The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-06-21

house that should IKE 70 nave ekweyu
hanging before me-"
''Odd that you happened TO see It,
but not odd that painted II; for my
wife was fond of II, and then we spent
our honeymoon there. My wife was
there for long time with gentleman
who was taken suddenly Ill there"
Suddenly ill2" said Mrs Lloyd; tex
cuse me, but what was his nameP"
"Mr. Carter-Mr. John Carter. Of
Virginia; and we ="
Mrs. Lloyd interrupted again.
"Were you'll mean are you Glare
King-the Miss King who was so good
to my fatherp"
'Were you Miss Carter. who couldn't
come because she had sprained her
ankle in London?"
81 am, indeed" And Mrs. Lloyd
juped up and took both Mrs. Rhetts
hands; land ! have tried SO hard to
find you for all the long years What
does it mean?"
They sat down and looked at each
other-these people whom chance and
picture had thrown together.
81 don't know" 81 can't imagine"
Lloyd collected her wits first
"You left my father after my aunt
came-the next day, think, and so
we never met; and then you wrote
twice and then ! wrote to you, and
then we never heard again; and we
even wrote here to America and tried
| to find your address in Charleston.
What can it mean? And you have been
| living in Florence and / in Rome All
| but neighbors, and never knowing it. :"
81 had one letter from you," said
Mrs. Rhett, land then never heard
again; and wrote again, and still no
answer. And my mother moved away
to Savannah, and she married again
and changed her name, and was mar
ried and changed mine, and so, per-
haps. that explains why you couldn t
find u.s."
~ suppose so," said Mrs. Lloyd; land
yet it does seem a mystery. And now
to find you from the picture of the inn;
how glad l am! am SO lonely, and
have no friends here" and she glanced
at her dress; "my husband is dead"
"And we are lonely too" said the
other woman.
Then came long string of questions
and answers, and, as it has nothing to
do with the story, it need not be told;
but Mrs. Lloyd said:
81 can never be grateful enough to
you for all you did for my dear father,
when he was so alone"
But she proved that she could; for
that day she paid for the picture, and
twice the price that Mr.. Rhett had
thought that he could dare to ask for
it. And she knew that the comforts
that they needed would follow, and
she attended to the other things A
great basket of flowers and most
delicious fruit came to them the next
day. And Mr.. Rhett had such warn
words Of praise from the man who
kept the picture shop; for as "bad
luck never comes singly," SO it is with
good; and just after Mrs. Lloyd had
seen the picture and ordered it kept
for her, another person had tried tc
buy it
And Mrs. Lloyd felt that she had
been wise to follow 'her leadin's" a,
she looked at the picture in her room
that had been so lonely, and felt tina,
the day had brought her not only tht
promise of spring and of life. but the
very best thing that the world car
ever give-the love of friends. And Il
all came from pleasant word at 6
shop window to a strange little gir
who had seen the kindness and beer
kind in return. And she thought also
"If had crossed the street at frst
should have missed it all How
strange"-Katherine B. Foot, in N. Y
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