THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1000.
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I A LETTER
BROUGHT TILDY
How a Message of Love Was
Borne to a Lonely Heart.
By FRANK H. SWEET.
Copyright, 1903, by American Tress Asso
ciation. Lottie nud Jnck were nt the postof
fice when the letter with lis sprawling,
foreign looking address, facing up
ward, was handed out through the
window. They laughed In a surprised
way as they examined It, while the
postmaster watched them through the
window with n smile upon his usually
Bolemn face.
"I've been postmaster fifteen years,"
he remarked, "and It's the llrst time
fjiat name's turned up to my recollec
tion. Do you think It's a mistake''"
Lottie drew closer to her brother
nnd scrutinized the missive half anx
iously. There was 'Tlldy's' name lu
unmistakable clearness, despite the
blurred lines caused by thick ink and
the long journey:
"Miss Matilda Schneider."
"Won't she be amazed?" Jack said
slowly. "Won't she be tickled?"
"Why, Jack!" his sister gravely In
terposed. "You don't know whether
the news Is good or bad. It may bo
horrid news. Let's see the postmark."
"Can't," said the postmaster from
the window. "It's all blurred out. The
Etamp is a German one."
"Oh, isn't it funny-Tildy's having
n letter!" the girl exclaimed, breaking
Into another shrill little laugh. Then
she added, "I wonder who It can be
from."
"The quickest way to know Is to run
home and And out," Jack answered,
"unless, of course, you wish to open it,
which wouldn't exactly please Uncle
Sam." Slyly winking at the postmas
ter, he put the mysterious letter into his
pocket and sauntered toward the door.
On the threshold of the small build
ing, which was both a store and post
ofliee, ho paused. "If any more letters
for Miss Schneider come today," he
called to the postmaster, "please send
them up."
"Haw, haw, haw!" the old man
laughed.
Jack and his sister passed gayly out,
Beoining to leave a tide of laughter bo
hind them. They were sturdy, line
looking young persons and walked
with a free, graceful movement. The
girl was of good height for one not yet
sixteen years of age, but her brother's
head reached considerably above her
own. The light vehicle in which
they had driven to town was waiting
before the door, with white Dobbin
tied to the post, resignedly tranquil.
Perched upon the seat waited a
Uttle five-year-old girl with flaxen hair.
She wore a very white and milled
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TILDY'S FACE LOOKED riTirULLV ST1IANGE.
pinafore, and her mouth was wreathed
with smiles. They all drove away,
rather slowly, because old Dobbin was
a little lame in one foot.
The postmaster looked after the trio
with a lazy Interest. "It's mighty
lucky for them that there is a 'Miss
Schneider,' " ho reflected, still smil
ing. "If 'twa'n't for her they'd be
three times orphans."
The Wilton children were an unfail
ing topic of sympathetic concern to
their neighbors nnd friends.
Their house was some distance from
the village and was reached from the
road by a grass grown driveway.
Members of the family usually walked
this path to save the aged Dobbin ex
tra steps. Thus it happened when the
gate was gained that Lottie and Aman
da took the letter and went In search
of Tlldy, while Jack drove directly to
the stable. In the orchard back of
the house Tlldy was discovered with
their other sister, Rose a round faced,
curly haired girl, older and larger than
'Amanda, though not so tall as Lottie.
The German woman saw Lottie com
ing under the boughs several rods
away. She began to speak immediate
lv without slighting her task.
'Do you want your sprigged muslin
'done up for the Miles party, or shall
you wear your checked wool?" she
fesked.
Lottie eemed to be in doubt, for she
stood silent beside the stooping figure
with her hands behind her. "First,
guess what I've got," sho said.
Tlldy finished her task nnd stood
erect once more, ano naa a strong,
fine German face, browned by much
contact with sun and wind, but the
soft tints of youth had long since left
It, nnd her brown hair, like her gown,
was a trifle faded.
"I don't know," she answered, smil
ing. "Is it yours or Amanda's?"
"Neither," returned the girl. "It is
yours. Now guess what It is!"
"It'th a letter!" screamed Amanda.
Tlldy's eyes opened wider with a
Blow astonishment. They were as blue
as the cornflowers of her fatherland.
"Why, there Isn't any one to write,"
she said.
"Think!" Insisted Lottie. "Some rel
ative, some"
A sudden light broke over Tlldy's
face, dimpling it and making it almost
pretty for a moment. "I've got one
relative," sho ventured softly. "He's
a young brother. But he's In Ger
many, nnd I never saw him. He doesn't
write to me."
Lottie ceased questioning nnd hand
ed her the letter. "I guess you have
heard from him," she surmised. "Per
haps he Is coming to see you."
Her last conjecture proved to bo a
true one. Tlldy's brother was on the
ocean even then. In a few days the
ship that was bringing him would ar
rive. Tlldy occupied a peculiar position in
the Wilton home. She was not exact
ly a servant and certainly not a mem
ber of the family. When the children
were robbed of both parents lu one
short year It had been her presence,
like a stanch sail, that had borne
them through the troubled waters.
Another letter came to Tlldy In a
few days, but this one was addressed
by another hand, and not a German
one. It was written by the superin
tendent of a great hospital in New
York. Karl Schneider, Tlldy's broth
er, had arrived In America very ill.
The note gave no particulars, but re
quested that Tlldy come to her broth
er as quickly (ts possible.
She read the letter in the linen
closet, where Lottie found her a few
moments later sitting on the floor with
her face burled In her hands. The
sight of her forlorn, motionless figure
was a shock to the girl. Tlldy's face
when she raised It looked pitifully
strange. The Wiltons had seen it
bright with smiles many times, but
never tear stained. All through that
afternoon, when the girls helped to get
together the few possessions which
Tlldy needed for the journey to her
brother, sho seemed to their startled
fancy another person. They were all
conscious of a grave respect for her
that they had not known before.
A farmer who lived up the road had
offered to drive Tlldy to the station.
All the Wiltons hurried down the
driveway with her and stood beside
the stone wall when she went away.
Not until the farmer, in his high bug
gy, had taken her from view did re
grets occur lo mar the peace of those
left behind.
"You might have driven her down
yourself, Jack," Lottie said reproving
ly as a cloud of dust faded in the dis
tance. "You ought to have kissed her," he
retorted, with a pang of indignation.
Tildy, seated alone and feeling very
sad, noticed that the cars were filled
with good natural people returning
from some excursion. The new scenes
and the flying, unfamiliar landscape
might have made this a red letter day
in her career if her errand had been
a happier one and her heart had been
less anxious.
Poor Tildy! The world seemed a
very wide one as she hurried on and
the strangers jostled her rudely and
impeded her way when she timidly
pushed through the great station. Hut
at last she stood beside Karl's bed in
a long, window doited room. Then
the universe seemed bounded by the
walls that closed about Uie slender
lad. She forgot everything else while
she hung over him and hold his hand
lu a tender clasp.
Ho spoke but a few words to her,
for his days were ebbing fast. At the
close of a week his short sojourn in a
foreign laud had nearly ended, nnd one
evening, still holding his sister's hand
aud smiling In her face, he started ou
another journey. This time Tlldy's
brother found his way to a happier
shore.
Several days passed before Tildy,
stunned nnd helpless, roused herself to
thluk of the familiar routine of duty.
Sho was too much wearied to summon
thoughts, but at last sho did write a
short note to Lottie iu which sho spoke
of returning to the Wiltons nnd touch
ed upon her loss In a quiet, unobtru
sive way. It was a labored epistle,
which cost poor Tlldy much effort, and
was written with a lead pencil. But
Lottie forgot to make even a smiling
criticism upon it, and the humble sheet
of paper seemed to her to hold some
clement that made it eloquent.
All tho family gathered in the sit
ting room to hear this letter read.
The elder sister delivered it with a
gravity that made Tlldy's words dou
bly Impressive. A startled trio stared
at her as sho rose after it was finished.
"I tell you," she said with a sob, "It's
a shame a perfect shame!"
Jack and tho little girls sank back in
their seats, weakly surrendering before
her sweeping nssertion. It never oc
curred to them to question what sho
meant. Something in her manner made
them understand. They had felt the
unwritten pathos of Tlldy's note, and
it hurt them vaguely, but they natu
rally recoiled from Lottie's next words.
"She's been n sort of slavo to us,"
she said quietly, and this idea, hurled
so suddenly, smote tho listeners like a
blow. From nearly every corner of
the room some reminder of Tlldy's
faithfulness twinkled before their eyes
as they stood there breathless.
"Sec! Sho doesn't even expect any
Bympathy from us!" Lottie went on
relpntlesslv. "And. oh. she is tho bit
friend we hnve! How could we? tlow
could we?"
The only comfort that the silent oue.
could grasp was the fact that their
accuser held herself included in the
blame. Hose's sweet treble voice was
a welcome sound nfter au interval or
dreary quiet.
"Can't we begin to be good now, till?
minute?" the little girl suggested, paus
ing anxiously, expectant of a forbid
ding frown ou Lottie's brow. But. to
her great relief, her sister acquiesced
gracefully, raising no objection nt nil
to tho plan.
They all began to bustle about the
room, hardly knowing what they wen
to do, but feeling very cheerful at the
turn affairs had taken. Jack proceed
ed to raise his spirits In quite a boyish
manner, but he lingered at tho door
awkwardly before ho left the room.
"I say, Lottie," he ventured, "she
decorated cake for tea aad special
things, you know, when hen a fel-
THAT N1QUT TILDY WAS ACTUALLY HAITY.
low came home." He paused, blush
lug vividly. But Lottie understood.
"Wo will have the decorated cake
and tho rest," she answered gently.
Then Lottie went over to where Jack
stood and laid her hand upon his arm.
"She shall have a royal welcome,
dear," she said, smiling, though her
eyes were tearful.
Through the rest of the day every
thing connected with tho Wilton house
was tending toward tho "royal wel
come." It surprised the girls to And how
cheerless Tlldy's room appeared when
they entered it. They had never
seemed to see before that It was bare
of ornament. They carried in pretty
things from their own rooms and
laughed i.inong themselves as they
made tho plain apartment bright and
comfortable. It was Hose who thought
of tho patchwork quilt that was made
of a thousand bits of gay silk and
cherished in tho Wilton household as
a treasure of peculiar value. Only ou
state occasions as a mark of peculiar
honor was it brought forth, and when
Lottie and Hose together spread it
upon Tlldy's bed each felt Its pres
ence to be a delicate attention that
could not fall to meet its true inter
pretation. Amanda's offering was a cluster of
spring flowers which wore so assured
ly the stamp of her clumsy little lin
gers that Lottie gave it a post of hon
or, where it told its own story.
Tlldy's train stopped at tho station
late in the evening. A light rain beat
against tho windows. The scene was
dreary enough as she peered out un
smilingly, but she gave a start of sur
prise at the glimpse afforded her of
Dobbin's white figure standing out
clearly through the mist. She had not
expected Dobbin. Sho had hoped to
reach the house in some manner, but
to be assisted by a horse so old and
highly respected as he was, at such
nn inconvenient hour, was an unwont
ed honor. And Jack, too ho must
have come to meet her. She hinted
her amazement to the young man as
they were jogging along nnd expressed
reluctance at making him so much
trouble. But a greater surprise await
ed Tlldy at tho old stone wall. Lot
tie and Hose and Amanda were there
to help her alight from tho carriage.
Sho could hardly believe her senses
when tho girls surrounded her nud
flung their nrms about her neck.
"Oh, Tildy!" one or tho other kept
repeating. "Oh, Tlldy!"
Tho tired woman clung to them si
lently, her heart beating wildly with
bewilderment and a strange joy. Why
her young brother had drifted into
her life only to be swept away again
was a mystery that Tildy could not
understand, but there was one sweet
certainty that her mind laid hold of
and kept always. It was suggested
first at the station by Dobbin's famil
iar visage, with Jack beside him wait
ing in tho damp. It seemed to shine
out from the lantern that swung be
fore them like a hugo firefly as Rose,
dancing merrily along, lighted the lit
tle group up tho driveway to tho
house. Lottie and Amanda, nestling
so close on either side of her, made
tho same thought an undisputed truth.
This was not the return that sho had
fancied; this meant more than going
back to servitude. It was a home
coming! Nothing could matter now, sho told
herself, trembling nervously. These
young orphans loved her nfter nil. She
had loved them for years nnd years.
They belonged to one another. That
night when she fell asleep under t'i?
Bilk patchwork Tlldy was aetui It-happy.
HEINZE BLED FOR $40,000.
Wall Street Broker Held on Charge ol
Fraud In Copper Stock Sale.
New York, Aug. il. Donald L
I'ersch, a Wall street broker, Is held
In the Tombs In default of o0,000 ball,
aud thereby hangs a tale of tangled
fliiauce through which somebody In
Wall street nipped V. Augustus Hclnze,
the former copper king, for $40,000.
Perseh is specifically charged with
the larceny of $-10,000, a profit ob
tained by the sale of 15,000 shares of
Ohio Copper common nnd -1.(100 shnres
of Davis-Daly Copper common, which
M. M. Joyce, nn agent for' llelnzo,
placed with the Windsor Trusr com
pany of this city ns security for a loan
of .$,"0,000.
In some manner as yet unexplained
the stock was not held by the bank,
but wns turned over to a clerk acting
for Perseh and at the hitter's orders
thrown on the curb market and sold
for $00,000. How Perseh obtnined the
capltnl to carry through the deal nnd
why the stock was relinquished by the
trust company are points yet to be
cleared up.
After his arrest Perseh intimated
that there were nie "higher up" lu
the transaction. lie was arraigned be
fore a magistrate and nfter unsuccess
ful efforts of his lawyer to have bail
reduced to $25,000 was committed to
tho Tombs.
Behind the case is the mystery of
how Perseh knew when and where M.
M. Joyce, representing F. Augustus
Ileinze, placed the securities. Perseh
had his desk in the offices of W. L.
Clark, a note broker, who llrst directed
Mr. Joyce to the Windsor Trust com
pany for the purpose of obtaining the
loan.
District Attorney Jerome has taken
active charge of the case, and other
arrests may be made. Charles Katz,
treasurer of the Eastern Brewing com
pany, aud Henry Uhlmnn, n business
associate, were among the witnesses
examined at the district attorney's of
fice. Uhlman admitted that he made
out a note for $50,000 in Persch's fa
vor, but did not know to what use it
wns put. He was to receive $200 for
it. but he understood the note wns not
to be discounted for use Injiny way.
European Flowers.
Only 10 per cent of all tho different
European flowers have any perfume.
WHEN THE ENGINE COMES
s no time to be regretting your neglect
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I General Insurance Agents
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