Montgomery County sentinel., 1890-02-21

suddenly, ''let me go y
go where ?"
"To this sick woman-in the place Of
this trained nurse Cousin Phoebe had
dipatheria once, and the doctor said
took excellent care Of her. would as
soon be called Tryphcna Smith as any
thing else, and would so like to be
doing something and earning money y
Ann looked hesitatingly at her friend
"lt would be awfully hard work. "
said she.
IAN the better impatienily cried
out Mary. 81 want hard work to take
me ont of myself And I'll earn the
pound week, you see If don'tY"
So the heiress of Holly Hill went to
the Green farmhouse in the capacity of
trained nurse, and gave the very high
est satisfaction.
''Pm sure, Miss Smith" said good
old Mrs. Green. on the day she first sa d
up in an armchair lined with pillows.
81 don't know how we can ever pay
you for all you have done p
I've worked for wages said the
tall, pale fraud" and you have given
them to me. We are units"
ono. we amt" said Mrs. Green.
"You'vo give mc my medicine and that
sort of thing, to bo sure, but you've
done more than that: You've got up
early to do the baking and the sweeping
and to look after the milk you've kept
the roses watered, and there isn't a speck
of dirt on the carpets Or moth miller
in the closets nor fingermark on The
glass and china; you've checred Mil
tlados up when he was worried about
me, and you've read aloud to me, and
sung sweet, old-fashioned hymns many
IL time when couldn't sleep for ner-
vousness, when you needed sleep almost
worse than did r
Mother" said Miltiades, who had
come in with brimming pail of milk,
and now close at the trained nurses
side, sits all true what you say, every
word Of it. But you haven't said il all.
She's goin to do more for us, even, than
she has done, she goin to stay here al
together"
What cried old Mrs. Green.
"She has promised to be my wife,"
said Miltiades, putting one strong arm
tenderly around the slender waist of the
trained nurse, "eh, mother. what do
you say to that q 2
mot you object, said tho girl, her
quick eyes reading the changes on Mrs.
Green's face, almost as if they were the
alphabet II will enter no family where
| am not welcome"
ut amt that, my DEAR" said Mrs.
Green, fumbliug uneasily with her spec
tacles.
"Welcome? Ii you was the Queen
you couldn't be wccomer. But I've al
ways had notion I'd like Miltades to
marry another woman"
That tall girl in black drew back from,
Miltiades' embrace.
"You never told me" she said quick
ly, that you were engaged"
"No more amt" demonstrated Mil
tiades. "Oh, mother, what scrape
you're getting me into with girl we've
never either Of us seen. Listen, Try
phena. For all that dear little mother Of
mine looks so plain and homespun, she's
deal of pride in her and she's always
planned for me to marry Miss Holly.
the lady who inherits Holly Hill. She's
friend of Ann Philpott's, and mother
thinks | may chance to got acquainted
with her some day. They say she's
pretty and accomplished, and sho has
grand relations, and the Holly Hill pro-
perty joins on to our farm"
"And Tn sure" struck in the old
lady, "that she'd like Miltiades if she
were to sec him
$50 am ;" murmurcd the trained
nurse.
And there amt no lady too good for
Miltiadcs,' added the eager mother
"No, indeed. there isn't said the girl
"You are right, Mrs. Green !. am will
ling to give up all my claims in favor of
this Miss Holly
Miltiades smotc his closed hand on
the table with an energy that made the
wicker work basket and the brass snuff
fer tray jump.
"It appears to me, said he "that I'm
left quite out Of the question in all those
arrangements. | want you to understand
that | won't be given up Do you hear2
Don't love Tryphena Smith. and
mean to marry her. She's pretty enough
and accomplished enough for me, and
her relations, if she's got any, are quite
good enough for me, and as for Holly
Hill-what are houses and lands COM
pared with heart like Tryphena's. No,
mother, I'd do deal TO please you, but
you'll never have the young lady of
Holly Hill for your daughter-in-law !"
eyes, she shall 7" cried out the girl,
falling on her knees beside tho old lady
and hiding her face in her lap, while
the rosy bushes mounted TO the very
roots of her hair. "And you will have
to marry Miss Holly after all, Miltiades,
for | am Mary Holly Oh, please to
forgive me, for have been deceiving
you all along And she told them the
whole story half laughing half crying.
"Pm heress to nothing at ALL" she
said, "but few barren acres and
tumble-down house, but, such as it is,
if Miltiades will have me-"
1T don't make pins worth of differ,
ence to me-" said the sturdy young
farmer "It's you | love, and you
mean to have. whether you call yourself
Mary Holly or Tryphena Smith"
And old Mrs. Green declared that she
never was so happy in all her life.
NO" said she, wish the complacen-
cy born ofknowing she had the prettiest
and most striking costume in the ball
room, al don't care much for dress. |
| lie 10 feel that for nnn am ahnva