Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04

what was proper to your station.
Your want of consideration is the
cause of my being so much worse, and
Of that scoundreIs escape
Oh, papa, I am very sorry I hurt
you, but as for his getting Oft am
glad! He had stolen my money, so
nave a right to forgive him, and that
l do freely
'Eve!' exclaimed her father, you
do not know what you say. Come
nearer to me, child
If am to be scolded, papa said
Eve, sullenly, I'd like not to have it
done in public She looked round
the room, everywhere but at Mr.. Coy
she. Her sister watched her anx-
iously.
Eve said the old man, 4 am very
i'll and am not likely to be.strong
again. 1 cannot be always with you.
l am not any more capable to act as
your protector, and Barbara has the
cares of the house, and lacks the au-
thority to govern and lead you
I don't want any governing and
leading, papa said Eve, studying the
bed cover. Papa after moment,
whilst you lie in bed, don't you think
all those little tufts on the counter
pane look like poplars? 1 often do,
and imagine gardens and walks and
pleasure-grounds among them
Eve, said her father, 4 am not go,
ing to be put off what l have to say by
such poor articles as this. am going
! to send you back to Lanherne'
'Lanhernen echoed Eve, springing
back. I can't go there, papa; indeed
can't. It is dull enough here, but it
! is ten thousand times duller there. l
have just said 50 to Barbara. I can't
go. l won't go to Lanherne. I don't
Isee why I should be forced. I'm not
going to be a nun. My education has
! been completed under Barbara
know where Cape Guardafui is, and
| the Straits Of IaIacca, and the Coro-
mandei coast. I know MangnalTs
questions and answers right through
| that is, know the questions and some
of the answers. I can read "Tele-
maQue." What more is wanted of any
girl? l don't desire any more learning.
l hate Lanherne. I fell i'll the last
| time l was there. Those nuns look
like hobgOblins, and not like angels
Besides, it was eternally semolina
pudding there, and, papa, hate sem
DINA. Always semolina on fast
days, and the buildings sometimes
burned. There now, my education is
incomplete. l do not know whence
semolina comes. Is it a vegetable
papa? Mr.. Coyshe, you are scientific,
tell us the whole history of the pro
duction of this detestable article of
commerce.
'Semolina-' began Mr.. C0yshe.
Never mind about semolina,' inter
Irupted Barbara, who saw through her
sisters tricks. we will turn up the
word in the encyclopedia afterwards.
We are considering Lanherne now
I don't mind the large grained SEM
DINA so much, said Eve, with a face
of childlike simplicity; that is al
most as good as tapioca.'
Her father caught her wrist and
drew her hand upon the bed. He
clutched it so tightly that she ex-
claimed that he hurt her.
Eve he said, it is nece ~sary for
you to 60
Her face became dull and stubborn
again.
IS Mr.. Coyshe here to examine my
chest, and see if I am strong enough
to endure confinement? Because I
was the means, according to you,
papa, of pOor-of the prisoner escap-
ing last night, therefore 1 am to be
sent to prison my elf tomorrow
4 am not sending you to prison.
said her father, I am placing you I'M
der wise and pious guardians. oYu are
not to be trusted alone any more. Bar
bara has been
To be continued.