The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-11-12
ncross the grass aud clorer Blossoms
to where Daddy Miflin snt.
EDO you like this place?~ she asked.

across the grass aud clorer blossoms
to where Daddy Miflin snt.
EDO you like this place:s' she asked.
softly.
"It's home, my dear" he answered.
seeming to rouse himself out of n rev.
eric. '.it's home. II have lived'here for
c%ighty-edd years. l could not live
anywhere else
sBut there are other places pleas
anter."
at may be, my dear; it may be-"
he said, looking at her with troubled
eyes through the convex lenses of his
glasses. "But they wouldn't DO the
same to me-"
Helen went to Mrs. Daggett who
was baking pies and rolls and straw
berry short cake all at once.
Mrs. Daggett,' said she, "here are
$40 which Mrs. Dardanel gave mo to
do rs pleased with, and l please to
give it to you to keep old Mr.. Miflin
here five weeks longer"
"Mercy sakes alive!" ssid Mrs. Dag
gett; "hc amt no kin to you, is he?"
No." said Helen, "but he is SO old
and feeble and %friendless, and-and-
please, Mrs. Daggett, take the money.
Perhaps by the time that is gone 7
shall be able to send q little more.
My. employers are going to pay me
generously in the city, and feel my.
self growing better able to work every
day"
So Helen Hyde adopted the cause of
n and for a year she paid 50 a week
steadily. even poorer and more friend
less than herself, and Mr.. Miiiiin new
or knew what u danger had menaccd
him.
At the end of that time the old gen
tleman's grandson came from some
wide, wild region across tho sea, a
tall, dark-eyed Young man with q
micn of 4 prince in disguise.
MY father has been dead a year"
he said. and his papers have only
been thoroughly investigated, SO that
l have just learned, for the first time,
that there is an arrearage due on my
gr%andtathcr's allowance. | hope he
has not been allowed to suffer-"
ooh. he's all right" said Mrs. Dag
gctt. "We have taken excellent care
of him."
You are a noblc-liearted woman"
said the young man, fevcntly clasping
hes hand, and | will see that you are
no loser by your geneosity."
ut amt me-" said Mrs. Daggett,
turning rcd and white, for Helen HYDE,
now spending her second summer at
the farmhouse, sat by quietly sewing
in the window recess. Il m free to
allow that me and Daggett got out Of
patience and was going to put him on
the town, but Miss Hyde, here. one of
II boarders, she's paid for him ever
since"
81 beg your pardon if I have inter-
fered," said Helen, blushing scarlet as
the large black eyes fell scrutinizingly
on her face, but he seemed so old and
helpless that
God bless you for your noble dced!."
said Ambrose Miifiin, earnestly.
Bnt there was something in Helen's
manner which prevented him from
Offering any pecuniary recompense to
her.
MY grandfather will require your
care no %lon"rr." said he. 'We have
been fortunate in our Australian in-
vestments aud am prepared to buy
the old farm back again and settle
here permanently"
And when Mrs. Dardanel began to
think about getting her winter dresses
made up, she received a. note from
Miss Hyde, which ran as follows:
Dear Mrs. Dardancl: ! am sorry to disap-
point you, butt cannot undertake. any more
orders, for ] hm to be married next month To
| MIR, Ambrose Mlniin and we are to live Mt tho
Dargett farm. And Oil how proud l should
be II you would come here and visit me next
summer, when The roses are in bloom and the
Strawberries r,pon. Ambrose is all that lie
nice and ] hive the dearest old grandfather
| tn-law in the world. Affectionately,
HELEN HYDE"
And all this life's romance had
grown out OF Hclcu's month at the
seaside