Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-12-19
BY ADELINE SERGEANT.

do YOU know that am your grand
| father?" he said to her.
no, | did not know."
But | am. Your mother was my
dsughter-a disobedient daughter-but
she lies in her grave and we viii not
speak of her When you were an m
! FAINT wrote. and offered to adopt you,
lut your father refused to let you so.
Now he comes and asks me to provide
for you
4 don't want you to do anything for
me" said Madeline, in choking voice.
Il would rather You didn't. ! would
rather you let me alone"
Don't be afraid, said the general
dryly. I an not thinking Of adopt
ing you now / could only make a
small provision for you, because have
sunk all my money in an annuity,
which will cease at my death. You see
what comes of your proud refusal to
let me have my daughters child years
ago, Mr.. Despard If this child mad
lived with me | would have taken care
that she was properly provided for,
the length of my life.'
please, don't do anything for me,
said Madeline, brokenly Indeed, !
am quite happy at home"
"All can do is to give you a good
education. Are you not old enough to
value that?'
She looked up at him with sud
den light in her eyes.
You will have books, pictures
music said the general, pursuing his
advantage. You will learn with other
girls you will be brought up properly
and YOU wi able to make your
living afterward, if necessary. Do YOU
dislike that idea?"
mo, / should like it."
seYou can do more for your Gather i'll
that way than by staying with him
now" said the general. Something in
her face impelled nm to speak to her
as if she were a woman grown. The
sweet eyes were so pathetic, the curved
mouth so wistful, that he could not
treat her All child
Does father wish me to go?" she
asked at len 9Th.
Eyes, my beloved child, If it is for
your welfare, wish it" said Desparl,
grandiloquently, but with a touch OF
real tenderness in his voice.
Then / will CO. she said, but her
courage failed her at the words and
she burst into flood OF passionate
tears.
Come, come, you must not cry,
said her grandfather, drawing her TO
him with his arm. You will be very
happy: you are not going 10 cheap,
common school, you know, but g one
where you will be we'll treated IN
every way. 1t is Miss Joyce's school,
near London; | know some young
ladies who go there and they are
happy enough. There is nothing at all
to cry for, my dear. | have a young
relation already at that school.
Nothing to cry for! When she was
to leave Jenny and the little ones and
her father. Even her stepmother
seemed dear TO her at that moment
she could but try TO check her sobs,
without giving any explanation; ana
she felt herself so ungrateful, that
when the general said, Kiss me, my
dear" she kissed him with warmth
and a docility, which he had scarcely
expected.
Poor, little thing" he said to HIM
self when his visitors had departed,
sShe has her mothers eyes. They re-
mind me OF the old days when
planned a match between Madeline
and Roger Vanbrugh-lo ago. That
boy Of Vanbrugh's must be Il or ~ ~
this time. by the way, and Gen. Arm
strong fell into a long musing reverie,
i'll which he planned out Madeline.s
future with details which would have
astonished her had she known.