Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-01-21
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Nor avaricious."
Most emphatically not"
"She has a most affectionatc nature"
Ledyard nodded his acquiescence and
yawned.
"And one Of these days." Milly added,
somewhat insistently, "she will make
some good man a splendid wife,"
by the wayne flung her a level
glance and smiled-"does she ever hap
pen to have alluded to the departed
Monette to you? She never has to me-"
"Once. 1t was when she asked me
to read to her sometimes and give her
piano lessons. She gave me a pathetic
account of her childhood then, as if in
e~xtenuation of her ignorance. 1t seems
her father was a country parson. Had
a small church in the CatskiIl noun
tains near New York. Her mother
used to take summer boarders to help
out their living, and she used to. wait
On them at table. She was the only
child. When she was 10 years old the
minister died, and the summer board
ers were the sole dependence. Two
years later her mother was taken, in
of boarders. One of these, a New York
dry goods man, interested himself in
the forlorn little orphan to the extent
of getting her the position of shop
girl in her husbands store. She says
she never saw this lady after she
handed her over to the store. So, you
see, she was just IL when she was
flung entirely on her own resources.
She says her lady friend gradually for
got her, and her life in a cheap board
ing house was dreadfully unhappy.
When she was Is years old she married
a man who had been very good to her.
He died before they had been married
two years. Since then, she said, she
had lived with the Farindales. and
was very happy while they were here.
Simple annals of a rather forlorn
youth" said Ledyard, without levity,
"but l imagine all her heartaches are
behind her"
do you. Ledyard?"
The question was SO pointed and the
look that accompanied it SO searching
that Fielding flushed holly.
"All excepting those she may per-
versely manufacture for herself" then,
impetuously. What do you want me
to do. Mildred? If you think best. I
will tell her tomorrow to look out for
another superintendent"
"She is so perfectly happy with the
present arrangement" said. Milly, re-
fectively.
Have you any definite fault to find
with my conduct"
None"
Have / permitted myself at any
time to forget that she is my employer
and | am her employed?"
mo. She rather finds fault with your
punctilio in that respect. Poor little
Woman, wish it could be. 1 am very
fond OF her, Ledyard,"
"Manifestly. Well, I am not. I feel
the profoundest respect for her virtues
and her fortune. VOLTA tout. How
about another gamer
By token of which Milly knew she
did not propose to be catechized any
further. She martialed her men for
a fresh attack in silence. That silly
affair" of Ledyard's back there in New
York had developed unsupported vi
taility, and she was distinctly irritated
at the discovery, but she was too wise
a woman to multiply words needless
ly ON any occasion.
At the moment the Fieldings were
discussing Harriet's friendless child
hood Mrs. Warren was discussing the
Fieldings with a freedom born of ig-
norance, and a tartness that sprung
from jealousy.
"These folks have just about clean
ed out all your old friends, Harry, as
I knew they would, as soon as I heard
you'd given the place Of su~perintend-
dent to a sharp New York lawyer. A
man, my dear, that nobody ever heard
Of before"
Harriet bristled promptly, I'm sure
nobody can deny that he's a gentleman.
DR.. Warren has seen him, and l know
he will agree that his sister is. a good
deal nearer the angels than she is to
US. It's made a better woman of me,
just being in the same home with Miss
Fielding"
Mrs. Warren assumed a more pacific