The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-08-09


SHE KNELT DOWN AND GATHERED BOTH
TO HER BREAST.
''She is only child" said Oliver. He
sent his clerk.
sis Aunt Hannah out there?" asked
Minny, softly.
Eyes. She brought the dog"
lis she very, very angry with me?"
piteously. 81 did not want to be caught
and made to go home. want to tell
her, though, if she worried how sorry I
am"
'She can come if you will be quiet
and let her do the talking" cautioned
DR.. John.
"I'll be good" she answered, eagerly.
"You know do everything you tell me
to. What will she think of him?'-
with look of pride at the red-faced
bundle. "After that she can never
call me frivolous again. Why, she's
quite a young thing in experience be-
side me. Wasn't she good to bring my
dog?"
Aunt hannah meant to be severe and
cold, perhaps to speak her mind q lit
tie; she had not forgiven the long.
anxious months; but the sight Of the
girl lying there white and frail, the
baby in her arms, softened the stern
old face, and with a sob she lxnelt down
and gathered both to her breast
CHAPTER VII
''Craig," said DR.. John, sitting down
on nail-keg, ''why did you come
here?"
because you sent for lawyer and
for Miss Patten. connected the mys-
terry with the young lady I had assisted
to run away, whose fate has been .
good deal of trouble to me ever since.
l wanted to help her, il need be. Is
she very Hip"
Getting better fast. It was mad
folly to start on journey sick as she
was. I don't blame you, Craig, for
that long ride and the risk you ran;
little lady. and brave too. It Is 4 Won
der what q woman can endure, .
slight frail creature whose hand you
could crush in your fingers"
But she had" said Oliver, uneasily,
''plenty of money, had she not?''
''She was travelling in the day
coach, and has. I think, about Ave
dollars in shabby little purse. Miss
Patten was right when she said we
should not see Mrs. Minny until the
money you gave her was all gone.
Where has she been all these long
months? BY her finding the dog, Miss
Patten probably knows now"
EYES,. and it was as thought
something entirely original. Near
Boston Mrs. de Restaud got acquaint-
ted with an elderly female who ran
some sort of retreat for aged pets,
invalid dogs and cats. The idea was
so novel Mrs. Minny decided to stop
over and see the place. Finding Mrs.
Blinn agreeable, and Syke contented
in the society of his kind at the re-
treat, she remained. She met a sailor
from Newcastle in the street one day,
and he told her Miss Patten had not
been home for long time. So she
decided not to write anyone, but to
remain hidden. One day few weeks
ago she came home from the village
much upset, and acted oddly; she had
either seen some one or read some
thing in newspaper, for the village
storekeeper saw her porting over one,
looking much upset. Two days later,
leaving q note containing board for
her dog, she disappeared. This Mrs.
Blinn, who seems to be q good sort Of
a person, worried great deal. looking
for her everywhere, and in her search
wrote to the postmaster at Newcastle,
for she had heard Mrs. Minny speak Of
having been there. Through that let
ter Miss Patten found Skye, and then
started for Denver"
''She may have seen Do Restaud, or
that servant Of his" unused the doc
tor. "Well, now you are here-though
I'd much rather q stranger had come
want you to draw up paper setting
forth the facts in this case In proper
legal phraseology." r.
II fail to comprehend Just what You
mean"
"You see," explained the doctor.
''the French people are particular
about documents; and between the
property OF De Restaud's father and
this child Of Mrs. Minny's there il only
q feeble child"
Mrs. Minny's child?" repested