The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-09-17

peiore DluuHlS you SOOuiiSut. lHeIe
are men whom you can never address
by their Christian name. 1t was just
as impossible to call him Mr.. Furnival
after few days acquaintance. Peo-
pie who didn't know him set him down
for fool; those who did know him
declared that he was simply themost
generous lovable old bachelor living.
One morning hereceived letter from
Boston. 1t ran thus:
DEAR JACK: am about to pay the great
debt of nature. Unhappily, it is the only
one which will not remain unpaid. You
lent me 800 long ago. / have never for
gotten your kindness to me-a comparative
stranger. The only testimony of affection
ate remembrance l can give is to appoint
you sole guardian of my child, who will
come on to you as soon as am under the
sod. Adieu forever, dear Jack.
Your friend,
ROBERT HALLEcK.
This letter did not surprise Jack
Furnival-he was so accustomed to
finding himself executor to men who
could rely on no one else to put their
affairs in order and settle up their ar
rears. But it did embarrass him
when some three weeks later tall
young woman OF eighteen or there
abouts walked into his chambers and
announced herself as the child OF Rob-
ert Halleck, and his ward.
What was he to do with his ward?
That question perplexed Jack Furni-
val exceedingly while the young lady
was eating the biscuit and slipping the
sherry which he had instinctively put
before her. She was too old to send
to school, and she was not old enough
to put in an almshouse. As her
guardian it was his first duty to see
that she didn't get into trouble, and
how could he rest secure il he sent
such a bright, fresh, innocent, attrac-
tive young creature as she out OF his
sight.
He resolved the difficulty at length
in this way: There was fiat above
his own to let, he took the rooms, had
them furnished and installed Miss
Halleck in them with an old woman
to wait upon her and be a COM
panion, who was recommended by
half dozen respectable persons.
But it was rs impossible to keep Miss
Halleck in her room as to retain q
bird in cage when the door is left
open.
When Jack came out OF his dressing
room in the morning he found her in
his sitting room and he couldn't get
her out OF it until it was absolutely
necessary to 60 to bed. But for all
that she was not troublesome. When
he had work to do she became SO still
and silent that he wouldn't have
known that she was in the room but
for glimpse OF her bright head over
the back OF big chair, where she sat
reading a book selected at his recon-
mendation, and never stirred till he
signified that the work was done. Then
it was as if pack OF children had
suddenly been set free from school.
She filled the place with life and sound;
she was all over the place at
once with laughter, snatches OF
song and scraps of nonsense, all so
fresh and delightful to Jacks some
what blase senses that it seemed to
carry him into rev world OF which
he had had no conception. He found
the time to take her out good deal
at first for her own sake, fearing his
quiet mode of living would weary her,
then for his own. finding his greatest
happiness arose from watching her
delight in the new experiences of Lon
don life.
Gradually the girl altered. She be.
came less careless and boisterous. She
ceased to tease Furnival and was still
and mouse-like when there was no ne
cessity-so far rs his work was con.
cerned. Then she ceased to come
down to his room unasked. He tried
to treat that as q joke, and sent an
ironically formal letter asking to have
the pleasure of her company to tea
She took the note in all seriousness
and came sharp to the time he had
appointed, looking pale and little
frightened, as though she expected to
be charged with some fault, and il
needed arather embarrassing explana-
ton to make her understand that the
formality was q joke.
All this troubled Jack not little,
and he tried to get at the reason oil
her altered manners and ways.
Shaking the old woman out OF her
slumbers he asked her straightly what
was the matter with her young lady.
"Lor' sirl don't you take any notice