Show THE RECEIPTED BILL Yu nel well 41 4 1 I 1 tell you that what we have earned for the last month is but a drop in the bucket to our expenses we are arc 20 in including the doctors bill there were three of them marl maria eunice or as they called her and t sick mother mrs merle was bedridden and the girls worked to support her and keep together their little home the girls let one ot of the chambers to i lodger and that helped to keep the bof over their heads for the rest of heir living taught the district chool while maria kept house did fwing ewing and braided straw I oh if we were only as rich as mr air lyndon i I 1 said mr glyndon was the lodger do you suppose he would lend us ome money until your next school guarter ii Is up yunes beautiful brown eyes opened vide 1 I dont know I 1 am sure why how lare you ask ark him hes so terribly re arved you know marla maria 11 1 1 I 1 think I 1 will said maria no more was said of the anticipated lan ian but the next night when line ime from school maria showed her the io 20 received from mr glyndon the next morning started for chool as usual when a quick step ame behind her and the next moment ir ar glyndon was at her side good morning miss merle good morning mr glyndon miss vilmiss merle was his next unsolicited emark 11 1 1 I 1 like your face willi will you me misunderstood she did not ike ale in the depth of his meaning when e said 1 I like your face thank you mr glyndon but I 1 ant am ot poor enough yet to sell my beauty wish nish you youa a good morning and she arned down a cros crossroad broad the next morning maria was ill threatened with lung fever poor Y une vas ks k s overwhelmed with her troubles droubi Cs A eek of weary care and exhausting laor a tor for tier her passed then maria was out I 1 danger and affairs began to get a little ettlel but it was a woeful settling ina in a pe unwary way they were penniless and he doctors bill for maria had run up to 20 now the doctor had been a hard crad or of her fathers there was war not a rian nan in the village whom had not ather be under obligations to unless he equally regretted not being inde of mr glyndon As she sat alone she thought sudden suddenly I 1 y t f her watch the little jewelled geneva which had been her fathers lat jit it to her she could pawn it the act vas cruelest crudest sacrilege but she went to a wealthy man of the village and received ijo for it with the agreement that it was to be redeemed within six months mr glyndon had been very kind dur ng marles marias illness totally ignoring yunes I unet abrupt repulse he had done all n his power to relieve her of distress ind labor studiously as site she mainlined her hauteur she could not but feel eel it so more sweetly than she night might other ise have done she sought lim him to reply repay the amount of his hi loan miss MIs I 1 shall not receive that money it was requested as aloan a loan but maria harla must keep it in fit token of my admiration mi ration for her excellence as a sister deter and a laughter daughter I 1 think the she will do so 0 she its is not so 0 o proud as you are laid the money down haughtily ly 1 I prefer to repay the loan the slie said and turned to leave the room and then the she went to the doctors dr willard wil lard received her very picas antly and presented her with the bill receipted what does this mean dr willard she he asked 1 I have been paid the bill is discharged by whom how flow did you not send the money through the postoffice posto post office ince last night with walh word that you would call for the bill certainly noti some one has hag done to so you have some unknown friend miss marla maria 11 took the bill and turned homeward on the way she thought of every relative or friend she had who woud be likely todo to do her such a service she could not satisfy herself before she reached home there the he told maria the good news we have but one such good friend as that yule and who is that pray why mr air glyndon of course maria do you suppose that he has paid that 20 20 she cried 1 I have no doubt of it how kind and good he is and how cannou can you help loving him yunc I 1 should love him I 1 know if i it for my charley whether lie he wanted me to or not yunc sat silent soon after maria went to bed still sat alone in the silent titling sitting room thinking finally the she got up went up to mr Glyn dons room and knocked at the door ile he opened it she looked up into his kind grave face mr glyndon I 1 have been very very rude and you are arc very kind will you forgive me yes and vi will ill you love me yunc 1 I do so joy and peace slid and prosperity dawned on the family keeps dr willards bill as the memento of how ghe he was checkmated check mated new |