Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-09-17

Eyes" she cried chuckling, IL can
manage. Let me alone And first
thing in the morning I'll go there
with you. "Now," said she, Selling
her charge. who was beginning to
squirm. "now I'll see what's to be got
out of your landlady."
Winking violently with first one
eye and then the other, she started to
60 then, with a sudden solemnity
she reinserted her head in the door
way.
"If I'm summoned" she said, "it's
above all else. If I'm called | must
go, day or night"
Certainly" said Tom, much puz-
zled, "but you won't be, Aunty."
ITO think of living always W it'll
death grinning one in the face
like that" he muttered.
In the night TOMS dream of peace
was again dispelled.
Another knock on the door.
Gam / under ban?" growled
Tom whats the matter now ?"
"I'm called said the voice of Mrs.
Primmins, my summons has come !"
ooh, the deyil !" cried Tom, lost to
all sense of the Importance of concil-
iating the nurse. "Go to bed Hold
on till morning"
In the morning Tom, who, happy
fellow, always slept soundest under a
sense of depression, and did not make
his appearance until nine o'clock.
He found that Mrs. Primmins had
actually disappeared for parts I'M
known. In the arms of his hitherto
stern landlady he found his charge
nesting. A new light-that was
love-was beaming in the solemnly
woman's eye,-that woman, thought
Tom, who would see any of her board
ers starve or rot for 10 cents day
saved He looked at his little re-
sponsibility with feeling of awe, al
most a suspicion of witchcraft. 1t is
customary to shake the head, and
wonder at the amazing Providence
that sometimes removes a mother and
throws young infant upon the
charity of others. Why not also con-
slider reverently the innate instinct of
that rises in every te-
male heart at the sight of baby so
bereaved
II have undertaken" said the land
lady, giving Tom smile, 81 have
undertaken to go with you in search
of Mrs. Primmin's niece, Malviny."
Several hours later, Tom Collins
sprang from light wagon in which
he had driven to the door of a pretty
cottage.
ave will make one last effort by
here" he said to his land
lady, who held the baby.
With his usual impetuosity he
pushed directly through into the
little rear kitchen. There, he forgot
his errand, forgot everything except
what he saw. A young girl, plump,
neat and rosy stood, with arms bare,
before a table. For moment she
did not see Tom. He, unreasoning,
impulsive fellow, forgot his GRAND
forgot everything, in short, and be-
gan envying some Jumps of dough.
He felt instinctively that he, too,
possessed great capacity for being
nodded by some such hands as those.
Suddenly she turned. Such dim
ping smile such rosy embarrassment!
Tom, great black-haired, jetty-eyed,
giant that he was, thought this little
plump blonde, an angel. Thought
why, he was sure of it
After a while he came partly to his
senses, and said, "Pm looking for one
Malvina Barker"
And that is me" said the rosy lips.
Then I've brought you a baby"
he said abruptly.
A good deal of establishment can
be put into pair of blue eyes with
out spelling them-aDd so there was.
Fortunately, at this point the land.
lady appeared, and so, a moment later,
did Malvina's mother, called up from
the cellar by the voices.
Negotiations were soon completed.
Tom again in his little room, found it
the loneliest, dreariest place he had
ever in his life looked upon.
A couple of days later he conclud-
ed that it would be inhuman not to
20 and inquire after his little charge.
In an increditably short space of time
he was seized with the same i'm.
preston again. Then he went to take
the baby, who had not yet learned
that the moon is more distant than
the door-knob, box of geographical
blocks. Then he went to inquire if he
needed pocket money; and he told
Malvina that he knew she was not
kept awake nights with it, because
har ovoa woro on hr;uht