Year: 1872




easy to dream ofgreat achievements thar
to accomplish them. She is not the
only one, who, at the first shock. ha:
shrieked and tumbled down before ad
verse fate.


But Eunice Higgins was not one to
wither away before calamity Not long
did she lie there but. as short a time as
it was, when she lifted ber head her man
confronted her. He vas a very little
man, indeed, not more than seven years
old, and small at that very good look
ing and well clothed, although exceed
ingly disheveled and uncomfortable in
appearance


GLOW came you here. under my bed T.


This was the first question. but it was
repeated before her answered with
dropping head and glances:


i've ruined away"


Run away from where ?"


"From our folks house,


"Who is your folks p


"Faiher."


Here the dialogue terminated suddcn-
ly, Eunice Higgins becoming suddenly
conscious that a night gown and night
"an were not the proper raiment in which
to entertain even so small man. Out
in the pleasant sitting g-room, beneath
the warm light of kerosene cleaning
through rose geraniums. and he keener
light of Eunice Higgins's eyes, the in
QUESTION was continued. From which
these facts were CLEANED that the boy,
johnny Dale, had been SO tired with his
father. because he wouldn't him go to a
circus, that he had run away.


1t was early in the morning, he said
and he had got a ride with teamster
and had rode with hin till afternoon, 80
he must have come some distance. Af-
ter the teamster stopped he had walked
on. and coming to her door in the twi
light. he thought he would ask for some
supper but there was no one in Miss
Higgins had gone a piece with her WIS.,
itors." But the tea table stood there,
laden with good things; he had helped
himself generously, and then. as he
heard her step suddenly out side. guilt,
which makes towards of us all, drove
him into the bed room, and az the step
came nearer and nearer. under the bed.
His unusual fatigue had overpowered
him, and he had fallen asleep, and was
awakened only by her scream as she
discovered him


Miss Higgins had found the man she
had been looking for for thirty years.
but now the qestion arose what was
che to do with him AS he hid no de-
signs upon her property or her life, she
could not lecture him therefore. And as
his courage arose, he displayed a pretty
"a very pretty-face, surmounted by a
mass of bright curls, in which shone
to hens feathers. Miss Higgins was
very neat, but where is the feather bed
that will not occasionally shed few
feathers. dry tears haPly falling over
mem ories of former flights :?


Miss Higgins good sense, backed by
her good heart, taught her that what
her man needed now was good supper
and bed. But in the morning the
question vexed her. What was she to
do with her man-should she advertise
him. Again she questioned him in the
sunlight dining room as he ate his excel
lant breakfast


whereabouts do your folks live-in
what place %


He looked up mildly at her, with a
large piece of peach pie midway be
tween bis plate and mouth, and answered
obediently:


"Old folks house,


"Who is your folks !''


"Father r.


The allies were called in; the stiffly
starched inquest sat on Miss Higgins
man. The additional result of their
over questioning being that there was
every evidence that the father Of Miss
Higgins's man belonged to that corrupt
and shameless sect-wi0owers


Miss Higgins trembled.


"Had che not better dispose of her
man at once? Was it not in a way en-
couraging widowers in their nefarious
doings to barber these small men r


She asked these questions with some
relenting of heart, for already had the
childish charms of her man won upon
her, and it was with great relief that she
heard the decision of Aurelia, the most
radical Of the allies.


mo keep him here Such chance
was seldom vouchsafed to the allies to
to teach one of these men-widowers-a
lesson they would not soon forget. Pun
ish that wretch, that unnatural widow
er. by saying nothing about the child.
Let him think he is lost; let him hunt
him up the best way he can"


The youngest Miss Jones-she was
only forty, and naturally timid and ap.
prehensive-suggested that it would be
Just like one of these men to come right
hero to Miss Higgins after him. There