The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-06-28

IL xA4I5St OAU nUt 1huOWy QOW#tO set
4 about II MY sister Ii the only near
\ relation have. n. Shells very rich; and
she likes to manage. She decided I
had better keep school, then the
twins could be educated for nothing.
Her husband has a good deal of prom
erty round here. and they offered me
this house rent free for, three years,
OF course she flushed painfully
.the 7Wilmots are in a very good posi-
ton here, and it would not do for II
| to be known any one connected with
them had to keep school, so prom
ised Mary I would never mention the
relationship. She has really been very
good: She speaks of me to people as
a young widow in whom she is inter-
ested, and altogether I have twelve
pupl!s. II the new ones promised this
term come tomorrow I shall have ff-
teen. They pay s2 a term, so that
have $50 a year,. but r found out
| II had any one who could teach
French and really good music should
get more scholars and keep them till
they were older. That is why I
thought OF getting help. Besides, with
only Rhoda, there is a great deal to
do domestically, and the twins clothes
have to be made and mended."
How old are the twins?" asked
Beryl.
-Four. Rather yoQrg to be in school
all day; but can't send them out
alone, and don't like them to be in
the kitchen with Rhoda. Miss Linden,
know am Offering you very small
salary; but I think If you and I fit
in you may really be happier here
than in grander situation"
II am sure of It," said Bery1. Mrs.
Tanner, don't think any one in the
whole world can he lenelier than
am, and il only you will keep me, l
shall be glad to stay"
Mrs. Tanner. gave little sigh.
"Mary-Mrs. Wilmot-will be round
in the morning. You must not mind
if she seems a little overbearing. Oh,
and there is the thing she wanted me
to say-she does not like your name
at ALL"
Beryl professed her regret, but hard
ly saw the objection was her fault
TITS in this way,'' explained Mrs.
Tanner. 'The show place near here,
Dynevor Manor, belongs to Mr.. Lin
don, though General Craven lives
there. Mary thinks it slight to Mr..
Lindon that my teacher should have
the same name. Her husband is his
agent, and goes to see him sometimes
at his grand house in Chichester square,
Be1gravia. OF course I told Mary Mr..
Lindon would never hear OF my school,
much less my teachers name; but she
was very disagreeable; and said it
could not matter to you, and that by
changing one letter the name sounded
quite differently. Do you mind being
Miss Lendon? You see.. it won't make
any difference to your letters, because
most people loop their" its now, SO that
they look like e's.''
Beryl felt inclined to- bless Mrs. Will
mot If. as she now felt positive, her
father were the owner ofDynevor Man.
or, why, then, her one desire was that
he might never hear his fugitive
daughter was living beneath it's shad-
ow. She had never heard him speak
of Sussex, or of possessing property
in the country. Surely It was strange
that, with all England before her, she
should have dritted to the one place
where he had interest.
| School began the next day. The ff-
teen girls were mice things. Mrs. Will
mot's interest had procured some. The
clerk Of the works employed by her
husband to watch his interests in the
building operations, sent three small
daughters; the tax collector contrib
uted two; but there was a sprinkling
of higher grade-the curate's only
child, and the doctors two little girls.
Mrs. Wilmot struck Beryl as far less
refined than her sister. She and her
husband were rich, and gloried in their
money, though as yet it had not been
able to force an entrance into the So
ciety of Easthill proper, which was OF
the select and exclusive kind known as
county"