds, and suspended on a chain of rare
value. 1t was indeed beautiful girlish face
which looked out at Isabel as she touched
the spring reyerently; the other face was,
as Mrs. Harmon had sand, one of great
force and character, and she could see her
own resemblance to it as she looked at it
long and earnestly.
s'This is indeed revelation, Aunt Debby,n
she said, pressing the pictured face to her
lips, ''and you were wise that you did not
tell me before, for it would have made the
unhappy phases of my lot doubly unhappy
if l had known they were not my birth
right, and still have been p0werless to rem
edy the wrong, but now am sure Mr.. Fail
coner will never rest until he has found out
all there is to know about my family"
"You see now, my dear Isabel" said Mrs.
Harmon, ''that it is not right for me to &C
cept this assistance from you, now that you
know the facts
81 only sec that am the more indebted
to you, since there is not even the slight
ties OF blood which ] supposed to bind me
toyou."
''But Iloved you, child, and SO much that
l did not call you by your own name, fear
ing that you would not love me as well il
you did not believe yourself to be my kim
dred, - said Mrs. Harmon. 81 fear fhave
been too selfish in my love, and ought to
have brought you up rs Isabel Darlington,
"And don't love you, tooin cried Isabel,
impulsively, ignoring Mrs. Harmon's self
reproach; ''and yet you refuse me the
small pleasure of making you comfortable
after the long, weary years OF trouble you
have endured but | shall no. listen TO your
a n6. oh hAr hrQd ~
fully, las voa sill find out when unfold
my plans, since you oajecttc planning for
me-
II was vc.Y d aeant 10 the widow to have
ast4.aysT u.I 10 pan and think for her,
and ue ssa i teti w.ea ~ e reInon-
strns as.sas .l.s.' purchase
..f.t st.ag.sfs ..tfIss't Nt. FL Q. -
furnishing and stocking it With necessities
to last for months, and purchased new
warlrjbss entire for tue children, who
looked upon her as if she was veritable
fairy godmother, and, lastly, bought new
sewing machine, with every modern i'm
provement, to take the place of the noisy,
heavy-runaing, old ''rattle-te bang, as one
of the children irreverently named che
worn-out machine, which had so long done
its unwilling duty in earning the family
living.
II think you can do good deal of the en-
broidered fancy work which is SO fashiona-
BILE now" said Isabel, as she looked at the
embroidery attachment to :he machine.
'It's nothing but a pleasure TO turn this
beautiful thing said Mrs Harmon, de-
lightedly, as she made the wheels spin
around, 'and l have regular customers
enough to keep me in steady work"
Isabel had placed sum in the bank also,
which, with the insurance, when it came,
would cause the widows bank book TO pre-
sent quite a respectable appearance, though
this Mrs Harmon did not discover until
after Isabel had gone, and she found the
certificate of deposit in an envelope under
her pillow.
Isabel paid reverent visit TO the graves
of her fair young mother and OF faithful
Chloe, and with her own hands cleared
away the weeds and planted q white rose
on each sunkea mound. A plain monu-
ment, bearing tho words My Mother, !"
with the name and date, and q plain slab
for Chloe's grave was her next labor Of
love, and she could not help hoping that by
some OF the strange happenings which so
often occur in life some Of the C:rringtOns
might chance 70 find tue stone and by IL
know that the ieng-l0st daughter Of their
house was living and had placed il there.
'Dearl dear is it possible that you and
Harvey have parted 50 soon" said Mrs