Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-07-04

tainted. Miss Martin, who reveled
~ sick nursing, was all energy. She
got The "camphire" and smelling salts.
ioosened the necktie, helped Jane TO
carry the invalid into the large, cool
parlor, and put him on the wide. old
fashioned sofa. 1t was a long insensi-
olllty; SO long, that the women be-
came alarmed, and sent Hiram, the
lew-boy, to Arrowdale for the doctor.
Before the thrce-mie ride was ac-
accomplished and the doctor arrived, the |
-ninvited guest had passed from in
sensibility 10 delirium, and the doctor
pronounced the case a partial sun
Flstroke.
For two weeks Miss Martha nursed
the stranger as faithfully as if he had
Oeen one of her own kin, bringing
MN back from the very confines of the
grave. She scrupulously refrained
prom any curious Investigation of
his small hand satchel, and only
fearched one coat pocket till she
Found a letter directed to Mr..
Albert Hutchinson, box 3S, Alton,
AIichigan.
Matte wrote a letter TO the box,
deseribing Mr. Albert Hutohinson's
sore strait. No answer came, and
81 hen other letters were taken from the
Docket and were found to be directed
Pill over the country, always to "Mr.
ALBERT Hutchinson" who had evil
d IDENTITY been upon an extended summer
tour 1t was impossible to guess
Z where, in all this variety of location,
D the home of the wanderer might be,
i and so Miss Martha put the letters
gback, saying:
off be dies, Matte, l s'pose we'll
2Iave to read some of those letters to
fnd his folks, but Pm not going pry-
Yng into them until | can't help my
! SELF
But Mr.. Albert Hutchinson did not
i die. Very slowly he won his way
back to health, and in his GONZALES
cence opened new world to Matte.
lie was an artist, he told her, and he
had been on sketching tour, sending
his papers by mail to his studio, in
New York, where a brother artist took
care of them. He talked Of books, of
life in Switzerland, Paris, London,
Vienna, Rome, till the girl felt stir
rig in heart and brain, longing so
intense as to be painful, for some
4 knowledge of this new world of art
and letters, of which she had never
heard.
There was nothing spoken between
the two of sentimental nature, but
Mr., Hutchinson, finding this eager
young intellect grasping all he put be-
fore it, talked as he had never talked
before, with the keen pleasure of i'm
parting knowledge where every word
was treasured and valued.
1t was great void when he was
i fully recovered and went away. lie
q paid Miss Martha literally, with most
4 earnest words Of gratitude for her care
Of him, but when he was gone, Matte
would not look at the roll of green
backs, flushing hotly as she said:
'I am sure he was poor, Aunt
Martha. Put the money away. | hate
it,"
.DS.s DSs she |ss sss.sass sas -: .s:1,syed ,sse
books out of her reach, opportunities
to study, and the life of travel and
culture that seemed far removed from
her. 1t seemed to her only natur.l
when tremendous change came.
There had long been a talk at Ar
rowdale of coal in the vicinity, and
about six months after Mr.. Hutchin-
sons departure experiments were
made that proved "Pitcher's Farm
to be great coal-bed. Matte, who
by her fathers will was of age al
eighteen, found herself an heiress
Her guardian, a man thoroughly hon
est, became her agent, and smiled ap,
proval when she proposed to sell the
farm and move to New York will
Aunt Martha, who was very much
elated at the idea.
'sI can have good teachers there fol
a year or two, and then | will &C
abroad" Matte said, when the plar
W.. finally adopted.
.I'll never cross the ocean," Aun
Martha declared, "but no doubt you'll
find company going, and I'll keel
some sort of nome warm for you til
you come back"
/. |
"Now, my dear Algernon," Mrs
Montrose said languidly to her son, a
he entered her 'sapsessnaalF" in Paris
edo show little more interest in Mis-
Pitchers pursuits. 1t was such
chance, her consenting to come abroar
with me, and she is so rich"
"But," drawled Algernon, caress
, ing his silky moustache, "she is s.
, dreadfully energetic. She tires me t
/ death, rushing about. am sure sh
saw everything in London, and nov
( she is doing Paris at a most tremend
GUS rate! BY the way, where is she !!
"She went to private exhibition o
: American artists with Mrs. Cope an
4 Carrie. You know Carrie is quite a
artist, and she knows where all th
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