Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-05-29


Della is frank and communica-
tive, Mr.. Lissamer," said the more
plaintive, possibly the more cultured,
voice Of the elder sister, "but am
helpless and in her power to-day"
You are i'll, Miss Nash?"
Eyes, very"
well she may be-" was Delia's
comment upon this; 'she will try and
do more than her strength will al
low, and then it comes to crisis.
And no preaching Of mine, no raving
at her, no physical force even will do
any good. Hyacintha Nash must have
her own way-and collapse"
You would do everything" said
the other, and keep me looking at
you
She nearly killed herself coming
down to Breymouth after YOU" De-
LA said to me, almost as Indignantly
now as if | had sent for her sister.
"She has not been the same woman
since. And I could have come, or we
might have posted you the money.
But no; there was her duty. A mar
tyr to duty all her life she has been,
Mr.. Lissamer, and this is what it has
come to-"
She spread her hands out cOmpre-
hensively, and with a hooking air
that was very significant Of her con-
tempt for her home. for the poorly
furnished room in which we sat, even
for the piano, which was the principal
ornament, and at which she had been
singing merrily before I had knocked
at the door.
eff l could be, in my professional
capacity, of any use to you, Miss
Nash," I said to Hyacintha, 81 should
-"
1--WE are indebted to you enough
already; you must not place us un-
der further obligations, Mr.. LISA
mer," she said, quickly. 81 am we'll
enough. 1t is Delia's little way Of
exaggerating matters. I shall be
stronger wnen the spring is mere in
earnest"
Looking at her white, transparent
hands, her tall, fragile figure, was
not so sure of that. She was in a
critical state of health; she would
have been a patient to interest me in
a marked degree. With all these
Washes there was g something out Of
the common way surely.
You have been i'll, too, Mr.. Fair
fax tells u.s. said Hyacintha.
eyes"
"And are well again. There is the
warming of over-exertion for you to
study, too," put in Della here.
George Fairfax says you take things
too much to heart, Mr.. Lissamer."
HE appears to have summed me
up pretty correctly" said. "Per-
haps I do, but I am not quite GER
tain"
Nothing is certain but quarter
day, somebody says. And that was a
poor somebody who could not pay
his rent, l am sure" said Della.
Just like our dear young selves. We
ran away to save that piano and all
our belongings, Mr.. Lissamer. At
least that was our principal reason.
Nobody, stepney-way, would have
believed our statement that we
should pull through If they let us
alone, and so the cormorants would
have been down upon us at time
when we were-well, awfully hard
up. And they were not going to
snatch away the only thing that
keeps her alive If I could help it, and
after all the money the thieves had
got out Of me with their publishing
instruments; and, so, taking every
thing into consideration, we've
made a bolt of it, as Mr.. Fairfax
would say; in fact, as he did say
pretty plainly when we first had the
honor Of making his acquaintance. ,"
Della laughed at some rem1nis-
cence connected Herewith, but her
sister said, with a sigh:
"Ah! we'll, we have fought a hard
fight after a hard fashion"
"But the fight is over; the Step
ney pest is settled, and the piano
manufacturer-bles his heart!-ts
easy in his mind, and Hyacintha can
play all day, without fretting herself
to death, and so all is we'll"
"You are fond Of music?" I asked
of the elder sister.
'Passionately."
''Were you playing short while
since?"
mo. That was Della"
''That was my part for the new
opera-bouffe in the land of the West,
where 1 have got to at last" explain
ed Della Nash. "I begin business
again next Saturday evening, thank
Heaven! I shall exist once more. I
shall be quit for a while of Dark
street"
"And of me-" added Hyacintha.
"Ah! yes-bother that part of it;
I had forgotten it," she cried. But
all that will be arranged, settled,
and made extra comfortable. You
see, now"
Della, perhaps you will allow Mr..
Lissamer to state his business with
US. I think we have talked long
enough about ourselves, and wearied
h