The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1903-01-03
"hE TER SCHOOL,
AFTER COLLEGE

shapcly rigurc, the refined features
Only the hands, that were being turned
from their line mold.ug 10y labor.
showed that she was not living in her
proper station.
The farm was worked To supply the
table Of II rich man. III summer he,
with his family, occupied the great
house down Iy the water, SO shut in by
tail hedges that the vulgar could not
look in to envy the comforts Of those ii
incIus,d. He drove occasionally to the
farm To inspect his vegetable gardens
or his COWS or his chickens and some
times brought his son, n boy OF fifteen,
who would talk To the founding while
she ulllcd the cows or wiped the
dishes.
Then the boy began to take his
fathers orders to the farm. riding a
small thoroughbred mare, and would
always spend more time with the
foundliEg than with the farmer.
"What shall we do, wife, said the
latter one day when the boy had been
talking to the gil out in the arbor.
"Whcn his people ind il out. they will
blame Us. We shall lose our home and
our means of living
I'VE must get rid OF her"
They were too late Already the
boy, too young To realize the wrong he
was doing, had told the girl that after
school, after college" he -ouid come
to the farm and take ht- away. 1t
seemed Il long while tu her to wait to
work IL mental duties for wh..h She
had an inherited aversion. but in
woman there is patience, and she did
not complain. She never doubted that
when all was ready he would come
for her. She did not know that prcpa.
ratiuns were being made tu send her
where he might not tiud her, where
her work would be harder than ever,
The next spring when Horace Bray.
ton came To the country he found her
gone In an agony he begged the farm
crs wife to tel him where, but She
would not. You'll forget II all in
time" she said. It's not for you, II
wealthy geutleman's son, 10 he keeping
company with little working girl, and
a founding at that" Horace went away
with the first great pain his young heart
had ever known.
The founding had become a Kitchen
maid i'm the citt. When she left the
farm she took with her baby's dress
with the letters "a r." embroidered on
II in SILK, This was the only hope she
had that some time this dress would
be the link TO dificre't life, one day
her hope was fulfilled. \ carriage re-
spIendcnt with it's trappngs and the
livery Of its CoacAman and fooman
drove up To the house. A lady came up
the steps. and the founding knew that
the dream of her life was realized.
After an interview between the lady
and the mistress Of the house the
foundliuE was sent for. She took With
her the baby dress When the lady saw
It and the embroidered letters. she fold
ed daughter In her urms aud wopt
Six years later Alice Townsend the
founding, remembered her farm chores
only as nightmare, her boy lover rs
delightful dream. She had spoken to
her mother of the family of the rch
man who owned the farm but had
been Informed that they were not in
the gIded circle We" she said,
have the blood of all the IIowards IN
our veins, besides boundlcss inherited
wealth They made their money in
rags aud paper
Alice made her debut in society, She
was the success of the season. In the
cotillou she was loaded with fayors.
Men with fortunes. men with proSpcc
tive fortunes, Wed with one another for
the prize Of her hand She listened TO
none Of them Size was thinking of
the words after school. after college,
| will come for YOU one June morn
ing she took up a paper aud read the
names of the graduating class at IA
prominent university Ills uame was
among them
Horace Braytou went from college
straight to the country home Of his IA
thcr The newly opened foliage, the
sweet smelling country, the balmy
June days, were in contrast with his
feelings lie sirolrd away from the
house IN the tw light passed under an
arch cut iu the hedge and went 10 the
farm. lie d.d not enter by the gate.
but climbed the fence In rear Of the
house. then made bis way to m apple
tree under which be- bad promised the