The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-01-27
A LOVE STORY.


den tree in the yard was tall enough to
spread its protecting arms over the low
shinglo roof. moss grown with age. On
der the caves and in the ingles good
fairies had taken up their quarters. and
stable and granary, field and meadow.
were blessed with prosperity and
growth.
II had always been that way since
Hubert aud KHthrne came there to live
They brought with them but little more
for dOwry than courage and health
and strong, willing, working hands. for
the little farm was not their own. They
had leased it for term OF years. From
season to season they prospered, and
material bliss came with OVERLOOKING
hands when little dark haired girl
was added to the haxen headed young
stpr The girl hadn't come i'll tho usual
way. like tho boy, whose arrival the
stofk had hefalded from tho housetop,
but suddenly and unexpectedly. In the
adjoining parish distant relative Of
Kathrine's had died, and fearing no 70.
fusal had left her dark eyed baby girl
to Hubert and his wife. They were as
tuuishud to be sure, when one morning
the mail carrier lifted out Of his small
| country wagon n bundle wrapped in u
red checked pillow, with n letter from
the dead woman acquainting them with
the tiny stranger mission Mistress
Kathrine was not long at loss what
e., n nj ell aI Ia,.
band. who shoot; his bead n little doubt
fully ut first. Their own boy. John. was
almost years old. No, the undertaking
was not such momCntous one after all,
and tho old pine cradle that had been
slowed away in tho garrett WAS brought
down into the bedroom Of Hubert and
his wife.
Thus was littlo Liz's entrance made.
She grew ont Of the cradle aud into
short Clothes and soon her little. quick
feet battered over Mother kathrinc's
clean kitchen floor and over garden and
field Her long, dark braids flew in the
wind, and her bright. brown eyes stole
their way into every ones heart. John
kept good company with the little sister.
In summer they hunted for berries to-
gvtiIer III tlie Woods, ana when the win
| ter camo they coasted down the hillside
on little sled tho boy had himself
built. They climbed the trees and pick
ed the apples from the branches that
would not give them up to Hubert'svig
orous shaking When other youngsters
troubled tho child or made her cry, John
came TO the rescue and proved m able
champion.
The years sped on, and the prosperity
and good fortune Of the farm grew on
apace. The homespun linen in tho cup
board was piled up high. and Tho pen
MES in the trunk were first turned into
silver and then into gold. When tho
lease ran out. tho farm became Hubert y
property. lie bought adjoining acres
and planted them with grain, and the
COWS aud calves IN his stables augmented
beyond his hope
1.-THE strange child has brought US
luck, Mother KathriEo was won't to
say. until she forgot altogether that Liz
was not her own flesh and blood.
John must have the advantage Of u
better education than | had. ?" declared
Hubert, when tho lad was - years old.
I'm send him to good commercial
college. and I'll keep him there m long
as he can find anything to learn.
SO John was sent away good many
hundred miles from home. The farm
ers boy should SEQ the world. He
shouldn't choose his vocation ignorant
of its ways and if he found anything
that gratifled his tastes better than the
simple farm life. Hubert was willing to
make the sacrifico and set him up in
| business.
After three years John came back,
ready to- settle down and live and work
on tho farm like his father lie found
Liz "a much changed as she found him.
Before her stood a broad shouldered
man. Self consciousness was in the seri-
Gus face, and the sprouting mustacho
suited it well. The half grown girl he
remembered had blossomod into bean
tifnl maiden.
Soon after Johns return Hubert and
Kathrino wondered why their boy and
girl, who had been the best Of friends
all their lives, no longer got along well
together. UfIb MfTt Jliiit DlckFTlDRs
and differences all the time When Liz
was gay, john was mad, and when he
leased her she resented it. When, IA
was often the case ut first, he eat down
for quiet. confidential chat with her,
she snubbed him and gave him crusty
answers, and when he ordered her about,
as men like to do with their women
foli ehp fipv intO "A rage Dut af thpi,
insignificant quarrels came serious diff.
culIies. Mother Ka,hripe, who in all
the years Of her married life had been
accustomed to even, quiet ways. was
distressed ever the breaking up Of her