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I NEW-YO&I 



WHAT THE LITTLE YEARS DID. 



. . .,,. for, 1 r-. ! J ■ 

 Willi [Ij.iURlllful I 



i ' I"' *'"' down: 



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i 



odtliun* ■' I 



great and sir 1. 1 1 1— 



II, cIvp Hie little venrn their way ; 



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. ome, turning 



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 th,.i my now, and H I i 



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shining, h, i : . ... i - and ball 



that one 



lady who iiu'i ingntn d tbi 



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 the - Id call at 



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 turning hack he sUiuil beneath Uu- window 1 1 ■ >tm 



1, I.K.I, tl 



|.,. I,.,-. ,.i v I- .■lit l.i ..i.... I |... 



blind man Bat in bia old arm choir just as Ann: 

 had said he should ilo, uud the flickering flame of 

 the bhmug Are shorn- on bia frosty locks and light- 

 pitiful cspror.sioi I I -Ihtil; tn behold. Tin' 



■igbtless cyrs were downward coal u if tHej fain 

 ir young head and wealth of sofl 



■ i larger place 



i | i Mr. How- 

 , iog whetbi r she ircre 



■nloig ii lien-.- i.i I ■ ■ 



"i-'il, managed 



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l„,.|, 



ling. 





Vi.i'-i: n;i-' » eeping. All the daylong she hud 

 ui.li in repress her tears and when, us -In.' sal 

 the gnthcring night with her father, he said, 

 the was with us one your ago," they burst forth, 

 and laying lit r head upun his l.i|> slur subbed bit- 

 terly. There were words of love spoken of the lost 

 id ns Mr. Howlaxo drew near Mi WiBJU N 

 'Tis well, perhaps, that she died before she 

 knew what 'twos to be so poor." 

 The words, "to be so poor," caught Mr. How* 

 ..vd's ear and glancing around the humble apart - 

 ent he fancied lie knew why Alice wept. Just 

 then she lifted up her head and he saw the tears on 

 her cheek. Mr. Rowland was unused to tears, — 

 they affected him strangely,— and as the sight of 

 them on Alice WuinK.s's eye-lushes when she told 

 her father was blind had once brought down 

 ent of that house by holf, so now the sight of 

 her cheek as she sat at that blind 

 ther's feet brought himself info her presence and 

 .. i.n I.. q I i iiis basket! Depositing his gill 





ALICE WD ADELAIDE: 



Chapter EH. -The Brown House in the HoUow. 



Mi I.i i '.i hi was n ut u i nl I \ nt „ rather inijuisilivi' 



turnofmiad and she strove very skillfully to learn 

 ■■ thing ol the iti noger'a hlatorj . Bui the 



• ■ ■ nl « i uded all her ij.ii st ing, and after n 



ten momenta arose to go, Mr Qowiajjd accom- 

 panied lift lo Hu' door, holding tin lamp until she 



passed down the walk and out into the street.— 



'I I..-H tli<- il svas closed and Alice Warren was 



al a-:. mi in ilu- .-"Id. .link in-lit. bill >he scarcely 



heeded ii, for li t . i 1 1 iM 1 1 « :i, hj.[ ■dinu it had been 



for many weeks. The gentleman whom she had 

 bo uuehduodod io meol hod spoken kindly to her j 



t : i.- I.j.I, . I. in, had sshispenil "| r child " when 



■ho told the i her father, while belter far than 



all she bad procured a shelter for that father, the 

 l 1 - 11 ' t is Inch would .ome within their slender 



Not time, but the joy oi n il I 



people most, and Lhe Alice Wjuuux of to-day is 



scarce the same we saw one year ago. Then, pet- 

 I'. I. .an --.-il and glowing Willi youlhful beaulv, 

 sh.. pmeated hatrutiug contrast to the pale-faced 



■"• I i' Ii-.. -ii the wiutn ,,1-1,1 ..I »hu'h sse wi He, 



traversed street after street until she came to the 



1 bli dwelling which tor the last few days had 



.1 Every ccutof his large fortune 

 hud Mr. Warkcn given up, choosing rather to 



1 " i a] u \ be had a right to do so, than to 



toed on (That was not his own. His handsome 

 house and furniture had all been sold, and with a 



men pittance whirl, would uol last ihem long, they 



had gone into the country where Ai n.i: hoped to 

 e livclil I by teaching. Hut she was "too 



Mimii, u» ehUdieh, too timid," tbo people said, 



,1, ami -i. a' I . l - 1 .he resorted (o her 

 needle, which, in her day* of prosperity, she had 



f.u lun it< Ii I, ..i .. I io ■■ ■■ \ ■ ui...- | ..,d ...|i .i 



i,n, .Mi. utcd woman who visited in thai neighhor- 

 I I, became inl i ted in them and urged their 



removal lo 1 1. ,1.1. „„l. I,- ■ ii.it,,,. I..M n, whither (liey 



l II v w. ul. stopping with her for a few days until 



further arrangements could be made. Hearing 



lhat the brown 1 so in the Hollow, aa 'twas call- 



... \i n i . us we have seen, lun! rented 

 1 Mi II,, hum. and now, returning home, she 

 ■ ils the -now* hair .,1 her pour blind 



■''■ h Lis him non imaU i - he] 



fay.— tells him. i ,..,.. bull QCUll] lhe 

 .' furniture tin | hai I sod 

 be shall 



ely that it would he In them an mq.leu-iiiit 



subject, so he converged ii | indifferent topics, and 



i . li-i.'tiing lo bun, could scarcely believe he 



lhe man whom she had heretofore associated 



In, wages of Saturday night, so familiar and 



friendly he 





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■ n feolil , hi. la-,,, lie 



■i ' '" ' ■ '■'"' '■' ' '■ f, ui.. Utile room which 



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love he has lost 



QODthat the w,l, 



,.t I,,, onl] ehfld 



an, I -i,,t... Hi,.- workmen said eni ■ ■ 



white |f Mi lu.s.iAM. would present each of th 

 ■ 



. be] a 

 ■ now." N. 

 r ., (then the day's Ubor 



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; 



, :.. 





. the door, and 



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 -Ii- don't she-- in iiuun mng, but that's 

 folk* have," thought Miss KLIMiti, 



while her brother proceeded to say that Mrs. Hi.n- 

 nXQTOi could have the white douse on the hill, 



■ 

 if the riirlil or left hand street would bring her to 

 i io spend the 

 night, ns DO train after that hour went up to 

 Springfield, 



lent Mr. lIuwLAM, waited, thinking 

 his sister would invite the stranger to stop with 

 them, but ibis Miss Elinor had no idea of doing, — 

 I ■ 'ini ■ "i ( t,iy the V, mil l_' I a.lv's airs, so she sim- 

 ply answered, "The right hand street — you can't 

 mistake U"— frowning .lightly when her brother 

 s.1,.1. "In ill accompany yon. Miss Ii: 



"1 ih.like Per} much to trouble you. Still, I 

 hardly know the way alone," and Ami sun'. ,1 .., I, 

 eyes ihi-hnl lightly upon him as she took his 



Sir. Howlano was lint a lady', man, but he could 

 lie very a^'niable is lieu In- tried, and so Adelaide 

 found him, mentally resolving to give her 

 mother and old Aunt Peggy a double charge not to 

 betray their real circumstances. Mr. Howlano 

 evidently thought her a person of consequence, 

 mid tell what might come nf her acquain- 

 things had happened, 



<■' "ghi I 



if ever 



I eo ,,|, t 



Jul , 



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r 



Mil l 



' Mr 



said to bm visitor when the latter arose to go, and 

 Miiiliug down on Aluc, who stoml wills her arm 



;ross her father's neck, Mr. Howlanii answered, 



Ves, 1 shall surely come again." 

 He bade them good ninhl, and us the door closed 

 after him, the blind man said, " It seems darker 



through the window pane, the room was liyhUr 



far for that brief visit. Mr. Howlano, too, felt 



er for the call. He hud done them some good, 



mped, uud Die picture of the two as he bad left 



them was pleasant to remember, and then, as he 



- I in and -aw in imagination his 



ivn large en-y ebaii before the blazing fire, he 



with a brown-haired numlen's arm ai oundhis neck! 



Chapter IV. -The Whito House on tho Hill, 

 " UiBS I!" -ntinoton, brother," ami Mr, IIowlam. 



lowed low to the lady thus presented to him by 



lis sister on his arrival home. 

 She had been waiting for him nearly an hour, 



ind she now returned In. greeting with an air more 



brlil ting n iniccn than AiiKL.wriL 111 ntington — for 

 ; and by seme singular coincidence she 



hade 



WaIIIIEX had done but two oi three weeks 



before. The failure winch had ruined Mr. Waii- 



aflectcd Mrs. HOKTOTOTOM further than 



and grief she naturally felt ut the 



disgrace and descrliou of her husband, from whom 



she had never heard since he left her so suddenly 



the night of the party,— neither had sheerer 



t with Mr. Wauklv, allhougb she had written 



u a not, , assuring him lhat in no way had she 



been concerned in the fraud. Still her position in 



iy was not particuhnly agreeable, and after a 



he had removed to Spnngtield, Mass., where 



a distant relnlive, who supplied her with 



plum sewing -for without her husband's salary it 



necessary lhat she do something for the inuiu- 



nce of her family. Springfield, however, was 



quite loo huge for one of AitELAinE's proud, ambi- 



I" "She would rather live iu a smaller 



she said, "win I i: tlms ..ml. I l„ 



8 h, and 

 e us good as 



l[.-.oin-.bv chmic.ut O.iU.unl m,,i il s democratic 

 people, she had persuaded her mother into retnov- 

 ing thither, gi\iug her numerous directions as to 



""■ mi i) in which -he was to demean herself — 



"With ii little iiiaiiagnna.nt." aha said, "no one 

 need lo know that il,.\ ,i, .:■'■.,,! t..i 1( living, — they 

 had .ail. kit the city because the> | 



c ft" and ..id rian.i. who stdl Mired io the 



capacity of servant, was charged repeat, lis "neroi 



ili.rir former position in 



soeutv " lu -I,.. ,r. Ami ui... intended to create 



ipiiien sensation in Oakland, and she commenced 



by assuming a inosl haugbis and coiise.meiilial 



manner townrds both Mr ir, ind his sistei 



delegate," she said, "to 



real tbtt Whito house on the hill, which they lm.) 



ibly, it thej liked thi 



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! ii- people who had always lived a city 



: n- ..■. . 



..I course, ahe 



hoilld he tu ipial i el that Mill old maid ttWay ! 



With such fancies us these filling her mind, 

 vdelaide went back next day to Springfield, report - 

 ug her success, and so accelerating her mother' 

 ii,:,vemenls thai scarcely a week elapsed ere the 



iad moved into the white house on the hill, 



landsome little cottage, which looked still mor 

 ■ozy mid iu\ ilmv atler Am Hint's ha mis bad litteil 

 t up with tiisi. Jul oaro, It was a rule with Mrs. 

 1 i:\TiNf.ToN to buy the '. ■; if possible, and as her 

 itisband hud always been lavish with his money, 

 ler furniture was superior to that of her neigh- 

 lOTB, many of whom really stood in nwe of lhe 

 -. ' widciB, as she was called] and her stylish 

 aristocratic daughter, They were supposed to be 



.t.inces, ; u,, | more than one young girl looked envi- 

 ously at AnKLAinE, as day after day she swept 



through tin. .tint.-, -. tunes " walking for exer- 

 cise" she said, and again going out to shop, — 

 always at Mr. How l ami's store, where she annoyed 

 the clerks excessively by examining article after 

 article, inquiring its price, wondering if it would 

 become fur or suit ma, and linally concluding not 

 io take it, "for fear every shoemaker's daughter 



couldn'l endure." 



Regularly each week she went up to Springfield 

 - , she said, and lest something 

 should occur making it necessary for her to stay 

 all night, Aunt Pehgy usually accompanied her to 

 the depot, eai tying als\ ays a ir.lt till, <t mttckd, and 

 frequently a large bundle, whose many wrappings 

 of paper told no tales, and were supposed by the 

 credulous to cover the dressing-gown which Ahe* 

 i uniideeiiv.'il necessary to the making of her morn- 

 ing toilet. "'Twas very annoying," she -.ml. " l,. 



"(K -" ' ii luggage, lull the II lends with whom 



she stopped, we re. "J particular, that she felt obliged 

 to change her dress, even though she merely staid 



And so the \ iilagera, looking at the roll of music 



she invariably carried in her hand, believed the 

 tale, though a few of the nearest neighbors wonder- 

 ed what the y lg lady ftrartivrd, lor 'twas not 



often that they beard the sound of the aid-fashioned 

 instrument wliich occupied a corner of the sitting- 

 room. Then, as country people will do, they ■/■/-■«■-,; 

 itmust beat niyht, for a light was always seen from 

 Mrs. Huntimcton's windows until after the clock 

 struck twelve. As weeks went by, most of those 

 whom Adblaioe considered somboJus, called, and 

 among them Mr. How land. By tho merest ebauco 

 she learned that he was coming, uud though she 

 was "greatly siirpn.cil tuseo him," and was "just 

 going out, she was #o lonely ut home," she looked 

 unusually well in her nicely -tilting merino, which in 

 the evening did not show the wear of four years. 

 The little sitting-room, too, with its furniture so 

 arranged as to make the best of everything, seemed 

 home-like and cheerful, causing Mr. Howland to 

 feel very much (it ease, and also very much pleased 

 with the dark-eyed girl he had come to sec. She 

 was very agreeable, he thought, much more so than 

 any one whom he had met in Oakland, and at quite 

 a late hour, for one of hi-, early habits, he hade her 

 good-night, promising [„ co.ll again eie long, and 

 hoar the new *«ng she was going to lake the next 

 lime she went up to Springfield. 



In dignified -ihncc his -i-iei asv ailed his return, 



been*" he replied, "Ueen to cull on Miss Ade- 

 laide," the depth of the three wrinkles between 

 her eye-brow., was perceptibly increased, while a 

 aontemptuooJ " 1'shuw ' " escaped her lips. Miss 

 Elinoo was not easily deceived. From the first 



.he bad in-i.lcd that ,\i,i [ si 



airs," and if there was one thii 



which this straight-forward, 



disliked, it was 



lit sec Mi. Hi min,-,to\, undue 



utter divtUu.v ,,t length upon the pleasant evening 



he had -ji.'ut. urged her to make the lady's ac* 



QuainUnee, she replied ralbei sharp!) that, ' ' 



always wislied to know something of the people 



frlttl tsli'iii. she associated. For her part, she 



dnln'i like Mis* Adelaide, and if her brother bad 



tho least regard for her feelings, he wouldn't cull 



ushered her ii 



van putting on 



o tl mother 



cr-of-fact lady 



uL her brother, 







edl.l." 



rep, 



U-J Mr. How HM., 



'i then in a spirit which men 



. .... Ii.ii op posed, particular- 



i i.olved.hc added, 



t 1 intend logo again,— and rerj soon, loo." 



answer, am 

 lent won, mi walked fron 

 lhe room, thinking tO hi 



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wr.nl. I. I.H . '■■. ' , ,...„„ HOWLANII 



would make the house a little loo uncomfortnbl< 



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Chapter V.— Colli, 



The m- i ■ ■■-: i . , It better, and 



• I on and h-.-r bi.,:h.'i .: 

 s isH Hi o.v. tenants, Bhohi 

 amiablj disposed towards lhe strangers, and at 



I ; ■ ,1 , :.!, .1 . 



the brown house in tfte hollow, whei 



started oi 

 afternoon for the white honse on tho hill, where 

 .."-i cordioHj received. With the lady- 

 ten of Mis lli otikotos she could hud 

 but she did not like tin , 

 's eyes, nor yet the sneering way in which 



she spoke of the ci In and country people 



ther did she fail to see the basket which the young 

 bnly thrust hastily under the lounge as Aunt I'm.., 

 . litting-room. On the table 

 tfasors, thimbles, needles and thread, 

 itjgo of sewing was visible, though or 



■ 1 ..i a 

 I'ride and poverty! I'll venture to say they 

 for a living," thought Miss Emm, u, and making 

 call as brief as possible, she arose to go. 

 i was in vain that Adelaide urged her to stay 

 longer, telling her -'twas such n treat to sec some 

 who seemed like their former acquaintance." 

 With a loss of her head Miss Elixou declined. 

 saying she was going to visit a poor family in the 

 Hollow, a blind man ami his daughter, and in ad- 

 justing her furs she failed to see how both Adl- 

 and her mother started at her words. Soon 

 ■ring her composure the former asked "who 

 they were, and if they always lived in Oakland?" 

 "Their name is Warren," said Miss Ei.ir-.oa, 

 '■ami they came. I believe, from sonic city iu West- 

 ern New York, but I know nothing definite con- 

 corning them, as they always shrink from speaking 

 of their former condition, Alice, though, is a 

 sweet little creature, so kind to her old father, and 

 so refined, withal." 



Mec! noit. .ills tin.1. 1 1 ni; her sis, tot good afternoon, 



Adelaide went back to her mother's side, exclaim- 

 ing, "Who thought those WAitnEs-s would toss up 

 in Oakland I Of course, when they know that we 

 are here, they'll tell all uboM/nt/ur and everything 

 else. What shall we do?" 



"We are not to blame for your father's mis- 

 .h.-d-.'.iii-ivered Mrs. Hiwtington; and Adelaide 

 replied, "/ know n, but folks think you are a 

 widow with a competence sufficient to support us 

 genteelly,— they don't suspect how late we sit up 

 nights, solving, to make things meet. Mercy, I 

 hope the peeking old uniiil didn't see that," she 

 . x, laiim ,1, a, her own eye fell upon the wrist-band. 

 Then, after a moment, she continued, "I know 

 what Ml do. I'll go to Alice this very night, and 



ami I'll ask her lo say nothing about lather's having 

 cheated them uud run away. She's a pretlv grim! 

 sort of a girl, I guess, if I did use lo think her so 

 proud," 



The plan seemed a feasible one, and lhat evening 

 as Alice Wahken sat bending over a vest, which 

 she must finish that night, she was stailhd by the 

 abrupt entrance of Adelaide Hi -\tixc.ton, who, 

 seizing both her hands, said, with well-feigned 

 distress, " My poor Alice ! I never expected to find 



In his arm chair the blind man slept, but when 



the stranger's shadow fell upon him, he ; . ,■. . !., 



st retching out his arm, he said, "Who is it, Anei.:' 



—who stands between me aud the lire?" 



"the daughter of him who ruined you, I have 



nst learned lhat you we 

 \ illage with ourselves, a 



I have come to tell pqu 



ii!;;::-;;;;,::';;,;:, 



or a deed'o! which is. V. 

 ill over." Tin ■, -, 



l 11 :; , 1 i ,, :; , v,:; 



continued -peaking bin 

 ruth and some falsehooi 



' lednnMi'nan'ho'w w'a 



few months, they had liv 

 a wealthy man, who gi 



heir Support,— telling I 



d with a distant relative, 

 ve them money now foi 

 em how her father's die- 



grace had .illeeled her luolher, and begging of 111, 'in 



not to speak of it in Oakland, where it was not 

 known. 



"I don't know why it is." she said, "but peo- 

 ple have the impress that mother is a widow, 



and llioiich it is wrong to deceive 



tell them my father 



doom. 'Twould kil 



you only will kec] 



gratified, 



in.Ic 

 vay to escape a convict's 



ther outright, and if 



it, we shall be forever 



;ak of his fori 



why J 



clerk, and he n 



'. Wauken should 



Ms.". 



MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 



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sriirlit they should. 



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Agricultural, Literary and Family Weekly, 

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rritMii, t\ \u\ smi 



lai ns that neither him-., It n.ii Ai ice had any wish 

 to injure her by talking of the post. Thus relieved 

 of her fears Adelaide grew very amiable and sym- 

 pathising, saying she did not suppose they were st 

 poor, and pitying Alice, who must miss so much 

 her pictures, her flowers, her birds uud her 



-Come , 



nd t . 

 1 she a aid. 



y piano. 



not fond of it," 

 1 did not know 



owing .mi one, 



lice dropped a 

 s she thought of 



■ isle Hi. a he svas -t.h.tidid ,a 



- observed bi- 

 ne WllS ,....,. • 



I -Ill I.I 1 1 



■ [botatet heard 



blind man. svlmse t| n„k ,..,, 

 II - con,,,,. 

 I., be continued in our nest. I B 



