The Sunday morning news., 1891-12-13

I'll put down the money here and now,
and I'll thankfully throw you in pound
TO take il. Therer' The gentleman
smiled and then: "Well, well, says he,
~ must first know what she has learned
already. How do you communicate with
herr" Then showed him. and she wrote
IN printed writing many names OF things
and SO forth and we held some sprightly
l'ttle story il q book which the gentle
man showed her, and which ne was able
t. read This is most extraordinary,
says the gentleman; sis it possible that
you have been her only teacherf" II
have been her only teacher, sir" says,
.sbesides herself" "Then," says the
gentleman, and more acceptable words
was never spoke to me, you're clever
fellow and a good fellow" This he
makes known to Sophy, who kisses his
hands, claps her own and laughs and
cries upon it.
We saw the gentleman four times in
all, and when he took down my name
and asked how in the world it ever
chanced to be doctor, it come out that
he was my own nephew by the sisters
side, if you'll believe me, to the very
doctor that | was called after. This
made our footing still easier and he says
to me:
Nov, Marigold, tell me what more
do you want your adopted daughter to
know"
II want her, sir, to be cut off from tho
world as little as can be, considering her
deprivations, and therefore to be able to
read whatever is wrote with perfect ease
and pleasure"
my good fellow" urges the gentle
man, opening his eyes wide, "why,
can't do that myselfr'
took his joke and gave him laugh
0knowing by experience how fiat you fall
without it) and mended my words ac-
cordingly.
what do you mean to do with her
afterwardr asks the gentleman with q
sort of doubtful eye. ''To take her about
the country"
'sIn the cart, sir, but only in the cart.
She will live a private life, you under
stand, in the cart. | should never think
of bringing her infrnities before the
public. wouldn't make show for any
money"
The gentleman nodded and seemed to
approve.
"Well," says he, "can you part with
her for two years.
ITO do her that good? Yes, sir"
There's another question" says the
gentleman, looking toward her--''can slso
! part with you for two years"
don't know that it was a harder mat
ter Of itself (for the other was hard
enough to mel, but it was harder to got
over. However. she was pacified to it
at last, and the separation 'twixt us was
settled. How it cut up both of us when
| it took place, and when left her at the
| door in the dark of an evening. | don't
tell. But know this. remembering
| that night, | shall never pass that same
establishment without a heartache and
a swelling in the throat, and 1 couldn't
put you up the best of lots in sight Of it
with my usual spirit-no, not even the
gun nor the pair of specialization five
hundred pound reward from the secre-
tary of state for the home department,
and throw in the honor of putting my
legs under his mahogany afterward.
Still the loneliness that followed in
the cart was not the old loneliness, be-
cause there was term put to it, how,
ever long to look forward to; and be-
cause could think, when l was any
ways down, that she belonged to me and
l belonged to her. Always planning for
her coming back. | bought in few
months time another cart, and what do
you think | planned to do with it? I'll
/ tell you. planned to fit it up with
shelves and books for her reading. and
| to have seat in it where could sit and
see her read, and think that had been
her first teacher. Not hurrying over the
| job, had the fittings knocked together
in contriving ways under my own in
/ spection, and here was her bed in
berth with curtains, and there was her
reading table, and here was her writing
desk, and elsewhere was her books In
rows upon rows, picters and no picters,
bindings and no bindings, gilt edged
and plain, just as | could pick 'em up
for her in lots up and down the country,
North and south and west and east.
Winds liked best and winds liked least,
Here and there and gone astray, Over
hills and far away. And when had
got together pretty well as many books
as the cart would neatly hold, new
scheme came into my head, which, as it
turned out, kept my time and attention
a good deal employed and helped me
over the two years stile.
Without being of an awaricious tenn
per, like to be the owner of things. l
shouldn't wish, for instance, to go part
ners with myself in the Cheap Jack cart
It's not that mistrust you, but that I'd
rather know it was mine. Similarly,
very likely you'd rather know it was
yours Welt A kind of jealousy be-
gan to creep into my mind when | re-
hected that all those books would have
been read by other people long before
they was read by her. 1t seemed to take
away from her being the owner of em
like. In Ibis way the question got into
nv head, Couldn't have book new
made expressly for her, which she should
be the first to read?
It pleased me, that thought did; and
as l never was man to let a thought
sleep lyon must wake up the whole fami-
ly of thoughts you've got and burn their