The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-03-18
why" cried Gladys, drawing a


Its Gladys exclaimed Lovel
For the young cousins had met
once years AGO at the seaside, and ehey
never i-a ia..sojten one another.
WHY" cried Lovcl, rubbing his
forchc;s as I not quite certain but
that hc VIZ dream ng. i thought you
here H. tic c-ty.''
ART f. IA. only mother that / know"
Glalv- answered. laughing Il hope
you've brought mr san order. Lov"l
But. ..ly.' persisted the bcvllda ra1
luw--tudcnt. why don't You come and
Iiye with Auat barbara
..Dh. I've tried that" said Gladys.
Shaking her bead and wc couldn't
@,t along al alI t.g,. ..r."
.-SpcaIsi~g of Aunt Barbars." said
Lpvcl myetcriau7ly. opening a papet
parcel on the ta,l--"bchold.'
Half-a-dozrn Lits OF Cd china fc'l
our with a elm, ami a cla;tcr
Oh cried C.ady-. ~.iiIsnIn@ with
horror. 1t huut barbara painted
china, oh. Lorcl, how did this hap
p.n:-
Mr. Best smotc himself pathetically
on tn chest
Il .iIz.. George Wa-hiu,s. On" hr con-
fa~-cJ II clunot t.U "a L.--t wa /.
. wa daiae my gvIaua--.c~ in The
.tar.ge-rualu-i Indian r.aT-oluD7 and
..ll ts..t sort ~ ts.a-.. vpu l-now.-yhsH.
al If "a Sudden ! cost my balance aad
tumllca o..r. tie pile o. bo:.c-. Down
thcy went. Aunt Best keep, cm
uaci. a. Eaa know. ia case CT acc mt,
u:l. ol s,,sur-g. tae china mast UCcu= Ice
un.lrr ali ta> rest. and got the hardest
thuIape
..tlh hat lid she say?" cried Gladys.
with upliIteG hands and eyes shining
humat.g.
.'>Ic doesn't know" Loyel answered.
With t.yi4ElluE e..G.l .s around his
l.p- ''I'a Eaa suppose IA going t"
4.- before In obliged t.. / zvIzed
2. ra-:cru-cap broken in not more than
i r.iacr~-.ud led iruuticaiiy u Jhe
nearest c.-.aa->hop They recon
mvnIed mc-hcr.. To Mis-, Maitland,
40. - sixth avenue. But ! never
dreamed that ! was coming To my old
playmat,, Now. Gladys, 1 am at your
mercy. I'm these ruins be replaced,
or ca: tEcy not?"
Gladys frowned, half closed her love
" Ii@pd cyrs. pursed up her lips IN
the intensity of her attention, and
finally nodded her head.
Yes" she said. .'But it viii be oh,
SO expensive, First we must order the
nina manufactured in just that o'frs,
ancient shapc: then it must be painted
piece 10y piece
LIT us hope, said Lovel, earnestly,
that there vilI be no grand family
festival to usa the china before
AUNT barbara nsrer uses it." said
Gl-d-- '-Sa- only unpaclls it At in
t.I-ya.s to dream over the grandeur OF
her ancestors Courage, Lovel; think
we shall -avc you yct!'
but, Gladys" said the young man,
wistfully. 'mayn't / tell Aunt Bar
barl that You are here alone? / am
: quite sure she would invite you to her
/ house, if"
/ Gladys colored to the very roots of
f her hair.
/ IF you do, Lowell she said, II will
never forgive you. No. We neither
J OF us wish u sce the other Let things
remain - they are"
but mas come to see how the
/ china gets oa?"
! '-Oh. yes said Gladys, Frightening.
: ''Yr.i may come. But mind. not Il word
! t. Aunt barbara
The important business took time. a.
ali such thing, Go, but 1t drew To 4
/ close at last, ami one day thS box Of
/ ch4na-noU, yet such a perfect inIta-
! ti,l of ia old one that Aunt Barbara
! herself could not have told the diff
, iorcucc-Ta, safely ~-nuETlri into the
. bac. door and uD Il the sJora<s rooms
! Low" a4iU Lovcl. laughing. Il
snail breath, freely II last
/ 81 CAV 'ilaiy 81 check fora hundred
..la il.t- cellars. hut as sine took IT he
/ looks. ,,.vu .-Jl- 40 her.
-'t.ll o.. darling" rG.d he. Il can.
keep I..y secret ANY laaEer. I love you..
- a,usw tlat lnag ago. said Gladys,
IA ta. s-,y.-.t. s.,p .,-.'.i way ,h- had
And goa. ds.rc>t2'
II low you, too" said GLADYS. Isn't
Z the ma . ..:.-urG. thing ia the world:
But a.. u.J going tn burden yaU with
p-unIl .~- vile We must Wait until
o -..l 50 .c.-at artist, you prosperous
I.-cl Best secretly madc up his
,sa t.at nothing of the sort should
scsur.
iii go home ana tcII al to Aunt
..-.b.ra. .- r..a.vrd. And # She
ga ....l-. al right: ii she doesn't, al
l-.-hl. Just the aa-ls, Gladys is better
tAaI a dozen tortuaea.'
But when hc reached home, the serv-
ants came to meet him with pale,
tr5uD sI faces. Aunt barbara Best had
been found sitting dead ia her chair
Her ~ ]. ali signed and scaled, left
all that she had to Loyci Ecat. Gladys
,-a.Iano's name was not once men
/ li-nc1.
Z Eut Gladys was coheiress all the
same as Lovel's wife: and, perhaps,
had the old lady known it, she would
not have been displeascd- For coming
death iits the veil of our hearts and
-Ir~ Bar ara had more than once
wished that she ha1 not been 50 sharp
and stern with Gladys Maitland
80 they were married, and lived hap
py ever after. And Mrs. barbara Best
never even knew that her precious
china had been broken, and risen
again, 50 TO speak. from its own "''-
N. y. Ledger.