New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-17

the front door. She walked down the road lear
ing all the time that she should hear the wheels OF
Coburns wagon behind her And she was coiii-
posing the letter she would send 10 her daughter
Her husband need know nothing about 1t. one
wanted 10 make the letter as strong as possible.
She almost dared hope that Deacon Groves SICK
ness was Providcntial. But when she thought OF
how it had been brought about she didn't feel so
sure OF The Providential part of it. But froVi-
dcnce worked in a mysterious way.
This time Mrs North was moved to act I'M
mediately.
Therefore it came to pass that the next after
noon when Mrs LANDAU received her mail she
came to letter addressed TO her which, when she
opened it. she found contained a sealed envelope
with the word katharine laboriously written
upon il.
She knew her sisters writing. II had not
changed much since the time when the two SAT
side by side and struggled beyond slanting marks
between two ruled lines.
Mrs LANDAU raised her eyes and looked at her
niece
The girl was half lying on a couch by the WIN
dow. She had book in her hand but she was
not reading. Her face was turned toward tna'
lovely coast lire which stretches away along the
ocean edge of Cohasset
Even in these few days there was a great diner
ence in Katharine. The expression of the eyes as
if their owner were watching and listening IN a
more or less harasscd manner. gone Inc
lines about the lips had changed in some indescrio-
able way There was All air of freedom and hope
fulncss.
Mrs LANDAU was kecny conscious OF TINS
change This consciousness brought with it to her
fuller sense of the joys of lifc-a fuller sense
than she had expected could be hers again
And what We the mother writing!
For an instant RoXy's sister felt temptation
TO send back that letter without allowing the
owner of it to see It, But Mrs. Llandaf's tempta-
tons had never been strongly in the line OF any
kind of undcrhand proceeding.
Kitty" she sad here's something from your
mother
The girl started Her eyes diated; wave Of
color rose 10 her forehead and then subsidized INTO
palor
She had been reused from vague and exquisite
dream which the sky. and the shore. and water.
and the presence OF her Aunt Kate had called into
being.
She rose feeling as if she were suddenly thrust
down into blackness.
She took the letter and went back to the WIN
dow She hcsitatcd an instant with it in her
hand 1t was terrible to have such feeling To-
ward her mother.
Mrs. I4landni1 ala not LOOK dt ncf shc "''i' nv
her bedroom leaving the girl alone She laid her
self down on the bed. and after little she was
lulled by the sound of the waves and the heat.
and she fell asleep.
1t seemed to her that she had slept long time
when She felt her hand grasped tightly. She
heard Katharine saying:
Aunt Kate, will you wake ~ -...--
She opened her eyes and smiled reafsuringH
at the girl
~Of course Iii waken; though I haven't been
aslcep-that is. | have been dreaming put villa.
is il Pr she sat up suddenly. WHAT has your
mother been doing now? Let me see that letter,
But Katharine did not renquish the letter
Her fingers closed tightly on H. sh.u ha,e
Aunt Kate she said, " l think shall nave
TO go back
"Go back where 2?
"1o Feeding Hills -, O.,
Mrs LANDAU now rose from the ben She
seized her niece by the arm and led her 70 the
The The girls face was gray and set 1t was SO
set that the elder woman dropped the arm ana
II see You are going to be perfectly unrcas9ona,-
ble,' she said Il tell you have a mind to lock a;
beyonI being influenced by your mother
1t isn't mother; -, ,,... .o.iu,
She looked desperate and hopeless, and as her
aunt had said perfectly unreasonable
But it's your mother who has wrltten2'
1t can't he that-that wdowcr'
Mrs Ilandah's eyes flashed
And your mother is playing and pp ,ah y cope
| of him. Oh, | don't love my sister ,.,..
The woman flung out one hand dramatically;
You don't think I'd 90 for Mr. Groye?' cricd
For whom, then? Don't you see you mustn't
90 there at all p ,,,
The girls hands shut Themselves s1iT ugn"S
| Its for father. It's for father, she answered
Don't You think I'd do anything for him
But he can't ask this Of You Chlli, don
YOU think | know Colburn North ~
| The woman's voice thrilled somewhat IN that
last sentence Katharine gazed eagerly at her
some way out of the trouble which had come
'' But She knew directly that she could not
has written, But III; for him, all me SANE
father Aunt Kate Hes been my Gom ,ronblc y"
| don't think I ought to tell what IT. IS. He-H
something he has done would even try TO
nurse Deacon Grove for fathers sake. A.. ro,,
| is it that you may nurse that man that you
are going to Feeding Hills? = H.
7 don't know. If father wants me TO DO
that-but must get ready; ought 10 'a'e
| the next boat 10 Boston.
"Go and get ready them responded Mrs
| Llandan =, ;,a
| Of irving 10 restrain her niece. -,
| And she seemed almost cold, so hat Katharine s
heart. AS she looked at her, gave great beat OF
| agony. .r.1 o,,o,,
| She loft the room and walked toward her own
| room, Rcaching it, she stood outside the door a
moment trying TO think what were the trlvIl
things il was necessary for her to do 10 prepare
70 90 in the next boat She found IL difficult t. bring
| her mind 10 the subject She was going to leave
| her Aunt Kate. That fact weighed upon her 50
| dcsolateIy that she could not much farther.
And her Aunt Kate had somewhat disappointed her I;
but of course she had irritatcd Mrs. LANDAU ne
yond endurance That lady had a thousand IN
| tercsts i'm life while she-thc girl-Oh, what IN
| tcrrst in life had she now? Only to. help her
father if he were in trouble, and he in trouble
! on her account. ,,
A strong Whit of salt air came rushing down
| the corridor where she stood. Ii came from the
| end which opened broadly upon n balcony over