Year: 1879

young lady, but m quite certain | saw
it drawn in at one of these windows"


Drawn in at the window" a CLEAN
of comprehension crossed Mans face.


Rue saw that further attempt at con-
cealment would be useless, and with
fears partially allayed by the discovery
that the hairless gentleman was still able
to move and speak, he drew the wig from
its hiding place. There It's | didn't
want none of his hair" he remarked,
trembling but defiant.


go Rue! what will you do next" said
Nan, reproachfully.


well" urged Rue, defensiyely, Il
guess | was only fshin', an he run his
head against my fsh-hook, an jest skelped
hisself like tomahawk Iguess the old
thing was cracked loose before, else it
wouldn't have come off so easily, so it
wonldn't."


The strange voice drew Helen from an
adjoining room, and the owner of the
voice glanced from Nan to her and smiled


"Ah! this is the face have seen; at
first | thought it was your sisters; but
see my mistake now. have met YOU
down at my boys place, believe


Helen stood embarrassed and bcwil-
dcrcd for moment, then suddenly COM
pretended that his boy was six feet in
height, and wore a mouStachc. and that
his place was the Office of the print
works; in short that he was one of the
owners of the establishment that gave her
employment.


but had surely seen you before |
met yon there" and the gray eyes were
still studying her face with their kindly,
fathcrly glance. Are you not DIR.
Mayncs daughter;


And there the old gentleman sat and
talked. with his wig in his hand, so de
lighted at having found the children of
his old friend that he quite forgot to putt
it on and the girls were so pleased to listen
to one who had known and loved their
father, that they quite forgot how funny he
looked until the long talk was ended
Master Rue came privately to the conclu-
sion that his piscatorial exploit was rather
a brilliant affair after all-an opinion
that was still further strengthened by the
old gcntlcman's repeating his call the
next day in company with his wife,
pleasant, mothcrly lady, who petted the
urrhin to his hearts content.


And now, according to all essays and
stick-to-it-ivcness, ought to tell how
Helen. encouraged and assisted by the
ncw-old friends, finally overcome all diff
cultics and carried out her wishcd-for
purpose but real everyday people don t
ALWAYS make tirst-class heroincs, and this
is Just a record of how Helen didn't do
anything of the sort She did, indeed,
find more time for study, after the pleas
ant friendship began, but it was the old
gentleman's "boy" that worked the mis-
chief Finding her u friend Of the fam
ily, it was not unnatural, perhaps, that
he should fall into way of calling for
her designs, and to save her the trouble
and annoyance of going to the office. But
he became so Interested in them, or 50
inpatient for them, that he was willing
to 20 very often, and wait almost any
length of time while they We're being
completed and at last persuaded Helen to
20 into company with him.


He was not a doctor, you know, and so
it happened that the bluc-and-gold sign
of DR.. Helen Maync was never hung any
where except in her own girlish magma
ton. However, she found an ample
field for all her womanly sympathy and
tenderness, in the many houses of the
many operatives Of the mill.


"Ah, well. as Nan remarks, 1t Is
wonderful what a long train of events a
single slender fishing line may draw into
the bosom of an unsuSpccting family.