Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-21

the church she attended and at the home
OF her attorney, mary of the incest
people In the city, she was almost en-
| tireiy ignored In social way and 1t
CALLED her UNNECESSARILY. She, Love
dale-yes, and Hicks-Brown; for even
II the man who had bestowed the last
name on her did work for living, IL
was a name to be proud Otto be os-
tracized by thase insignificant country
people, half the men among whom at
tended balls IN Prince albert or GETAWAY
coats The ideal AS il she cared And
yet she did care, great deal.
And Mr.. Hicks-Brownl He was work
ing away as though fighting time. He
never gave himself moment, If he could
help it, for thought. Not word had
passed between him and the Lovedale
family since the day his wife had flung
herself out of the house and returned to
her parents. He heard she had gone
west for divorce and it made him vince,
but he shut his mouth more tightly and
went at his work still harder. There
were times when he had TO think and
| they were not pleasant times. There was
one in particular. A few months before he
had begun to build, unknown to his
wife, handsome new house in her fav-
orite suburb-and the time came for him
to occupy il, and she was not there to
enjoy it. His younger sister, AN orphan,
who haG just finished school and had
come to live with him, was delighted with
every thing. She ran all over the house,
fairly gushing with pleasure, and did not
know that her brother, sitting amid the
confusion of furniture in the front hall,
was thinking of how much some one else
would have been pleased. And there
were two big tears on his cheeks when
he remembered himself and arose to
supcrintend the work of arranging
| furniture.
Everybody who reads the papers re-
members the Hicks-Brown divorce trial
how the defendant paid no attention to
the suit; how the judge, in granting a
decree without alimony, scored the fair
plaintiff for seeking a divorce on such
trivial grounds, and assured her that he
allowed decree only because it was plain
to be seen that it was case of incompati-
bility; and how two days after receiving
her decree, the plaintiff left suddendly,
and everybody said, II told you SOL
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But everybody doesn't know that the
reason she left so suddenly was that she
received telegram announcing her
fathers DEATH or that when she reached
home she found that he had died bank
rupt.
Hicks-Brown knew it, and his heart
ached with longing to go to her aid
and then the Hicks-Brown pride came to
the surface and his heart hardened with
cold snap and he bent himself to his
work harder than ever.
One morning, as he rode into town,
Henry Hicks-Brown was thinking how
lonely his sister must be, sometimes, out
there in that slow little suburb, and an
idea struck him. "By Jovew he thought,
''it's the very thing. There are lots of
fine girls who would Jump at the chance
to be companion to so jolly girl as Lot
and left a WANT advertisement, which
stated that a young lady desired com
panion who was able to speak French
and possessed sundry other accomplish
ments; must furnish best references
would receive liberal salary, etc. cap
ply in person at residence, - Grove
street."
Mabel Hicks Brown, discussing ways
and means with her mother at their
SHINY furnished breakfast table next
morning, saw this advertisement.
"It's the very thing, mamma, and I'm
going to see about it to-day. Something
must be done, and am the one to do it,
| so-n
"But, Mabel, it seems so-so-why.
the idea Of
"There, there's no use saying word,
mamma. We can't be choosers any
more"
And so it was settled.
At o'clock that afternoon Mabel
Hicks-Brown rang the door of the house
in Grove street indicated in the adver-
tisement and was admitted by trim
maid, who seemed TO know her errand,
and ushered her into a pretty drawing
room on the right.
Somehow the room had familiar look.
At least there were things in it that
seemed familiar. That picture in the
dark corner-she must have seen it be-
fore. She rose to look at it, and as she
did so, some one came hurriedly into the
room. Tnrning, she stood face to face
with Henry Hicks-Brown.
For a full half-minute they stood
staring at each other, stunned. Then
Mabel, weak from the strain of the weeks
and months just passed, gave shudder-
ing sob aad sank t. the floor.
Ten minutes later she found herself
upon the divan in the corner, with pail
of strong arms about her and very dear
face close to her own, while deep,
tremulous voice whispered: mabel
can't we-can't we make it all up? Tel
me, little girl"
She told him, right then and there
and half an hour after that they stood il
the study of the parsonage close by
Hicks Brown would have it so-for al
the world like pair of clippers, and wha
had taken nearly five months to unite wal
retied in five minutes.
And that was the real end of the cele
brated Hicks Brown divorce case-th,
part that only small minority of tn,
newspaperreading public knows about
q Argonaut.
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