The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23

YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN

| ther, pulling in the horses with sud
denncss for which they were not pre-
pared. Il stopped at the office. hut found
you'd been before me. Jump int
There was no help for it. She could
not stop now to explain, or to search for
the music she had so wickedly thrown
away; but in all her life before Kate had
never felt SO miserable as when her amt
made place for her under the buffalo
robes and kissed and caressed her, and
tucked her UP from the cold.
! After the first excitement caused by
her. arrival had subsidized. Aunt Mattie's
loving eyes did not fail to discover that
something was the matter with both ct
her little nieces. "a
Kate was silent and unresponsiyc. as
never before, and Nclrs eyclids were red
and swollen with crying.
Inc supper table, however, was no
place for explanations, and it was not
until they had adjourned to the parlor
that the moment Kate was dreadine
| came.
duet?" '"'
"Oh. Aunt Mattie,'
She struggled to keep back the tears.
but it was hopeless
rs that the matter?'' said her aunt,
ih!olding. out her arms. why, my dear
little. girl, neither duets nor bangles are
worth so many tears"
Mrs. Carnegie looked rather serions
and took it upon herself to explain
Il think, Nell has earned the reward
us Tar az the practlclng went but wheth.
ter. since by her carelcssnesS part of the
music is lost, and she will not be able tc
play it for you.' W
Then III take your word that she has
learned it, replied Aunt Matte. promnt.
~. and that's the only condition made
Come, ,;Nelr'-kissing her-''stop crying
and tell me all about it,"
she added, with a laug 9Th, drawing. the
child to her side as she spoke. You
bracelets are all right, and Nell is coua'
to all the crying that's necessary"
| Nr!lS readiness for tears was proven
bal i'll the family, but she was as quick
to laugh at them as the rest, when the
! occasion fer them was past
Nesting in the shelter of her aunt's
arms and with a comfortable assurance
that things would right themselves, afte.
| ALL she lifted up an April face.
But Kate did not move
Her braceletS!-then all the jealousy
and meanness and wrongdoing had been
| fer nothing.
Her fac worked strangely and grew
| very red.
Il might have known" she thought
| with swift self accusation. that Ann
Matte would never leave me out. And
now Oh; what shall l say? What
shall do?"
What followed was almost as unexpected
| TO herself as to the Others She put hel
| head down in her aunt's lap and cried
as if her heart would break.
Hates tears were of different sort
| from NellS, and it was some time befor,
the long, choking scbs were Quoted. Blu:
it was relief then to tell the whole
story. bitterly ashamed, though, she was
to meet the lock in her mothers eyes.
Moth ng mere was said ;buut tn b. Il CO.
let's. Even Nell, awed and silenced b,
her sisters tears. and with IL memor,
| of her own shortcomings in the matter
forebore to speak Of the promised re-
| ward.
But it may not surprise some little D 0
pie who have dear aunts Of their own tt
know that when Christmas morning came
the bangle bracelets were found beside
the girls p:at,s ut thu breakfast table.
Hates color came quickly.
"'He thar rulcth his own heart yor
renember:' whispered Aunt Matte.
YES" said Kate, softly, Il remem
ber"
And do net think she will be APP t,
forgct.-Golden Days.