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VOL. I.
AUGUSTA, ME., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1870.
NO. 46,
JUnmbtc
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Silt GRANITIC BLOCK,
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Make* all Uie b>>u .tries of Pictures in the Art.
PICTURES COPIED"k ENLARGED,
— AXD —
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eg* The public are invited to call and examine
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Brewster’s Hotel,
SKOWHECAN, ME.
Tms large and commodious Hotel is situated at
the head of the Falls on the Kcnuebec river, in
the enterprising village of Skowhegan, the terminus
of the Portland A Kennebec B. B.
This is one of the best arranged Hotels for family
borders there is in the State, and a better place for
Summer resort, cannot be found in Maine. The
best of wafgr, beautiful drives on the banks of the
river, fishing and sailing ponds in the vicinity, trout
brooks, where you can c itch an abundance of the
spotted brook trout any day in the year.
Prices for permanent or transient boarding are
very low, so our customers can afford to come often
ana stav a good while.
We also have a large airy stable to board horses
for the guests that wish to bring their teams with
them. ANo one of the l»e«t half-mile trotting parks
in the State, is connected with the House, free for
the gu<*>t- to traiu the!/ horses or drive for pleasMre.
tlTJan-U 8. B BREWSTER, Proprietor.
BATH HOTEL,
By O. M. Plummer,
BATH, »l!.
Board, - - $1 per Day.
tlljan-ly
Photographs & Mela,notypes,
At the tunc OLD PLACE,
At the same OLD PBll'lil, vln
9 1-9 sizs Pictures in Cards for 50 rents.
4 1-4 “ “ 50 “
4 1-4 “ in Card envelopes, 50 cts.
1 5x7 “ in .Vat, 50 “
16 TIXT VPKS for 25 cents.
A good assortment ot
FRAME*, A EH I'M*, Ac.,
now on hand. 49* Particular attention given to
copying.
8 Doors south of the Post Ofllff, Altit STA, MK
tljan70-3m __ H. BAILKY.
Cough Candy !
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y\ COCUHS, COLDS, WIIOOPIXG COCGII and
all Throat trouble*.
2 Doors south of Granite Block, Market Sq.
MIMK AL INSTRUMENTS,
r/tnoy Goods, the., sold by
lanl-lyt W. WENDENnCKG.
■Wire WorK.a
-AT
Saecarappa, Maine.
Messrs. WARREN & FENNELL,
■\lTOULD inform the public that thev manufac
▼ y lure anil keep constantly on baud every de
scription of
IRON WIRE,
made from the best material. Special attention
girca to
Spring and Machinery Wire!
Also, Wire tinned, straightened and cut to order,
fds*
MANSION HOUSE,
STATE STREET, ; : AUGUSTA, ME.
' r|MII3 House is provided wii'a Bath Rooms,
X. where Hot and Cold Baths can tw had at all
times. It has also a First-Class Billiard Hall, for
Guests only. Connected with the House is a large
and commodious Sample Room, on Water Street,
centrally located, where Sample Agents can show
their goods, free of charge.
The Proprietor, thankful for the liberal patronage
, which the a bore il>use has enjoyed since its open
I ing, tikes pleasure in informing his patrons that he
’ will run Free Carriages to and from the Cars and
l Boats until further notice
» Connected with the abore House is a Livery Sta
• hie, where good teams can be had at reasonable
rates. W. M. THAYER, Proprietor.
G. P. Cocmaxb, Clerk.
GOLD! GOLD! GOLD!
ADAMSON’S
BOTANIC COUGH BALSAM!
IS MOKE VALUABLE THAN GOLD.
TRY IT! THY IT! TRY IT!
IT CUKES TIIE WOIIST
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IN A SHORT TIME.
IN LARGE BOTTLES, at - - 35 Cents,
No Cure ! No Fay 2
FRANK KINSMAN,
DRUGGIST,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL AGENT
FOR TIIE UNITED STATES AND CANADAS.
Cough no more when you can be Cured for
TRY IT!
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Tire PLACE TO 11UY
French, Eusono, Sola Xjoatlior,
And nil kinds of common
TRAVELLING TRUNKS !
Also, Ladies’and Gents’ TRAVELLING A SHOPPING BAGS, is at
HAMILTON & TURNER’S,
133 Water Street.
The Right Place to buy your HARNESSES, and get the celebrated DUNN HARNESS, is at
IIAKIILTON A TURNER'S. 135 WATER STREET.
The cheapest place to buy WHIPS, CURRYCOMBS, BRUSHES, BLANKETS, SURCINGLES, HAL
TERS, Ac , la at HAMILTON A TURNER’S,
135 WATER STREET.
HARNESSES !
For Business, Pleasure, Teaming, Trucking. Carling A Expressing, j
Manufactured from GOOD OAK STOCK, and by the best of workmen.
Wo would remind the public that our Harness took all the premiums offered at the last State Fair
—lour in number. Also the first jiretnium at the lute New England Fair.
As our customers are daily informed that our Harnesses are Machine Stitched—we would inrite
them and the public generally to call and ex amine the largest btoek of ready-made Harnesses ever of
fered m this city, and we will convince them that we make the he?t HAND STITCHED work to he had
for the same amount of money, and if we don't have on hand what is wanted, cau make it at short
notice. Sample* of Gold Gilt. Oroide Silver, Covered, and Japanned Trimmed Harness, may he seen at
our salesroom, NO. 172 MIDDLE STREET. HENRY DUNN & SON.
For Halo by
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135 WATER STREET, - - AUGUSTA, MAINE,
fllfeb tf Opposite Deering & Holway’s.
18707 FEBRUARY. 1870.
EXTRA INDUCEMENTS
TO BUYERS.
We hnve thin Day
MARKED DOWN OUR PUICES!
SO AS TO REDUCE STOCK.
LOOK!
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THINK AND REFLECT
On tlie following- l*riee»:
Overcoat* for $4 7,4
Overcoat* for (LOO
Overcoat* for 7.00
Overcoat* for* M.OO
Overcoat* (warranted all wool) * 0.00!
Overcoat* (heavy Black Beaver) 10.00
OUR STOCK OF PINTS AND VESTS,
MATCHED SUITS,
-AND
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS!
Ot every description we ofler Tor the NEXT THIRTY' DAY’S,
AT EQUALLY LOW PRICES.
Sue* CALL AND SEE CS, and we guarantee that you will get your money’s worth at the
ONE PRIOR CLOTHING STORE.
S. 'V\r. Huntington Co.,
IOO Water {Street, Augusta, IVInine.
THE KENNEBEC JOURNAL.
.Established in 1826.)
Enlarged and Improved.
A POLITICAL & FAMILY NEWSPAPER.;
Hot Excelled by any in the State.
I
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rVo Increase of Subscription Price—A <«ood
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The Weekly Kennebec Journal.1
The Kennebec Journal is in the Forty-fourth year
of its age. It has just been enlarged, 'and in now a 1
THIRTY-SIX COLUMN PAPER,
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paper in the State, and surpassed by but few in other
States.
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Published every Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec Journal,
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on and alter the first of Jauuary. Will give
Full and Accurate Reports of the Proceedings of;
the Legislature from day to day; Reports of Ini- j
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Save Editorials, Correspondence. Locals and the .
usual Summaries of News, also the most Import
ant Speeches of the Session.
The Discussions in the Board of Education will give
New and Additional Importance to the Daily 1
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Terms, $7.00 per year; $2 00 for the Session.
W Members of the Legislature will do their con
stituents and themselves a favor te interest them
selves in getting subscribers to the above publica
tions. The Daily keeps up that correspondence
between the People and their Representatives,
through their Legislative Reports, which is neces
sary and agreeable to both.
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who desire a full report of the Legislative Proceed
ings, must subscribe for the Daily Journal.
•jr Postmasters arid Members of the Legislature ^
authorized to take subscriptions.
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are published at Augu-ta, Maine, by
SPRAGUE, OWEN A NASH, i
B O S WORT H
WILL SELL
FOR THE NEXT THREE WEEKS,
FROM IIIS
Fall and Winter Goods,
AT COST, to reduce Stork preparatory to moving
into the new store which has been prepared for him,
OVERCOATS,
HEAVY. SACKS,
PANTS & VESTS,
i
Reiter anti Cheaper than ever offered In thitt city
bell)re FOR CA SH OXL
REMEMBER THE PLACE:
No. 158 Water Street,
Augusta, M nine.
E. T. Bosworth.
t51‘eb&w7-tf |
Dissolution of Co-Partnership.
rpiIK co-partnership heretofore existing between
4_ I.uciiis Hill ami Litas. A. Farnunt, is mis day ;
dissolved by mutual consent.
LUCIUS mix, 1
Augusta, Feb. 1, l«7u. L. A. FAKMM.
The undersigned will continue the
Grocory and Provision Business,
• At the OLD STAND.
fOXT ST.. HEAD OF ARSENAL ST.
t9feb.tr trcirs mix. 1
ami £kct(hf£.
BELLE'S CARICATURE.
Many people make enemies by long
faces and cold manners. Belle Bruce had
made them by smiles and a love of fun.
The ludicrous points of friends and
strangers were too visible to her bright
eyes, and she was not careful enough to
:onroal the fact. Consequently, she had
laughed at her maiden aunt's ruined niglit
aps, until that lady disinherited her, and
left her worldly all to a serious maid who
had waited on her for five-and-twenty
years without a smile; laughed at her
teacher's prim ways and peculiarities of
speech, until school became "too hot to
hold her," laughed at her room mate.
Mis*. White, who was absurdly romantic,
until she lost the favor of one who was
very influential in certain circles where
Belle needed the exercise of her influence ;
mid finally, laughed herself out of her sit
uation as governess to a clergyman’s two j
daughters because something ridiculous I
occurred in church. “A young person so !
forgetful of absolute decency as to laugh j
aloud over a slight mistake in such a place '
in inn h hi iiisirucirw’s iwr gins, sam
the Reverend Obadiah Waugh; and Belle j
found herself friendless in a large city, i
with a month's salary in her pocket, her
one black alpaca growing rusty at the
scants, and her one pair of kid gloves in
need of mending.
The situation was desperate, and when
a situation in a district school at Lemon
offered itself Belle jumped at it instantly.
The salary was small, but it was some
thing. and she had just enough to get there
if she did not stop to dine or sup on the
way.
So Belle, brave in her way as any sol
dier, remedied her gloves, sponged her
alpaca with soda-water, spent her last ex
tra money upon a blue veil, put her small
stock of underwear into a black valise,
papered up a pound of soda-crackers and
four apples, and thus provisioned, started
for Lemon.
It was a two-days journey. Belle, who
had a year or two before been used to din
ing sumptuously every day, did wonder
just a little whether she should look like
the men released from Andersonv illc, or
taken from the wreck of the ‘'Hornet," by
the time she reached Lemon, and whether
site should come to wishing to make steaks
and soups of her fellow-passengers. But
she sailed into the ear with an air, and
seated herself as a princess might, and
looked about her with that desire of hers
to find something to laugh at. Soon she
found it. Into the car, all in a hurry, just
as it was about to start, waddled a little
fat man. One of the shortest, fattest men
perhaps, ever to be met with out of a show,
lie was not a dwarf nor a monstrosity, hut j
his girth was tremendous, and his legs lit- ;
dicrously short. His dress, too, increased
the absurdity of his proportion. His hat—
enormous, white in hue, and very bell
crowned, was so much too large for him that
it rested on his ears. His coat tails touched
his heels, and when he sat down his
trowsers climbed his calves, exhibiting
gray worsted stockings and high lows.
He bad with him a leather travelling bag,
a palm-leaf fan, an umbrella, and a book.
Scarcely was he seated when he immersed
himself'in the pages of the volume, and
grew excited over it—frowning, knotting
his brow, laughing in scorn, and smiling
in commendation—both dumpy feet on his
bag, the umbrella between his legs, and
the fan behind him. In vain Belle Bruce
struggled to wear a solemn face. Ere
long she put her veil down, aud looking
out of the window went into convulsions
of laughter. She shook until the old lady
next behind her began to fear that she hud
a tit, and until a sentimental young lady,
believing her to be weeping (as she was
herself) at parting from friends, offered
her the use of her smelling-salts. Belle
took it, bowed courteously, and soon sur
prised her neighbor by returning it with
her veil up, and exhibiting two wonder
tullv bright eyes and a mouth framed by
two mischievous dimples. She was grow
ing used to her vis-a-vis, and now be
thought her of her grand delight, the
drawing of a caricature. Her pencil was
in her pocket; the fly-leaf of a volume of
Victor Hugo’s last, which she had with her,
served for paper, and she devoted herself
for the next hour to an elaborate caricature
of the gentleman opposite. She was ipiite
an artist, and had a talent for these things.
No one who had ever seen the man could
have mistaken her model. From the tie of
his cravat to the great loop ol his shoe
strings she worked the picture up with
cure, and ended by inscribing on the
leather bag the letters which shone there
iu white newness, “G. Guise."
ivy unit time ueiio was nungry, amt ate |
one apple aud three crackers, au<l thought
in the midst of a bile how dreadfully the
nervous old lady on the same seat would 1
feel if she should beeouie a cannibal at I
heart through starvation before her jour- j
ney's end, and laughed until she choked at j
the fancy. Soon they came to a stopping |
place, where every one alighted for lunch, j
except one young matron, who was to
leave the ears at the next station, and w ho
had a basket of ginger-nuts, wherewith to
sustain her young brood. A very nice
smell of beef-steak and onions swept into
the car, and some one outside, either a
person in the employ of the tavern or a
disinterested passenger, informed Bello
that she had better lunch there, for it was
the best place on the road. Belle shrug
ged her shouders, spoke with immense dis
gust of the cookery at “such places,” and 1
maned back, very hungry, but resolved j
not to touch her evening rations.
She amused herselfby watching people, j
rim fat man lmd his meal and a glass of j
lie alter it, and returned to his old seat
behind her. lie blew his nose as though ,
it was a trumpet, and an echo in a hill
near by mocked him. He fanned himself 1
with a palm leaf fan, and looked at her. |
Bell's gnu ity was upset again, and she
repressed a laugh, which was thus changed
into a smile. The fat gentleman evident
ly thought it a signal of sociability. lie
smiled back. The face was funny, but
the smile was astonishing. It was a beau
tiltil smile. Two rows of snow-white
teeth displayed themselves ; his eyes shone ;
his face became interesting. He hesitated
and then made an offer of his palm-leaf
fan. “It is so warm,’’ said he; “and I
see you have none, Madam."
The tone was gentlemanly, the voice
sweet. It was an act of eomtesy. IJelle
was no prude. She accepted the fan and
thanked him. A moment more, and she
had another surprise. The iat gentleman
had taken off his absmditv. That hideous,
ill-litting stove-pipe, had concealed a head
that could not have belonged to a mean
or ignorant man—a glorious head—all the
handsomer for its bald crown. Not bald
with age either, for certainly the face
beneath it was not over thirty-five. It
looked five and forty in the hat. Belle
looked at it in sheer astonishment.
“He’s almost handsome,” she thought.
“How can any one dress so absurdly
Then she returned the fan with a courteous
bow. But her vis-a-vis would not have it.
“You may need it again," he said. And
now, with his hat still off, his smile was
yet more charming; and though Mrs.
Grundy might not have approved, there
was really no great harm in chatting with
him, and so the two talked merrily together
for miles.
\V hen the tram stopped at dusk he offered
to attend her to the dining-room of the ;
hotel, but she shook her head, and told
him she had all she needed with her. j
Whereat the lilt gentleman shook his head I
doubtfully, and leaving her, returned1
with ham sandwiches and pie—of which
he insisted that she should partake. “I j
hate to eat alone,"' he said. “I know it's 1
a liberty, but do keep me company,'’ and
he never guessed how very good that din
ner tasted to little Bell, or that there wen
hut six crackers and one apple in the black
valise.
“1 suppose I shall lose your company
soon,” said the fat gentleman, after a
while. Very few will go on to Lemon, as
1 shall.”
"Are you going to Lemon ?” asked Belle. !
"Yes, ma’am, to Lemon,” and he gave
a little sigh.
“I’m going there, also,” said Belle.
“To a school there.”
“Not to the North District School?”!
cried the fat gentleman.
“Yes sir. I'm assistant there,” said
Belle.
“And I'm principal. IIow singular! I
knew I was tohaie an assistant, but could
not imagine—and this is Miss Brace. My
name is Guise,” and the two laughed to
gether.
Belle felt pleased. This odd man was
very genial and warm-hearted, she knew,
and he appeared to be delighted. He re
solved himself into her escort at once. 1 le
behaved as brothers ought, but never do,
upon a journey. He took her into Lemon
on his arm, and saw her safe at her desti
nation, and shook hands with her very
heartily when they parted.
“I expect we shall he glad of each other’s
society in this uncultured place," he said,
"i understand that the last female teacher
was ducked for keeping in a girl, and that
an effort was made to lynch the former
principal because he flogged a boy. How
ever, don't feel alarmed. I think I am
able to keep you from being annoyed; and
when they once know me they will scarcely
trouble me, I think.
lie was two inches shorter than Belle,
and as fat as ever; but when he said that
in his manly, courteous, quiet way, there
was nothing in the least ridiculous about
him, and Belle’s smile was genuine, and
not a hidden laugh, as she replied to him.
Her first day, or rather her first night, at
Lemon, seemed to her to promise pleas*
andy. It was Saturday evening. She
went to church naxt morning, and slept
off her fatigue in the afternoon. In the
evening she chatted with her hostess. She
was to "board around" a week here and a
week there, and that night she heard a
good deal about her other patrons. "Miss
Smith”—Mrs. was a title never heard in 1
Lemon, where matrons were dubbed!
"Miss,” and single ladies had their Chris- 1
tian names accorded them by everybody!
—Miss Smith was near, and half starved
the teachers; and Miss .Tones gave them
“tli: dispepsy, with bad bread ; and Miss
Brown expected hern to “learn all crea
tion,” and Miss Wilson wouldn't have hern
whipped.
And after the good lady had left her guest
for the night, with the parting information
thsit at the Halls’ she’d be expected to share |
a truckle-bed with little Peter, she told her
spouse that the new teacher seemed toj
think there was somethin’ to laugh at, but;
whether it was her stories or herself she ;
couldn’t guess.
“Couldn’t be me d'ye think, John?” she i
queried. "I had my gingham and my ;
best comb in.”
And Joliu answered, “No,” in good I
faith, and added that “The gal seemed j
lively.”
But one may laugh with a heavy heart:
and remembering her luxurious home of j
four years back, and her own dainty room I
with all its appliances for comfort, Mrs.
Ihill's-back attic and little Peter did seem
a hard pill to swallow. Even her present
quarters, where n triangle of broken look- <
ing glass, and a tin basin on a chair were !
the toilet arrangements, were scarcely |
satisfactory.
On Monday morning she went to school, j
mul tlie long room, with its dingy win-1
dows, made her heart sink. The cracked
blackboard and lumps of greasy chalk, the j
tottering desk and seats all pulled askew,
worried her. Urchins of five, and full!
grown clowns of eighteen, stumbled in
and stared at her. Confusion reigned, |
and she was not able to change it to order.
She sat down in despair, and then a hand!
touched her softly, and the fat gentleman j
appeared upon the scene. It was, to make
use of a bull, “a second first appearance."
His hat was on, his pout was buttoned to j
the chin. In the act of shaking hands the
whole absurdity of his tout ciixemble burst
upon Belle, and she began to laugh. A
moment-before she had been ready to cry.
The two emotions mixed themselves, and
she went off into hysterics. A magnificent
begining, as she felt even at the time.
somehow she was conveyed into a ward
robe, provided with a chair, a fan and
water, and left to recover. Coming to her
self she listened. All noise was hushed.
She smoothed her hair and went out.
, Order reigned, livery boy was at his
1 hooks, every girl hat! her hands folded
primly. The baby who should have been
in long clothes,anil the middle-aged person
she would have taken for a house-maid,
sat side by side equally mute and motion
less. Hie ten little girls, all of a size,
were as faultless. Iter chair and b< ok
were ready. She took possession of them,
and looked with amazement at the studious
youths working away under the super
vision of Professor Guise; for she knew
; his title as well as his name by this time.
Little as he was, fat as he was, absurd as
was his costume, it was plain that every
one there respected him—Belle respected
him also. A- the time went on she liked
him more and more.
lie knew so much. Her boarding-school
accompli-liinmits faded into in significance
when compared m ifIi those solid acquire
ments; and win n one day he told her of
a certain ordeal he had passed through, of
a scheme by which he had hoped to make
his lortune turning out a failure and ruin
ing him—of money that must be saved
and scrappd together, and of an old worn
out, hopeless feeling which will come to
young people whose schemes prove to be
illusions, and who struggle in vain for
some itjttix fatuu* which in the end eludes
them. Belle had not struggled much, but
she knew flic feeling: for she had some
hopes of being an authoress, and had of
fered sundry poems to the press, and had
them handed back with that profound con
tempt with which long-sntVering editors
decline such favors. She had gone home
with a heart like a lump of lead, and ach
ing feet and eyes burning because they
would not weep; to tear the manuscript
savagely, and wonder how long the alpaca
would last decently, and to look in the
glass, expecting almost to see grey hairs
and wrinkles. When the professor said,
“ l)o you know when it was all over I
felt eighty years old?” she quite under
stood him. They were better friends than
ever from that moment.
Ami what a friend he was! He managed
that she should have all the pleasures
and as few of the hardships of her lotas
possible, lie contrived that she should
board constantly with the clergyman’s
family. He told the head boy to see that
she eaine in a wagon on wet days, and
that youth continued it. lie borrowed
papers and journals for her—sometimes
books. He took her to the lectures at the
Lyceum. He was the only man of cul
ture except the clergyman in the place.
The only person who felt as she felt on
most subjects. Soon to have heard that
he was about,to leave would have been to
hear evil tidings. He, and he alone, made
Lemon bearable. And it is strange how
much two poor people, who agree with
each other in sentiment, can help along
upon the road to happiness.
Mo gallant exquisite with a bouquet
worth a small fortune, and invitations to
a private box on some Ristori or Jenny
Lind mad night, could have been more
acceptable to city belle than the fat doctor
with liis thumbed volume under his arm,
and his ticket for the Lyceum lecture, was
to our heroine, on many a Wednesday
night; and when coming home, leaning
on his left arm, that right hand so plump
and firm and white somehow dropped on
hers and held it. Belle liked it. It made
her feel satcr.
So, in the commonplace desert of drudg
ing life, there lav a bright oasis or two,
and Belle laughed as much as ever. She
drew caricatures of the white headed hovs,
and the Professor laughed at them, fslie
sketched “the committee” on examination
day. She wrote comical doggerel in cel
bratlon of absurd scenes. There was no
olio to appreciate her fun but the Profess
or; but his kindly smile was always
ready. She learned to look for it as a
necessity ol her life.
So the vear passed. A second term—a
third, 'lhen one bright day a letter was
dropped into the midst of all the homely
plans, and exploded them like a bomb
shell. A square, red sealed letter from
Messrs. Tape & Parchment, lawyers. It
told her that her aunt was dead, also that
the serious waiting-maid had been serious
in vain, for she had left this world before
her mistress. Belle Bruce was the only
living heiress of the old spinster. She
was, or would be, all legal forms complet
ed, worth half a million.
It was necessary that she should leave
Lemon for the scene of action at once,
and she wondered that she was not hap
pier at the thought. Tears would come as
she packed her little wardrobe, as she
gathered together the Professor’s humble
gifts, worthless in money value, but so
precious for tlie kindly feeling which was
the motive of their giving.
“He will be as kind to the next teach
er, and forget me,” she said, and her
tears fell.
n was tsauiruay nlternoon, ana sne sat
at a table in the clergyman's parlor look
ing over these books, when the Professor
came in. Hu sat down also. Something
was plainly on his mind. He sighed, was
silent, and moodily looked over the books.
At last he took one tip.
“Victor lingo," he said. "l)o you like
him?”
“I do. There is a genuine pathos—”
“Ureat Heaven! ”
He stopped with those words on his lips,
an ashen pallor overspread his cheek.
He was staring at the fly-leal of the
volume.
Belle looked at him. Her cheek paled
also. A remembrance fell upon her. She
went softly behind Professor Guise, and
saw on what his eyes were fixed. He was
looking at the caricature she had drawn
of him in that first hour when he was only
an absurdly dressed fat man to her—a
caricature she would not have drawn now
for the wide world's wealth. What should
she do? What could she say? There
was the name, G. Guise, on the valise.
Sin- could not deny. He knew she had
drawn it. She stood like a statue.
But iu a moment she saw the threat
head bowed, the beautiful eyes hidden,
and she heard a soli—another and another.
Then she found voice.
“What shall 1 do—what shall! do? Oh
look at me, listen to me! Dear friend, I
j never meant,—"
“1 know you never meant I should see
it,” he said', "i know that I'm a fool.
Blit it is so hard ;” and his bps quivered.
••You are so beautiful te me, and 1 look
like that to you!”