The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-04-19
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1878.

the large amount of fsh.skin that settled
it, bore 40 unpleasant reSsm blanee to
choHdor AS he uas sitting at this
frugal Fepast hia sister Phsbe founced
| in.
Has Lay;uy left ysu, Reuben2 Il
can't be.'
Mr.. Hinkle nodded hin head solemn.
ly, his mouth being not available just
then as AZ organ OF speech,
| The worst 10 her own stormed Miss
Phebs, Tsieing shower of hair-p na
from her falling ohiguon. Il guoss we
sha mt die on her accountp
The reflection aeemed to convey no
consolation to Mr.. Hinkle.
You never felt right toward Laviny,'
said he, sorroWfully, Il don't lay this up
again her, her clearing out l blame it
on to Miss Niddlins. Sho always had
q dreadful faculty for onsettling Laviny.'
Miss Phebe had q contomptuoua nose,
turned upward at the sLd like s!cd
runner. It curlod higher yet a. this
remark. rr
Il wish you had some of my spirit,
Reuben Hinkle,' said she, coiling her
back hair with u rapid circular motion,
as It she wore winding herself up 'if
you had, you wouldn't so nigh iaviny
for one. while. She's contrary, aud de.
pend upon il she'll be great deal more
apt TO come back if you don't tease her
I'll keep house for yon, so don't you be
= mite concerned
Mr.. Uinkle groaned in answer. As
dough is without yeast, SO was he with :
out Laviny. Ilo needed her 70 keep
him up he said, pathetically and
though torturos would not hare rrung
from her the confession, it wac equally
true that Laviuy needed him TO keep
her down Some lOaven is safest hid
den in its three MEASURES Of meal Ger
,ainiy, in hsr husbands preaens,, Mrs.
Hinkis had been 4 patient Griseida
compared TO what she now was, freed
from heme restraints. She fretted and
tumed in an explosive manner, rais.a :
an unwonted fermentation in the Tsipp
household. She hated lis rolks; e.. c
hated Heuben Tor no: hatisg them she
hated herself !or hsyias borne their in
terfsrencs sc long; and declared she
ID no. had 'fho temper Of Gy'-
'hich, indeed, Was quite true Bat as
tho week wore OF uithou. bringing the
co'.icl yi.:on Of her hu3bana :. &c.
teci, tic eferveEctnce or hcs mood gas
fast subsidiuc, when the rrn,or tia;
Miss Phebs was welding her domestic
Aceptre, agltated it anew. Pretty Wor K
1t was, TO be crowded out of her own
home BY his folks! She knew now vhy
Reuben had not come. They had been
setting him agaiuat her. What if be
should never come? For the frs, time
this :hought intruded itself, and iu h c.
anguish she Eoughb relief in the cam
phor bottle. What right had Phebe in
her kitchen, solacing Reuben with do
iec'able cookery, whom he should have
been huugcring in solitude after his
wife She declared such conduct
would provoke q saint, though she did
not give her authority for this conric-
tion. One ching vas ssrs, Phsbs
should not have the washing of her tea
spoons Aad without delay Mrs. Hinkle
sent Juvenile Trip to remove these
aed other personal Vauables, choosing
the dinper hour for the Grand, that the
senio effect might te greater. When
MIR. flinkls Was forced to stir his tea
With foEt, perhaps he would be in
more hast to conoiliate his wifo The
plan Wss we'll laid but it failed in the
execution through the tardiness of little
Joe, who, having woodchpck to At.
tend TO oa the way, did not reach his
uncle's till the remains of the dinuer Law
cold on the pantry stelf, and Mr. Hink.
lie was half milo away at his sfteraoou
ploWins.
Miss Phebe sent the spoons sbedient.
| ly, inwnEaly resolved that Reuben
shoald not know OF this proof of La
why's uSliness,' for she Was well aware
that only her own repeated assurances
that Laviny would soften toward him If
! left to herself had kopt hir passive thus
4 lar. EraF lra up gsfa..,f
Seems il | wasn't doing the hand.