Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-04-19

Kneelin1 bu her bedside nds a Don OF {
about ten years. !
In the month Of May, 1S4i, a woman {
Law diving in the little cottage which used
10 stand on the old main road just
outside the then limits of the town OF
lynn. Kneeling by her bedside was a
how of about ten years, and on his head
the wasted hand Of his mother rested,
/ the fingers twining gently through his
\ hair She was speaking-this mother
who was passing a~way-eand the boy
drank in every word. She told him in
feeble and broken sentences his little
sister had no n but him TO look 10 iOr
nrotection. and she asked him 10 promise
that 80 long as he should live that pro
lection would be given. Satisfied by the
unspoken pledge in his eyes as ne looAeu
at her, for she knew what he was she
smoke of the comfort he had been 70 her
snce his fathers death; OF that tather
who had been taken away so suddenly,
and of her own joy at the prospect OF
seeing her husband once more. her sor-
row, too, at leaving her children dwell
In her mind at times, and then he uneo
10 soothe her by telling her he wonld De
brave and true. And so with a prayer
! for them on her lips she became silent
and the boy knew when he once more
l looked at her1hat the ears that had never
, been deaf to him were deaf now.
The two children-Willie, aged ten,
ard May, aged not quite halt ayear-
. were not left penniless. Their father.
DR.. William jackson, had accumulated
. a little money. and their mother had
T ovzned propertv when she married
Their ONLY living relation, a brother o:
. NJ. Jackson, lived in New York. and
. he at once asked them to come and i've
y with him. For five years Willie went e.
1 the New York schools n May grew
a M into as charming a little girl as one
could ind. Then Mr.. Truesdale died,
d leaving his money to his nephew and
l niece. and Willie made up his mind they
D. would move back to Lynn. Here they
- lived in the house Of their guardian,
s Jndpe Black. and Willie in due time
lie went to Harvard, and. winning his de-
gree in arts, passed into the law school
OF az was singularly old for his age
"a Even az a bow he was grave, self con
tanned and generally silent, and he carel
he T+tla for the amusements which hlled
n the time of his fellows. He was exceed
ingly fond Of reading, and fairly de
ed voursd all the books he could md
.e- Studving hard, he stood well up in ms
ly class AT all times. but it was not unul
he gog into the law school that he really
to shovel the stuff in him. To the minc
TX ~ Mr. Jackson-it was curious how sooI
he the uss OF his first name was dropped ol
ret his friends-the law assimilated as IL
ad natural food. The dryest Of dry treatise
di- possessed an interest for him that notn
rs, inc elise had. He used TO astonish HI
my guardian by reading the lode for pleas
Mt. nre. For Judge Black was one of thos
ter easv going men who drift forward Il
ak, Hfes race rather than push, doing thei
use work respectfully and living IN
'ck thoroughly respectable way.
,ic However, the Judge knew aman VIII
I'M he saw one, and he was only too glad
offer his ward a partnership as soon
he had passed the bar. 1t was not Ion
ere before the new firm Of Black q Jackso
on bepan I, attract attention in the court
his, The senior partner was without a partlc
the of iealonsv. and was only too glad
iese give the credit for the in whic
rue their cases were presented to his earnes
toll laborions and painstaking junior. AIT
TO year or two men said, with a shall
ing Of the head. Lynn could not keep u
nee ..young judge as they called him. tn.
ken in the natural course of events he Won
90 to Boston and seek a wider field I
ana his abilities.
ect- All this while May jackson was gro
the ing up into the most w1nsome lit
see creature imaginable. She was utOei
ppa- mike her brother. She wa capncio'
first exceedingly pretty, as full OF coquet
ap- a. she could live; whimsical, but Just
Ipid- charming as a sweet, bright, Iowa.
fore American girl should be, and she loV
dia- her grave, stern brother as she loved
tor" human being. Frcn q time beyo
sid which she could remember nothing
Tas . had been father and mother and brot
Iuiro AL in one. He was never too busy
and listen 10 her wants and wishes, ne
ught unwilling to do things for her. BE CO
be- forted her in her troubles, rejoiced WI
was she was glad. To him she brought
In 1t things that interested her, sure OF I'M
hrt, e.t and help from him And this Il
-tin in9 For her was an odd compound Of
D felt ternal and fraternal ' He had ne
far one moment forgotten his pledge
sdals his dying mother, nor had 1t In q
Wa bem difacult to keep. for ms love Dor
% on isbsr wa q part Of Win Jacnon's '
K h~fuR. She amused him intensely -
and crew up. Her c~apnciOuness va
wrce dWmdr ana as had thechH