Sharp County record., 1903-08-14

back with both hands and said she
would never, never 50 much as think
h .sbol1t it, the question Of Aunt Euba's
u will. appear 10 be settled so far as
y the Salcopbs were concerned.
~ What Henry Walton said and did,
} DO one knew He WAS lonely man,
!, living somewhere in lodgings. and
bad no confidant.
a The Valcombs sighed in secret.
i Half a hundred thousand dollars
seemed such desirable adjunct; bus
N of course Elanor was right. No one
Ewished her 10 make IN uncongenial
marriage fol the barefaced purpose
,'of replenishing. the farily purse.
,,sStin 1t might not have Dcen uncon.
genial, IL oaly she would consent to
itslayestigste. But at the suggestion
q she whirled upon them,
l9i "Mammop" apd then, IN firest
Ri ,eoEp:. %You people must think Gle
Z barrett Of sslf-respect."
ii, Later on she set aside hcroics Rad
~. told them that she would work for
4 them cheerfully, but that she would
1 got sell herself for Pslf.. NoS not ID
iditen thousand Aunt Eubas made rs
Primary thousand conditional wills and
.ai left the wealth OF the Indies in fee
80 simple. And this, indeed, did set
rAle It,.
tiS Elanor returned to, town and her
~ small ro0ms up six flights, and went
M 10 work on her cartoons with re-.
'S, doubled energy. The rest OF the fam
ttlly remained in the country trying 70
Oo'.realize that Aunt Euba had died at
d ,ast and left her nemesake-pcnni-
10 ess. Their castles had tumbled
nllbout their ears. And Henry Wal
n l,6on7 Nobody knew anything about
4 aim, not even where he lived.
Z Ehnor worked hard, telling her
/ self between whiles that she was not
e,i e,ilisappointed; that she had never ex-
ii, ,ected to inherit anything from her
ie Ir4nky relative. ut Ia nobler TO earn
fr',ne's buead by the sweat of one's
70 ,roW ah4p to, live at ease in ones
iIabwp town house" But-wcll, after
no series oil hounds with the editors,
4, ,he sweat Of the brow seemed to be
If more In syidaAee thaa either nobe-.
n. ,ess or bzeGds
q. u was with a diBtipGt sigh that the
y y,tonng cartoonist put away the re-
" Mains Of her simple supper anA sank
aown on the rug betose the fire And
hen II. WAS that she, irst heard the,
}lTiolin. Some one in the next room,
ttn ,egan piaying--e low sweet reverie,
irht sound os though the player was,
,e dreaming Of other days. Eleanor,
tovound herself forgetting the hsrass--
~, ing present and drifting backward to,
inhe times of Der careless-hsarted
10, hildhood, when, she was wild young
N'lomboy with, all q boys sense of
ISonor and q, gisEs wilitulncss. Well,
The had woymd up by drawing car
=, oons.. she was making living for
Atterselk and helping the hoine folk.
sMooiot much compaled with all those
ri i>eeutiful poetic ideals OF youth, but
ssii;tin something. This WAS the frame
4 mind that the solo left with her
nd she went to, bed grateful for
Fo ontentment.
Me- The next evening she hurried
II, through her tea and laid down on
Adhe rug In eager anticipation. The
n ,iolin did not fail her. Softly, sweet
iok as before, 1t began it's story. but
y was no longer her story that 1t
Nold. She felt her sympathies yearn-
pu En- az vaguely toward AN unknown sad
Ilu,eSs. What was It the violin whis-
q" nv cred Of a. 1t faltered on through
chose bars Of exquisite melancholy?
Woodlands without, songs of binds,
yelds of flowers with the hum, OF
lonelyi-solitude, as Of
F9lountains snow-cnpped and dcsolate.
In, 1t came to her at last that 1t was
J be heart OF the player that had
MSrept into the violin's song; without
ltausing to reflect Eleanor felt sud-
X enly sorry for her unknown naigh-
.or. sympathy rushed In, with a
iush Of warmth and. the violin. fal.
erred on. She fell to dreaming and,
ptor the first tipe in. many months
EEser own ego did not obscure her
Gs sision. Compared TO that lonely life,
HIIext door how, puch had she to, be,
Jfhankful forl
l;ai Evening after, evening through that
M,org dark winter the violin's music
MItole out upon the sixthyStory sHll-
t'ess, singing 90 sweetly Ats wistful
Tsong; and day by day the girl
Wsained In strength and purity. The
ditors no longer received her work
nth wrinkle between their brows,
hiut occasionally their eyes creased At
Abe corners, and their checks grew,
nDjlrger Elsnor Thanked. them with,
D,er lips, but her heart gave its graft.
H. lde 10 the VIOLIN,
NJ One day they met; it was strange
tE,hat they had not met before since
II. 9th had lived SO long on the same
~ oor, and Elanor did not know that
j, b was the man who played the VIC,
,;ln, But that night she found new
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