Year: 1873

Two or three times, in the course o
the narrative, the matron had some diff
hculty in preserving the gravity of hel
countenance. After meditatng Il few min
utes, she tapped Van Twillcr softly on the
arm with the tip of her paraso!, and iu-
vlted him to return with her the next day
up the Hudson and made brief visit at
the home Of his ancestors. He accepted
the invitation with outward alacritv and
| inward reluctance.


When this was settled, and the worthy
lady had withdrawn, Van Twiller went
directly to the establishment of Messrs
Ball, Black Il Company, and selected, with
uneerring taste, the finest diamond brace
let procurable. For his mother? Dear
me, no. She had the family Jewels
| would moi like to state the enormous
sum Van Twiller paid for this bracelet 1t
was such clasp of diamonds as would
| have fastened the pulSatlon Of patrican
wrist. 1t was such a bracelet as Prince
Camaralzaman might have sent to the
Princess Badoura, and the Princess Badoura
might have been very glad to get
In the fragrant Levant morocco case
where these happy Jewels lived when they
We're at home, Van Twlller thouehtfullv
placed his card, on the back of which he
had written line begging Mademoiselle
Olympic Zabrski to accept the accompany
ing tribe from one who had witnessed her
graceful performances with interest and
pleasure. This was not done inconsider-
ately. "Of course | must enclose my
card, rs would to any lady, Van Twill
Ter had said to himself; "a Van TWiller
can neither write an anonymous letter





entails its duties as well rs its privileges


The casket dispatched to its destination,
Van TWiller felt easier in his mind He
was under obligations to the girl for many
tn agreeable hour that might otherwise
have passed heavily. He had paid the
debt, and he had paid it en- prince, rs be
the day looking ut some pictures at
few purchases for his trip up the IIud-
son. A conciousness that this trip up the
Hudson was a disorderly retreat came
over him npleasantly at intervals


When he returned to his room late ut
night, he found note lying on the writ
ing-table. He started as his eve caught
the words s. THEATRE stamped in car
mine letters on one corner of the envelope.
Van Iwlller broke the zeal with trembling
fingers.


Now, this note some time afterwards
fell into the hands of Livingstone. who
showed it to Stuyvesant, who showed it to
me, and copied ii rs a literary curiosity
The note ran rs follows


MIR. VAN TWILLER, DEAR Slit am VERY
greatlll TO YOU tor that Bracelet, it comes Just
in tee mic Of time for me. That Mademo>cll,
Zabriski dodg is about plaid out. My beard is
getting to much for me. shall have to grow
muStaSh and take to some other line Of busy
ness, don't no what now, but will let YOU no.
You wont feel bad if sell that Bracelet.
have seen AbrahamS Moss and he says he will
do the square thing. Pleas arcep my thanks for
you're Beautiful and unexpected present.


Your respectful serNent.


CHARLES MONTMORENCI W ALTERS.


The next day Van Twllcr neither eN-
pressed nor felt any 'lnWillngncss to spend
a few weeks with his mother at the old
homestead


And then he went abroad


A STORY OF THREE CHILDREN In Nav
last a railroad conductor lifted a bundle of
Old clothes from the cars to the depot plat
form at Red Wing. This bundle had
come all the way from Chicago and inside
of it was little four years old girl, with
a basket in her hand, to which was at
tached Il card, stating that her name was
Minnie Mead, and that she was TO be left
at Red Wing till called for by her father,
George Mead. After the ears Went crash
ING away in a cloud of smoke and dust
the loungers scattered, and the little maid
was left alone to talk to herself and ''muke
believe she was eating bread and butter
As the day wore on this bonnccide fair
gave out, and she toddlcd about gazing
wiStfully at the strange faces Of the team
sters who came occasionally to fetch lug
gage from the depot. until finally. realiz-
ing that no one wanted her. She began to
sob. At last, rs night came on Il mother
ly woman heard there was n lone. forgot
ten child crying ut the depot When
George Mead came several DAYS attcrWard
for the little bundle a brute mother had
shipped to him, he found Minnie very
well PROV idcd for, and it would have been
better if he had left her there But he
took her back to Mineola, and placed her
with the other little wrctchcs whom their
mother had abandoned. Minnie and Della
her three-year-old sister, and Emma, who
was but sixteen, in an old diapidatvd
building, and then the father Went away,
they knew not where BY and by the old
est sister Went out into the country to
work for a farmer. Sometimes she came
and left them food but there through all
the dark nights and through all the fierce
thunder storms Of the summer, these de
serted babies hudlled together on an old
quilt, with no one apparently To care for
them. An aunt who lived not far away
took no notice of them, and few days
ago the county judge learned that three
little girls We're starving in that old build
ing. He found them covering in the old
ruin, naked, weak and perisiling for food
The first he offered them they ate raven
ously, but their f;lmished stomaehs would
not retain it. They had torn some old cali
co into strips, tied to an old pewter mug,
and with this they had managed to draw
from an uncurbed well the only refresh
ment they had tasted for days and days
If some neighbor had not relented al the
sight of their wan faces and told the coun-
ty Judge about it, only day or two more
would have elapsed before the rats would
have been fighting over their little
corpses, AIineoa would be a good field
for Christian missionaries. Missouri Re
publican.


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