The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-05-21
AFTER SCHOOL.
AFTER COLLEGE"
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She knew that she was q founuunk,
that she was far above the old woman
whose cows she MIXED and whose
chores she did. To know this she had
but TO look in the glass and see the
shapely figure, the refined features.
Only the hands, that were being turned
from their fine holding by labor,
showed that she was not living In her
proper station.
The farm was worked to supply the
table Of a rich man. In summer he,
with his family, occupied the great
house down by the water, so shut In BY
tall hedges that the vulgar could not
look in to envy the comforts Of those 1t
inclosed. He drove occasionally to the
farm to inspect his vegetable gardens
or his cows or his chickens. and some
times brought his son, a boy Of fifteen,
who would talk to the founding while
she MIXED 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
founding than with the farmer.
"What shall we do, wife?" said the
latter one day when the boy had been
talking to the girl out in the arbor.
when his people find it out, they viii
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 would come
to the farm and take her away. It
seemed a long while to her to wait. to
work at mental duties for which 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 prepa-
rations were being made to send her
where he might not find her, where
her work would be harder than aver.
The next spring when Horace Bray
ton came to the country he found her
gone. In an agony he begged the farm
er's wife to tell him where, but she
would not. You'll forget 1t all in
time" she said. Its not for you, a
wealthy gentleman's son, to be keeping
company with a little working girl, and
q founding at that" Horace went away
with the first great pain his young heart
had ever known.
The founding had become a kitchen
maid in the city. When she left the
farm, she took with her a baby's dress
with the letters "A. T." embroidered on
it in silk. This was the only hope she
habitat some time this dress would
be the link to a different life. One day
her hope was fulfilled. A carriage re-
splendent with its trappings and the
livery of its coachman and footman
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
founding "a sent for. She took with
her the baby dress. When the lady saw
1t and the embroidered letters, she fold
ed a daughter in her arms and wept.
Six years later Alice Townsend, the
founding, remembered her farm chores
only as a nightmare, her boy lover as
a delightful dream. She had spoken to
her mother of the family Of the rich
man who owned the farm, but had
beer informed hat they were not In
the gilded circle. "We," she said,
have the blood Of all the Towards In
our veins, besides boundless inherited
wealth. They made their money In
rags and paper"
Alice made her debut In society. She
was the success Of the season. In the
cotillon she was loaded with favors.
Men with fortunes. men with prospec-
tive fortunes, We'd with one another for
the prize Of her hand. She listened to
none Of them. She was thinking OF
the words after school. after college,
l will come for YOU" One June morn
ing she took up a paper and read the
names Of the graduating class at .
prominent university. His name was
among them.
Horace Brayton went from college
straight to the country home of his IA
Their. The newly opened foliage. the
sweet smelling country, the balmy
June days, were in contrast with his
feelings. He strolled away from the
house in the twilight, passed under an
arch cut in the hedge and went to the
farm. He did not enter by the gate,
bat climbed the fence In rear OF the
house, then made his way to an apple
tree under which he had promised the
founding to return for her. He could
plainly see a window where he used to
watch for her. oh, that they might
again be children and she would come
| out to meet him!
He fancied he saw a figure where she
used to stand to watch for him. No; it
must be fancy, for on looking a second
time it had gone. A rear door by the
wellhouse opened, the door through