| Show f 90 il if 11 OR VO 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 V I P 1 fl if 0 1 70 11 ita 1 I I 1 HE sunshine is unusually bright today to day my uncle tolle tobe aud and I 1 are sitting on the balcony which overlooks tile the broad fair stream below adorned with the afternoon suns last rays it Is sunday in sunday dross dress and holiday spirits crowds are hurrying towards the big excursion steamers panting along the shore how I 1 would like to be one of them I 1 am young and hungry lor for pleasure but undo uncle kobe tobe understand lie ile care for such amusement its ila useless waste of time lie he growls I 1 might tell him its just for the sake of innocent frolic but lie he understand der stand that either cither lie ile understands only the serious side of life earning money in the sweat of ones brow and he be says such money be spent foolishly uncle tobe Is a bachelor whom fate has burdened N with fill the care of two homeless children lie ile might have shaken off the burden but he was too conscientious too honorable for that ile he was the only relative to w hom we could turn 1 the dau daughter liter of hs sister and philip his brothers stepson paon we were quite small N lien hen lie he took ns is into lils hi shouse bouse two mischievous for children know little of sorrow I 1 am sixteen years old today to day and cannot yet be serious and demure philip is more ungovernable even than 1 I when we ire are together we laugh and chatter so unreasonably ion loud uncle tobe says nays that he Is compelled to drive us from his presence silly youngsters what right have hare you to laugh when lie he took us into his bis home he turned me over to his old housekeeper mrs mitchell ill saying take the little thing her parents had no business to burden the world with such a useless little worm mrs shook her white head let her grow up with the flowers she answered all she needs Is a little sunshine yes we needed sunshine philip even more mor e ta than a it L I 1 ile he was the elder by four years ind and full of silly notions uncle tobe said ile he carried home all sorts of animals much to the distress of uncle tobe but when he infested tile the house bouse and the entire neighborhood with white mice it was decided that he should be sent to a boarding school sell ool philip was inas satisfied it bo be any worse thin than at home he be mused henceforth ills his life took on a different hue ills teachers complained of lili ills careless habits his boyish pranks but they could not gainsay ills his talents and bright active mind lie was expelled from two schools on account of his unruly conduct and when he begged uncle tobe to send him to college the lit int ter refused no he must learn a trade I 1 dont know how many different lines of work phil tried but he be never remain ed more than a few weeks in lay any one at last lie was apprenticed to a druggist tile the work nork seemed to suit still hila there were complaints of course but of a different nature phillp was constantly experimenting lie ile came near blowing up the house once yet his employer praised his clever cleverness neos and ills his indefatigable desire for study eiery ei cry sunday philip paid a visit to his home and then he built air castles of wonderful inventions which lie was about to make and begged uncle tobo tobe to advance him money ile he might ni well have preached to deaf ears cars I 1 wt w glad when he was gone one for the scenes that took place between him bin and uncle tobe had become unbearable sitting on the balcony that 10 loi oly cly sunday sunad afternoon I 1 sighed and ad gazed dreau dreamily illy into the beau beautiful tirui world beyond my jolly companion I 1 knew was colli confined fined to ills dingy quarters lit in town what was lie he doing concocting Concoct ing some healing drought draught perhaps perhaps selling a sunday ration of 0 bonbons bonbonis to some lucky youngster what a trial we are to uncle tobe why he be get married and have children of his own oin then he hae bale been expected to care for other people s aalfs waifs 1 I 1 lean across the balcony rail mil to watch a newly arrived boat unload its human freight and there Ls Is philip uncle tobe I 1 exclaimed phil is here in the cr crowd oNd of course he be growls he be Is always to be found where he has no business to be dont beckon to him I 1 dont want him up here but I 1 had already waved my hand to phil and a moment later he be stood before us nis ills eyes were ablaze with joy how flow happy he be looked arent you glad that sa I 1 am here they said as they beamed down upon my upturned face ace uncle tobe knit his brows whit what are you doing here why fire arc you not at work its sunday uncle and now I 1 have really invented something valuable my employer says rays so too and all I 1 need Is a little money to experiment with an and take out a patent uncle tobe help juat this one time wont you not if I 1 had bad a thousand times alia tit amount you want it a large sum uncle try me just once lie he pleaded and 1 I 1 I pleaded with him leave me in peace groaned uncle tobe 1 I am tired of it all you forget that you are a 1 I poor waif who cats the bread of grace in my house either go the way I 1 point or choose choo seyour your own you are no do longer a child you ire are right cried philip with cheeks cheek s aflame adame with anger 1 I am no DO longer a child its it a shame that I 1 should take alms from such a hand band us sis yours it has been the last time ia go my way henceforth and starve at it mocked uncle tobe I 1 trembled in every limb it had never derer been as bid bad as this before you cannot mean what you say I 1 begged yes I 1 mean incan it declared philip and so do II 11 I 1 I 1 added uncle tobe for a moment philip stark still looking at me then he dashed down the stairs and aboard the steamer which was about to leave the wharf in ili the crowd I 1 lost sight of him the bell rang out sharply I 1 was alone and in despair behind me stood uncle tobe let him go vreda hell come back ill give him the money after awhile but not now young folks are too impatient 11 you should have bare given it to him now uncle I 1 answered with choking choklus voice philip bad not returned the sun had gone out of my life the rollicking echo was dead the d days ays anere gray and dreary the nights interminable we had no friends there was no do one to come to a house that had no open door no hand of welcome uncle tobe N wrestled with agures half the day the other half he devoted to 10 business errands in the evening lie he read the newspapers I 1 was like a deaf mute take a good long walk every lay suggested compassionately mrs mit chell you look like a gl ghost lt an and are fad fading I 1 it a way away alas there ii was as no one for honi born I 1 would have exerted myself to keep fresh and young the sooner I 1 grow grew old ind and gray the better I 1 would fit into my lay surroundings for philip lip I 1 cried bitter tenni uncle tube never mentioned ills his naino poor old man lie must be road fond of you both mrs mitchell was wont to say gay now and then N when hen I 1 went to her room to talk of philip lie ile Is working himself to death trying to buy this little littie house my nephew tells tell 3 tile me tills this he be Is employed in the office of his attorney 1 I hate the place since pill phil is gone I 1 cried bitterly everything Is gone the birds the flowers and tit the people only we we ne are chained to ahk same saine I 1 old spot walt all miss vreda wait liter later on oil perhaps what nhat uncle tobe says and thru then it will be too late not for or you you are young mis vreda but your uncle nobody can call mike make billu see what he be ought to do wo we lived our lonely lives and I 1 lud bild lost all hope that things would ever change one cue morning we e round found uncle tobe dead in liis ills chair ile he looked as if he had dropped into a peaceful slumber mrs mitchell matchell Ml and I 1 seemed turned to C tolle when xe we disco discovered liliu him I 1 felt nu no sorrow but I 1 was terribly frightened when tile the doctor cinie came lie he said that he could do nothing the funeral was very quiet and unostentatious there were no teai tears no lamentations no flowers no friends after we had laid him away it occurred to nio me that tile the home in which I 1 had lived so long would now be closed to me but the thought had no terror it was nis a relief rather to be free I 1 knew nothing about earning my bread freedom F ree was all I 1 craved on oil the day after the burial uncle tobes testament was opened philip and I 1 were his heirs ile he had bid bought the little home nud find had bad left us enough money to live in comfortable circumstances may god bless you he wrote 1 I had no do one on earth but you I 1 sobbed aloud as I 1 listened oh if he had bad only riven given philip the money when he be needed it 1 must go out and find him sirs irs M Ml Itel lell soon convinced me of the futility of such snell a beginning philip would come home sooner or liter inter poor uncle your happiness was nil lie worked iNor ked forr for was mrs mra Mite bells admonishing cry lie e has taken it 11 front from rr me ie I 1 walled he be has made me miserable and him hill philip lie he may be lost forever I 1 liked quietly on with mrs mra mitchell Ml in the little house by the river from lay day to day I 1 waited vie the in trees m took on fresh foliage and ant then came tile the nii in dumn nin ami the lie winter I 1 waited in silence 1 I lence with will the hie spring hope was renewed new within me die suddenly on the brightest lay day ot of all the year the bell rang with a cling clang I 1 knew the sound and hastened to tile the door philip stood before tile me but not the rollicking youth whom I 1 m remembered the man in fit whoop arnis arms I 1 lay had bid a serious thoughtful face I 1 cried aloud be still he whispered 1 I dont want avant uncle to lo know I 1 dont want to set see him I 1 want you only you uncle I 1 repeated dont you yon k know now that he be is dead 1 I am not sorry he said bitterly lie he took from me my youth want care anxiety were my companions on the way after many struggles success crowned my efforts ind and now we need no longer depend upon him my factory is far away my aly invention was worth its lit lit in gold ills his eyes beamed down upon me is as they did on that fateful sunday lie ile took me into his arms arins 1 I came back for you my happiness my youth come teach me how to laugh again we cried and laughed in one when he be had told me everything I 1 showed him uncle tobes last will and testament not a cent of this money will I 1 take like cried fiercely my lover the companion ot of my childhood lie has male made our hearts bleed often enough for it we were married and moved to thi th large city where philip had ills his factory the little house we turned over to mrs mitchells care every summer we came home bringing our children with us my husbands heart lias softened toward the lonely old man who had driven him forth into tile the world and on the anniversary of his death our little tobe lays sweet violets on ills hig grave sunday republic |
