Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-03-16
WON HIS HEART.
How a Little Child Fulfilled It's
Mission Of Love.
rat itl" said Bo1gs.

"Drat it." said BogRS.
Boggs was a withered-up, little, old
Yankee, who had made his fortune and
was living in a little house on little
side street in a little village in New
England. Boggs was something OF
recluse-almost a hermit. His house.
keeper was a crusty old woman OF un-
certain age, who furnished him his
only companionship. He sought no
other. For old Boggs had soured on
the world, to use a somewhat slangy
phrase.
To go back a matter of Ave years or
20: The time had been when the old
man had less Of acerbity in his nature
when he was not so much of a re-
cluse as he now was.
His wife was living then-his daugh-
ter, too, was at home. And Boggs
thought much of the one, but more of
the other His heart was bound up in
the girl, with her laughing blue eyes,
golden hair and sunny face. He had
planned q great future for her, for the
old man cared more, if possible, for his
daughter than he did for his dollars,
and he determined that regardless Of
all expense his girl should become q
lady, dress like lady and marry like
lady should Boggs, of hum BILE par
entage himself-himself hard-toiling
man all his life--determined that his
daughter should become an aristocrat.
And so he did not tNHtate to pay over
large sums to Mime. Emile, of New
York, to whose fashionable boarding
school Miss Lucy was sent to acquire a
'fust-class edication," as the cid man
proudly referred to 1t.
So that it can readily be seen that
when Miss Lucy returned from the
school with diploma, which dulv SET
forth all ID 177b ~,uircments will com
sore blow TO the old man tnaU sn'
should Immediately fall in love with
penniless young artist, who had straye'
over from Gotham to sketch some o
the glorious scenery about Dudley
But she did. And, what Is moro to tn
point, she married him, too, in spite O
her fathers stern demands and he
mothers fearful protests. 1t was a Sc
cret marriage, and when the youn
couple appeared before the old man
was with the full expectation Of hi
relenting and bestowing upon them hi
full forgiveness. But no such thin
occurred.
You have disobeyed my commands,
he said; "now shift for yourself, girl.
never want to see or hear from 20
again. Begoner' And there was som'
thing like a curse on his lips as h
turned from the young bride and he
husband.
It was very dreadful, Of course. Luc
had read of such things before
stories, which seemed very improbable
but It never occurred to her that h,
father would treat her, Lucy Boggs-
or, rather, now Mrs. Lucy Boggs Chal
ler-in any such manner. But rigl
there she was mistaken.
And SO Mr.. and Mrs. Chanler r
turned to Gotham and art and a rath'
precarious existence. Her letters
her father were unanswered; aft
awhile they were returned to her, u
opened. The old man evidently meal
what he said. The death Of MI
Bogrs a year or so later didn't tend
soften his heart; If possible, it BEGAN
Aintier than before.
TnI- was the situation that fros
December o"ening when Boggs ejac
lated: ''Drat itP'
"Read that" he said as Ii, tossed
letter over to the old housekeepo. II
old mans tones were tritie soft
than usual, for all he tried to appe
atern and hard-hearted about it. I
news was a terrible blow, but the {
man determined not to betray the ia
''Mussy on usp' CALCULATED the {
woman. Lucy and her husband be
dead and their two-year-old child
orphinpP And we've got to take 1t
it'il be sent to the asylum. Well, wei
eyes" said old Boggs, land 81
nose we'll have to take the young =
although how we can take care OF II
this house is more than know.
''Might get a nuss-gai" sugges
the old oman.
"Well, don't know about that
turned old Boggs- "Mebbe So mel
ao:we'll see. HE was wondering whe
ar this year-old baby looked a
thing like Lucy did when she
that age.
The child came, a pretty, fair-hai
thing. for all the world a small pc
ct edition of its mother, and with
little one young girl, who had o
sent along to take care Of the dimi
tive traveller on the journey from \
York. This young woman seer
bursting with some secret, VIII
could, it appeared, be repressed o
by the most prodigious effort Blu
the main she proved satisfactory,
her valuable services were retained
the, stipend of one dollar week
found. which was a source OF sc
Jealousy on the part Of the old hoI
keeper, whose income was but u
more.
It was very speedy conquest
of the baby over old Boggs- At
he affected not to notice 1t. but
scon got over that Gradually
eh ID crept into his old heart. until
Ger he little one had been in the he
n month he would rather have pal
With his life than with Lucy's ch
He watched over it with all the ten
ness of q mother In fact, old Be
was q changed mamie began to
some interest in life The little
frOtted at frst-cried for its 'ps
and mamma" and asked in its in
tile way to be be taken back to the