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As it was the only way Annie had
to support herself, she went about her
work without a murmur. It was the
same day that she had met the young
man in the woods, that she was called
at an unusual time to help Ethel
dress.
You see, she heard Mrs. Seibt ex
plaining to Ethel “I want you to be
becomingly dressed when my nephew
arrives; he is a lord and it is my
wish that you some day become Lady
Folk.
“Yes,” laughed Ethel, “for my blue
black hair, dark eyes and winning
ways are enough to charm a king, and
the fact that I am an heiress will help
some.”
Three hours later she walked se
renely into the drawing-room to meet
her cousin, Lord Folk.
Ethel was not as pretty as she her
self imagined, but as she remarked,
she really had very winning ways, so
it was no wonder that as well as Lord
Folk liked to flirt, two months later
found them sitting in a cozy place in
the garden as lovers are wont to do.
He was using all the endearing words
he could think of when suddenly a
form picking flowers near by caused
him to drop the hand he was holding
and stare.
Ethel had told Annie that she might
go into the garden and pick some
flowers, provided she did not go be
yond a certain place.
Annie did not mean to be disobe
dient, but the beautiful flowers had at
tracted her and unconsciously she had
passed the limit and was now near
the lovers, though unconscious of their
presence.
“Who is that, Ethel?” asked Lord
Folk. “The day that I came I saw
her in the woods, where I made a
sketch before reaching the house, and
thought her the most beautiful creat
ure I ever saw.”
“That? Oh! she is only my maid,”
said Ethel, her face growing hot with
suppressed rage.
“Mama wants you,” she called to
Annie. And looking up Annie ran to
ward the house, frightened because
she knew how angry Ethel would be.
And she was not in the least surpris
ed when Ethel told her she would need
her services no longer, but she was
shaken out of her quiet trust almost
when she told her she must leave that
very night, for where could she go.
There seemed nowhere to turn; yet
she trusted the Father of the orphan
and spending the night with a peasant
woman, started the next day to search
for work. The noon hour found her
tired and almost ready to give up,
when she was handed a note, which
said that the writer would like for her
to attend school, and enclosed was
money for present expenses, and tell
ing her that her school fee was al
ready paid. It was signed “Your Un
known Benefactor.” Her feelings can
better be imagined than told, and how
very much she did wish to know who
it was but thought perhaps Mrs. Seibt
was sorry for her and decided to send
her to school, to make amends for the
way her daughter had acted, and she
felt indignant and would not accept.
But when she received the second
complete
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this opportunity for the sake of a
friend, she could not resist, for she
had so longed for an education. A
few weeks later found her hard at
work with her school duties. Study
ing hard every spare moment during
her childhood, she had accomplished
much, and was farther advanced in
most of her books, than her benefac
tor had dreamed of. Her education,
was finished, and not content with
what could be given her in the new
world her benefactor had sent her
abroad, and the night for her final
graduation had arrived. A queenly
form dressed in a lovey satin and real
lace received her diploma with high
est honors of the class, and this was
none other than Annie, the little dress
ing maid, her unknown benefactor had
chosen to have her well dressed. And
during the time she had attended
school in Europe she had met and
talked quite often with Lord Folk,
wondering at his seeming interest in
her. But tonight as she saw him in
the audience there was a strange tug
at her heart that she could not account
for; he seemed to hold her with his
eyes. He met her at the door and
congratulated her on her success, ask
ing for the pleasure of a drive the
following morning and then came the
unfolding of a patient love that could
not wait longer for its speaking. And
he plead that the graduating dress
might serve a second mission. It was
months afterward that Lady Annie
Folk found a letter and also a receipt,
from one of the professors where she
had attended school. Then she knew
that Lord Folk had been her good
fairy, and her mind went back to that
meeting in nature’s own art gallery.
S’
THE LITTLE HELPER.
“Grandpa, why did Noah let any
toads come into his ark?”
“I will show you,” said grandpa.
So he went to the workshop, and
chose four blocks of wood of the right
shape and size. He carried them to
the garden, and built a little house of
them beside a row of young pumpkin
plants. Then he gave the toad a ride
on the coal-shovel from Tommy’s gar
den to the little blockhouse.
“This is Mr. Toad’s house,” said
grandpa. “We will leave him here,
and never disturb him.”
Mr. Toad seemed to take kindly to
his new quarters. He was often seen
sitting in his front door and looking
out with a very serious expression,
winking his bright eyes and spreading
out his fingers just as baby spreads
hers when Tommy counted, “O, u, t
out,” on them. Tommy could not see
how the toad did any good.
“Neighbor Smith says that the slugs
have eaten up all his pumpkin-vines,”
said grandpa, one day. “Why have
they not touched ours, Tommy?”
Tommy did not know.
“How about our lodger in the gar
den?” said grandpa, smiling.
“Do you mean Mr. Toad?” asked
Tommy. “Does he catch the slugs?”
“If you watched him long enough
you would see,” said grandpa. “When
he sits in his front door, he is taking
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