The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-02-13

Mrs. Henry was here today" she an
swered, flushing. "You must go up to
town tomorrow, Gilbert. You need moi
start SO very early, and I'll see you again
in the morning."
But the next morning old Gilbert was
ailing, and for several days thereafter
he was unable to leave his bed. Tom
Quash, who went sup to town" three
times week for the mail, reported to
Glory-Ann that Mawse Nick was
mighty SICK" then that he was little
better. and finally that he was pro.
nounced out of danger. A fortnight
later Miss Elvira added another hundred
to the sum she had already given old
Gilbert, and dispatched him on an en-
bassy TO her nephew.
SIS s'prised at Missle-virey." unused
old Gilbert, as he logged on his way,
with Nicholas trunk in the OK cart.
"Hit amt no mo- use n nothin' t all ter
SEN dishyer money. Mawse Nick amt
gwan TEX hit. But / amt gwan say
nothin'; when Mawse Nick done refuse
hit, l gwan put hit way; come o. use
bom-byc."
1t came to pass as Gilbert had fore
seen; Nicholas would none of his aunt's
gift, and indeed the faithful old slave
had some difficulty in persuading him to
receive the trunk. Miss Elvira, how
ever, made no inquiry about the money;
she had not expected thanks, nor any
kind of acknowledgment, and she pre-
ferred to say nothing about it.
"En' hit amt fur me ter go ter her
'dout is axed," old Gilbert d 'cided; and
very early the next mornil he buried
Miss Elvira's gold where mis- own savings
were hidden
Some days later came the news that
Nicholas had left Tallahassee, or rather.
it was understood that Job Furnival had
taken his daughter and his son-in-law
away. 1t was old Gilbert who brought
this news; he had learned it through the
negroes belonging to the improvident
and despised Furnivals down the road,
whose society he now cultivated, as one
means of keeping track of Mawse
Nick"
Hits fur way, very fur way fun
here, Missle-virey,' said he, sorrowfully.
"Hit's clean ter Tampa, yuther side o
Madison, de tells me-
1t seemed quite as far to Miss Elvira
as it did to old Gilbert. and she wept
abundantly when she heard of her
nephew's departure; but Missy took the
news very soberly. Old Gilbert, remem-
bering the VOW she had extorted from
him, expected her to insist upon his set
ting out for Tampa forthwith; but the
child was reasonable. She recognized
the fact that Tampa was, as old Gilbert
said, "a very far country" and she did
not remind the old man of his vow. APP
parently, she had resigned herself to the
inevitable and was learning to live with
out Nicholas; but in truth she was only
biding her time; one of these days, when
she should know more about geography,
she would go herself to Tampa, and Dad
dy Gilbert, having nothing particular to
do at Thorne Hill, should go with her.
Such was Missy's present programme.
She had found starving impracticable,
but she still maintained an unrelenting
bitterness towards her father, never
speaking to him except when impossible
to avoid it.
This, however, made little or no inn
preston upon the colonel. Children had
few attractions for him at any time, and
he was too much a prey to his own Bit
terness of heart to be conscious as yet of
his little daughters arrangement.
Mrs. Leonard Thorne and her pretty
daughter, finding such state of affairs
too irksome to be borne, made all haste
to their own home, as soon as two or
three rooms could be put in habitable
condition.
The colonel Gid not oppose this plan.
He did all that he could, in fact, to ex-
pedite the work OH the house by way of
making amends for Furnival's summary
dismissal; but after Flora was gone his
health seemed to fail suddenly, though
he would not acknowledge that he was
i'll.
Miss ElvIra in alarm contrived to have
the doctor pay him q visit, as if by
chance, and the doctor urged change
of scene.
The colonel for n long time resisted,
but at last lie allowed himself to be per-
suaded to visit an old aunt of his who
for many years had resided in New
York. He set off alone one sad Septem-
Der day, when the land lay aweary in
the sunshine, and the cicada kept up a
din, and the cotton fields were white for
the harvest.
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