“A (Cent's Worth of Raisins.’ BY MARY F. AMES. Ellen Doty was sitting on one of the reviols a West ls in a dry-goods store illage of some import 8 not 0 ance, v wis dressed in black- Jl black seen every day | wees—but in that which the convel aud in wil p speaks mutcly of a resent loss, kept the face veil closely over her whil aking selections, to the | evident ¢! in of the two susceptible attended to her orders. of came in 8 hack. had been clerks who “A Cx ple |e, &ir from fi nt's worth raising if you child's voice aware of a mur ersation at a desk, just a from the place where and now a voice thril- gaid : ot keep raisins here, little I wi ill show you where to find but them. I! “© Fhat sidewalk, You see, one, ave you only one penny i cand I founded iton the I was just going when I see'd it; pic keditup I the and | ght to Aunt Sara’ just as soon as | I'd buy same Caddy, ‘cause aud then she = raisins to carry to cousin | she's been awful sick . | var1ldn't 8 1 couldn't blind* too, an S0¢ ANY if sl houl I did.” “Oh! that ] pei it for a dime is? Now you I will ch is how it and Ange ny, which will buy more | raisins,” The little wi ingly into his face and asked doubting- | Iman oked questi n= ly, “will that be right ? Here, this “Certainly, Jim,’ to the errand child to Mutchin’ gets her raisins “Yes, sir,” the one’s band and accompanied her to the is that the way y Ellen “lead boy, gs and see that she | and he took & grocer’s across street, “Say, Syd, ally treat customers!” a usu. " companion ask. “No, only babie babies, tell ally, and I will girl way to a private office, The Ellen 1 Joty parcels, and with gather up her | a wildly-beating heart passed out on to the street The two youn old e friends, and has | et for the time in three years. themselves, lighted ci Smith, th “You wonder why I that little girl ?” a g men were ht J ’ . Seat | ust m rss They seated | gars, and Sydney ve host, said should be in- terested in “Yes.” “Simply because she called ‘cent’s worth of It reminded me of some’hing similar which occur. red several years ago. When I was about 16, back in our old home in Massachusetts, as | was on my way to sehool, one morning, & little mise almost ran into my arms as she hurri- ed from a grocery-store | was passing She was crying, and I said, impul- sively: “Hello! what is the matter sow 2” for a raisins.’ “She turned upon me with a look of defiance in her great, brown, wet eyes. “Now you are going to make fan of me too! “No, really and trully, I am not. Who has been teasing you? tell me, please and see if I don’t make him quit it.” “Tt is no matter, more gently, as she kept along in the same direction I was going. 1 found that she attended schoo! in the same building I did, and she finally allowed me to carry her books “Again I ventured to ask who had troubled her? “She looked searchingly in my face now,” she mid A000 and | { and when I left scl their wher | bot | | rare smile kept me out of one earned me the title « founded heard his [ | explanation,” | hastily away from the for an instant and then said : “+f suspect I have been very silly, | and will tell you all about it see Black Chloe is our washerwoman, Pete, If he would stay in and mind the baby (the baby is black, too, don’t you think? she would briog him home some rais and she told her boy, ins when she was through with the washing. She gave me a penny and asked me to get them on my way to school. When 1 asked for them the man lookcd cross and said it was a nuisance, just a polite way of begging; that my mother was too rich a woman to buy things that way. Then a hate fal boy asked him if he was going to send them up in the express wagon ; and another just as hateful, said some. thing about taking up a contribution, And then I know I should ery, and i be glad to meet your You! ! : { them, | “Am glad to hear it, my dear, Life out of the shop and almost over you,’ brown eyes laughing now. “Yos, but how about Pete's rais ins “The sweet lips began to quiver | again, ‘and I told Chloe I would bring | them at noon,’ “Aud yousball ! You walk on,slow. ly, and I will overtake you,’ I said. | ] shop which I knew, and gota pound | { | of raisins and gave them to her | Jack Chloe. { acquaintance commenced, That was the way our | and as scholars at the same institution we | saw much of each other. And at any | time, within the next four could call blush [ing “A cents w | | “ years, I a smile to her lips, and a [| } J k hy 11 r t LO her cheek DY saying or writ rth of raisins,” - h ¢ developed into a charming lass wol for college, 1 Carronboad with of the would { asked her { Her 1 | strai to other, who was on ght-laced sortand a widow, not consent to the Sorsssponlence un- til r her daughter should have left ail wl | school, | | visaged “But I am going too much into de- When I left had married again [4 tails, college the mother ,and was in Europe dear girl | to never with her husband and th had ho I had and ped to win. no clue abouts, have n able to learn anything heir movements. I tell yo fellow the f that girl's brown eyes and more than and I d f ‘Muff. you ubt not No, t A1WAYS LO college scrape, m you, Frank, k me was worth, and some “Let that Syd. And pasa, : | you have been telling me is why little | yi : vould not | M | ET ; h the princely sum ol 7 y wit “Yes | ward the when you ced it fapole noti I owed you tl} 1s “1 hank you, believe Syd, I ur . ' armiy | find y brown-eyed maid | “ip ye h Frank ! } your own words, And onversed of 1 3 bi then , 18 « matters not this sketch. Doty, t with And Ei as she en i calling the very incidents been rehears friend, rless RE We i Now she waz mothe As fatherless, and was staying with rela. Western village where Sydney Smith was a prosperous young merchant. tives in this i i | { same | Her mother died of consumptiou. in Italy, and Ellen returned to her old home in Massachusetts, to look after the little pro; erty left from her fathers estate. When everything was settled satisfactorily, she accepted the invita. tion of her mothers only sister, Mrs, Edson, who resided in a Western State, to visit her, and if she liked to make her house her home; little think- ing that the boyish lover who has quite won her heart hy his protecting kindness and tender chivalry was there, unknowingly, but still lovingly, to receive her. awaiting When she recognized his voice, heard him called Syd, and took in the by-play of the child in pursuit of rai sins her first impulse was to go to him and say, “Itis I Sydney.” Bag quickly came the thought he may have forgotten me. I will wait, and ghe left the store a stranger as she had | entered it, “Auntie, I have changed my mind in regard to seeing company, and shall | friends if you enre to invite them,” she said, refering | to a subject under discussion between 8 too briel to give years of grieving to those who can never return, Come bravely, and you will bo surprised to find how sus- ceptible you are to ita We gone, while we endeavor to contribute to the pleasure of those who are left. Now I will make a list ofthe guests and you write theluvitations, if you please 7” “Certainly, shall be delighted to make myself useful.” She wrote Mr. and Mrs. several times, and then came the single names a dozen or more, and Mrs, Edsou' ont into the sunshine, warmth, will not forget the one who is without stopping for the raisins, I ran and she looked up at me with the | “I ran up a cross street, and into a | for | me ? | i mured a ve } 1 ner to be ! 1 sae toh | Way | w AH duly es { Com pani | whom I was speaking. IA ture “There that is the last I believe.’ “I was in a Mr, Smiths store to-day len said said, E | wrong with him or his family ?” | ’ hesitatingly. i Is anything Did 1 would “Bless your heart, child, no. not give you his name? I not | forget him of all others: {thinks there never wassuch a man ; Mr. Sidney Smith, of we; and | Oo | cours irl was sensible of a feeling of satis Mrs. 15 | faction when she found that no was to be put on his note, Fdson parties No regrets came back, Mrs. her ’ being very popular and | always pleasant. Charades and t of little forgot. program for evening, and in one them Ellen ve ntured to hide { ple ty tO learn if she in Ws quite ten by her schoolb y lover. As she figurefl in mn the scenes SL Of she begged her aunt's permission to remain a stranger until the acting wa over. The last was this : A room in a grocery store; Ellen, er figure shorts hind} b schoolgirl’s hat and duster, one hi old h ned ny kneeling be yxes, and wearing books und and the ot her reaching an scornfu’ fashioned penny to a gh PREE pr r, wiio hie | i stripped bunch of raisins t a Iali- he and smiry W ih LWo und grinning and ne pointing at the ng “A cent’s worth of raisins,’ 3 5 "ry 1 yr th 1165 1IC€ &inong Lhe guests, Ih curtain went down f« time, and many wondered why the ls goene was trikin but knew or way ed th “Certainly, Doty. Her Al Iasi tableau It was my niece has intro school-mate, if sh { from Massachusett A TOmMAnCct esd HINA Iike one p 1 3 ] Wrote a line and had 1t « It drawingroom, whit nveyed er husbar met him on his to the her he ring hi 4 3 marc! "he & id 8 an order for a counter- in a vexed tone to his n. “What is wrong now? he dr pping into his favorite westernism | “Blamed if IT know,” replied in his amazement. But he fancied that witnessed the meeting he knew as he | of the young | couple soon after; she, blushing ra-| diantly, and he, wistfully tenderin the greeting. A few pleasant words, and then the young man stepped aside and Ellen was conducted to theexpectant guests, There is little more to tell. They met as they had parted, with the stretch of years between. 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