The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1859-10-01
MARKED FOR LIFE.
CHAPTER XIV.
TBE ADVANTAGE or An EDUCATION.


Felipa was sentenced to prison for a term O
years: She entered with naughty step ant
calm demeanor, but underneath il all. rage and
vexation were contendng for the wastery.
We will leave her for a while in order tc
release Betsy Stone from the ''durancs vile iu-
TO which she had so une xpectedy fallen.
Poor Betsy! She had been quite overwhelmed
by her misfortune. To think that she should be
mysteriously involved In a crime from which her
soul shrsnk with adherence, for Betsy, to 10 Ler
justice, was strictly honest, whatever defects Of
education she might have.
She spent the time in crying without stint.
On the morning after her arrest, she was sitting
with very disconsoate look upon her bed, when
visitor was announced.
She looked to the door with a dull feeling Of
curiosity, when whom should she recognize in
the intruder but her quOndam fellow servant
Mrs. Bent.
"What a dreadful place. tc be sure" mur-
INJURED tha! lady, surveying the contracted ac-
eommodations.
Betsy groaned and hid her face in her hands.
hewever, cheer up! it isn't as If you'd got
''llavn't II o, Mrs. Bent, tel mo, has any
thing been dscovered7r exclaimed the poor
girl, with array Of hope lighting up her face.
'tYos, to 10 sure there has"
:. "And have they found out it wasn't that did
''I shouldn't be surprised IL they had. For,
BETSY, know Il couldn't be YOU all the time"
..But who is p asked Betsy earnestly.
"Can't YOU guess ?" asked the cook. at
wasn't Mr.. or Mrs. Dsnforth, and it wasn't me
that know off,
ayes
"But how was 1t found OUT"
"All through the sagac iousness OF Mrs. Dam
forth. tel yor, Betsy, she's smarter woman
than took her IT,. Sb1 saw through that Felipa,
ond-but just = 70 ;le a seat beside you on the
bed, and III begnat the beginning and tell you
all about it,"
This Mrs Bent proceeded to do with few
little embellishments ofher own, and closed by
saying that the nurse was at that moment locked
up in Jail.
make better omelct than |. l who've been
In the business, girl and woman, forty year"
'Fortv wears" exclaimed Betsy with naive
tie. "why how early you must have begun.
You know you told me that you were only for
ty-two."
Mrs. Bent was little sensitive on the score Of
her age, and like some ladies occupying higher
social position, did not sCruple TO call herself ten
years younger than she was.
She was little taken aback by the reflection
that she had so carelessly betrayed herself.
She got herself out Of the serape as adroitly as
| Iossible.
"Well, said she, $50 am fory-two. Forty
two last June. What of that ?"
why, you said you had forty years, ex-
perience as cook"
80 lor, that was mistake sure enough. or
course | meant thirty. You see began when |
was twelve years old. You didn't-he he-you
didnt think sas over fifty, did you, Betsy3"
''Oh no." said Betsy.
~ thought not. amt antediluvious as
know or"
"What does that mean p asked her younger
eompg MON.
~ am surprised at your ignorance. Don't YOU
know what anteliuyious means 7"
"No," said Betsy little ashamed to confess
her Ignorance.
"It means worry old. ANY body that's very
old Ia antedIluvious. lfyou shouldn't remem-
Der the wO'd, you can come to me auy time, aud
III tell you it, said the cook with cpmplacent
air e superior knowledge.
~ don't ike them large words" said Betsy.
"They sort Of stick in my throat when ! 20 to
.prcnoruce them
"It's all in habit" said Nrs. Bent. ''If you'd
be- brought up to use EN- they would come
natul al-in fact supernatural, as they come to
me-"
'Lor, Mrs. Bent" said Betsy, in a tone of
genuine admiration which was rot lost upon
the cook, "what education you must have.
~ should think you'd teach school"
al couldn't demGan my self to do sich thing
aRid the cook, lofty. II consider oDkin' to be a
much higher professional wouldn't advise any
body to try to be cook that hadn't a'rpe,per'7
sH'elLtck "
Regularly launched upon her hobby, there Is
no knowing when she would have stopped, II she
had not been recalled to herself by question .
a natural one under the Reconsideration .
BETSY.
'wh IN am | coming out ofpriscn? Can't / go
now2'
"Not just yet Mr. DanfOrth sent me here to
say that he would make arrangements with tn,
court, OF 'omething, so that you could come ou.
this Afternoon"
II it hadn't b6en found out and I'd had to stay
here q whole year oh, | should have died, [