The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-02-08

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on that embarrassed him
There. there he said patting BIER
hair askw.rdly. Read your letter,
Mebae they don't want YOU 70 couie 50
soon. l must 30 wash Tor supper
1t was true-they didn't want her to
come 50 soon. In fact. they didn't
want her to come AZ all. The director
unkindly said saurical things about
her cows-a study from natureAand
suggested houSework rs 4 Surer means
OF gaining renovn
1t was a horrible shock, She did not
cry; she wac too stunned and humiliat-
ed for that. she had only enough rea-
son left 10 wonder doubly how she
could tell her parents that their sweet
confidence had been misplaced-that
their child always was and always
would be a nobody.
The stufy little parlor. the hateful
dauhs, had grown intolerable. Pulling
a shawl from its hook in the narrow
hall. she fed from the house and up
the narrow street redolent OF beef
steak. coffee and hot cakes-Mead-
ville's fayorite supper. Every one left
the blinds up in Meadville, and there
vas q panorama of warm interiors.
romping children, contented husbands
md active. happy wives. Ellen, hurry
ing along in the chill gloom, felt like a
pariah and passed quickly out of the
din of dishwashing on to the country
road.
She was brought at last to a realiza-
ton of her whereabouts by a startled
cry and jumped back barely in time
to escape a horses boots that Just
grazed her sleeve as the horse was
pulled back on its launches. The star
light was sufficient to Indicate her
close call. She uttered a belated hut
frightened shrek.
10y 1SOiSC- SANletIllGt lIc LII
somewhere back of the horse. What
are you doing out here? Are you
drunk?
Say, are you hurt q he continued in
alarm, as there was no reply. lie
sprang to the ground. CROPPED his way
forward and plucked at her sleeve.
"Ellen.'
Cbo horo, eoh Che oa,E,,t lol,
it. There had been too many shocks
in Meadville that day.
1t did not take Elton long to get her
into the runabout and start up the
erstwhile spurned Fanny G.. Ellen
continued to be so distressed that Ell
ton, ignoring the fact that she had
Just refused him, slipped his arm
around her and was not repulsed. I'm
fortunately, so it seemed, his extreme
kindness and lack of curiosity about
her plight served only to increase her
discontinue until. as he helped her to
alight from the vehicle at her gate, she
caught him close about the neck and
told him the whole miserable story.
GLOW can | tell father and mother?'
she cried,
leave that to me-" he whispered
jubilantly, land cheer up"
The old people jumped to their feet
as the door few open, and q look Of In
tense relief crossed their faces at the
sight of Ellen and Elton.
"Oh, we didn't know what had be-
come Of you the last night you were
here" said her mother a little re-
proachfully. but she smiled indulgently
at Elton, and he smiled back.
"And whom should she be with?' he
cried. But l have good news for you.
She isn't going away. She's promised
to become a Meadville matron."
If Ellen had had fears, they We're
Immediately dissipated by the warmth
Of her mothers embrace and the happy
ejaculation of her father as he grasp
ed Elton's hand. 1t dawned upon her
at the instant that they were happier
to know she was to marry the most
promising young man in Meadville
than they would be If she could sur
pass all the artists In history, and sud
denly it appeared to her that she was
the happiest of all and that Meadville-
poor, cramped, ~despised Meadville-
was a garden of Eden.