The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-19

Amelia is going 20 DO the very sam,
.hing. ] try TO tell her how living il
this noisy, crowded place has mad,
both Ralph and me ill-tempered Otter
with each other, and, OH. Mollie dc
believe baby would have got well il
we had had some quiet home Of oui
own.
Mollie went away very sorry for Lulu
and very full of thought. Papa" she
said. lis that Wheeler cottage for sale
yet?"
Yes, dear. it is-a nice bit OF prop.
erty for fifteen hundred dollars"
Il want TO buy il with my two thou
sand dollars"
VERY sensible of you. I'll see about
il at once"
So in few days Mollie owned the
prettiest cottage in Santa Lucia, and
then she went again to see Lulu. need
not detail their conversation, but out
of it grew this event. For whole week
the two women and Classy were busy
there. Mating was laid, muslin shades
hung and pretty cottage and cane fur
niture brought quietly into it, Then
one day Ralph Randall, sitting over his
books, not in the best of tempers, re-
ceived n note from Mollie asking him
to call there as he went home. OF
course, not Mollie, but his wife, met
him. and he ate in the pleasant, quiet
little dining-room his very first home
meal.
"Mollie has bought the place, Ralph,
dear, and given me the furniture as a
wedding present, and the rent is quite
within our means. See what lovely
garden, and how sweet and still and
Glenn and fresh everything isl"
"But, Lulu, this is foo much of we'd
ding present. don't like to take it,"
81 told Mollie that, and she said she
had never spent three hundred dollars
so much TO her liking. She says / have
taught her lesson worth far more than
that"
Ralph said little, but he was none the
less grateful and happy, and he thought
he saw a way in which he could pay one
good turn with another. So in a few
days he said TO his employer: "About
that cotton due in Seguine, don't you
think ought to so and see about it?
My books are made up. 1 could soare
ten days very well now"
at would be well done, Mr.. Randall.
Suppose you go at once"
Therefore it happened, week after
wards-Ralpb's business being well
flnished-he rode up one evening to
Jacks house, having contrived TO take
it in his homeward journey. The meet
ing was n very hearty one, and was
spent in much pleasant conversation.
Ralph let every other topic get ex-
hausted before he introduced the one he
had specially come TO talk about. But
at last, as they began to smoke more
quietly, and talk more seriously, Ralph
said: II had great piece of luck late
ly."
"As how, Ralph?"
"Well, you know how I do hate n
boarding house, and how I've longed for
n home of my own ever since was mar
ried. But last summer we suffered
more than ever for 1.-THE noise, the
want of privacy, the confinement, the
heat, and the dirty, wretched cooking.
l don't twonder our poor little baby cried
all the time il lived; it most killed Lulu,
and about drove me crazy. One day
Lulu tells that dear little Mollie Terry
everything, and, would you believe it?
She went and bought Wheeler's cottage,
gave us it at n moderate rent, and made
us present of the furniture"
'Mollie Terry did that?"
ayes, she did, Jack, and you can't inn
aglne what a home-lilsc, charming little
nest Lulu has made OF IL. knew moth
ing till / was eslled to tea there, and,
really, could hardly eat the little feast
made for me for JOY and gratitude"
"Mollie Terry did that2"
"Mollie Terry did that, and never took
the cream of a single kindness any way.
She's a noble little lady. Heaven help
her."
The result Of Ralph's journey was
that Jack also took journey, and ar
rived one sunny April afternoon in
Santa Lucia. He went directly TO Judge
,rerry's, and fognd Mollie sitting in the
parlor sewing and singingsoftly TO her
self. She rose hurriedly when he en-
tered and blushed as bright as sun
shine.
"Molliel"
"Jacll"
"Mollie, dear, there's divinity in odd
numbers; I'm come 60 ask you the third
time, will you marry me-my wuy?"
Your way is my way, Jack. il you
like 90 take me with YOU. IL is not
oftcn we learn from other peoples mis-
takes, but Lulu Randall opened my
eyes"
"And Ralph Randall opened mine. I
guess they have given MS our wedding
present"
Then you know, Jack. think they
nwe us nothing. love"