Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-05-27
thony, as he precipitately obeyed Mr..
Raymond's bequest.

duluTdCIGc coal IRE NHICH Ho IHSlSdCe
on having in the library, the room
where he sat most, although the hous'
was kept at summer atmosphere
with furnace-heated registers. s.
should like to adopt her for my owl
"a little golden-haired, soft-voiceC
thing-and, if her parents objected
l could easily buy 'em up. Money
will do anything nowadays. and
have taken fancy to the child"
The very next day, as fate and for
tune had decreed it, Hilda Kendall
tripping down Broadway on her re-
turn from matching a spool of violet
colored silk for her sister, ran across
almost under the noses of the high
stepping Raymond horses.
'sHellor' calculated old Kenneth ;
sit is she herself Child Little girl
Somebody stop that girl with the long
yellow hair p
And in another minute Hilda was
leaning over the door of the carriage,
which had been drawn up alongside
of the curb-stone.
"Did you speak to me, sir?" asked
Hilda, coloring scarlet and scarcely
believing her own ears.
"Yes, 1 did," said the old gentle
man, "you picked me up two weeks
ago, and l didn't thank YOU
ooh! are you that gentleman"
said Hilda, innocently.
"Yes, I am said Mr.. Raymond.
"Where do you live?''
CAT No. 10 Guild Street."
"Going home, eh?"
eyes, SIR
"Jump in. I'll take you there
And Hilda, in her worn water
proof cloak, thick shoes and cotton
gloves, found herself seated among
the crimson satin cushions, opposite
the queer, white-headed old man.
"It's like scene in fairy book, >"
thought Hilda to herself. 81 hope
Minnie will be at the window. What
will she think when she sees me COM
ing home in a carriage like this ?''
Her reverie was interrupted by the
old mans voice.
"Mother home this afternoon ?"
81 have no mother, sir, and no ia
ther either. 1 am an orphan
"Eh? Who takes care of you
then?''
"My sister Minnie
"Ill see your sister Minnie,' said
the old man. Il want to speak to
your sister Minnie. Do you suppose
she'd give you up?'
"Give me up!' re Seated Hilda,
opening her blue eyes very wide.
eyes, to keep. To be my little
girl, you know. I've taken fancy
to you, and I've no one to keep me
company in my old age"
ooh, no, sir" said Hilda, shaking
her head very resolutely. "Minnie
couldn't part with me, nor I with
Minnie. We two are all alone in the
world. and we love each other. oh
so dearly"
''Then l suppose 1 shall have to
take Minnie too" said the old gentle
man with a grimace.. can old maid ?''
"No, sir, Minnie is only twenty"
Hilda answered, indignantly.
els she as pretty as your
''Much prettier, said Hilda, fer
vently; for in her eyes Minnie Ken
dali was the loveliest of created be-
ings. ''Here we are, sir, lat the house."
"And what is your name? You
haven't told me that yet,' said the
old man, leaning heavily on Hilda's
arm, as he alighted.
"Hilda Raymond Kendall. What
is the matter, sir? Are you i'll? Let
me run for Minnie to bring you a
glass Of water"
For the old, wrinkled face had
grown dull, yellowish white.
"My daughters child" said he
slowly, twas it the voice of nature
whispering to my heart all this while ?
Hilda Raymond-that was her name,
and this is her child. There, Hilda,"
with tender, unconscious lingering
on the syllables, 81 am better now.
L will coup stairs"
And when the cushioned carriage
rolled away once more Minnie and
Hilda Kendall sat within it by their
grandfather's side, the adopted chill
dren of his wealth and love.
Minnie sews no longer and Hilda
abandoned the idea of being nursery
governess and old Kenneth Ray
mond wonders how he ever managed
to live without the fair face and sweet,
fresh young voices that now make his
hearthstone glad.
"And it's all because Grandpapa
Raymond caught his foot in the curb
stone and fell down just when | hap
pened to be passing," cried Hilda,
gleefully.
'sIt's all because God has been
very good to u.s. said her sister,
more reverently.
Pimples on the face cured Sulphur Bitters will
cure the worst case of skin disease; from common
pimpe the face to that awful disease scrofla it
is the best medicine in all of such stub