The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-30

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for it," she added.
PRESENTLY she handed Kitty q let
ter which had been inclosed with the
! ere !. Lad 1eaI containing the an
nouncement of her daughters for.
tune. 1T is from your cousin, dear.
Read it and see what he has to saw.
But Kitty was not to be- go put on
concerning the matter of her uncle
and cross questioned her mother
why it wac she had never told her
about him.
well, dear, ! was afraid you
might grow disconnected if you
knew and would want to leave me.
Then. as time went on and I never
heard from your uncle, I was nerv-
GUS Of approaching a reconciliation,
for / fea1ed he might wish you to go
and see him and so separate u.s."
Kitty, who had left her chair and
| placed her arms round her mother's
neck, kissed her and said:
Never mind, dear. We have been
very happy together, haven't wee
Uncle was q bad, naughty man to
quarrel with you, you old darlingl"
The next day Kitty, who did not
look SO bright and happy as on the
previous morning., startled her
mother by saying:
"Mamen, let &c sc away eosmn;
here for q time. Let us go and live
somewhere near Holt, and then we
can see my cousin there. lido not
want to see him here"
Her mother glanced at her sharp
~, for the last thing in the world
she would have dreamed Of doing
would have been to go away from
Monkwood. But Kitty had her way
in spite Of her mothers p~rotesta-
tons. She had had it from her baby
hood and upward, and it would have
been something strange to her if she
had not had it then. So it came to
pass that she and her mother left
the home which he1 sheltered them
for years and took q little villa at
Highclife, a small seaside town
about 40 miles from Holt. From
there Kitty wrote to her cousin, tell
ing him her mother and herself
would be pleased to see him when
ever he liked to run down and make
their acquaintance.
When John Holt received his cou-
sins letter, he lost no time in setting
forth on the journey to the little
seaside town, filled with a deter
mination to WOO and win the girl
upon whose answer depended a mat
ter Of some e1Q, 600 a year extra for
him to get rid of. AS the train rush.
ed through the autumn landscape
he tried to imagine what the un-
known would be like, and the types
he pictured were varied.
Blind. lame. red haired and free
killed., Cross eyedand cantankerous-.
such were some Of the to him hard
~ pleasant visions his imagination
conjured Up.
When he alighted at the dreary,
drafty station, he found a grumpy
porter to carry his portmanteau to
a cickety cab: drawn by q knock
kneed animal whose only qualifca-
ton emitting it to a belief in ita
w~ortainess was the too palpable fact
that il had plenty of bone. The jehu
presiding over the box seat was as
antique a specimen Of the genus
cabby as any enc could wish to
meet.
He had perforce to charter the
CAB to convey his luggage to the one
redeeming feature of the town, a
good. old fashioned inn. evidently a
place where hospitality in the good
old days, when railroads were not
thought Of, was we'll dispensed.
When he had secured his room at
the inn, he set forth on foot to Sea
Gull cottage, where his aunt and
cousin lived. He was not sorry when
q neat ~aidservant. in answer TO his
ring, opened the front door, and in
reply to his inquiry for Miss Mark.
nam-ror that was Kitty's mothers
real name-conducted him into a
tastefully furnished drawing room;
for Kitty was nothing e NOT dainty
in her tastes.
"Missus will be with you directly,
sir" was the maids remark as she
left him.
He sat down before the blazing
FIRE with s feeling Of eager. antioipa-
tion and waited until Kitty mother
entered and gave him a hearty, old
fashioned greeting.
John Holt thought he had raralv
looked upon q sweeter, more placid
faced woman thar Kisty's mother,
but as he had never seen her before
and was rot aware exactly who she
.aigght hs--for Eissyy and BE had al
ways met aurreptitiously when at
Monkwood-he there and then made
up his mind never to marry a wom-
an Of her age, no matter how many
$40, 600 might be sacrificed. This de-.
termination. however, proved rather
premature. for. after several "a.