The Newtown bee., 1896-07-24

am just making a return to my chief; and | am sure it will be joy Yo Sylvia to re- place good portion of your losses by in- dorsing this check to you"
 "Harley!"
 Il have deducted all the expenses and my own commission, 'said Harley" You will see by the schedules that we supply in this town and others along the route and on the further side-f0r the typhoid scare is widespread now-more than 1000 families with the Sylvan Spring water, at 50 cents week. Of course the expenses are heavy; but then the net profit is heavy, too. It gives Sylvia and me enough to build our house in another spot at some distance from the water works, 6 pasture of mine. And if you, Mir Dexter, will take the management of the business in t0wn-I think it need not l interfere with your present arrange l ments; and John will oversee the teams 1 that is quite within his power; I can 1 attend to the spring house until the time, |
 
 oG our hands and pay us fifty or bun- l dred thousand for our plant, with per mancnt positions in the business"
 "There is no more honest poverty in ours, papa, cried Sylvia.
 "Harley :" said Mir Dexter; ''you are my salvation"
 "Wcl, sir, you can reverse the thing and be mine by giving your daughter a a command to become my wife here and now"
 "Without her mother?"
 "Wcll, papa" said Sylvia, blushng ro&y-red, but feeling obliged to come to Harley's help, Aunt Jcannette would do. And you know that mamma has a great Il great faculty for obstruction. think he will be so relieved about John that 7ha will forgive ua. Aud VIC will make her wedding present of paid-up mort gage of the house."
 "lou are a nouvoau richp, Sylvia. Harvey mutt not aI'o you to be too free with your money.N
 "Oh, iC isn't our; it ie trust the dear 1 old Mother Earth gives Us. We are to be happy euc of 1t. and 10 make every one ] else happy. And, oh, what happiness it 1 is 10 bring health to whole towns full of i people, Don't you remember I told you | inc sprog was full of sapphi5e5 aud Ill, hie> ahd cmeralds, Harley And rctI l nne2, you sec, papa" for Harley had slipped a ring on her finger some little 1 time before. 'Pap2, you are quite aD- i Cher person already" she cried, pinning l on her hat and going out to the minister's ! with them and her Aunt Jeann1tto
 "OA, you dear, sweet, coDfding old l Mother Earth" Sylvia exclaimed, kneel- 1 ing at her window t}.at night, and lock ] ing out on the dark, slunlbering, cham l paign country behind the town, ,'I love yon sO!"
 "I think, aaid Harley, "you had bet ter hc saying how you love me"
 ''Ebat goes without saying" she re- piled, leaniug back her head on his arm. But this desr eartb-shc makes us SC happy while she rolls with us about the sun that it seems to me now only hap piness to think of the time when we shall be part of her--iust brown dust togeth- CT in her bosom -
 "Oh, but a long way off" he cried, folding her still more closely ill his arm2,
 It WAS Ut about the same hour that Mrs Dexter, having Inspected the released mortgage and the gratifying check, had coquattishly picked out the pink ribbons of her cap and was rcmarking to her hus- band:
 "Wen, it was the most thoughtful thing Sylvia ever did-to save me the fuss of wedding, That piece of pasture, Is John to have 6 salary-0r c0mmisgiou:I X salary is so comfortable. You always know where you are with a salary. ItI has to be paid. On yes, a salary, is the best thing; l have always said so. Har- ley Melton is turning out better than thought. 1 never said there was any harm in him; only that he was so inef- ficjent. Still, with the money coming in, Sylvia could have done better. She could have married almost aGy one. It is vex- atious, say what you will, to have an out sder like Harley directing family affairs. It is just the thing for John himself to do; and it is my private opinion that John suggested the whole business in the first place. He always said that water was pure. John is so full of ideas"