Year: 1863

VII A1Ns


passed, aud remarked that she was very pref
ty, with the inquiry who she was, supposinl
her 10 be one of the guests.


"WhO?" said Mary. "That girl that We jus
passed in the hall She is my sewing girl.


"IHdeedi she is very beautiful. What is he
manner"


| "Alice"


"Ahl and beautiful name"


That was all. When they came back Alice
was gone. Il was this that aroused MARY
Leighton, and going to her mother after al
the guests bad departed, she storIned until il
was decided that Mrs. Leighton and Alice
should be removed to the old home. Alice
should not get in her way again. So two days
after we find them established in their old
home.


DR.. Hays was putting up little powdsrs.-
He spent a great deal of time over little pow
ders. He was humming a tune TO himself
when all of sudden he broke off to think, as
many peaple do, to think aloud.


"Scoundrel, = be said. Broken all to smash,
and drawn me In five thousand dollars. Hope
Frank is not in love with that daughter of his,
or will be in for FIVE thousand more to build
him up again. Hope he viii marry a woman
with some sense, if he must marry, and not
that upstart, Mary Leighton"


Never fear, father" said voice at his ell
bow. 'Your son will never marry Mary
Leighton. But I hope you will not object to
his marrying one Of that name"


"Ah, well, you are engaged are your Well,
as was saying, that scoundrel Leighton has
busted, and have nothing to secure me but
that old house his brother used to own, not
worth having"


"oh yes, father, it is worth having, and
there are two persons living in it now that
Mr. Leighton turned off few days ago from
bis house. The lady needs medical advice
Win you call and see her? Make the house
comfortable for them, father, and l will wait
until you see Alice Leighton before 1 ask you
whether you have any objections to my mar
rying her"


The sun was just sinking behind the west
ern hills, as DR.. Hays stopped at the old
Leighton house.


HGood evening" he said, as he passed Alice
and went into her mothers room. He walked
up to the bed, looked at Mrs Leighton, left
small package of powders, told her he should
call tomorrow, and left the room, becloning
Alice to follow him.


''Yo on want to repair that room for your
mother, don't your" be said, as they stopped at
the ball door,


"0h yes, l should like to so much if l was
able, but heard just now that my uncle was
insolvent, and l am afraid we will have to leave
here very soon."


"No, no" said DR.. Hays, putting his hand
upon her head in a very fatherly way, "You
can live here still. This house belongs to me
now, and Tomorrow when l come will bring
paper with me to have this room fitted up for
your mothers comfort. This paper is damp
aud musty and must be removed Tell her to
rest easy. She shall have this for her home as
long as she wishes it."


Alice could do nothing but look up into his
face and smile, full, rich, heavenly smile. He
carried that smile in his beart as long as he
lived, that old man who had created it by the
little heseould do to make her happy.


And so tomorrow he came with the paper.
telling Alice she must send for paper hang
er, and he would see that it was all right, but
she did not do as he told her As soon as he
had left the room she removed her mother to
another part of the house, and commenced
tearing off the old paper, preparatory 70 put
ting on the new. She cared nothing for the
work now, for her heart was light ana happy
This unknown friend was curing her mother
with his medicine and his kindness She had
met Frank Hays, he loved her, and they were
engaged. Frank Hays, to whom Mary Leigh
ton had said, she was her sewing girl. How
would Mary take that.


l say her heart was light and happy, as she
worked busily enough getting off the paper
She had finished three sides and was commenc-
ing the fourth. Taking hold she pulled near
ly half off at once. Now it was little hard
er, and she resorted to knife she held in her
hand. She run the blade far up under the pa
per, and found that it helped her very much
She pulled off slip after slip, and was sticking
her knife under for the last time,- when by
some chance luck the blade went through
small crevice in the wall. How strange she
thought this plastering; and as she drew it out
there was a small secret door few open, and
disclosed to her astonished eyes several boxes
filled with bright shining gold coin. She rails
ed her hands high, letting her knife drop to
the floor, and hastily taking up one of the
boxes, she few to the next room to show her
mother what she had found


Smother, mother, see what have found in
the wall"


'In the wall, my child? What can you
mean?" and without answering her mother she
pulled her chair into the old library and point
ed to the secret door from the very spot that
her father had pointed to it twenty years be-
fore. Mrs. Leighton knew now what her hus-
band meant by pointing toward the wall
She understood it all in minute, and in her
heart thanked God that he had kept from the
hands Of others what was meant for herself
and child.


Alice had been married one year. Every
thing around the old home, now made new,
was comfortable and elegant. Mary Leighton
very much humbled, was glad to make her
home with Alice She always blushed scarlet
when Frank Hays called Alice his little sew
ing girl. Little did she think when she ruled
over Alice, keeping her in perpetual agony,
that she would be dependent on the goodness
of the one she had thus trampled under foot.


A BIG SwINDLR.-Mr. Aristarchus Cham
pion, very wealthy and very close citizen