The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-05-21
A DEAR OLD GOOSE.

II was agood thing to know Jack
Furnival. II you wanted ten dollars
he'd let you have 1t; II you got into q
scrape he'd do his utmost to get you
out OF 1t; II you were down on your
luck aud turned into his chambers he d
set himself to find out the cause Of
your depression and contrive to tighten
your heart before bidding you good
night There are men whom you can
never address by their Christian name.
1t was just as impossible to call him
Mr.. Furnival after a few days ac-
quaintance People who didn't know
him set him down for fool; those
who did know him declared that he
was simply the most generous. lovable
old bachelor living.
One morning he received 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 $500 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 win
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-ne was SO accustomed to
finding himself executor to men who
could rely on no one else to put their
affairs in order and settle ny 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 Aalleck 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 aimshouse. AS her
guardian it was his irst duty to see
that she didn't get into trouble. and
how could he rest secure if he sent
such bright fresh. innocent at.
tractive 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
Halieck in them with an old woman
to wait upon her and be companion
who was recommended by half dozen
respectable persons,
But 1t was as impossible to keep
Miss Halleck in her room as to retain
a 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 abolutely
necessary to go 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 a glimpse of her bright head over
the back OF u big chair whore she sat
reading a book selected ut his recon-
mendation and never stirred till he
signiiied that the work was done.
Then it was rs If a pack OF children
bad suddenly been set free from
school. She filed 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 new 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 Lou
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 as his work was con-
cerned. Then she ceased to come
down to his room unaskcd. He tried
to treat that us joke. and sent an
ironically formal letter asking to have
the pleasure OF her company to tea
She took the note in all seriousness
duu Cdtuo oilhrP W tho tluuo uC uhu
appointed. looking pale and little
frightened. as though she expected to
be charged with some fault and 1t
needed rather embarrassing explana-
ton to make her understand that the
formality was a joke.
All this troubled Jack not little
and he tried TO get at the reason OF
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
OF that +" said the duenna with a cum
ming look in her puckered eyes
..Tain't nothing but what she'll grow
out Of Every young gals like that
when she first falls In love"
Furnival saw It all clearly enough
now. Her silence--her solitude seek
higher unexplained promenades-
all were clearly enough accounted for
Il by the fact that the girl hsd found
some young fellow TO love Il was all