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that seemed W negate bar 'bole
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Does esti o' tt AOMI et last," 'ohs
VIVA —"mil e►..edie . Uibna eye
he. •-.•aids oft 'beet the lest 'o the
moo* and es treats M be marerid tib
Tb.oks esi.R Dry aid bake lee back
with bra It kind o' Rives se a tern
•
"Weil," laid lire .bur, as .he bpi
the ber martin( thump to • loyalist)* was
lrwisg, Yo: ve had use *sough to
look forward wit in."
This was tree, tog Min Sasso had been
engaged twelve peen. She was not
yoo.g•women t the beginning of her
rectums, sod elm looked older to -day
than bet thirty-nine years warranted, as
obs stood oloicbing ber letter, while Hi
uncompromising morning sun lighted
her slow taoa Her lips were moving
tzesoioaely. liar study Kik was streaked
with gray, sad 1t Md grown thin &round
her temples and in the pert, Her feat-
ures were sharp, thoogb geed and hon-
est. She wen tall and thio. with that
peculiar operons and rigidity of :sadism
by which certain old maids saes to an-
nooaos their estate to society M large.
She had not been quite so plain and
scrswoy when Hiram Grew asked her
to marry him twelve years ago, although
ab. had never been pretty. She could
not marry bias thou; bet plain duty seem-
ed to forbid it, and she was one of those
conscientious souls to whum vialation of
duty was mon painful than 'the sacrifice
o! haepinue.
Her wedding had always shone before
het—a future possibility. Today it
soddenly took shape as s present reality.
She sighed s little heav ytl , and looked
appealingly at her sister.
"I m all reedy,'' she said, falteringly
"There won't be much to du.
Her sister went to the stove and put
down her men without ; then,
without getting another, she came back
to the table and looked at Miss Sumo.
She was the older woman of the two,
and she had been the prettier. Feint
traces of attractiveness still lingered in
her eyes and in the corners of her tnuuth.
She was s widow, and she bad had •great
del of trouble. Poverty, a worthless
baobab**, and tbede•th of several chil-
dren had been among her trials. They
had left her with a shrill tone in her
voice and a pe.imietic way of looking at
lite generally.
"There'll be enough to do," she said
to her sister, sharply. "Then always is
when weddings is going on. There's
the raisins to seed, and the citron to
cut, and the currants to wash, and the
apices to grind. and the ham to boil,
and the hull house to clean, and all
to be got through a ith by Thanksgiv-
ing.''
Mir Susan looked at her humbly.
$he felt ashamed to be the cause of w
much unusual wort. "We can have
Sarah Ann Tyler in to heir. she sug-
gested, meekly.
"And I'll help, ton," cried a young
girl, springing up from ber seat near abe
window. It was she who had been
down -town end brought home the mail.
Her arms were full of bundles, and she
had been reading some letters art her
own. She was Miss Susan's niece—ber
&islet': only child. She was very
pretty, and she looked particularly
sweet as she stand before her aunt with
her eager uffer of help.
"I think it will be lovely," the said.
"111 fill the house with gulden -rod at.d
autumn leave.."
Then she laughed a little and looked
at her aunt, but it never
occurred to Miss Susan that the "sere
aid yellow Int" svuld be rather too ap-
propriate a deomtiou at her delayed
nuptials. She was thankful for a tette
sympathy.
"You're real food. Alice." she said,
gratelully. "I geese well get through
with it somehow."
She sighed heavily se she left the
kitchen and went aro stairs lc her own
little chamber. The eeieng sloped on
one side nearly to the lee. but the sun
came in brightly through the one win-
dow, whicb was an eastern one, and the
whitewashed walls were very clean. It
IMO a hot little room in summer, and •
odd one in winter, and never c nvenient
at any time, hut Miss Susan loved it
vary dearly. She had lived the better
part of her lite in it. She lucked all
around it with a tender, mournful
glance
"Seems like I couldn't never feel to
home in any other n•••rr. ' idle murmur-
ed, and the tears started in her faded
blue ryes.
She went to the window and Irnked
•,put. "Westcooein's awful far away"
she said to herself as ahe eared at • big
white cloud which was sailing westward,
with a troubled leek. it was In Weaves
sin that her lover lived. tut Miss SWISH
always spoke of it sa Ii'rstoonsin. She
seemed to feel vstuely that the State
of Cousin was divided int., two parts,
East and West, like North and !Leath
Dakota.
She turned hack and surveyed her little
room again. There was • rag carpet en
ten floes. and e big old-fashioned cherry
bureau stand in ons e..rner. She went
to this. and from its en. annus upper
drawer began to take •set little pile, of
eadtireenthine. Thee'. she arranged in
an orderly manner upon the patchwork
quilt which covered her bort.
"Some of 'em '11 have to be d tip
over &elah," she said, se she examined
the garments critically; "bat they won't
none of 'rim have to he blesrbee.'
She bad made them at different times
during her long years of waiting. When
the preemie of her msrnage had germed
roarer, as ft had "cceaionally, she had
plied her needle. They 1
•oaths td patient tabor. She tn.ebed
sow almost reverently. They W been
washed sod b!eeched ncnwio.n•fly as
Hes. laid • yellowing touch upon thus,
bet sweet mien. They were infbetely
snore petbetie in there newlesaees than
the treasured teethes of some dead der N
Sag, for ihey. at least, have served s he -
Men lite. Mee Nusan's never had Tb.y
bad been kept while abe 'sited toren
Ow life that never came. It seamed
ly ! te dot that e►* aimed
w eer {bee Dew. dee heard het siege
in the t..at seem aegis/ karma kas
ehp, eh t r1 bateau drawees,
poetise ye and
herd WJ �8
"AI 64 bill y. '►wrap
here"
-.t aehs dohalf
dr.Mior d. w seek teed &rota wen
but, and er �Offlat and sokies
sowed skirt.
"1' • o te, Aunt dee,"
she .uwy�s deuce ed''
Mb Soma bee weetfaq 8M
was Got envious, she wee net n.heppy,
only to • dell sort tie way she few the
girl's beauty, mail *mused that it was a
fitter dower tog a ha y bride thea her
owe faded Mute. She wait to her little
• glue, hes; high ewer li shelf, which had
Darer reflected aaytbieg below her
shoulder& The rest of her person she
bad alwa7a dressed by faith. She was
.till looktug at herself when her niece
a entered.
"Alice," she said, lu a shamefaced
way, "do you think you weld bang my
hair like your. 1"
• ''I don't know, ' answered the girl.
-bit down and ht's see."
She drew out the heir -pins from the
this greyish hair, and palled a portion
elf it forward.
"I'll hare to cut it pretty far book to
make it thick e000gh," she said.
"I don't oar•," reepooded ber aunt,
meekly- Of Doors I want to Look as
goal ea I c.o,"abs add•d,by way of apd-
• You've ;been , engaged a long time,
haveu't you; Loot See le asked the girl,
ni she plied the brash and Bomb.
"Yes," said Mimi Seam ; "over twelve
years. You see, I ouolds't love Ilma
there at first. That was before your
father died, and sister Alviry and you
ceras borne to live, and I was the only
oee}aa had. Then Hiram's father died,
and he had to help his ma a spell, while
the little ohildren was young. Theo
when sister Alviry came Lome she was
that sickly I didn't dare leave, her.
But she's perked up wonderfully this
year. 1 don't ago as any one needs ma
now. I goes I can go jest u well as
n et. Lend's eke, child ! you ain't a-
cutt►ng all the hair tiff my head, are
your
Some long locks had fallen in her lap.
?Me looked up alarmed.
"It's all right," said Alice,
ly. "It isn't exactly like wine. but I
hope you'll like it"
Miss Susan rose and Looked in the
OWL The stiff, straight, half gray
Meg which confronted her certainly was
unlike the suit yellow curls that rested
over her nieces white forehead.
"What du you think of it, Alice I she
asked.
' I think it will look better if you it
curl it a little,' answered Alice, :epee
rustically .
Miss Susan looked back at Iter reflect-
ed um.* in grim silence. "Well, I
think it's awful." she said, solemnly.
"I look as snuck homelier than I did
before as nothing ; and I shan't curl it
neither. I'te made a foul enough of
myself. lion enough to scare a dog, and
I deserve it. Serves me right, a -
trying to prune my feathers at my age."
Miss Susan often made a m:stake
in a simple word, and free 41ently hit up-
on • better substitute. In the present
instant she meant "preen,' nut
'prune' was certainly more etfec
tire. She had undoubtedly been "pron-
ed."
"I'm sorry, said Alice, reerettally.
"Why, I don't think it leeks so bed at
a11.
"Taio't your fault, child ; I asked you
to du it There : I ain't a -going to
think about it any more. P'r'ale they
wear bangs more out in Westconein.
Maybe it won't look so bad to Hiram."
Sbe put away bar brush and comb with
the dscisien of one vibe leaves hu folly
behind hits.
"Alien," rhe said, suddenly. "I want
to show you my stun -rlured silk."
1 be girl watched her with much in-
terest as she unlocked a large trunk that
stored in her ro em, and tock from the
bottom . f it s carefully done pp pack-
age. It was her unmade wedding dress, I
purchased years age.. and cared'for ever I
since, w that it sboeeln't crack in the •
creases. It was a sort of slaty gray, but
Mite Sown. with a lofty contempt of all
geological differences. always spoke of
et as "stun -colored. '
•'My black silk was made op seven
years ago," she said, cheerfully, "but 1
ain't never worn it. and a good black
silk don't get out of style Would you
have this skirt mads p'atn, Alice 1" she
asked, a few moments later ; "or does
it ineairs a Aouge, 1" She stroked the
shining breadth of the intern gating
silk as she spoke
"Are you going to trim it with any-
thing '' asked Alice.
"Well, 1 don't know. •Lesi»th Mal-
lory, she had her wedding dress trimmed
with gathered ruffles o' lace—the this -
nest stag, just u thin as • rail ' But I
haven't got anything •sept ru:t1,as of the
same, and the mail■ of the stitches never
will come out, when I want to snake it
ever. I was thinking,Alioe." she added. I
1,o•hfully,
''that 1 d wear a little white I
tulle, and a few whits chrysanthemums,
.and my cameo pin, that was ma s. lire
thought of it for yon- - if it
happened in the apnea, white Tres in
the summer. and chrysenthemums in the '
fall. Don't you think they'll last till k
ehrn 1 That pit in the west win• t
doe). only begun to bloom.'
"Y -e., said Alice, while sem. untecn.
teed feeling stirred at her heart -yea,
dear %unt Sue, I'm sure they II las'
They p'anued the making of the im-
portant ".tnn•cd..r' still further, and •
when Mee `uaaa we:,t down -stain her
Wt
art wet lighter than it bad been et any
time sines the arrival of het luver'a let- I S
ter. She had forgotten all about the 1
unfortunate est of her bang, tat her;
sister gave ler a cempeeben,,ve glance ;
se ,.he crime in, aced ezcl.vne.l, with
ssw:h n
"How you d., Lek ' !."
;d
"1 know," answered Af es Ruyan, t
goie i Ily '-Ain't it set .1 I 1 11
/oink as old as Metnod.lam '" tot
Thee. were busy days that fellneed in n
. 1t►tle bream buns. at the heti of the ee
rept. Ten Jibe busies steed sentinel 4
belie dour, sad they, ensued then rorty d
Items se if tlbey were enspesiee notes M
tee the strange prnsp.dines. More •
people peened het rem them on their to
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se she Atme every morels 1
She lies Very bed of her hos,
elm ben OMR Newry pertiseler lane
"They pet atnit tbees,"
sed erow,ead
seem to tinkers .," sbs mid;
mid
w bee r t..
witboet had *airy ykMe.4 M
cesium seta jb bo b•eber awe "OWN
rather ds�eeaeed- mask, who
.bait, .s •be s pomaded 1, "forever .-
oast a-doodielieg."
"Poor srnetnr. r" Miss Busse would
say, se she fed her chick•... "Poor
Greeters 1 Beams kind o' heartless
go off ani leave you ; and $peak
there, .he ain't half so pearl .e Bess
M.O. I always kind o' depended
�"
She tried, poor sod, to 'steed ber
watchful care into the future. "Alviry,
she said, suddenly, use day, "them
little peach tree down by the puss
ought to be drafted next wring."
Her alter had no 'Woo of them
marching oli to war, as the words Im-
plied ; tee simply understood what Mi.
Sumo meant.
"I'll see to that," she excleisred, so
sharply tbat Mw Susan, who had even
mon soggestiuea to maks, was silent,
and 'sot on stowing ber raisins, simply
remarking, after the lapse of emu mo-
menta, that if there as one thing she
did hate it was ''grief cake."
The "stem-eofored" talk had been
made up, the minister notified, and the
guests invited.
"It's the last Monday :" gasped Mian
Susan —"the last M.uday. It don'
MOW right out to have washing gwog
on "
She had not *easel to thrive order
the various . She looked
thinner and more anxious tkao ever, and
there was • hunted, appealing expres-
sion in her eyes, .s if she were more ►n
dread of the tutus than rejo*cmg over
it
' I dec'are to goodness," said her esu
ter, one morning, "you put me ell Got
of patience, Sums Yoe go round as if
you war waiting for your funeral 'stead of
your weddutg. Can't you clerk up •
little r'
Miss Susan stood by the kitchen table,
her pan of chicken feed in her band.
"of course I'm gain' to he very happy,"
she said. 1s, ; "but I never was
married bef•re, and it came so sudden .t
the last I mistreat I suet used to the
Wee yet.'
"And mama;e is an awfal lottery,
anyway, ten tit. Aunt Sas i' chimed in
Alice, who had just come in. She had
gone out early to do some erraods.
Thee was a tall young man with her,
and she iouked up at him saucily as she
spoke. lle had beau with her a great
deal lately, and bad helped them alt, in
many little ways, to prepare for Miss
Susses wedding.
"Alice," he arid, me mingle, "you
stop your fouling while I .peak t-, your
mother. Mn Putnam. I—I—" be be-
gan, with a visible cif,rt ; theo he step-
ped and cleared his threat.
Alice laughed at bite. • Oh, you
great ail.y : ' she said. "Mother, be
thinks you're so fond of woddines
that you'd hire to have another ie the
family. Aunt Sue, he wants to make
you • wedding prefect of $ nephew.
There, now. see if you can't oto the rest
yourself," and she nn ori laughing, but
with her face MItme.
"I want t•, Know ! gasped pour Mie
Susan.
"Wel, this been rete said Mrs Put
nam.
lee two oIi ladies dropped their arils
by their sides as if by c•'mmea impulse,
and turned and stared fizedly at the
peel man.
He fumbled the brim ref his hat ner-
vously. "You see, Mrs Putnam." k.
began, "ere wanted Alice to marry me
for n long time. But tiro .he'd .y yea.
and then she'd say ant, arid it w.u't
until 13.t evening that I gut her to say
she would as if she really meant it. and
tope I might :ail you. So I came up
the fins thing to bare the matter settled
before alae chan_ed her mind again.
Alice is the sweetest girl I ever saw, but
she does seems so slippery."
A low. derisive laugh floated flown the
stain.
"Why, Henry Mt rgan," maid Mrs
Putnam. "you just take my breath
away. .%hce ain't no more fit to be mar-
ried than • baby. She cant make bread;
she don't know a thing &beent house•
beeping.
"Yes, 1 dn, ton," cried a voice from
tee heal of the stain- "I can broil
eggs see make oponge•eake, and Henry
eye hies willing to lies an those a-
while.
"I don't care, Mas Putnam," sail the
yoeng men, earnestly. "We can board,
if Alice would rather. I've got plenty to
fake care of her with. You know father
left me the place and five thousand die -
Ian beside., seed they raised ►ny salary
amt spring. 11 I can only have Alice,
'11 do my beet to make her happy."
"Why, Fleury, ' mid Mrs Putnam,
kindly. "1 ain't no objection that I know
d. hems re always teen repnrteri well.
behaved and steady. I'm sure I'm glad
D ough to have you marry Alice, for 1
row you'll do well by her, only 1 am so
ore by snrpriae
Miss Roman had n ,t spoken during
hie c..nrereetion. Her eyes filled slow-
, under her rampant bang. "i vireos
•II go out and feed the chickens," she
murmured. s•.ftly. "Poor creature !"
he maid, as they came clucking around
• ; "that's the way they ought to
eel, i anppns. Shoo, there ! Now,
peekley. de/et you go and fail me ; i
oat need all the help i can get. So
.vin' .rod eager' Yes. that's the way to
feel Peer mestere '"
Whether the ebickens hair
Sher incnhererit remarks or not, nee
ruin!, was esent...led and strengthen.
herself ; and she went bask thrnmgh
iso shed and into the kitchen of the
Me brown hawse .ones 1,, hear what •
or nnteal was before her. Rot the
rdeal hr an 1 thane. It
see ig Sh, gulf .4 a letter nn W.dnee
ay mnrninv, the clay hefero the were t
two dry. It was a letter from Ihrsm.
ins a can bad been expecting elm, and
he said, . rho took the latter, "This le
tell weft 1.'11 come, moat likely ; but
Mia 0111,bre new 'beet as ansa se bks
mer w
/Web wes We eistede.. pi "lee . ub as e.
dower,' .he es d to Hoary Meepan, wake
ass helpep nor ; "tt stays jest 'bare
yes pat it, Gad it doesn't fade."
MMt du.o opened bet lector seed reed
it ett*rlyr.. Thee she tweed very white.
*Ila Sank dews by tb_eide .1 a hole
IB�lsy threw her .elate agree. it, awl
buried her rase 1. thea "Oh, my Reed
LSM r' .he cried—•'ss, good Lard r'
There toes a sestet of startled i-
IMee. Theo Mn Peine res to her.
"Mesa. 8ea..,' sob israr is the matter 1"
d►o pet her halms ea her i.tee's bowed
.b..idors sad neve Mrs little shake. t
Mi. Some rooted herself with smart.
amid sat up very straight. Her fano was
red, and her unfurtunete boos Nark oat
to in • fieretedebset sort of way. 'Phare were
ley sowers in her eyes. ''Hire•► --sit t—s-
- suming," else gasped. "He's agoing to
mrd marry some other women. Tenn sih't
gang to be my wedding here et a11.
Alice, you etc p pinning up that golden.
" rod ! Alviry, .dtru't yarn bake all that
bread we've gut to sponge; we weal
P Deed nu amid teases." Theo aim row.
Then was • certain t•rrtbe/ dignity
about ber. "Yon ere read this letter,
she mid, "and don't Joe, otss o' you,
Beer speak bis assee tome again 1"
She went op the narrow stain, and
they beard her go into her own little
1 room and shut the door. Theo in awe-
struck ede.ma they came together end
picked op the fatal letter, which Alice t
read aloud.
It was the despairing letter of a weak
but not a wi•ied man. There had been
mod , it seemed, who bad e.1 i
claim epos him. Mn Putnam and i
Alice, in their simplicity and *meaner*,
Geoid no more uodentand the nature of t
t this claim than poor Mies Susan bad
done. But Henry Murgas geared the t
trete.
"Hee a scoundrel, a villain 1" he said,
"I would like to horse-
whip bis !"
Toe writer spoke of this woman as
"anoeber lady," and said. wish a sort of 8
pathos, that she was "cutting up awful,"
or it wield dap all to
that w1 a Wieldy. 1 woes le 1.11 pee
hear 1 lee pia .
tt Tbwe 1 yea
d ii .d I tlfe'I bey.
tat tbie ilinber Jett.. pet ea Mee ..4
preload I demi ease, Of coarse 11.M
as if Fd hese hit Mehl le ten ta.e, alt*
that Mail ligirrN J beg if there west%
we Ohm warms of M bet $.s this, 1
would mkt, WWI isss so too net N
.IL r..11414.101.1 lees .sous, ow -
ten. A. use kewws bete bad sakes We
dp..klapp d I deism mesas to me mew
times es if that ems* enNaruteed. Yee
N e.' u1 s e.id, eyes."
before her rather
marriage Is something
sad whuoplag eoegb—you
the m..s
to coke
it yaw/ if yon west to het it may.
Now 'twoeld have gone t.Mlje hard
with see. 8.sse as if 1 c.uldalt leave
the old bouie sad my roost and the beck
yard sad the ohiokese noway, end r1 s.
west11 wase far to eo !" 8he embed
for a sowed, and .Gifted a little. Tbeat
she rearmed hernial amid went on-
" Of Merge I'm jwst as s.'is..d as
goat 'bout it a11. I dust know whet t
ss, b folks, end there's them live tea
tete amid ell my ntbag pimento t
beet. I think 111 loot say, good.
plain, lb.t Hiram jilted ase. I outside
stand tt at all if I was best 'made a
aabs.ed outside both ; bet, you
ain't. 1m jest a glad is my heart—just
se glad as anything. •It's a pity 'bout
the oak*, though, it ?pot tech a good
ell it downat
•men's 'ranged,
e that cake for
of makes um
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bake. I suppose I
bat new etose—the
they sell it—bet I
myself, sod it
wreathe to think of
ng it.' She look
a mimeo, %bee a
ed in her bloc, tided eyes, " You
w000eldts't mall it eo.venieet lo stet
married Io-morroq weld you, and urs
hat cake r'
The color swepfrover Alice's face as if
she had sudden) stood in the gore of a
red light "Oh,Aunt 8e.'" she cried,
'brew could youlHow could your'
Bot Hwry excitedly. 'Aon•
oe, he ez , "you're • brick !
when she heard he was going to be
married.
"She says obeli bars the law on me.
be trete 01,, "and I don't feel that .he'll
ever let ae be in peace,eyen if I was mar-
ried to you. I wish I was deed. There b
ain't anything I can say. I'm an 'shamed
oflwhat I done, I don't feel a if I could '
Lok any one in the face again. We had f
t» wait tw. long, Susan, that was the
trouble. If I weld bare married you '
ten yuan ago, it would all bate been
right. But I meant to treat you
like this. I meant to be honest and
keep my word. I wish I was dose and
the grass growing over me. She says
she'll shoot ms, and you too, it 1 marry
you. I ain't good enough kr you. I
never was. Don't take at tan much to
heart, and if I can ever du anything for
We will! Aliee,>tre must! we .i11 ! It's
the very tbimis hat's Ib• caw ed wait_
ing1 It won d p knot liue mon tbas
anything we . o. Don't you see
Sao you will, 7 7041 will."
H. hd bis �.►
er with gess$
beth hand. bd w
weby, 11'. pert
or anything 1 I
Mas Susan bed them wearily.
'Alice," abe a sawpty, "put down
7oor hand' and k .t poor 14bry.
He's bilin' his • clear t.. the wick,
n k. what he says.
11 !o0 lone. if you
Totems, wby, there's
1 and everything rusty.
olily the minister, nor
t things go on as they
And Aline, if there's
yon want, you're wel-
h judging by my bane,
our things become me,
and 'tain't 1 l y . mine would you. I
idn't rip op i black .ilk, and I'd like
nal well to r it at your wedding "
She pa . moment, and then left
hem, Alice G mate sod ony:elding,Hen-
eageer and - ermined. Alive declared
again and in that ahs could
hunk of it, t to Heury it seemed a
re and u • chance to obtain pe-
emsion et girl whom be bad !r red
or u. lima it whom he had aptly call-
ed "alippe " Her coquetry had hurt
im, and net driven him away in the
pasr,and h as afraid of it in dictators.
t seemed " of mew or never with
iln, and premed his snit with all the
✓ dor the pueseeaed. H. conquered
pally, -• protesting to the last
Mute t she never would.
And the Th•ekeciving wedding
owe off expected in the little brown
Dose, o with • slight change its the
•mala sena.
When w. oyer, sod the h•ieo and
groom starting, Miss Susan ran
own t e curiae, for a Iasi send. by
"Den ou worry 'bout me, 1hc•," she
so glad it'. yea insured of
just about for jar! Its been
nkagitinw to .se, I tell yea,
so thankful fur all my mer -
I shall feel jut like
the time my bangs grow out,
enteder. fiend •by now, and
you owe Henry all your M.
to everything.''
'Neth enigmatical remark she
o the perch, from whirls ahe afaou+iwew Ceps, arae oa ►reri7ot of o -ns,
ell worn prunrfr slapper aper '''
ting carries,. Tern she re Rennin Nt s'R[ww r' a ('ant. e•eb
you, let cue kouw,
"'Respectfully yours, HIRAY "
"Well, I never 1" Mid Mrs Putnam ; I
"if that ain't too mean ! And the cake -
all made, and Susan all ready ! Wgat'll d
f•,Iks say f Oh, dear !" And she put
bet sprue over her face sed began to
y.
g "I've 'glad of it," said Alice, with a ry
sort of divination. "It's better e."
Her mother put down ber 1peon in aa- t
tonishmeet. "Why, Alice Putnam, n
hnw you talk ! I guess you wouldn't
like cGy um to be saying such things f
abouty.,0 and Henry."
Tb. girl aerated. awl glanced at her b
lover t,midly. ' It is different," she
said, softly. Then she added : "Henry, I
we mustn't be together much before b
Aunt Swan now. It seems sort of tn- •
salting prancing 'round, .hawing how fi
happy we are, when she's had such a m
hlow. Let's take down all the goldeo-
rod. and get everything out ot eget, and c
make the rooms look natural before it
she weirs down." air
Sc they 'cut to work, removing all
'traces of the weddlrg preparations Ni
sound came from that closed chamber d
overhead: At dinner tiioe Alice went
up softly and knocked on the dove. r
',Won't you have • cup of tea, Aunt me
Ste 1" she said ttf'ntly. '•I've brought •
you one, and a piece of pie."
"Pot 'eat down en the li•or, Alice,"
answered Miss Mom., is • clear, cr.-
p,5ed reice. "I in a-ri!.ping up my
Men -colored silk."
Alice went down and told her
mother. She held up 1, nth heels in
1. re
"Ripple; up her _eon•colnrod silk !" th
she screamed. "I call that reel sinful. tb
She's just paid Sarah Ann Tyler (,ur en
fu
&rimed ber, unties -
agaves, but A hs. pee -
ar face and gasped: _
y dreadful ! I won't Z. tawtne.�w 1 appear la the
Aaalrteel- • '.. M
w out.Iteeettaeces
Ms..y Order w orate, to made� mass. l
Bwewt sriftest tpere he rspr erdcrrope e t 4
Address
HARMER lt BROTH/Cite. Mew Tett
1860_
�trper's Weekly.
ILLL 8TilATED.
miumgps Wenacer bas a wellestablialsed
Amsdms se ThUri e figeirass t 1114011•401
oen�t in
meets M hereat polities all Ihr a
res.eet esti e.afdeacm of tie 1s,
is said 5 'm, bloke sod
.1
et it gar the perusal of
lb. best and
range sesple acros aid mmrn�
ss..ei is: et a wise., sr��
Miv the Mitsui K is
art Were et home andMd�tgn of tie
see tees. the
't—I can't' 11
hes an excited
rien't beat to
meld make it
the bas all bei
We needn't
anything ; jus
ere a -going
anything o' n1
me to at, the
don't think
real
o•vr
eiea
m
Holy
tri red
1urem
Wrt
fir
rew
e
ter •r home with a glad and thank
1
max to
HARPERS PERIODICALS.
iter Ter a
HARPiR-s WK&KLY ...,._
ft, fie
HAItPER'S YAGAZP1I """ 4 0
HARPERS GAZA•Q
HpA�RPtiR'tt YOUNG PMOPt,E 2 M
1Sit�� to all os•wsar.ibws t, far
L'ahikd w a, Ca to ai
The Volumes a( Me N
east Number of January h Wee ► .
he
with tthe umbe�oarmt at limo of of reselpt
tot order.
Dewed volumes of flatware* 'eine, for
throe years book, to area cloth binding, will
Os meat hy mall, pottage paid. or by express,
free et expesee t iroeidea the freight does set
exceed arae dollar per volumcl, for j7 per
volu('loth eases for each votaau, suitable for
banding will be mut by mail. peat -paid, ea re-
ceipt of =1 each.
Hcshtanccs.bo.M ire mad. by Pwat-omce
Hooey Order or Draft, to •veld chasm .f
loss.
\errapaprrr art mile nem 1Ale edverffer_
etre/ r,taoat 11. r.rpry order of Hasrpt 4
AB t .Rea,
ddrem
tfARPM-R t REVIVERS. New York,
1880_
Harper's Young People.
AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.
The 'eleventh Volume of Hantwee. Yoe
lienees: .ri
which b -os with the Number 1•
Noveieb.r. 1liw,present* se •'intertve me -
cram. ft will .r-r1aM elf he most length. nto its nd others ders at least IMF
two
or thew porta, tamely, '•ten fled iroeab�mi�g��,"
by William a Stoddart; "Phil and 't,13112;
t, e1 lBll!Jets
M Lary e. Little: ' Prior* Tommy."
Russell Correll: and "Mother's WJ by
mamma' R. t'mng.rer: two abort arrisks by
tljaln,ar warty Ba•rearn. Two
1 airy Take will attract the atu neon IS lovers
of the wieder nasty, the quaint tales
told br toward I') le, and w adwur♦bly plane.
[rated by him •red another aeries V • dlflrv.
ant vnn by Prank M. Bicknell.
bre short stories by W 11, Naerlia, Moms
Srison Poor. linty R. Wilkins, Nora
Harriet Pressen Rte ear rd. Ilsviej = Perry.
Hreekiah Butterworth, BurkeeSwettltbsy
Malcolm Johnston, etc.
A Subscription to Hareers 'Voting pyeale
secures o Juvenile library, nem IS saiwl
kuowledim, abe plenty of arnmerseet-_Jtee
moa Adnrffser.
TSHMS : Pietas, I'retetd, too Per Tear.
Vol. XI, November 6. int
dollar fear making it up, and never so
much as ha'_ it on her back. Seems as
it 1 ought to go up and reason with her "
"I'd rip it up and cat it in inch pious
ton. of I was her," said Alice defiantly.
"Then you'd he sillier then usual,"
said her mother, with cool emempt.
It was after tea before Miss Satan
finally emerged She had pot back her
bunt. that i. she had tried tn,bot several
tociellinus Locks stuck oat at right angles
to ber forehead,' as straight and corneas
as pine needles.
She walked down through the
sitting -room and out into the kitchen,
her empty plate and cup and saucer in
her have. " I guess I'II let them stand
till morning," she remarked, casually, as
she pat them down on the table; "'tain't
wcrth while getting out the dish pan for
so few." KM paved tbr,ogh the shed
and net into the yard.
"I believe shoe gore to the hen
reels," sail Mrs Putnam, in an excited
whisper. "She always did seem 10 get
mire menhir' oil of them hers :han
.nythim! else."
"Don't spook to her," said Alio., "an -
til .he epe.ka, and then joie answer her
es if nothing had happened,"
When Mi. Susan returned, Henry
and Alice were oonapicenesly seated on
opposite .ides of the table, Abet mi-
meo' fa leaking at • .ea -.hell which had
been a parley ornament •ver eine* ahe
was bore, white Henry wee poring in-
tently ever the family photograph al.
bee,
Mrs Pittman sat on the sofa hemming
d.ahei.tit, with an elaborate air of err
Rites bwean steed In the doorway •
moms ret anal surveyed them. ' 1 Gavle,
h»ueht 1'd say whet T. going to," oho
mrd at 1551 , "it seem. tedeea.e ; bet I
c'an't have yen sitting •rooad ilia wry
meting s if I was a pima of meek
.hiea that t'ee'd get to handle eight
•
--Harper's Baur.
J. uck, Ctanbrook, has Wesel his
hotel a Mr Zimmer, Imola of the Z -m -
mer then, lobo will take pnsewion
in a months, Mr Tack has not de -
cid . at Zine he w111 follow.
A
. I,p1
han
deli
dru
Son weir nude
le of Oolboort'a Parisian Balm ILLtlSTRATED.
at night, will soon render the
ully perfumed. Sold by MI
1s. lin
Remittances *boatel be made bE PeuS OUre
lmoWey (Order or i raft,lo avoid mance et cpm.
'creme -co are motto ropy :Ai.�ailr
•Gaal wilAoat 14, e.rpre.e order of H aj
Baum am,. •r.s s
A dd moue
HARPER k BROTHER,, New Tooke.
1860_
arper's Bazar.
ft and white Parisian balm is
en Kneeler, Cranbrook, has n•
home fres the Pacific meat.
is a hostler,
11 Toe ware ■ temple.
not neglect it. it should be
1 , ad as non as possible, sod to do
th selling excels Hatyard'e Pectoral
Ob,ttnate coughs yield et
to its expectorant, seething and
h K vriperties, •hi!s colds, Aseree-
n whooping cough, asthma, rite , are
pare relieved hy iia perfect retool.
e threat and breeches. tubes, 2
• day week before let, as inhers
s, Weightier, wee staring l.0 'he
ha foil arid cracked his ..i... ,
, wh!oa het kelt him freer neat. •
since.
be employees slung the lice ..1
O. et B. seder Itt Trill• '.
ring of his eeetempl.t. 4 s •• ••
motif ►n rewire treatment ent f • r.
igtlt, drtortoise., to foie, lee e •
nets) proof of the resew *h.. lei.
bee. O'mtrihuI.g. -
tosee1'I^yese eed eve NWd.t,
Met., *04... Iamb. ref Le. ,
woudttMer Qwick went ..
emit with a he fe..est. 1 ,a
WAN biel'1lt110 in t. 1d,
IfARPyn',e BAZAR M a Jomr••1 for the been
Giving ter Wee aafern.tloe with remora to
the reeisi ea, ire nus..,esn Itlperst{aKbtple
lee-plshs, cwt teRern..►.•c•t 5wppls,•e•
Indl.esRa.sle •sake to tar are.
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