The Newtown bee., 1896-08-21

mild ljlt:e postmaster.
 II will, i tell you !" cried J0ann, fefce- Iy. An l won't live with her day I"Ldt na5 .slIe Eud gb ,dSwn on , our wrath, my child" tt H..3J
 %1h#t'e jd7t what it will go do#n on, !" said ,Joann, If it ever goes down.. Will you give me some money to git to Aunt Hannah's2 I can pay you back this summer" ssa,f:. .
 "You wouldn't go, Joapn, an leave that poor ole cretur all livin aloney'
 "Wul you give me the money;2 Joann stooa with one foot on the threshold, as if ready to dart out any instant, ''I shall go jest the same if you don't. I'll go if I walk every step of She way"
 Inc postmaster examined a drawer in his desk and handed out bill to Joann, whose eyes grew round at sight of it.
 "Fiva d0llars!'
 'Don't go, Joann, said the little man, with tears in his eyes,. Buy some clothes an forgive Gran'ma am. She's g poor, broken,down ole body"
 Joann crumpIed up the bill in her hand and walked off without 8 word.
 The postmaster went to the door and looked after her; She was taking her way up the road with great strides. He rubbed hi4 stubby chin and smiled. ''Joann's good girl," he said, and went back to his desk. ...
 II will go; will, 1 will" Joann was saying at every stride; but she did not turn to the right at the railroad crossing, she kept straight ahead up the mountain.
 gA2191 had smiled away all the mists rf the ear}y morning, and was shining brightly now on the muddy road, on the bare branches of the beech and spruce trees, on the sombre evergreens and the taog ed urderbrusb. And when Joanr reached her reetiDg-placc she found the pleasant sunshine there, dancing in the brook and turning it's silver raceway tt gold,
 Joann had not walked back two mile: t2 this place because she had changed hvr mind or because her mind was no made up. "Tu take the noon train, she said, ''there's time enough, an IT pick lunch of May flowers for Auu
 1annsh while I'm waitin'; they must h, uq hy lhis time" But jnstcad of search ing under tho soggy brown leaves 10 bl9rsogns, Joann thpew herself dowl beside the brook and looked up in th, trees. "l wish that han'somc little ere tur'd come ag'iD,' she said II neve noticed one so close afoye''5
 Joann had her wiah. In 8 few moments there WAS little luttcr and firt, ant there was b}uebird on the branch; anc b. began to sing. The hard knot 1T Josnn's heart came up in her throat; qbs but horcvcs tight, but the tears squcoz,. l,..,l gh and fell on her rough, red hands ..l lea't know what be a,cryin' for; ' ha.4't<.rrr for ootbjn ~ she said
 3gran ~a= very quiet for some tius ! 4, s that: then she b.goa to talk agaia '.'"as5 a 44oe., sill sort of noise ther. . + ur :o the trca=, like d lot of folk whI-parfn'~ ....: 5sadc73y the 2nl start4d ap: "Wb@ o4 tiny a-7ayln'? Don't go, Joanr don't eo, J3anD" I will tel got | win!'r 1t shat she broke down. hi. her face oa the bit of rock, and cried s, hard she could not hear the trees, or th birds, or even the brook. s.. H..
 When Joaun had become quiet sin rose to her feet and began to walk slow l ly up the mountain-not down, ''I gues better go home first an see hoy Gran'ma'am's gittin' Hong, an bring il some wood, an fix things up a little seein' how she won't have any one to d, anything for her, 'cept Jake Tucker aftet I'm gone. He'll look in every day,
 s'pose. It'n do just as we'll if I go. ol , o'clock train. I'll stop at Patey's, too and buy me a pair of shoes; 1-ll hay, enough left then to take me to- Aoo Hannah B." .. ''
 Joaun walked steadily, hardly raising her eyes from the ground, At the. foo of the slope where the house stood shj looked up. 1T pever noticed afore tha I couldn't see a bit of the house when was standin' here" she said.S -s ~~ When Joann reached the topaof tn, slope she Btared, and rubbed her eye and stared. Where the cabin had stoot was heap of rubbish, There is nt knowing how long Joann would hav' stood staring If a feeble groan had no set her feet speeding toward the heap. Y "Oh, Gran'ma'am, you hain't there F she cried ont. Another. feeble groar answered her. 4yH Sa " ---~-~-
 The girl flew at the rpip and fran tically pulled at the boards and beamg. but they .dedsd her strength. s.'sGran' r1s'aru ai ef1e called, ,-stb VOL dead Yts@@fa1