Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-06-28

don't know how Your Aunt Pauline.
with Flora and two little children. Is 10
manage. Aleck was killed at Chicka.
mauga, you know" And Miss Elvira
wiped bereyes.
Missy. who had seen only the pomp Of
war, was just beginning to realize its
misery. eve must live for ono auother.~
she cried, with generous sympathy.
II don't know rs to that" Miss Eivira
objected, with a prudent hesitation.
"You know your Aunt Pauline Likes hsx
own way, and we wouldn't wish to give
up Thorne Hill to her sway. Then those
children with no regular nurse - it
wouldn't be comfortable, Winifred. ]
suppose they'll get on somehow, with
your father to advise. Cousin Myrtilla
manages very well with one Of the twins
to look after what is left OF her planta-
tion. Paul has situation In law office
in Savannah and Judge Chadwick has
taken the other one Of the twins in his
Office. It's lucky that Lottie is engaged
TO be married to the judges son. ! hope
Bess may make as good match, for it's
little enough Cousin Myrtilla can do for
them now"
Winifred listened TO all this in sad 81
lence; she felt Is If she had come, not to
the old home she used to know, but to q
strange new world of sorrow.
"Why they all wanted to quit, I'm
sure don't know--the negroes, mean,"
Miss Elvira continued plaintively. "Your
father offered them every inducement,
but they'd rather starve on freedom, I
suppose. Daphne was one of the first to
go. She is in town taking in washing,
and working harder than ever she did in
her life. I saw her last week, and she
looks as if she hadn't enough to eat.
Tom Quash--he married Amity, you
know---is a waiter at the hotel, and
Griffin Jim is barber. l believe he
earns a good deal by odd jobs; yet he
declines to take old Dicey, his mother, to
live with him. Dicey Is helpless now;
she can't walk, and she can't even feed
herself; SO Griffin Jim thinks she is bet
ter off with us. I'm sure we don't want
Griffin Jim to take her away; we've
been used to her SO long" And Miss
Elvira began to weep afresh.
"And Nom Bee?'' Missy queried, anx-
iously. Missy had been at home some
hours when this conversation took place,
and her heart was burning to know why
Nom Bee did not come to welcome her.
Miss Elvira wiped her eyes and stiffen-
ed herself. "Glory-Ann is with her
family in town." she said, with strong
indignation. "Your father tried his hest
to have her stay here. He built her a
house and he offered her a COW and some
pigs; but Cinthy, that daughter of hers,
wouldn't agree to it. She made Glory
Ann believe that we had designs upon
her."
Missy burst into tears. "Mom Bee
might have waited for me" she sobbed.
"Oh Winfred, don't cry!' Miss Eivira
entreated, weeping herself. at doesn't
do one bit of good. do believe old Gil.
bert himself would have left us if he
hadn't gone long ago"
81 don't" cried Missy. And one Of
these days he Is coming back; he is sure
to come back; he promised me-"
"Nin!fred! What do you mean?" ex-
claimed Miss Elviru, startled into an en-
ergy of emphasis most unusual.
'lt was me sent him away" Winifred
declared eXultingly, reckless of grammar.
sit was me wrote him pass And /
gave him my gold chain and bracelets
for BrtS Nicholas to turn into money.
What did | care for trikets, and my
brother, my dear, dear brother, in need?"
"Winifred, you surely never did do
that?' cried Miss Elvira, aghast. Your
fathers giftsr
II did moro than that" Winifred re-
turned, with a proud, sad smile. Il
tried TO go to him myself"
II trust you have grown wiser, child"
said Miss Elvira, primly. "One rarely
meets any return for such sacrifices"
ooh, aunt Elvira? Don't you know
that love pays itself in loving Ii did
wrong to try to run away, bear my
punishment-a life long punishment;
but can't cant be sorry for tho effort
/ made to (nd my brother
''This is rehe!lious," said Miss Elyira,
reaching out her slim hand for Bishop
Ken, as for talisman. "You ought to
resign yourself to his los6."
"If he were dead, yes" said Winifred:
"but until know that he is dcad"-she
faltercd, with blanching lips-"Oh, aunt
Elvira, did You never know tho might
of love that is stronger than life,
stronger than death? 1t seems to me
that my brother must live until | see
him again, or he must send Us message,
even from the grave"
"Winifred, you shock me!" said Miss
Elvira; and Immediately she took refuge
in Bishop Ken, holding the little worn
book close to her eyes as was her habit,
and pretending to read, while she glanced
furtively over its top at her irrepressible
niece. "Winifred," sighed she to her.
self, lis going to be no easier to manage
now than when she was child"
a few days later Glory-Ann visited
Thorne Hill in great state. She arrived
in hack, the recently acquired prop
eriy of Griffin jim, who expected to
make a fortune out of the travelling
public.
Nom Bee had grown older, and she
looked more stately than ever in her
Sunday attire of black alpaca; but she
forgot her age and her dignity, and took
her nursing on her lap, and shed tears
over her.
"My po' little honey been gone all desc
years, en- amt seed her no mo- ontel
she wuz plum growed up? You ain fur
got yo' ole nanny, is you, honey?'
mo; I've forgotten nothing" Wini-
fred declared, between tears and laugh
ter. you know how you used TO tell
me that ! should hone after this old
plantation; and it all came true. l
dreamed about the blackberry patch, and
the spring, and the scuppernong arbor;
and nothing ever tasted half SO good as
your corn dodgers and buttermilk."
Outlaw chile don't talkr'
"And you said once that should never
dance, the girl reminded her, with sad