Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-04-12

inserting the wedge Of inquiry.
"Ah Miss Disbrow Yes, I am going
10 Chicago on little business trip.
W ont YOU come in p
THANK YOU, Mr.. Whiting. not this
morning. Docs your wife accompany
you %
'sNo, she doesn't. She is going to
Cincinnati for a few days," replied Mr.. |
Whiting, who was az guleless as a spring |
chicken. and not much more of mouth |
ful for the maneuyereing black fox, wh)
always found n great deal more flavor in
anything she had first unearhed by skill
ful digging "You had better come in, "
continued he, cordially. "Mrs. Whiting
Is busy picking, but she will be glad to
SEE you" And the deluded man really
believed SO, for although he had lived 10
such close relation with Mrs. Whiting for
FIVE years, he was ouly a man after all.
But Miss DlsbrOw was woman. and so
she kRew q great deal better than to he
persuaded that person is glad to see
callers when packing.
son. no indeed, Mr.. Whiting. Thank
Won, hut lust ran over in a neighborly
way to tell you Of a little accident hap
pcned 10 observe from my window. A
pillow fell from the baluslrade, where
your chambermaid very carelessly left IT.,
and Is now lying upon the sidewalk
was fearful il might come TO Grief before
any of the family missed IL. Goo morn
ing" And so speaking, Miss Disbrow
bowed and rust1rd away.
ssBeni ,nin- said she mvstariouslv.
when She reached her oNn rorl<inp.rhair
lnvain. 81 cannot see why Mrs. Whiting
takes time TO 70 to Cincinnati when her
husband is away. II would be my choice
not TO leave the house alone with that
0ightv BRIDGET Geoakcs. Or. thea, why
moi Mrs, Whiting 20 to DIV while her
husband ia here To sec her Off | can't
understand il.n
And with this. Miss D.shrow fall into a
at of musing. and unused so long and
sii.ntlv tbat Rrniami,, f,lI asieen md
dr.ar,oa be know whore tbare ivos 4
woodcocl' "a boie with woodcocl. in II
Naan,in,a Mr Ivhiting kiseeJ b,s ,vif,
(nrobahlv \ TOOK his valise and went on.
hannilv nnconsrions of a c,ou1 no bIgge,
tban a man,s hand already coming in hi,
'Io,nsstic stv Ue tbought of no shadow
dorlrer than the hank of heavy damnnes,
, hano,irs, ahov,. bis bead in tbc heavens
hnd t,at Very evening those vonorou
i, o,ords bavi,,s suil,ed Ionv .nourh ove
4 ,i,a ,,,dd, condition or tbe ets mad
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a n siinpiro.cT ~ o,r.ot white blanl,ets
n, aa,ldo,y, tho streots ond rooGs an,
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n ,bo H. ra,,,, ,yi,b tho scrariu,, of shnvaI
a, WA iinaItm,, of siei,rb hsil.
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"a or s,,rt;ro ortrr sucb a snoyv win ever
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's as SUR ns y"n M m''', ,bnoh,,, /,
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wy IVY WIN m.n u." t oo''' a., 1oni's ,,,' as III
vi. "n" ,n, "i 4, ,I"nsa ), odded Mis- nisbrn
~ ~ yJm hor o,,ora oisss ,vhicb aIva
O. uIl''E,rs nei uPS," m ,nonav rov
ar, bfai upnn the small figure Of her nei.
,er b,,r ,gLo ,yns tn'nin,l b,rl. nt the a,
,on s,r a Iost % word tn Brtig.t. seeming as .
r"r stnod w. ,herr ~ he untri.d ms che
,i u1ou r nd a1et ;nnocont y" ,iV "s % nnf,ndv ID ro
Nm. pmt alas thin~s are moi what Il
her scem
nm. HIf that woman ia cvor disectcd ",
~ a IN coo hor beaTt Re,ismin. bcli,
,eu. sSe has no more man yon conld mt
'or, nv n''i,t ,'t Oe a ncedIe do so ;, reeno
ICES Se ed sd' MIS- D,sbrow uniting downber rla
was as the carriage slowly plowed its v
vLo aIong tho snowv street AND taking
nrld ,be bocl,-mark she was embroidrrinr
4 or he nnimit hibl..
erv- The snn shone. the pigeons wbir
sed. n,st The windows. the school.bovs sn
MA hnllcd IN. rnpinc screamed. and the q
med rnnhied and grumblei. and glided ON
ated the .denot. disanpearinr aronrd the 4
curve. ont bevond the city limits, and
row. away into the limitless somewhere of
mon wide world. And with them went 4
Mrs. Mrs. whiting, bithe as blue jay,
help charming as a june morning. Bnt
dial. though She looked 90. what il, afier
real she was not simple-hearted as daisy
e is "Did Won know Mrs Whiting over
stars had gone away, Aunt Alma l'' cried