Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-11-21

White house was Just IN sight, and ht
made a Decline for it, The shower in.
creased to a flood, but there was no shell
ter midway, and he hurried on.
AT the gate Of the mansion stood a gig,
from which a stout lady was at that mo.
ment descending, obviously, tucking up
her raiment and preparing to make a run
for the house. She eyed sharply the
stranger standing there under the drip.
ping umbrella.
Mr., David held open the gate. "Janel''
he said, stepping forward and offering the
shelter of the umbrella. 1--WE been
eight years coming, but have just arrived
in time, you see"
La" said the lady, starting back.
She still retained the sharp, ~incisive voice
he remembered, surviving over all these
years, though the former Jane was
vanished utterly, crowded out by a
matronly figure in flowing skirts.
David's brown, bearded face bore a
boyish smile as he spoke, and perhaps that
helped Mrs. JOhnson's memory.
She had TO accept the umbrella, and
consequently the escort; but she hesitatcd
at the doorway, looked down at David's
boots. and wiped her own significantly as
she glanced at the blazing Brussels that
ornamented her parlor.
Mr.. David repeated the process patient.
"; she could not help asking him in.
Jane was pious and patroniZing--a well.
TODD woman. David had been d trouble
some lad, to be sure; but then one must
let some things pass.
He staid till the shower was over, and
the squire came ina plain little man in
gold spectacles-who said cheerfully,
when supper was announced;
Come alonrin do, Mr.. Durham, and
take a dish of tea
The only fault, Jane often declared,
that she had to find with Johnson was
that he thdsa't particular in choosing his
company.
"And where's Miss Simmons?" he
asked, as he slipped his tea.
Gone over to the Dobsons', and sup
pose got caught in the shower"
After supper the two men smoked q
pipe together and talked Of crops, the
weather, and business in general. Jane
was ne fool, as she often observed. She
gathered that David was part owner Of a
ship-yard, and had built some tidy craft
himself. Another time she would not be
so particular about the door.mat.
In the midst of the talk and smoke
Miss Simmons came floating in in a fut-
ter of muslin and ribbons, ~breathlesss,
bright, and coquettish. 81 just ran over
between the DROPS" she said, shaking
out her curls with jeweled fingers.
Miss Simmons was a pretty girl from
the city. She had wit, she had wealth, it
was said, and she was quite q belle. She
played, she sang, she chatted brightly.
She smiled on David, and ratified off his
fayorite old tunes. 1t was new to him to
have any one shine especially for him,
sparkle and MARBLE and plume themselves
for him. Miss Simmons clear voice and
high-keyed notes, her tall and graceful
figure, her noiseless, easy movements,
charmed him. "a splendid girl?"he said
to himself "and how smooth her skin is,
whereas Hannah" Hannah was peck
marked,
Hannahl He steadied his voice and
said, Glow is Hannah?" as Y The whole
party had been making a~llUsion to her.
Sister Jane colored up. "Don't talk to
me about Hannah, she said.
And they didn't talk. At that moment
Miss Simmons struck up a brilliant bra
vura on the piano, and when it died, like
a shower of sky,rockets, Mr.. David Dun
ham took his leave.
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