The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-03-02

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flowers. , said Matte gently. Tho very
sight Of the girl seemed to bring glad
ness into the hearts of the twoIold spiu-
tiers. Aunt Hannah had softened won
derfully under Sally's pretty influences,
aud, as for Matte, Sally wa epshrined
in her heart K to her own dear Ken.
meth.
"Sister, " said Hannah abruptly, leav-
ing the window, Eve ought to think So
riously about Sally. We love her dearly,
butt
but whetf" asked Matte anxiously.
But, OF course, she comes out OF the
gutter. Our frss duty is to Kenneth-
we must lot him run no riak."
He has no thought Of that. Besides,
he won't be back for five years"
~"She must go to a good boarding
school and be trained as q governess.
She is pretty now. What will she be
when she has outgrown the awkward
sae?"
"But, Hannah, don't let us lose her
altogether
"Men always make fools of them
selves over beauty and always will"
At this moment Sally came to the open
window with two posies in her hand.
Her checks were flushed with a tender,
rosy glow, her eyes sparkled with happy
life.
"This is for you," she DRIED. pinning
the posy in Aunt Mattie's dress.
"Flowers are for the young, dear.
The old never want them till the end
COMES" Nevertheless Matte tucked
them in pretaly and glanced at tho
mirror. Then Sally made a rush at Aunt
Hannah, but was repulsed with:
"Bo off with your tomfoolery, SALLY
Put your flowers in water and 20 and
practice" But Sally ooaxed Till she
gained her point, and the servants stared
to see Aunt Hannah's incorporating
left shoulder daintily adorned.
After lunch Matte tried to look stern,
though tears stood in her loving old
eyes.
"Sarah, my DEAR" she said (sally
started at the unusual "Sarah''), "you
are IA now, and we nave determined to
send you to a good boarding school,"
"Whati Leave you ALP" cried Sally,
turning pale.
"You will spend part Of your holt
days here perhaps, said Aunt Hannah.
Remember, you have to earn your liv.
ing. My nephew can't always keep you
In idleness." Sally's dark eyes flashed
as she answered:
"He has done 80 much you may trust
mo to do tho rest. They said at school I
had q fine voice. If 1 worked hard,
might
you'd have to toll for years to earn
even your bread, but I'll see to It,"
She did SO, and speedily. The very
next day Aunt Hannah walked Sally of
to n professor to give his opinion Of her
singing. Aunt Hannah sat upright, UNI.
brella in Land.
"You will understand, professor, my
opinion is there's been no real singing
since Malibran died, and I'd nave hall
your modern screeching women gagged.
This girl thinks she has a voice, so let
her sing to you and have done with 1t. d
When Sally had finished one verse OF
q ballad Aunt Hannah circulated,
Goodness gracious, bless the grip
AT the end Of the second the professor
said, "The voice is a real oontralto OF
great beauty, but 1t needs training and
years of hard study"
"It shall have both,'' said Aunt Han
nah.
Il u y y
Five years afterward, when Kenneth
returned from Buenos Ayres, Sally was
still at school. Almost the first thing he
said was:
"What have these years done for my
little Sally?"
"That style Of talk won't do" said
Hannah. "When Sally scrubbed floors,
it didn't matter. She is a pretty young
lady now, and things are different"
There was nothing pretty about
Sally when 1 left but her eyes. / shall
forget how frightfully sharp he,
elbows were"
"She's the best and dearest and pref.
test girl in the world" said Matte.
81 hope she is unchanged in some
things" said he.
If he could have looked into Sally's
heart, he would have seen one thing un-
changed. 1t still seemed ns right and
natural to her to love Kenneth as to love
God; both had been so good to her.
Sometimes she recalled the dark vision
OF Cow court, but even that caught
glory from tho thought that there Ken.
meth first found her. Ihepe was 0aG
black memory connected with those
days that nothing could brighten, but
that sho kept hidden in the depths Of he,
heart.
"There's a letter from Sally" cried
Kenneth ono day at breakfast, and then
he said: "She has had M offer of mar.
riage. Her music master has proposed
TO her. or course she has refused him.
And why of course?" asked Aunt
Hannah sharply.
For the best Of all reasons-she
doesn't love him."
"Fiddlestiokl The mans honest. !
suppose. and can give her n good home.
She sprang from the gutter and can't
expect to pick and choose"
Isl had better 80 back to the gutter
than marry without love-" answered
Kenneth.
Sally wrote simply and straightfor-
wardly. Tho trouble of ii was that there
had been SO much talk that Miss Addi-
son thought she must leave at once and
had, subject to Kenneth's approval, OBJ.
tanned for her the post of pupil teacher
in a school at Streatham. Thcn came a
pretty little bit in which Sally said she
hoped she had acted in a way that Ken
meth approved.
She's a brickl' he said emphatioalIy.
She must come here for n week be-.
fore going to Streatham," said Matte.
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