The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-28
DORA DEAN
{ Continued from page fourteen.)

The lonely old man in India re-
ceived the letter and the souvenir with
landed toward the child of the wo-
man he had once so lovedrin fact,
toward all his relation. Dear Dora,
though she had not sent her love,
only a cold message yet she. had
sent the fock CT ha surely she
must love him! He wrote back to
Dora a long letter filled with affection,
inclosing for her use a check for ST.
SOFA dollar for a very hair, he said.
Nathaniel had taken a long time ito
count that hair, for his eyes were
many t mes in the course Of the ope-
ration suffused with tears.
Eugenia. calling at the p~ostofice for
the mail, took out this letter. She
saw the Indian postmark with terror.
How foolish she had been to send that
message and that lock of hair to
Uncle Nat! Secretly she opened the
letter. She saw h check and re-
solved to appropriate It. But she
;ust now-"Ma' was too sentimental.
First she would have a new piano.
Mr.. Hastings was fond OF music, but
nothing sounded well upon her. old
instrument. The rest of the money
would enable the family to keep up
appearances" in gOod shape until she
should marry Howard-which she
EIopcStu " Nv III AAoSA 1A4oA z
delay-and when she was his wife
why she could make it up to Dora
somehow. The draft was made paya-
Gle to Mrs. Deane and Eugenia, be-
fore she went t. bed that night, sat
down and wrote to her uncle in Ind a.
saying that Alice, Ma" and she
banked him very much for his gen
erous gift to Dora, who, strange to
say, did not manifest any feel ng
Whatever.
The next day Mr.. Hastings called
and mentioned that he was going on
the morrow to Rochester. Eugenia
said that she had bee reading an
advertisement of a concert to be held
in that city the follow ng highland
not go " said Howard. But stop.
j have an ENGAGEMENT which will
POSSIBLY prevent me from accom-
panying you. Yet if l can l should be
del GIFTED to take YOUR mother and
yourself to the concert. 1t may be
that l can. Ii SO, l Will call for you
at the HOTEL
SO it was arranged. and Eugenia
spoke Of h2ins about to purchase
& new piano-would Mr.. Hastings
help her select one? They could
make the selection the next day lei
she would meet him in Rochester.
Howard remembered the beautiful
rosewood piano whose tones had 50
long been unheard in his silent home
and asked: Do vo" like Elias
piano?' while a shadowy and unde-
tined feeling stole over him that it
might one day ! hers. Eugenia,
divining his thoughts, answered art
fully: ''Oh. very much I SO used
TO enjoy hearing LEI Ella play on
it; but that Won't do me q good
it isn't mine, you know Very soft
~ and tender]~ the beautiful black
eyes looked into his, and the vo &c
was low and gentle as it breathed the
Howard Hastings temptation. and,
scarcely knowing what he did. he es-
sayed to speak-to offer her the piano
WHOSE keys had SO often been swept
by the fairy fingers now folded away
beneath the winter Slows. But his
| ps refused to move; there was q
pressure upon them as if a little hand
were laid upon his mouth to prevent
tho utterance OF the words he had
far better not speak.
Il am progressing fast" thought
Eugenia as she sat alone in her han
Der that night. still / wish he would
come to the point. lever m nd, he
is worth waiting for. with his fine
house and his wealth. I shan't care
so much for Uncle Mats money then
But I do hope the old fool won't SHOW
10 here some day and expose me-
Mrs. Deane and Eugenia Wen to
Rochester the next day; Mr.. Hastings
mo- them and he and Eugenia went
out and looked at pianos. one Of
VIII oh, costing $3.50. Eugenia aereed
to take. Later in the day Mr.. Hast
ings called at the hotel to a
Eueenia ard her mother to the con-
cert. He went into the hotel parior,
expecting to fine Eugenia there. She
was not AMI he stepped out into the
hall. AS the day was very cold he
went and stood over the register,
which hammered to be opposite
E~r"enia's room.
He had stood there but an instant
when he caught the sound Of his
name. and. LOOKING uD. saw that the
Vertilator owe the door opposite was
turned back. so that everything said
within. though spoken in q low tone
could be distinctly beard w thout. 81