The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-25
Ills, MINNESOTA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 25 1906

We shall like you very much am sure she re-
turned wishing to place him at his You see
have always been used old people. Nobody knows
how old Aunt Catalina is, jules Olympic and Tomas
DID, and mother is old also she almost twenty
thirty
Sonora velasco colored and laughed at this remark,
and the count said
''You little elf, you should have made to believe
that Madame is sister, and who would have been
the wiser9'
During this conversation FabienS had been standing
first foot then the other ina state Of great
impotence; then he broke in with: $~ s
Uncle if you did not fetch anything should like
to know it, but if you did want it at once, if you
please
eco and ask my servant has charge of it, said
his uncle -..- .---.
Fabien disappeared, and when he returned his face
satisfied expression, while he was chewing some
thing which seemed to afford him considerable enjoy
ment Besides package IN his hand he held two
under his of which he gave to Petronila and
the other to Pedro .
r Grandmother sent us bonbons; she knows what
lke,'' he said 'When I grow up intend to eat bon
bons all day long!' ~.
'To fight and to eat successfully life Of blss!''
said his uncle (..,--. - 2...-- <z--s - -
Altho he had intended to stay at the castle but two
days the Count de Saint Victor remained for week
The third day it rained and he said he did not like to
travel in the rain. It cleared in the night then rained
for two days. and he afraid the streams would
be much too high to ford. >
81 think my Uncle Jacques is coward, said Fabien.
"Why?, asked Pedro. -.
because he seems to so afraid of little bit of
rain. Why does he not mount his horse and CO. if he
Co. and not as he does every morning that
he will be obliged to give it up until tomorrow
.'tYou cannot guess what |. heard Gulll0t say to
Tomas said Petronilla, looking wise. :.
'tWhat it?' asked both boys together
eff you will promise to tell anybody will tell
Both boys promised breathlessy. -:~.-. ~.
ttGuillot says that the Count de SaintVctor is in
love, so suppose that is why he stays % "a
II what that has to do with it. said
Fabien If he is foolish as to fall IN love lat his
age, why does he not away and be married instead
of staying here and looking out of the window every
morning and shaking his head at the weather? My
used to tell me tales of fairy princes that were in love-
and of them ever acted like that.'' --. .~s.@
s'But did not tell you ALL When Gpillot said that,
Tomas nodded and winked and said the lady not
thousand miles from this castle; and Guot wnked too,
said would be thing for her. and Tomas said
nothing too good for her. :, ~ a -,..---
But who could beg' asked Faben in establishment.
. t'There are young ladies in this house, =
t1tNot young, really said Petronla but I; sup
you would her young because she has been
married 1t be no one of course, but our Aunt Cat
alma ..... -. -. ....--- : .-. -
.sWhatg'' screamed Faben.l ''Why she is too old
to be married. ...~-. s..s&< --~ - ~
be married, and I that Aunt Catainas hair
is white your unce's-when you to hair.
if he marries her she will be my aunt!'' cried
the boy angrly; d and won't have her for aunt,
WON'T T won II Why should she want to be everybody's
aunt? She shall not be mine, can tell you'll ~
She has been our aunt ever since we were born,
said Petronila with dignity, ''and she has been
mother aunt for great many years. But Of
go about it like that ....E
'eThat s\ because you cannot help yourselves You
had to take her whether liked it or not but am
that she will lock in his and put the key in
her pocket every time he goes away without her per-
mission IL - % -~s az
you say one about it shall tell you
another thing long live And, besides that, you
: promised your honor not to tell -
- "And you would only make it worse, anyhow said
Pedro tailors daughter away last winter
and married smugger, heard Jules say he did not
believe she would have done it if her family had
opposed the match. So it will be better to nothing
to your uncle about it."
But Aunt Catalina became object of sentimental
interest to her small niece She watched her and the
they by the fire during the rainy afternoons
and in the evenngsthe count addressing most of his
conversation to Sonora Veasco she bent her
broidery Frame Aunt Catalina sitting up very stiff
and straight with hands prmly folded strange say
sometimes falling asleep and nodding The little girl
was very pleased at the thought of having the count
for uncle, for he gay and so kind.
There came a morning when Faben said: q Uncle
Jacques the shining and Tomas says the streams
are not much higher than they at any time The
boy had object in his uncle to take his de-