The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19
BROUGHT TO TIME.

Mr.. Timothy Unkum, or Uncle Tim, as
everybody called him, was uneasy and out
of sorts. He did not like the turn affairs
had taken.
Not many years before Timothy I'm
kum's only brother had died, leaving q
son in his charge. This son was Harry
Unkum, youth of great promise and Of
glowing anticipations.
The widow was Mrs. Mary Folger In
the other years she had not only been a
warm personal friend of the Unkums, but
her estate joined the Unkum estate, and
she also owned large share of the Folger-
vile mills, left her by her husband, while
the rest of that valuable property had de-
scenGed to Harry.
It had been the earnest desire of the In
KUN now deceased that his son should
wed with the daughter of his near and
dear friend
Harry was 49, and it was high time that
he settled himself down to look alter the
business which had been left to him.
81 am satisfied pursued Mrs. Folger
THAT Harry will never marry my child.
The very fact that his father and I have
had the moose SO long prepared for him in
cliAes him to avoid it. And yet I doubt if
he will find a better wife. Lizzie is a good
girl
''She's an angelo cried Uncle Tim,
''and vastly too good for the graceless
scamp"
~ should not care so much" said the
widow feelingly, "only that Lizzie has re
garded Harry as the man who was to be
her husband, and she has learned to love
him"
"And, " added Uncle Tim emphatically,
81 am sure that Harry loves her, only he
will not bring himself to acknowledge it.
Mrs. Folger, if you and Lizzie will come
and spend a~Neek at my house, l think L
can bring Master Harry TO his senses"
''Now, Master Harry" said Uncle Tim
in an abrupt manner, 81 want one thing
distinctly understood. Mrs. Folger and
her daughter will arrive this evening, and
would know if you have any claim upon
Lizzie Folger's hand or hearth
mo, sir, " answered the nephew.
''That is all. We shall now know how to
receive and entertain our guests.
Toward evening Mrs. Folger and her
daughter arrived.
Harry greeted her as an old playmate,
and after tea he sang with her and talked
of the bygone school days. But Lizzie was
not over and above social, and when in the
bright moonlight of the August evening
they walked out upon the piazza she took
his urcles arm instead of his, and he was
forced to offer his arm to the mother.
On the following day Uncle Tim caused
his span Of grays to be hitchcd to the light
buggy, and as the team appeared at the
door Lizzie came out arrayed for a ride.
Uncle Tim CALAMITY handed her to her
seat, and having placed himself by her
side he took the reins and drove off.
It was late in the afternoon when the
grays, upon their return, came prancing
to the door. Uncle Tim leaped out with
wonderful agility, and having handed Liz
zie to the piazza he kissed her upon her
dimpled cheek, exclaiming in a most ex-
uberant manner as he did SO:
'fBless you, my darling! You are an
angela
| And Lizzie looked up and smiled and
patted him upon the cheek in return.
Harry had been standing upon the piaz-
! "a, and he muttered something very far
/ from a blessing.
During the forenoon of the third day
! Uncle Tim met his nephew in the hall
and called him into the library.
| Harry, my boy, - he said, with glow
! ing face, Il have deemed it my duty to let
/ you know that there is soon to be change
/ in our household. I am going to give it a
/ mistress
Il don't understand
Haven't you got eyes? What dye sup
/ pose brought Lizzie Folger here for?''
"Do you mean that-that you are going
to make her your wife,
"And what do you find wonderful in
that?''
cat your age!''
SAT my agel What dye mean by thats
| At my age! l am only %, in the prime of
life. ! was never younger in health and
vigor. Confound your impudence! A girl
| of sense looks for a supporter and pro
tector IL a husband
Harry began to open his eyes to the true
state of his own heart. The thing which
he had regarded as set apart especially for
him, and which he might take into posses
sion at any time, he had not been anxious
to claim but now that he saw the prize in
the hands OF another he was startled into
a new estimate Of the value OF the boon he
had sighted.
In the evening Harry followed Lizzie
into the garden. He had resolved to do a
| desperate thing and was prepared to be
plain and outspoken. He urged her to sit
down. and as he took a seat by her side he
| found her trembling.
HAS my uncle asked you for your
hand?'
HE has
And have you given him favorable
answer"
My answer has not been unfavorable. -
ooh, Lizzie I had not thought this o1
you!"
GLOW? Not thought what?'
ttThat you could thus slight me-"
'tSlght you? 1 do not understand
'Yes-you do Observation-Disclosures &c
away don't leave mel have loved you,
Lizzie!''
''You-you loved me?''
Eyes. Here on my knees confess it. u
''Indeod, Harry, you must not. YOU
you
He was eloquent and imprisoned, sc
much that ere long Lizzie's head was pill
lowed upon his bosom and ones of her arms
twined about his neck.
And you will not give your hand to my
unclef''
HE never asked it for himself, Harry u
What not for himself?''
''No; he asked me for my hand, but il
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