The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21

and blamed the beauty of her eyes for
ne knew not what. And poor Hannah
whose eyes had had color in them
once, with growing numbness at her
heart for her own plainness in con-
trast, followed the pink flower that
moved so glibly about the house, CIV
Ing her the best that lay in her
power, marvelling at her cousin s
beauty, which was after all principally
the result Of perfect health and selfish
disposition.
Weeks passed into months, and
Madeline had planted herself firmly in
the house. Hannah could not turn her
out, and she never suggested going,
and never made any serious attempt
to get work. Her orphan and penni-
less condition served her as a useful
means Of appealing to the sympathy
Of the elderly party" AS time went
on, Hannah saw less and less of her
LOGGER, her cousin appropriated as her
charge his study and laboratory, and it
was bitterness and gall to Hannah to
see her administer to him all the lit
tie attentions which she had been wont
to perform, and the last straw was tina
Madeline talked as if she gave enough
help to fully repay Hannah for her
room and keep.
Hannah, with her heart smarting at
the bitter injustice of things, could not
tell her that she was day by day rob-
bling her of all that made life bearable.
Madeline had taken to using the EEL
derby partys' study as her sitting
room; it was more attractive than the
prim parlor down stairs, and when
Hannah was hard at work during the
hot August days-days that made her
look paler and palmer than eVer-her
cousin would sit reading a novel in her
favorite basket chair, with her feet
upon the rungs of another-a pretty
picture Of ease and comfort. She never
forgot to look UP at intervals, with
cat-like something in her blue eyes and
in her soft, purring voice, and say to
her companion: Don't you wish Han
nah would stop fussing and come and
sit DOWN.
And as, when a woman is particularly
busy, a man generally does think she
is 'fussing'' and choosing to do some
thing totally unnecessary, the elderly
party" came to look upon it as quite
natural that Madeline should be his
hourly companion, and that she should
sit in an easy chair while Hannah, hot
and weary in mind and body, should
toll and strive for them both.
After Madeline had been with them
three months Hannah's lodger came
into a fortune. 1t was not large one,
but it would enable him to live in ease
anu COLuIOII LUZ Tic I6oC OI HIS Ill.,
When Hannah heard the good news
what she dreaded most did not happen.
He did not suggest moving into mora
luxurious lodgings; he seemed to con-
slider himself a fixture in the old vain
scoated room with it's cottage window
and old oak floor; but he bought more
pretty plants and fresh dollhouse flow
ers, which Madeline now accepted with
a blush and prettineSs that sent his
blood coursing through his veins.
She knew that she had appealed at
first sight to the human passion latent
i'll the scholar, as Hannah had never
done. Intellectually she was nothing
to him, but for that she did not greive.
AS an intellectual companion only
woman has no actual power over q
mans heart, but as a beautiful woman
she can use him as it best suits her
purpose. Hannahs lOdger paid his
money in advance now, and she felt
as a mother feels when her SON grows
into manhood and passes out of her
care. There was no need now to sub
stitute new shirts for old ones, and the
elderly party was comforting a favor
on her by remaining in his humble
lodgings. Her self-saorifices for her be-
loved teacher were useless now, She
comforted herself with the thought
that he never treated Madeline as an
that he was more of a man and less
and bright head were lighting up the
corner of his dark study
One morning when Hannah was