The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-22

ncrlupliuB lew WOTuS W Atf tiu-
ployer the girl FASTENED to the train.
The Office boy chuckled.
"She's ninny, that she amt smelt
mouse afore this,' he muttered,
pocketing the letter. 81 knowed the
game was up yesterday. 1t coined
little suddint on to him, I'm think
in, or he wouldn't hev left his papers
about" and straightway the preco-
cious youth betook himself to ran
sacking every drawer and pigeon hole
of the desk before him.
For many miles of the journey the
girls thoughts alternated between
the man she was then suddenly
forced to leave and the tireless, de-
voted mother to whom she was hasten
ing. Never before had her ear caught
the rhythm of moving train. To-
day there was a voice in the wheels
which seemed to say:
"Jenny come, Jenny come, Jenny
come!''-and then across the strings
of her memory swept note or two
of poem long since forgotten:
life and Thought have gone away
side by side,"
and before her vision flashed the pic
ture of stark form outlined beneath
winding sheet, and through an open
window, upon spreading wing, the de-
parture of the two spirits side by
side.
"Life and thought" ''life and
thought" now began the wheels,
shave gone away" and the girl, with
fast falling tears, forgetting all else
in listening to that refrain, silently
implored the figures to stay for
awhile their departure.
"But one word, one look" cried the
girl, as she stood once again upon the
threshold of her humble home.
JENNY"
Oh, to see that dear form in the ia.
miliar old rocking chair, to hear heI
name spoken, even in that old-time
querulous tone. But below stairs al
was silent.
"Life and Thought have gone away
side by side"
Each football upon the creakine
stairs seemed in unison with the cal
wheels; the rustic of her silken skirt:
as she assembled them repeated thu
lines, and to the strained senses O.
the girl the fluttering of the simpl,
muslin curtains at the window
marked the departure of those winged
spirits, side by side.
"Jenny!"
It was the fathers voice which
spoke. That form under the whit
sheet upon the bed stirred not. TIL
closed eyes never opened; the rigi,
lips remained dumb.
"She called you to the last" said
neighbor. "It was Jenny, come; Jen
ny, GOMEZ the whole day long"
The girl, remembering how oftel
that call had been unheeded, unheed
ed even at the last moment, knelt i
silent anguish beside the stiffene
form.
"She breathed her last but on
short hour ago." continued the neigh
Dor, 'a-watchin' and a-waitin' TO
you"
"Watching and waiting" sobbe
| Jenny, bitterly conscious for whor
she had wasted those precious hours
, "Alas! watching and waiting for me.
And now the last sad rites wer
. over, and the toiling mother lay a
, rest in her narrow home, forevermor
Indifferent to dust and decay.
The remorseful Jenny, listening t
, the voice of inclination, was alread
: in thought planning her return to tn
city.
, 81 must go back to my duties" sh
said to her father, but her heart il
; stead said: 'to him! / must go bac
: to him."
And with that resolve iE ser hear
:, she one day scanned their weekly pa
per.
The story of an absconded swindle1
a noted forger, a ruined gambler; tn
disappearance the same day of hi
r pretty typewriter; a handsome o1fic
: in which a mere pretense of bushes
S had been ever done; an idle, MOI
a commital office boy;a weeping woma
t who claimed the handsome abscont
S err as her husband-that was all. BIT
t the name, the street, the numbe
r was enough to blanch Jenny's chez
), and wiring from her lips the cry
: "From what a fate have been re-
a cued!"
= And so she went not back from til
city, but instead took up the thread
= of life which her mother had droppe
i, "a sadder and a wiser woman-an
i when in after years a daughter of he
t own, named Jenny, looked with lon,
/ ing eyes toward the city and "pos
d tion," she shrank not from openin
S that long closed wound to relate
the manner and for the same purpo.
v that story, which l have sought I
I thus simply tell here.-Yankee Blad
49,
. a2SzssaikzEA~>--- ssS--..--
:, A Paraphrase.
This world is but fieeting show
=. By fond illusions ruled.