A Lady Housekeeper
Nervous Exhaustion, Neuralgia,
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HOW BROWNIE WENT HOME.
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*1 ran away from stepmother again at kerst, list time I way from hier old governess, but it's all the same. She's a CURTIS YORKE.
horrid persou, stopmother, I mean, you (Author of The Wild Ruthvens, "wy know-Dad got married to her when I was only eight, and when he hind only been dead ward Anne," etc.),
a little while, slia married♫*
(Continued from Paje 6.)
After a time Brownie, who had a very sweet little voice, learned to sing one or two easy songs to her own accompaniments; and those were always reveired with onthusiastic applause.
** Yes, dear, I know," The Indian inter- rupted her soothingly, Dat what about to-lay-to-night? I don't understand, I Where did you see your stepmother? "
Shall I
what will you do with ran then? still be your little girl???....
"Yes, my Brownie you will always my little girl,
After a time she said,
But whom they all, with pathetically cheer- ful faces, went up to her room in the ever- being, each secretly hoped that the doctor had been mistaken. For Brownie was more like her ald self than she had been for somer time Her eyes were shining, her cheeks "Stepmother will always be watching, were dushed with a lovely rose-pink, and her though. I'm afraid of her now. I didn't curls seemed to dance joyously, as of old.. us to be, But now I am I hope I'm not And when, at her cager request, The Star- going to be a cowardly child, Indian, dear."lighters-unwillingly enough went through hope not, he answered, smiling their repertoire as usual, she tried to join in "Why are you afraid of her??
the choruses. But a fit of coughing put en "Oh, I don't know," she murmured. Incendo that. dian, dear, I'm tired.
Why am I always tired now?"
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Thus summer faded into, autumn, and
*Well, Indian, dear, I went to buy boads, autamu was gripped by winter, and there were no more open-air entertainments on the and when i was coming out of the shop 1
The outertainment lud, ond feature that saw a mutor-ear, and stepmother jumped
night which was certainly unprecedented; pier. But The Starlighters--who' for some
ont and said you bad asked her to drive me reason did not move fron, Northwick that
for, as The Indian was half-way through As the days went on she was more Brownie's favourite song, he suddenly broke home. So I got in, and we drove on and yenr-lived a small hall in Northwick, and
more tired. And at lust a day came when down, and went out of the room. Au awk- gave nightly entertainments which became, and I wanted to get unt, but she
wouldn't let me.
she could not even stand up to be dressed. And at last we came to
ward silence followed, fairly popular.
house, and she took me into a room, and
Then it became quite à recognized thing i After that sight Brownie no longer seer- Shonk we, and said I was never to see any
that she should lie all day on the sofa,od to expect her Starlighters to sing to her. of you again. And I tried, and screamed, wrapped in a bright blue dressing-gon Indeed, she beenne so much worse that the and stamped my foot. But she only laughed bought for how by Edison Whing. and went away, and locked the door. So I By and by she was too tired aren for the doctor said she mist be kept as quiet as pren elimbed out of the window, and slid downersoft; and rested contentedly in hed all day.
And then it dreadful day dawned when But she was quite cheerful, and insisted the little ou no longer knew her faith- the croin-pipe, and can and ran, and raw? And it rains and rained, and I was-sit that her beloved Starlighters" should give ful guardians--not even The Indian. It was of breath. but at Inst I got here, and jump a special performance every night, in "her
» day sana ai tiem ever forgot ed into your arma, uydens, deur Judiah, room, of all their Intest songs. and that's all," si concluded with a sleepy always onxed The Indian to finish up by laigh.
singing her favourite "Ol, promise the,"
**When Pri wall. I'll have to work quite have to learn up all thu new necompasi. monts," she said one night when she and The Indian were alone.
And there came a day when it was again sumer, and when Brownie had been with The Starlighters for two years. She was now twelve, rather small for her age, and vory pretty, in an intment, appealing style, that won the hearts of everybody,
One June night her songs had been more rapturously appluded than steal, and the little lady was very much pleased and excite- ed, and, with her dancing curls and shining eyes, looked-as some of her audience remarked pretty as a picture," After the performance wus
over. The Indinn, having changed his clothes, leasing over the pier railings smoking a cigarette, when someone tapped him on the
alin.
was
He turned, to fools into the very much "made-up face of n woman of perhaps forty, or a little more. Her hard blue eyes glittered from under a sweep of metallically yellow hair brought very low down across her forehead.
"You are one of The Starlighters?" she said in a somewhat rasping voice.
He assenter briefly, and she continued.
I want to ask you about the little girl who sang tonight. I want to speak to her."" We do int allow ber to talk to strangers,"
he answered purteously but coldly.
What--not if the supposed stranget is.
Then all the others trooped in, and 1 s++
thing was gone overtoner mors,
Next day Drowuje seemed tired and lau- guid, and The Indian decrea that she should stay in bed all day, But on the fol lowing morning she had, as Mrs. Nixerby put it "perked up again and by the end of the wool she was going about as ushal.
But she had evidently caught cold, and coughed a good drai,
Gradually her cough, became worse, and by general consent a doctor was called in. who sounded her lungs, asked a few kindly questions, and a rote a. prescription for a rough mixture.
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And she
Ho did not speak; and something in his dark handsome face made her say quickly,
Indian, dear-what is it? Hus some thing runde you sorry--or resed?"
No, dear-no," he bustened to nasare her, though his voice was hardly steady.
But Brownie know better.
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sible.
Towards evening, a moter-car drove up to the cloor; and after a few minutes of noisy coramotion in the haß, Mys, Nixerby gently. opened the door of the parlour where The Tudian sat aloing,
It's lady, sir," she said in a stage- "She wouldn't let me speak.
But here she was pushed aside, and the. woman who had spoken to. The Indian on the pier surged into the room, excited and triumphunt.
I've come for my child," she said harsh- ly, and without other greeting, "I've come to take her home. So we'll have no non-
And take
"I do believe you are afraid I won't get sense, please. 2 happen to know a former well," she said with a shrewd little smile.render of your troupe who is now in hon- You "You dear, silly old Indian! Oh, you needn't, don, and he's told me all about it.
J know. pretend to laugh..
But you know very well she belongs to me. needn't worry, my own dear. I'm ever so, her 1 sital. Where is she?" much better-heups! It's only that some Without speaking. The Indian rose, ind times I feel tired. In a day or two I'll be led the way upstairs, to a small darkened as well as orer, you'll see. So you'll cheer room at the top of the house, where a child m-won't you?" she added-consingly. slept peacefully amid masses of fragrant
white flowers,
And The Indian, with a beavy heart, pro- mised to cheer up."
Then he drove a anil into the heart of The Ladian by asking him privately if the smail patient had any consumptive antecedents.
"I don't know.” The Indian answered hoarsely.
we know thing of ber people
But that night he said to Brownie.
Do you remember your father being ill before he died, little our? Do you remem- her what was the matter with him? Try to think," e ndeled, as Brownie shok her hood.
Ng. I wan't remember, except that hele was a bright and merry as ever, anki her own mother said the woman with coughed and coughed and coughed. And her funny quaint sayings made her stalwart short laugh, or at least, her stepmother; stepmother said it went through her head. guardians laugh many a time when real mer- which comes to the same things pretty And then he was always in bed, and then
riment was far from them. Rearly."
one night stepmother said I was to get up quick because dad wanted me. And then dad kissed me, and said--ho was going away-----"
The Indian's heart stood still, For be had taken the winsome little waif into his heart: ns if she had been indeed his sister; and he felt that it would be impossible to hand her over to the vulgar-looking woman who stood staring at him with such ernel | mocking eyes.
He made up his mind quickly.
"It is not possible that she is your daughter," he said with a slight smile or even your stepdaughter. As a matter of [fnet-she is my sister."
"Oh,
The woman looked staggered.. "Your sister she exclaimed, nonsense. Are you are you.certain?"
"Wall, it is hardly a matter on which one is likely to be mistakon, is it?" he replied, with a slight movement of his shoulders.
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She stopped, and began to cry,
There don't speak of it, child. Don't think of it. You are my little girl now, "you-know."
Yes." she said, drying her eyes-" your little girl. Abrays your little girl-forever and ever and ever."
Then she added, her soft brown eyes full of a sudden anxiety.
You won't let stepmother take me away, will you?
"No." The Indian answered steadily. "I shall ut let anyone take you away,”!
Nobody? not ever?" she said with a enricus persistence,
Ne-nobody," he assured her,
I don't believe it," she said insolently,
Nobody could take me away if you want- after a pause.
The likeness is too strike od to keep me," she went on, rubbing her ing. She is my stepdaughter, I could swear head against his arm. And you'll always it. She ran away from me two years ago, want to keep me, won't you?" and almost broke my heart. And now
"Yes, dear-always,' have found her, I intend to claim her,WhyWhat will you do with me when I'm should you and your friends make money quite hig?" she crooned softly.
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** When
out of her talent, and not IP I am hard my dresses are long, and my hair put up- enough up, heaven knows."
"I refuse to discuss the matter," said The Indian haughtily. And a steely gleam
came into his deep-set eyes.
"Very well, we shall see,
was the signifi
cant answer. "Au revoir, my snuff-the-
moon young friend."
"Good evening," he answered, without looking at her.
A few days after that Brownie was mis-
sing.. The early dinner-hour went; the afternoon came.
had not appeared.
and
But Brownie
The Indian was desperately anxious. The others were more or less uneasy; but they did not know what ho know.
Mrs. Nixerby threw her apron over hor head and cried bitterly, saying that sho knew something dreadful was going to hap pon, because a cat had moaned and yelled on her window-sill all night.
Brownie had disappeared in the early part of the day. She had gone out to buy some beads, Mrs. Nixerby said, just before the one o'clock dinner, and not been seen by any of the household since then.
The afternoon gave place to ovəning. The performance on the pier took place as sual, except that The One and Only played the accompaniments, and that The Indian did not appear at all. As the entertain- ment ended an absolute deluge of rain drøve all pleasure-seekers' homewards, and in a for minates the pier was deserted.
muttered "It's too heavy to last," Whistling Phil, as he turned up his collar, and ran for all he was worth to Dalton Place
But
..
"it" did last It lasted until mid- night; and a cold, strong wind sprang up; and whistled and sercumed as though it had been winter.
The Starlighters had been out through it al, searching for their "little one."
One by one they had come into acknow ledge their search fruitless.
As they sat round the fiekering lamp, these five big strong men, all silent and heavy-bearted in their common sorrow-too wretched even to sinoko-the door-bell rang sharply.
If they had thought of it, there was some- thing quite conie in the way they elbowed bad jostled one another to get to the door first.
The Indian won; and it was bis arins that reooived the wet, deplorable little figure that sprang at him from the doorstep. A kind of strangled cheer broke from the others as
welcomed the
Whers on earth have u been, child?” exclaimed The Indian when he had carried her into the parlour, and begun to pull off her shoes and stockings, while the others crowded round her, scolding her affection- Lately...
But presently Mrs. Nixerby hustled in; and, putting them all to fight, carried the little maid off to bed.
hmuttered. Men are all very well," she "But what do they know about a little child as has got wet through and through."
When Brownie was cosily between warm. blankets, and bad swallowed a cup of· sweetened hot milk, her devoted guardians came in to hear her count of herself The Indian Srst of all, by himself.
Brownie snuggled up against her favour- ite's shoulder as she murmured in a tired, though gleeful little voice.
But he found it uphill work. For after that day Brownic seemed to grow rapidly! weaker and more shadowy, Nevertheless,
Among themselves they never allowed iti to, bo supposed that they treated her illness seriously. They told one another frequent- ly, with a simaisted heartiness that the little one is certainly better, to-day," or---- "we shall soon - have her running about? again, as well as ever "-ota; mtendaj
But no one was doceived...
And at inst there cumé a day sullen-rain-i laden Sunday in August, when, just after the doctor's visit, The Indian came into the little parlour where his comrades Pre
queer! ameking silently, and said with break in his void,
"Boy-the little one's dying. Dr. Car rick has just told me thore isti't a shred of hopo for her."
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Then he went out, closing the door very quietly behind him.
Nobody spolco,
Edison Whing laid down his pipe, and hid his fase in his hands. Whistling Phil, pale, walked over to the window, seeing the op- posite houses through a mist of something very like tears. The One and Only rose hastily, and went out of the room.
As for The Bugler, ho broke into unre- strained sobbing.
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The woman tarned pale. and uttered an exclamation of horror and disms.
You are too late," said The Indian with
"She has gone home." wintry smile.
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