St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-07-28

favorite suburb-and the time came
for him to occupy it, and she was
not there to enjoy 1t. His young
sister. an orphan. who had 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 re-
membered himself and arose to
superintend the work OF arranging
furniture.
Everybody who reads the papers
remembers the Hicks Brown divorce
trial-how the defendant paid no at
tention to the suit; how the Judge,
in granting decree without allmony,
scored the fair plaintiff for seeking
divorce on such trivial grounds, ana
assured her that he allowed decree
only because it was plain to be seen
that it was incompatiblllty; and
how, two DAYS after receiving her
decree, the plaintiff left suddenly, and
how everybody said, Il told you so
i knew she'd go as soon as she got
| it,
But everybody does not know
that the reason she left so suddenly
was that she received telegram an
nouncing her fathers death, or that
when she reached home she found
that he had died bankrupt.
Hicks-Brown knew it, and his
heart ached with the longing to go to
her aid-and then the Hicks-Brown
pride came to the surface, and his
heart hardened with a 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 some
times out there in that slow little
suburb, and an idea struck him.
"Bv Lowell" he thought, its the
very thing. There are lots OF nice
girls who would jump at the chance
to be companion to so jolly a girl as
Lottie" And he stopped at The
SOL Office and left want" adver-
tisement, which stated that young
lady desired companion who was
able to speak French and possessed
sundrv other accomplishments; must
furnish best references would receive
liberal salary, etc. apply in person
at residence, No Grove street.
Mabel Hicks-Brown, discussing
WAYS and means with her mother at
their SHINY furnished breakfast-table
next morning, saw this advertise
ment. Its the very thing, mamma
and I'm going to see about 1t today
Something must be done, and I'm
the one to do it, So
But, Mabel, it seems so-so-why
the idea Of"
"There, there's no use saying 6
word, mamma. Wecan't be chooser:
any more" And so it was settled
At 4 O'Clock that afternoon, Mabe
Hicks-Brown rang the door-bell O
, the house in Grove street, indicated
in the advertisement, and was ad
mitted by a trim maid, who seemed
, to know her errand, and asked he
into the pretty dra wing-room on tn
: right. =.
Somehow the room had famllla
; look. At least, there were things Il
it that seemed familiar. That pictur
in the dark corner-she must haV
> seen it before. She rose to look att
and, as she did so, some one cam
; hurriedly into the room. Turning
i she stood face-tO-face with Herr
Hicks-Brown.
For a full half minute they stoo
, staring at each other, stunned
; Then Mabel, weak from the stra1
= of the weeks and months just passec
gave a shuddering sob and sank t
= the floor.
Ten minutes later she found herse
> upon the divan in the corner, with
{ pair of strong arms about her and
I very dear face close to her Owl
{ while a deep, tremulous vol1
+ whispered, mabel, can't we-can
! we make it up? Tell me, little girl.
u u She told him, right then and Their
i and half an hour after that, the
stood in the study of the parsonas
close by-Hicks-Br would hay
II it so-for all the world like pair
= elopers, and what had taken near
FIVE months to unite was retled
"a five minutes.
~ ~ And that was the real end of Il
~ celebrated Hicks-Brown divorce ca
= the part that only small m1no
~ ity of the newspaper-readlng pub
knows about R. L. Ketchum,
to the San Francisco Argonaut.
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