The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-09-02

the piano, sang pleasingly in a sweet
but not very powerful voice, but
Miss Hilda loved music. She played
backgammon, bezique, dominoes, and
chess, and was an adept at knitting.
She Taught Miss Hilda lacework, some
new crocket stitches. and started a
crazy-fuilt from perfect mine of silk
pieces boarded away for years. She
read aloud in clear voice, pleasingly.
without any effort at elecution, and
Miss Hilda dearly loved a good novel,
while her own eyes would allow but
very little reading.
The days flew by rapidly, and eight
months of DR.. Thorman's absence had
passed, when suddenly Daisy Cassiday
left her aunt-just one day before the
doctor came on flying visit to Sunny
slope and returned to the city. For
nearly three months Miss Hilda was,
indeed, alone mourning for her niece,
fretting for her nephew. until tele-
gram was sent to him by the physician
who had taken DIR. Thorman's practice
when he went away:
miss Cassiday is dangerously i'll.
Come as soon as possible" +"
Dangerously, fatally i'll, the old lady
lay, but perfectly conscious.
You will stay, HarryP" she said, as
he bent over her.
.ssYes! / will not leave you again."
''And, by and by-you will find
Daisy. have left her Sunnyslope and
half my money. Harry, she is the
dearest child in the world, gentle,
loving, and dutiful." !"
But why is she not herep Surely,
you need her now"
Il sent her away. was just an old
idiot. Harry. 1 tried to make her
promise to marry you
Good gracious" interrupted the
doctor.
Eyes. see how silly I was. But ]
was sure you would love her when you
saw her. And She is engaged to the
teacher of drawing at Mrs. Moran's.
She thinks he is great artist. who
will make name if he can earn money
enough to have time to paint. Just
now he is making a bare living for
one as a drawing g-teacher. I showed
her the folly of such an engagement.
told her all your perfections and
your prospects as my heir. She was
as firm as a rock. She loved this
drawing-teacher, and he loved her.
Then grew angry. and told her to
choose between giving him up and leav.
ing the house, promising to cut he1
out of my will. She left the house.
Oh, Harry. did not think she would
go. She wrote me the sweetest letter,
thanking me for all had done for her.
assuring me of her love, and went
away"
Suppose I advertise that you are i'll
and wish to see her."
DO so. Oh, if she was here now to
love me and nurse me as l know she
would! To-day, Harry. Send the
advertisement to the paper to-day"
DR.. Thorman promised to do so, and
kept his word. Every day for month
the appeal to Daisy" appeared in
three leading papers. but no answer
came to the dying woman Then
there was parting between Miss
Hilda and the nephew who had been
like son to her, a funeral, and Sunny
slope was closed, to wait for the heir
ess.
Five years had passed since Miss
Hilda's death, when, one morning,
DIR. Thorman was called in consulta-
ton by another physician, over little
child afflicted with some mysterious
complaint.
THE mother is a widow, a music.
teacher" DR.. Bryne told DR.. Thor
man, land has lost one child, an in
FAINT, since her husband died. She has
hard struggle, for she is not very
brave and patient. Here we are."
At the very top floor of tall tene-
ment house, they entered a small room,
poorly furnished, but neatly kept il
order.
A pale sweet-faced woman was seat
ed by the fire, holding child of three
years old upon her lap.
s.Mrs. Morris, DR.. Byrne said, ''this
is the physician promised would cal
to-day to see Freddie"
The child opened his eyes as he
heard his name, and the examination
was made, resulting in more encour
agement than had before been given
to the mother.
For three days the two physician:
called together, and each day DR.
Thorman was more impressed by the
quiet patience, the deep tenderness o.
the young mother. more panied by
the evident poverty she was suffering
from.
1t was in the evening of the fourth
day that DR.. Thorman received a nott
from DR.. Byrne. asking him to call or
Mrs. Morris, as he was detained else
where.
The door of the room stood oper
when DR.. Thorman reached the land
ing. and Freddy was sleeping. Th'
ba ,.o0p1 dim Qnf
| Mrs. Morris, seated with her back t
the door, was playing patience" DR.
| Thorman could see the cards as sh
put them, one by one, upon the child
! low bed. Kings in the centeri Sh
was playing the game he had invente
for his aunt Hilda! He stepped softl
inside the room, watched the card
until he was sure there was no mis-
take, and then raped lightly on tn
door.
Mrs. Morris rose quickly.
"a silly pastime, doctorP" she askee
'there is not light enough to worl
and was trying to recall an old gan
of Patience.
ssAunt Hilda's gamepn
s'You knew Aunt Hildae"
81 am Henry Thorman. do nj
believe DIR. Byrne ever mentioned ID
name. But you are surely my cousin
Daisy CassidyP"
Yes. / am your cousin"
'.And you will com home with m
Ny wife is as eager to find you as
have been, and Freddie needs mar
things / have not ventured to ord
here. Now, you can give him all
needs, and in month more, whit
warm weather comes, you can gi7
him the pure country air of Sum.
slope, your inheritance"
milne! Sunnyslope! Is Aunt Hilt
dead?"
Five years ago, and she left "
Sunnyslope and thousand pounds
year. She repented deeply sendii
you away, Daisy. and I may tell y
now her matchmaking scheme cou
never have troubled you again, as 4
heart had gone out of my keeping"
So, into the sorrowful troubled 1
there came prosperity and happiness
DR.. Thorman's bright little W
gave his cousin sisters greeting a
affection, and Freddie recovered rapi
7 ly, with the added happiness of t.
cousins for playmates.