Middletown transcript., 1903-10-05

SO ON. VI course she can't have them.
l have done what could, but you know
how expensive those things are. She
i would never agree to have them, even if
l could get them for her As it is, almost
all of the ring money will be used in get
| ting absolute necessities.
That will be all right. l have one bit
, OF good news, Monnie, which will, l
think, help mother to get well. l have
heard from the lawyers again-Mrs Bells
executors, you know.
Have they sent you something? Money
for a ring, l suppose? 1t wouldn't be
wrong to use it for mothers illness, Ad-
die.
| 1t is better than that, dear. l am to
have hundred year.
A hundred year! Why, we shall be
rich! How delighted mother will be!
She can have everything she needs now.
l must kiss you again, Addie darling!
With you the light of the house returns.
1t has been very dark since you went
away.
| Poor little Monica, hope this money
will bring a little gladness into your life.
You need not work so hard now, darling.
Your needlework brings in very little,
and it will not be necessary now.
Then I shall have lots of spare time
for the house and mother. 1t is too good
to be true! Run up and tell mother, Ad-
die! 1t will make her we'll to hear it. She
is fretting about bringing you back, and
about the DOCTORS bill.
As Addie felt her sisters loving kisses
and noted the gladness on her mothers
white face, she felt for the first time that
day the dead weight Of depression was
lightened.
Back again? Mrs. Delahay said family.
1t is wrong, butt am SO glad, my Ad- |
die!
1t is all right, and am glad to come
back, especially as l have some good
news for you.
The girl sat down on the bed, and very
quietly repeated the story which she had
told to Monica. Watching the relief on
the poor pinched face, she felt almost
glad of the untoward chance which had
put her in possession of this money.
Now, Addie concluded-you must sleep
quite soundly tonight, mother mine.
The doctor can be paid, and you can
have everything you need without an
effort. Monica will have time to see to
things in the future, and to look after
you and keep you company. Il
My dear child! Kiss me, Addie. Yes
4 feel that l can sleep. Go down to
Monica, dear; she has been very lonely.
Is it right to leave mother? asked Ad-
die, when she came into the little sitting
room again; it looked SO homelike, with I
the tea-table spread and Monica's BEAM
ing smile to welcome her! Ii
Yes. will go upstairs in quarter of
an hour; but she doesn't want ANYTHING 8
Just now. She will get well, Addie, if
she is we'll looked after-the doctor said 1
SO this afternoon. But l know that he 8
feared the worst yesterday-she was so
fearfully week and depressed. t
Poor little Monical b
So long as we are together, and mother il
is pretty well, we ought not to grumble, fl
said the girl hopefully. In
don't think you grumble much, dear. u
Sometimes do. But it is worth any. e
thing just now to see you here again, and 8.
70 know that this awful pinching and v
'craping may come to an end. Though, I Al
suppose, we shall still be poor, and have Ell
% continue to work, We shan't have the
'reathless anxious scramble for food a,
which we have had. Addie, you don't or
ook nearly SO iubilant about it as | e.
hould have expected. n,
l was so anxious about motberl said 70
Ter sister evasively, the guilty color food h,
ng her cheeks. l shall soon remember
o be glad.
She will get stronger when she has =
roper things. Can you get some of the - -
money soon, Addie? -
/ think 60. =
The following day Addie went to the =
ddress OF Chesteron's solicitors, MesErs. ,I
lake and Finlay. She intended, if DOS !.
ble, to arrange to call for the money in ~
'ead of having it sent to her quarterly - :"
half-yearly. They must on no account -: :;
End letters to her addressed Mrs. Ches. '"
'ron. If they had to write to her, they
lust do SO under cover to Adelaide Della
ay. no
Addie did not find them very cordial. ~ ~
lr. Finlay, who received her, was in In
ined, it seemed to her, to ask a great
any questions about her life which Ad-
e thought unnecessary and impertinent
he replied in monosyllables, and gave Sin
i'm as little information as possible. He
armed that she lived with her mother
Id sister and had done SO since the
'ath of her father, when she had been vo'
school, but little beyond that. I'm ye.
lllingly she gave her address, and the
ention OF Alexander Row in Hammer Ior
NTH surprised him greatly. Dol
tie, like Chesteron, had been amazed l
the smallness of the allowance re. yer
tested. The girl must know of his kn'
ents immense fortune. He had given \
his opinion that it was simply done as '
hold upon Chesteron. Perhaps he had ent
ded, she thought to gain more in the pee
ID by seeming to wish for little. !
1t was an unpleasant interview. Al. mo
made her request that she might he L
lowed to call for the money instead of mar
wing it sent to her, and Mr.. Finlav !
oked as if he thought it a most unus. the
Il and suspicious request. However he TO
reed somewhat stiffly and signed act'
eque for the first quarter while she pos
lited, and then asked her to sign q bu'
celpt for it. Addie, nervous and fiur. qua
a. signed it Adelaide Delahay, her U.S. v
signature, and for a moment or two we
LED to understand what he meant are
zen he handed it back to her SAVING A
ustically- n