Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-09-26

Il have instructed MeSSrS, honnize
banker, to honor your draft to e400, or
believe, 81 COO In your curr 'ncy.
with this, purchase a suitable outfit
and take passage by the White Star
Line fer England will meet YOU at
Liverpool and bring you home. You will
OF course live a the hall
Affectionately your aunt
Isabel Pembroke
Jenny dropped the letter in speeches.
dlsmay. Why was this tempting pros
pect shown her only to be a mistake? At
last her disappointment found vent in
tears.
Mrs. Hardy threw her arms around her
and wept too. AT length she dried her
eyes.
Its all true, Jenny, dear, all true.
Come and sit beside me and | will tell you
all about it.
when | was a young girl | lived at
Ambeside. | was a poor girl-only a
dalrymaid in old Mr. Pem6roke's place.
| was as pretty as you then, Jenny; but
my hair was black. and | was rouuder
and roster than YOU are; Mr., Pembroke
had one son, Hardy, little Older than /.
He used to come up to The dalry and DRINK
the cream and | would be blamed for
doing it. After while he stopped taking
the cream and took kisses instead Little
by little / got to look for him, and I'd
walk out IA the park after dark with his
arm around my waist. loved hin, Jenny,
ana ne loved me. One day we were quiet
~ married. | was afraid to tell OF il, |
suppose, because knew he was SO far
above me. But that couldn't 20 on for
ever, and once when he had gone away
for spell | found that you were coming.
He was away three months then, and
couldn't write to him. I've only learned
how since you were uorn, Jenny.
soon people begin to whisper and TO
point Mt ne, then they kept shy Of me,
and one day the squire sent for me, and
he got very angry and swore that the man
should marry me if it were his own son.
| was afraid Hardy wouldn't like me to
tell, SO cried and sand nothing.
% hat night Hardy came home, and
met him at the gate and told him what
the squire had said. He drew my arm
through his and took nue. UP to the bail.
The squire was in the library, with Miss
Isabel reading to him and Mrs Penn
broke. When we came IN together it
hNfhth llO WOlh0 W LtAA bAC NNlhlAt lhat
his son was the man.
' Isabel leave the room' he screamed.
There is no need of her doing that. said
Hardy. You must all know what
should have told ycd some six months ago.
kittie and | were married on All Hallow
Fen
ut was May then. The squire turned
white ds ashes for a moment there was
not a sound then with a cry he fell back
in has chair. ] never knew just what
happened after that, but the squire never
died Paralysis, they told me. ! didn t
see Hardy for nearly six weeks, and then
he came to tell me that the death of his
father had made his mother ILL, and that
probably she would never recover She
never did, Jennie. The winter saw her
dead, too. My husband was never the
same to me again. suppose ne felt that
had killed his parents When YOU were
born he named you after his mother
against my will, and as soon as ! was well
he left me. He offered me money, but
wouldn't take it. fought it out in Eng
land fer three years, then he wanted to
take you from me and came to America.
told my story truly TO the good priest
here and he comiuried me and found me
work, and best of all, Jenny, be promised
me that you should have your rights when
you were grown, and had you taught like
a lady.
I've borne all my hardships patiently.
I've prayed night and day that my hus-
bands heart would turr o me again,
And now he is dead, dead without me,
and love him still She burst into
tears
Mother, dear, dear mother, don't cry.
know he loved you when he died, or he
would not have left us everything. Think
Of me, mother, and cheer up for my sake.
Don't cry any more, mother dear. ~
The girls own voice was choGed with
tears as she spoke, but her Caresses sooth-
ed her mother, and presently she ceased
her s0bbing and kissed her child.
We will never have 10 work again,
Jenny You must get your clothes right
away, dear. and say goodbye to the kind
Sisters and Father Mar"
Tnen the details were discussed, and
Jenny at least, went 20 bed happy re-
CARELESS Of the hard condition attached
10 her prosperity. In two weeks they went
off,
Her aunt's cold reception showed Jenny
what it must have cost her TO write the
cordial letter she had sent. There was
some difficulty at first about her residence,
for Jenny would not leave Der mother, and
Miss Pembroke WAS not willing TO receive
her at the hall. At last however, she was
forced to consent, and it was wonderful
what peaceful aud even happy family
they made.
Five years passed rapidly enough, and
their close found Genivove motheress. She
was virtually an heiress, the conditions Of
the will not being public, and as such was
as mrch pe'ted in London as hermournin
would allow.
Passing a summer at the Schweitzerhoif