Middletown transcript., 1893-09-30
discharged to-day, !, she said.


discharged to-day. /" she said.
just then there was the sound o
solid footsteps on the stairs and hare
breathing, as il the steep locomotioi
were decided effort-and in trudged
Miss Thorburn.
sis this Pearl Playfair's placer" she
painted. "Do people hereabouts live at
the top of creation? Bless me, where's
the fre2 Is this sick girl your sister,
Pearl? Why didn't you tell me you
had a sick sisterp'
Pearl shrank back, growing very
pale.
"Have-have you come to arrest
me2" she gasped.
my dear. it's all right" said the
obese milliner, beginning to recover
her breath. s'Miss Dinsel's two little
sisters came right back in the carriage,
crying as hard as ever they could
They had heard what hard luck you
had, and they confessed-dear little
thingsl-that it was all their fault. It
seems they we're looking at the bonnet
In the dining-room-an and a cut.glasS
flask Of oil was somehow upset-and
they were horribly frightened, and
meant to keep it a secret; but when
they heard Miss Densel's story, they
bear to think that you were
blamed, and owned up at once. So |
I've come all this way, my dear, to let
you know. And you must come back
1t once, fof it's our busiest time, and
7ou can have Miss Dater's place In the
Ihow-room-Miss Dater's going to be
two dollars week more.
And you mustn't mind what I said to
'ou when / was yexed, for an old
tongue can't always be held
Ha, ha, hal''
"Oh, l am SO happyl so thankfull"
asped Pearl, while Miss Thorburn
rotted around to the side of Katie's
ed, to ask her string of kind moth.
rly questions, whose trend they un-
erstood better an hour later, when a
asket of fruit arrived from the nearest
rocery, cold roast fowl from the
and pail of oysters from
le fishmonger.
"How good people are-how very
,odl' said Katie. stAnd / was Just
,ginning to think that Heaven had
rgotten u.s."
She was well enough, under the sun
ine Of all this kindly remembrance,
go to the Vail homestead within a
'ay few days.
jamie accompanied her thither, ''just
settle her," and of course Joe had
20, too; while Pearl was taken into
iss Thorburn's own family during |
r sisters absence.
81 cant have her staying all alone by =
herself" said Miss Thorburn.
'he's a great deal too pretty; and
lat's the best of it, she don't even 7
ow it. I've taken a great fancy to
ut child. l shouldn't wonder if I
me day adopt her."
But when Katie Playfair come back u
May, with cheeks as pink as the
daisies themselves, and Miss fa
lorburn broached her ideas, the elder Al
ter refused the offer, with many n y
anks.
II couldn't spare PEARL" said she.
Il am going to settle on a farm in "
arge county-the great butter-mak- ly
: region, you know-and l want
arl to enjoy the buttercups and the
yes and the young lambs with me-" "
sGoing to settle, eh?" said Miss p
orburn. .Oh, if that's the case, i g
Ike no further objectionl' su
Yes" sa i'd Katie, blushing charm- "
.ly. "Mr. Vail has q contract as
'penter toa railway repair-shop there,
Pearl and I are to live always in ei II
, beautiful country" W
We'll, my DEAR" said good Miss
oIburn, II hope you'll be very be
Dpy. And mind. you're to take no sp
,ught about the wedding bonnet. t., Z.
l
D going TO make you present OF K.
}, all trimmed with white lilacs CO
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