Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-24

There was outspoken displeasure In Brae-
burn when IL was known that some out
siders had bought the water-power at the
head of the river at the other end OF the
place-a spot whose beauty had been sacred
to strolling lovers and picnicking children
Now great brick building had gone up anu
lines of model boarding houses ana Ill 'he
appurtenance of mills and mill people hao
COMPLETELY ruined the place for pictur-
sequences or pleasure.
The jewellers in old Braeburn were all Oh
fmmemorial descent-that is, SO Tar as
the earliest settlers made things lmme-
mortal The poorest among them was an
aristocrat: and no one was more OF an
aristocrat than Mrs. Temple, and fevf
were any poorer.
do you know" Mary Featherstone said
TO her one day, 1T wouldn't be so bad If 1t
But OF course we know what mill people
are. We read about them in all the Eng
lish novels.
maybe so, Mary" said Mrs Temple.
But 1 saw a strange mani suppose ne
was one OF them-he-he was very good
looking Little Billy Burton had lost MS
penny and was crying bitterly and he was
comforting him and giving him whole
handful of pennies
Yes; that's the way they do harm. Billy
Burton will never be contented with one
penny again. So .vulgar"'
Mrs Temple lived alone In one half OF
a house. the rent of whose other haif
formed a good share of her income. She
had given the tenant the front door, max
ing the side entrance her own; and, Jock
ing her door into the hall, she had hung
fun length portrait by Copley of her great
grandfather. She felt Ii equal to man
In the house. Its possession announced
her place in society; and no one could
doubt her position or try In any way 10
impose upon her in its proud presence.
1t would have been singular person
who could try to impose upon Mrs. Temple.
a lady whose very gentleness should oisarm
a tyrant. Yet there were things she mad
resented. She had been unreasonably
angry when her Cousin John once, years
ago, called her an old maid. 1t made her
smile to see the different way In which he
treated her now since she had returned
to Braeburn a married woman, bearing a
mans name, although with hardly any
money to support 1t.
She had left home in order to teach,
when quite young. and little later had
gone companion to a lady who died
while abroad. Then word came from Eng
land. with wedding cards. that she had
married Mr.. James Temple and not long
afterward mourning cards came telling OF
Mr.. Temples death. And when her father
died suddenly she came home, wearing her
mourning. and lived in the parsonage
which he had left her, together with a
very trlne or money ana MS blessing.
She never spoke to her old friends about
her husband 1t came to be understood
that his name was too sacred, his loss too
painful. for words. To the children born
since her return she seemed of an ante
diluvian period She was not quite forty;
but the young girls thought she ought to
wear caps.
No one, in all these years, had dreamed
Oh approaching Mrs. Temple as lover
In fact. there had been no one to do so,
except now and then a young parsOn who
had no sooner come to Braeburn, with all
his doctrines and their exegesis fresh at
his fingers ends, than he was called some
where else
So she had gone her serene way with its
small recurrent round. Her interests were
much bound up in her two cats and their