The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-29

We were all in The lreak-1---ro1u al
Feather5yke. Elizabeth lu her chair Is
the as set freless CRATE was reading the
nevsuauer. CHRISTINA, or the window
with the best Ua1t. was touching 40 hey
last vater-color sketch, and ], AZ the
other window. was doing nothing in par
ticular / was thinking glcomly that IN
three weeks or Jess we should have 70
leave our dear o-1 Hea-herLylze. and as
ye, we had found no suitable house sud
denly Elizabeth looked up with little
CRY OF delight
listen. girls" she said. ezcitedly. here
= Just the very thing for as, what we
thought We should never find" and she
read rapidly:
ITO lei. by the year or on lease. com
modious house in the old town Of Aber-
deem. There are three public rooms, I'VE
bedrooms, kitchens, servants accoulrn 1la-
ton and every convenience There Is
large. garden wei stocked with fruit trees
ana bushes. good lawn in front, and 0f
required a twO-stalled stable and coach
house. The house IS an old-fashioned one
and most comfortable, the late tenant hav-
ing put il into thorough repair: the view
is beautiful from the back Of the house.
and the situation is retired without being
dull To a suitable tenant, VINO would take
a lease Of b., the trustees Woull MAKE
any alteration or -mproF eIneLLe le7ili---
Apply, etc Elizabeth read IL with great
seThess-" sfa safd. eHris4atical-y, lis
the very house for US. ] shan 90 mo
Aberdeen tomorrow and look at it. girls
But" objected Christina u tno-ent
you said, Elizabeth, that you di1 not Ase
TO be in town, ard tls house seems 70
be right in the center OF ola Aberdeen
But Old Aberdeen is not the same as
New Abeg'ieen," RESPONDED ElizaD--l TO- T.
fly. 1t Is a very quiet aI-1loll e-s- OH
place with no fine shops OF staring new
houses. The best people are 70 ue round
there. and they are very exclusive, am
told. It just seems 10 me the pace Tor
us" and Elizabeth brdled and looked
around as Il she thought CHRIS Una IDEAS
rather low and her sense o. clgnity ue-
i don't see" grumbled Christina, "wky
we should leave Heatherdyke a. all. ROD
ert need not have been so hdgety ABOUT
US, as II the want OF q man ia the mouse
laid # more open 10 burglars or Inletes.
We could have got on very wei, ] Know
Christina" said Elizabeth, soleHnIily,
81 do believe you have not the faintest
sense OF proDriety. How could We 1--we
here for three years and manage the men
and the farm work. Robert was perlectly
right and neither you nor Agnes seem TO
feel how careful he has been TO look atter
you. ] am disguised
why Eliza6eth.' . / exclaimed. Il have
not uttered = word. Tine housc may De
very nice and just what we want, but az
Christian says, we need not have been az
all afraid 10 stay here. 4ir- milan cOllu
have looked after the farm work and the
men. as he has done for Robert 50 long
However, II we are 10 leave, J. don Cd
feet 70 old Aberdeen in the least
We'll" said Elizabeth, as she folded
her paper and picked up her key DasEet
preparatory 10 going off on her usual
domestic tour for the morning, am 90
ing to Aberdeen tomorrow, and II that
house is what it is said to be- II take It.
She went of. and Christina uttered
little groan as she laid down her brush
and looked at me.
Il lust feel. Agnes, as though / could
do something spiteful to the people VINO
nut that advertisement in the paper,
she said with much disgust. Il had mop
ed we should al least nave got , ne"
house near the New Town, and now Eilz-
abeth will plant us right in the very neaft
Of the old one Very likely that precious
'conlmodious' residence IS an old tumble
down affair not fit for gentlewomen TO
live IN But there is no use trying TO
convince Bet, she is always right
When Christina was angry or put out
at her elder sister she always spoke OF
her as bet" Never TO her face, though,
only to ma as Of course il did no harm
and relieved her feelings. ! consoled her
and myself by saying that probably u
would all turn out right, and as we heard
Elizabeth coming back along the nail we
relapsed into silence. christina res ni il,.,l
her task and / went of to have run
with Randy, Roberts retriever Whlch ne
had left In my charge.
Heatherdyke was our estate-a very
small one. but II had belonged to our
family for many generations. The Nor
risOns Of Heatherdyke had better stand
ing in the county than some OF nose
whose acres were more, but whose peol-
grees were shorter than ours. 1t belonged
now TO our brother. or rather our half-
brother, Robert, who was not only an ag-
ricultuTst but a man Of science as well,
and who on our fathers death, had been
our more than brother. lie would not
hear Of our leaving the old home, and
we had all been very happy together. But
that summer Robert had Joined a scientllc
expedition to Africa. and meant TO De
away three years; so he had counSeleu
Elizabeth to live in town or near II. and
let Heatherdyke for the time. We nad
soon found a tenant for Heatnerdkye,
but as yet we had found no house for our
selves and it wanted only three weeks
Of the time when the Lindsays We're 10
enter upon their three years lease or our
home Christina and ] had Doth OBJECTED
TO leaving the place of our birth, but as
IL was pretty far away from both town
or railway station, ana had no mouse
near II but the labOrers' cottages, Robert
thought we had better 80 TO place where
we should at least have few near nelgh-
bors Of our own rank. The Lindsays We're
q large family, and HeathcruyKe was just
the sort of house for them.
Next day Elizabeth went to Aberdeen,
taking Christina with her. Elizabeth
never cOndesceuded 10 consult either OF
us. but she liked TO have one of Us with
her on any important occasion. we were
none Of US particularly young. Ellza-
beth was ten years older than Christina,
and l was five years younger. SO that
when ] say that I was over twenty-eight
you may guess neither Of my sisters was
in the bloom of youth. But although
Christina was over thirty she was the
beauty of our family; a tall, fair, gra-
cious-looking woman, beside whom l al
ways felt hopelessly plain and brown.
Elizabeth was handsome yet and had,
thought, the most graceful figure of the
three of us, and not a grey thread could
be seen in her glossy brown hair. She
had been like a mother TO us younger
ones, and from being so much older, We
had always given her the place of honor
as mistress of the house, after Roberts
mother died leaving him baby OF only
a year in Elizabeths care. Her pride
and delight in the boy" was repaid by
him with so deep a love as il he was really
her own son, and Elizabeth had let no
other love come between them.
When my sisters returned from Aber-
deem they were in raptures over the
house, Christina even going so far as TO
say It was absolutely perfect. Elizabeth
had given our lawyer Instructions 10
come TO terms about IT, so now we had
only to hasten our preparations so as 10
be In the new house before our time was
up with the old one. But depourCd by
curiosity as ] was. j never saw our new
abode TN we went, after an our furni-
ture was sent off, 20 see our two ma ds
arrange and set IN ia order. We took only
two girls with MS, though we had always
kept three at heafhernyEe, becausa The
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