The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23

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brothers example with the doughnut
but, suddenly. the tempting morsel
was put down. and the little girls face
was clouded as she turned TO him
Say, Jake. yer didn't steal 'em. did
yerg' she asked.
The boys expressive face lighted up
with scorn.
"A-siealin' from herr" he cried, the
lady what gives us everythin an let's
US call her mother II that's your
cut, yer won't get me to hang on
NO she guve EN- ter me just now. one
APIECE. Where's Nell?" he repeated.
lie gave a shrlll whistle.
Then, seating himself on a broad
stone doorstep beside Nan. be
munehed away at his dainty and
watched the li;tle figure coming up the
slope from the FIELD her arms full Of
daisies and buttercups She was
laughing, aud every now and then
burying her face for moment IN
these silver and golden treasures Of
childhood
Say Nan" said the boy. nobody
ever saw Nell with posies In her arms
before, dld they? She looks kinder
pretty, don't she? Lots nlccr'n when
she's luggin' big heaps o. wood chips.
or that ole bag er por,aters she used
to have ter kite. an stop an cry COS
u was 10 heavy when her hands got
all blue with the cold that wuz In the
winter. though. but this is sorter
strange, amt Il now. Nam"
The child hltched a little nearer her
brother Say. now. Jake" she be-
gan. honest do you think IT'S a
dream like the things Blll Wilcox
dreamed about. the time the pretty
lady got him 10 Sunday school an
they told him about heaven? I've hlt
myself hard lots Of times. but I've
never walked up any more"
At the window Of the old farmhouse
over the heads Of the speakers stood
the "siunner' TO whom tho children
owed this delight She was Mrs. Nor
rison. the farmers wife. and she had
offered 10 take three poor city children
for their country week. Her eyes
hllcd with tears o. she stood listening
10 the chlldren's talk. Heaven, ali.
how little they knoW'
What do yer do that for7" went
on Jake's ineisiye voice 20 Nan. "V.hy
do yer want TO wake up. Nan. an feel
dads boot what's left Of It. a-hittin'
yer. an tellin' yer Ger Fit ont an earn
yer yiltlesg There ain nothin' o. that
kind here" he added. but know e
amt dream. COS I'm Just az wide
awake = ever I wuz." And the boy
bright eyes as they turned upon bis
listener showed that this was saying
a good deal but then. ser know"
he went on, maybe this Is heaven
sorier hcginnln' yer know. an bimoby
wen set up tar the city the man told
as about that day"
"oh, no. cried Nell. making a place
Tor herself GA the step beside the
others. u don't want 40 city. An
look a-hcro. Jakoy, here's the gold
crowns. an here's the little feathers
they make the angels wings Of" And
The child held up hsr uuiicrcups aul
pulled softly with her little fngers al
the white petals OF the daisies "An'
then rs just the way they said" she
went on.
What dyer mean. Ncll?" asked the
boy.
THE pretty ladies iu tac beautiful
cloos. don't you remember when they
came down into our alley how they
told us that q we'd De- good we'd 10
10 heaven An then We wuz real
good. Nan an me; an they told us
so. An so. yer sec, that's how we got
here"
Mrs. Morrison. standing al the win
dow listening to the three little
strangers TO whom she had opeacl
her house and her heart. felt the tears
plash down upon her hand
A tall man OF about foriy-Gyc. with
grlzzled hair and beard, and a stern
though handsome. face. came around
the corner Of The house a; the moment
and. catching Nells assertion. sighed
heavily. Had shs heard IT.
His eyes swept the side Of the hous,
and fastened upon the face Of the
woman at the window Al. yes. she
had heard Il also. The pmttle Of the
children had recalled TO them what
they had once believed Of this home
that. II not heaven. Il was as the boy
had put Il. a beginning OF this. And
now
Each gazcd AZ the other steadily for
one long moment and the eyes OF each
said 10 the other.
Alas, what a mockery Of heaven h
thls-gnd not through me-"
AZ last the woman turned away and
disappeared In the house and her hus-
hand went on down the hin without
q backward glance.
The children had not noticed either
one. lakoy went on 10 oXpound his
theories. unconscious that be had
touched to the quick two hearts In
Which long hau dWtlt that spirit or
bitterness which makes life anything
but heaven. Both husband and wife,
as hey went their separate ways. pom
dtrld over this, II had begun three
yttrs before IN a loss. MIR Morrison.
after hard work and careful economy
n both OF which his wife had shared,
sRad saved up at odd times two hun
bred dollars. lie had exchanged the
small bills and the silver for few
crisp notes Of larger denominations
and was about to put them as an IN
siallment upon his mortgage note
when they had mysterlously dlsap-
pcared. and from that day TO this had
never been found.
Each charged the loss upon the
carclessness OF the other. and a quar-