Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-01-03

had given them until the next week
TO complete their arrangements for
leaving. Then he proposed to take
possession OF the house and farm.
Dorothy found much to do during
the rest of the day. The one COW
her grandmother had kept had |
strayed away, and when milking
time came Dorothy went in search Of |
her.
IL was nearly dark when she re. |
turned, driving the COW through the |
grass of the meadow lot. She had
lett her grandmother alone, and was
surprised to hear voices in the kitch-
en- when she returned to the house
with her milking pail.
/ Looking in at an open window
she was still more surprised to see
in the gathering gloom a woman
kneeling by her grandmother chair,
while Mrs. Pickett was shaking her
head in a dazed sort OF way, and
saying:
"a don't understand it, Rachel
1t seems TO me | must be dreaming
and that III wake up pretty sooI
and find it ant 80"
But you ant dreaming, Mahala,"
Dorothy heard Mrs. Day say, and
with hysterical and fearful little
laugh. Its all true as gospel.
Here | am, kneelin right by you,
and there's the money right in
your lap"
"And you found it in that old oak
chist that thought had been emp.
ty for twenty years."
Yes, in the secret place in the lid.
Don't you remember it?"
: II do, now that you speak of it,
/ Rachel, but I'd forgotten all alb out
! it before. It's been so many years
J since the chist was used"
well, ! remember it as soon as ]
, saw the chest" replied Mrs. Day.
! land when / got home with the
things I'D bought to-day, and they'd
been carried into the house, and
7 found time to look them over, put
my finger right on the spot where
b the spring was in the chest lid. The
! little door dropped, and a roll o.
I bills came tumbling down into the
I chest. ] was so upset at first, Ma
k hnla. that ! couldn't believe my
II senses; but whenI pinched and SHOOK
Il myself TO prove that | was awake,
II found 1t was true, and that the cav.
I ity in the lid was full OF bills-mor'
II than enough to pay off the mort
II gage, and almost enough to pay OF
e the note.
And you brought it right over tc
ie me? oh Rachel!''
Y. Course ! did, Mahalal Whatevel
4 my other iailings are, hateful anC
Y. holding spite Tor years and all that
y I'm honest, Mahala, and woul dn'
Is touch pin I'd no right to."
le II know you wouldn't, Rachel
r and ] didn't mean TO hint that YOU
re would. But I'm soglad you brought
re the money yourself"
Is Il did think OF sending il, sale
r, Mrs. Day; but as | set thinking i
lr an over, and how glad you'd be Il
"a get il In the middle of your trouble
g. begun TO feel sorry for you, Maha
s la. and the sorrier ] got the NOR
'shamcd got of myself; and tn
or chest and everything together calle
n. back old times until ! just laid m
at head on the chest and had n goo
ir. long cry. got up feeling kinder an
IL tenderer toward you than I've fe
al for twenty yenrs, though there
er been times when I've wanted
make up bad enough, but l We
)" afraid you wouldn't"
I'D been glad to, Rachelp
in. For n long time the old ladies SO
nd forgetting and forgiving the pas
cd and renewed n friendship not to
IRIS broken in the future.
With the money Grandfather Picl
he EFT had secreted so carefully in Il
RS. old chest md the proceeds OF Il
in sale Mrs. Pickett easily made u
ot enough to pay OFF her husbands i
me lebteduess. Mrs. Day returned u
ms articles she had bought Mt the sal
ne and Mrs. Pickett gradually regaint
FOR her possessions OF her most cheris
nd ed household treasures.
~ never could bear the thong
as OF having vandoo made OF n
things" said Mrs. Pickett afterwar
ig- during one Of her weekly visits
ed her friend Rachel, "but if ! hadT
a made a vandoo Of 'em it amt Mt
likely that the money Id ever
Ike found in my day, and you and
nut never would have made up.
by there are gains fora our losses al
,ed halms Tor all our pains, as the pc
on says" :, !, i,
her CHATS so, Mahala," said Nj
red Dny.-Youth's Companion,