St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-10

/ 10 wherever it is she does go, and look at her
now"
''She certainly does not look progresses
ing" said my uncle, and on the instant
placed him on my blacklist. That awful
word seemed to penetrate my heart, and
felt wound as from dagger.
"But I am used to this" said my aunt.
'sThe breaking of the mirror in that deliber-
ate way is what cannot overlook"
''That," said my uncle, sshe never did. It
is a dastardy trick my poor sisters daughter
could not be capable of. Whatever she
may be, she is a Malcolm, a family of GENTLE
men and ladies, madam"
s'She looks like it, don't she, colonel?' cried
my aunt.
81 cannot say anything in favor of her
looks said the colonel ssbut none of our
people have ever doGo a low down thing
YETI
''None of my people would have let you
have me if they had" said my aunt.
81 acknowledge the position Of your FAM
ry," said the colonel, e'but I must maintain
the honor of mine. My sister Etta's daugh-
ter, my niece, could not fall so low as to
willingly and with malice prepense fling
i missile against a valuable mirrar in my
house for the purpose of destroying it.
Blood will tell, madam. That is trick
1ecent niger would be ashamed of; of
which few white trash are capable"
Remorse was beginning to seize upon my
7itals.
s'And it is pecuniary loss, " my uncle con-
sinued. Captain Tompkins, OF the Hunters
Hotel, offered me seventy-five dollars for it
NJ r
need Of cash. Colonel said he, you will
excuse me, 1 hope, but should you ever wish
to dispose of that one remaining of those fine
mirrors which once adorned your elegant
ballroom, I should consider it an honor to
be permitted to purchase it, and he named
! the price.
[ "sCaptain said I, Il understand you;
but those mirrors are heirlooms. Most of
them are shattered; pierced by the bullets of
the enemy. That one remains. cannot as
yet, empty as is my purse, sell, even to you,
the glass that has reflected the faces of all
my ancestors, all my valued friends, all the
dear ones gone before
"sColonel,' said he, forget that made the
offer, unless indeed circumstances should
compel you to think it over, when I shall
stand ready We might need the price yet.
my dear. Therefore you see it is my pecu-
mary loss. My niece must have been aware
of the fact. Do you think she would, so to
speak, rob me?"
[ At the words shrunk and shivered with
hideous shame.
81 think she is mean enough to do any
thing" said my aunt.
:; "I'n know the truth before Sleep" said
my uncle. He bent over me, put back my
hair with gentle touch, and called, 'sNan-
ME, Mamie"
u My eyes flew open. AS they rested on my
uncle, just now very pale, his cheeks hollow.
his eyes sunken, with his bowed shoulders
and empty sleeve. burst into q wild passion
of tears.
Il "Uncle! uncle" cried, as one utters
prayer.
{. ''Teu me, Mamie" he said, stdid you break
the mirror IN the ball-roomp will not be-
Heve it unless you tell me so yourself"
{: Oh. how longed to lie. But I could not.
The truth would out. I answered simply,
eyes, uncle"
"But not on purpose; by accident?" he
said, gently. ''Child, I am sure it was by ac-
cident."
Now was my chance. I could say that
was reading in the ballroom and threw the
book at some terrible insect that tried to