Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-02
Continued.

cold with such a magnificent fire as
that, what must it have been without
one. in a room, say, without curtains
to keep away the draught and merry
voices to drive away low spirits?
Many a poor creature was in this
plight, but Stella, for one, was not
thinking of the poor in general, but
of one Iuckless Individual whom she
could picture to herself as sitting not
a mile from where she sat, shivering
in the dusty, draughty, time-eaten
dining-room of Hawthorne.
Now, Stella was not reserved, Sc
cretive girl; she was open as a rose in
June, and all her secrets might have
been laid bare before an inQuisition
of chaperones. But, for the first time
In her Hfe-perhaps the second, re-
membering the statue-she had kept
her own counsel.
Moved by an indescribable, shy re
MctanCe, strangely new to her, she
had told no one Of her meeting with
the owner Of the hut, and, as that part
of the park was little fTequented, no
one had discovered his advent.
The trees around the house were
thick and high 50 that II a ire were
lighted 1t could not nave been seen
from the road or the village, and
Stella, without any further ground for
her beLe1' felt assured thaI tne hano-
some ana somewhat mysterious LOUIS
feiIoh was seated on one u me GU
LiCN9'y' Hlsii-'"0hou Gii''liS' 9ll'el ing
Dei"Ie an empty "7'I III ana " prey -
low SpIIIIs-
nat O9.ng neT DeIleL' Sne was "o'
a1 an l"Cineo 20 eaSe'y' anu Sat aD-
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|'Li5I ''7 ~ "9I "I7S9 anu 'oohIHs up
i"'" ILgI sweet i@ce 5SsecLllnsiy' 10
C"H'' ouSiH ell'' anu IeJ me Iuln ana
O79' IN your JON .
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'p WIN d KISS ana uI9peIiing her
7i""'I ny great euoT" ran OH az
'i',r It ny aS me rest.
GU. H7Ie was huso
~ . III luo 7'"'iuiy ueCol@'7d ulullIs-
iooL!, WIN d Jog on Ihe Top LOT the
g ''.o' VI ',lo e'"'lIy Cou9I"'
.-lt uoie WeI7 ,"liI u courses
o.,Io o9 anu sue ulSneS' ana. glory
"a IA1 lea91' 'nele was ine p"uulhs'
- N"i 's1 s9Ill"I Iilhuellce even MIS
"@"VOn "i'lIeu lnIo something ike
p'0asau'ness' ana the IauShIer was
ringing around the room-the shrll
LaiSe'Oo OF Ihe ola man sounding
cracked ana pIerclhgly above the rest
"nen John IhoInas ana Mf. Proud
Ioy' Tue ouCler' arrived WIN the port
VINE and dessert.
1heh what JoaStS the Old man pro-
poSeu' WIN "na' warmth Ihey wlShed
'iio queen " Iong ne ana happy
one now lney hIholeu INTO something
me enthusiasm over thelr Irlgld and
n l,, aO al IoTeaDIe aunt, ana, Wnen
INC IL'e'IS 6IiS naa IeaSIeu Su1hcIent-
~ no" Ihey Irooped PACK INTO the
uI""Ins room TO laush thelr dlges-
l, ,, IuSo perlecIlon ana 10 leave the
olu gentleman ShuSiy tucked up on the
SOFA covered up with his red pocket
nahoherchlet and all the available an
tInacassaTs.
MIS' newton retired to her own
room Tor nap, with something more
substantial than himsy crochet as a
covering and the cousins seated them
selves around the fire, some with their
arms ehclrcllng the others waists,
some crouching comfortably within
roasting distance upon the hearth rug,
and the least OF them all curled like a
kitten in Stella's lap.
Ihey talked as only hght-heaTted
girls can talk until general gossip and
mirth-prOvOking "reminiscences were
exhausted.
Then followed pause.