New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-17

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body wants to do anything, and in
the big saloon parlor, where the satin
damask hangings rustled mournfully
and the carpet was faded to dull
dust color, fair young girls were play
ing "blind mans buff" their voices
and footsteps hushed into a sort of
semi-silence, as if they feared to dis
turd somebody.
Light and quick they rushed to and
fro, smothering their merriment,
cutting short their tinkles OF silvery
laughter in the gathering dusk, until
the sharp, sudden peal Of a bell
sounded in an adjoining hail. Then g.
blank silence fell on. the four.
II knew itp' gasped Kate Godfrey.
'It's Margery Dixon whispered
Emily HardWick. ssShe does giggle so
dreadfully.
'But it was you knocked over the
.footstool, Kate; reported Margery,
the eigcler. you know it wasp
Girls, hushp' sad Mary Mellen,l
the youthful hostess of the occasion.
."Do hush! Please go home. Kate and
Margery! We had no business to he
playing such q noisy game Emily
leave off pokins the fire thelogs crate
SO readfully against the tire-irons!'
1 just at this junctuce the door open
ed. A wrinkled, haggish old dame
stood in the black portal holding a.
candle.
I'D like to know croaked sha,
Hhow You young ladies come to be
making such q racket? She wants
you right away, Miss Mary.
''I'll come, e;tid Mary, heaving a
deepslgh ofresignation
Mrs. Jacquelin Rozelle lived here
at Ro1elle Croft like u handsome old
og ees4in an enchanted castle-senli-
blind, half deaf and wholly eccentric.
She WAS supposed to be rich, al
though she never spent any money,
an Mary Mellen, her grandneice, rep
presented the captive-mssiden element
OF the story, while Polly the maid,
did the houseWork and helped Aunt
Jacque to seold poor Mary.
Why did she endure this? Why do
we allendere the inevitable Because
she had to; because there were six
other Alellen blrdsln the nest at home,
and because the parent birds had re-
Jolced greatly when Mary was asked to
go and live with her aunt.
She must be rich, said Mrs. Mel
len, because she has lived in that old
house and spent nothing for 40
years"
Perhaps she hadn't it to spend,''
suggested Miranda Mellen.
ooh, she must have it!ni' said Oria-
Besides, suggested Alfred, the eId-
ersson, there Are the Rozelle dia-
monds THAT Uncle Fernando gave
her for q wedding present the dia-
monds she wore at the ball at Versail-
les when she danced with Louis Napo-
leon, the FIRST President of the French
republic. =
Hump commented Miranda, who
was the doubter Of the family. sa,he
RoselIe diamonds, indeed! Did any
one ever see them?'
5 4N-ao1 But =
We'll, when [ see them I'n believe in
them, nodded Miranda.
Children, all this has nothing to
do with the question: said Mrs.
AIellen, coaclusiVely. our fathers
Aunt .Iacqueline has asked Mary to
go to Rozelle Croft for an indefinitely
long visit and Mary must CO. 81
So this poor little human flower
was transplanted from q large, merry
family Ct boys and girls, living il q.
city fiat, to the solitudes of g. dreary
oo,,ufru ha,1cn ctny,1i,,er IA a Z, 3, Z,
OF Lombardy poplars IN a swampy
plain.
Even old Polly took pity upon
Mary, and suggested to Mrs Rozelle
that some OF the neighb or girls should
be asked IN to keep her company.
she ain t used TO a place ike this, 4
said p oily.
But Mrs. RozeIle shook her ancient
lace capped head.
No, she said, decisively II want
none Of the neighbo ood girls racing
sro,lnd here, and ! wont hare EN-. q