Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-07-06
Copyright. lsO2. by D. Appleton Co., New York.
CHAPTER VI.-CoNr1NuED.

accord, everything will doubtless be
made right, and we shall know his
reasons for what he has done. It Is
not for us to make up our minds thai
MAJ. Bonnet and good Ben Greenway
have been carried off by wicked men
for this would be sad indeed for thai
1alr girl to believe. So remember
Dlckory, that it is our duty always K
think the best of everything. And now
l Will go through the underbrush tt
the house, and when you get there
yourself you must tell your story a.
If you had not told it to me-"
Before Dickory had reached his
mothers cottage Mistress Kate Bonnet
came running to meet him, and she DID
not seem to be the same girl he had
lett that morning. Her clothes had
been dried and smoothed; even he1
hat, which had been found in the boat
had been made shapely and wearable
and its ribbons foated in the breeze
Dlckory glanced at her feet and, as
he did so, thrill of strange delight
ran through him. He saw his own
he caught glimpse of pair of brown
stockings, which he knew went always
with those shoes.
Il am quite myself again." she said
noticing his wide eyes, land your
mother has been good enough to lend
me pair of your shoes and stockings
Mine are so utterly ruined, and I could
not walk barefooted."
DicLory was so filled with pride that
this fair being could wear his shoes
and that she was wearing them, that
he could only humble some stupid
words about being so glad to serve her
And she, wise girl, said nothing about
the quantities of soft cottonwood
which Dame Charter had been obliged
to stuff into the toes before they would
stay upon the small feet they covered
But my father" cried Kate, what
of him? Where is he?"
Now Dame Charter was with them
her eyes hard fixed upon her son.
Dickory, mindful of those eyes, told
her what he had to tell, saying as lit
tie as possible about Maj. Bonnet
because, of course, all that he knew
about him was mere hearsay-but di-
lating with much vigor upon the
shameful conduct of Madam Bonnet;
for the young lady ought surely to
know what sort of a woman her IA
theirs wife really was, and what she
might expect if she should return to
her house. He could have said even
more about the interview with the an
cry woman, but his mothers eyes
were upon him.
Kate heard everything without a
word. and then she burst into tears.
MY father" she sobbed, carried
away, or gone away, and one is as bad
as the other!"
Dame Charter led the weeping girl
Ito the bench, and they talked together.
There was no optimist in all the Brit
ish colonies, nor for that matter in
those belonging to France or Spain
or even to the Dutch, who was a more
conscientious follower of her creed
than Dame Charter. She sat by Kate
and she talked to her until the girl
stopped sobbing and began to see fol
herself that her father knew his own
business, and that he had most GER
tainly sent her a message to go ON
shore, which had not been delivered.
Il don't know where to &c or where
to send," she said, simply; Il am lost,
and that is all of it,
"Oh, no." cried Dame Charter, mot
that! You are with good friends, and
here you can stay just as long as you
like"
Indeed she cant" said Dickory, as
Il he were making a response in
church.
His mother looked at him and said
nothing. And then she took Kate out
into; little grove behind the house
to see if she could find some ripe or
anges.
1t was a fair property, although not
large, which belonged to the Widow
Charter. Her husband had been a
thriving man, although a little in
clined to speculations in trade which
were entirely out of his line, and when
he met his death in the sea he left
her nothing but her home and some
inconsiderable land about it. Dickory
had been going to a grammar school
in the town, and was considered fair
scholar, butt with his fathers death
all that stopped, and the boy was
obliged to work to do what he could
for his mother. And ever since he. had
been doing what he could, without re-
gard to appearances, thinking only of
the money.
They were eating dinner when oars
were heard on the river, and in a mo-
ment boat swung around into the
inlet. In the stern sat Master Martin
Newcombe, and two men were rowing.
Now Dickory Charter swore in his
heart, although he was not accustomed
to any sort of blasphemy; and as Miss
Kate gazed eagerly through the open
window, our young friend narrowly
scrutinized her face to see if she were
glad or not. She was glad, that was
plain enough, and he went out sullen-
~ to receive the arriving interloper.
When they were all standing on the
shore Kate. did not think it worth
while to ask Master Newcombe how he
happened to know where she, was.
But the young man waited for no ques-
tons; he went on to tell his story.
When he related that it was a man
ashing on a pier who had told him
that young Mistress Kate Bonnet was
stopping with Dame Charter, Kate
wondered greatly, for as Dickory had
met Master Newcombe, what need had
there been for the latter to ask ques-