Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-11-22

will expect to come home with us.
Are you sure she did not get the box?''
mo, she didn't get it, and the
money counted on to set my business
up again, is gone up in smoke I can't
imagine where it was; I looked in
every room"
Yes, heard some one say that you
left Aunt Mile to burn, if she could
not get out, and tried to save some
thing OF your own; they didn't know
1t was the precious box, though"
Aunt Mile had gone to the house
Of neighbor, where she waited in the
morning to see if George would come
| to her.
Thanksgiving day! what could she
be thankful for?
George did not come; of course he
was tired after the work and excite
| ment of the night, so she went to the
! hotel.
well, Aunt Millie," said George.
why in the world didn't you tell me
where the money was. I might have
saved it,
Eyes, George; you tried hard to save
it, and think I am glad the old house
burned
"You are? And what are you going
to do?"
Never mind me. I am not going to
accept your invitation; SO you need
not fear that"
ooh! I would be very glad to have
you come, but
NO, dear; I would not go. I only
came now to tell you that when +
thought it all over, I came to the con-
clusiOn that ten thousand dollars was
too much money to keep in a box, so
I deposited it in the bank; where it iS
quite Safe
Ten-thousand- dollars!" gasped
George.
Yes: and If the house had not
burned, would have given it to you;
so | think I have something to be
thankful for and she left George
standing speeches. by the window.
When she returned to the house.
one of the children met her and said,
Aunt Millie, there is a man waiting
for YOU"
An insurnce agent, perhaps, thought
She every we'll, DEAR tell him I'll be
there right away"
She removed her bonnet and went
into the parlor. The man rose and
held out his hand.
Don't you know me, Miller"
Fred Derrin!' that is all she could
say.
He sat down beside her, and after
talking half an hour, they would not
have known-were it not for the gray
hair that it was thirty years ago they
parted. Mr.. Derrin's wife had been
dead some years. Georges wife was
Fred's daughter. He had come with
them the day before, and intended to
see Millie on Thanksgiving day.
Let us go to where the old house
stood, Mile; I have so much to say
to you
She told him of the years since they
parted; the ohiIdren's father had died
shortly after Kate, leaving them en-
tirely dependent on her
well, MiIIie," he said when it was
all told; 1--WE did our counting thirty
years since then that were so dreary
for you, dear, and before another
Thanksgiving we shall have the house,
rebuilt. There are happy days in
store for us, know; am a rich man;
so we shall stay here and end our days
in the old place.
When George heard what had hap
pened, he was SO ashamed of himself
that he found IT necessary to return
to his home at once; but they did
no miss him at the wedding.
The news spread throughout the
village; and every one, who was able
to walk, went to the church to see
Aunt Mile married
What a Thanksgiving day it had
been-how sadly begun and how hap
PLY ended
The new house looks very much like
the old one
Mile and Fred live there yet; and
on every Thanksgiving eve Mile
bakes dozens of pumpkin pies, and all
the children in the village are invited
to the feast ON Thanksgiving day.