The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
VOLUME X.

"The lady and her daughter sale
she. "Well, don't know as there j!
anything in particular to tell about
them. They were respectable people
and excellent dodgers their rent was as
punctual in coming as the Saturday
they stayed fourteen months, and they
went away"
"You have not mentioned thei,
namel"
"Their name? Well surely I must
have known their name when I went
after the reference, but as they know
nobody, and were known to nobody, ]
Don for got it. We called the mother
the Parlor and the daughter the
Young Lady for you see, at that time
there was not another young lady in
the house. Their occupation? AS for
that, the mother marketed and the
daughter sewed. sitting in her chair at
the window. Sometimes they walked,
sometimes they read, sometimes they
chatted. They did nothing esle as 1
know OF. They lived on their means
like other dodgers. All dodgers that
stay fourteen months have means. You
be so green, mister, you make me laugh
right ont !
"I only wanted to know what was
their station. how they lived and"
"Lived Oh, very respectable A
baked shoulder, We shall say, on the
Sunday, with potatoes under it; Mon
day, cold /; Tuesday, hashed there may
be a pair of pigeons for the We'd
nesday; Thursday, a dish of sassen-
gers Friday. a little mackeril, or, per-
haps, codfsh-b balls, and on Saturday
just little nice lunch of bread and
butter and tea made up the week"
every respectable. I know what a
lady is, mister here the lapdlady
fixed her eye upon me severely" and
them were ladies I"
&C. have no reason to doubt it at all, )"
I replied, feeling her gaze still fixed
upon me /; "the young mau, of course,
was something like themselves
HE was nothing but O mystery over
the way. I don't know even as he were
a young man. He might just as we'll
have been q middle-aged man or an
elderly man. There he sat at the par
lor window opposite, with book in his
hand but it was easy to see it was our
window he was reading. where the
youung lady was sitting, as have told
you, sewing in her chair; he must have
made powerful slow work readin' that
book. Day after day, week after week,
month after month, there he was, lock-
ing and looking and looking, till the
picture dare say gathered upon his
eye, as he could see little else in the
world"
"The young lady, hope, returned
the looks ?"
"She, poor dear Lor' love you, sir,
she was so short-sighted that she
tell whether it was house or
hedge on the other side of the way.
She did so laugh when told her there
was young man lookin' at her Then
when she turned her poor blind eyes in
that direction promiscus like how he
jerked away his head, as if he had been
3 stealth something It was a great |
misfortune for him that I had put in
my oar, for all his long, lonely, quiet |
looks was now at an end. The young |
lady could not refrain from turning her |
head sometimes; and every time she |
did so it gave him such scare and a
spasm But when, at last, she got mp
now and then, as if to look, full length,
at something in the street, he fairly |
bolted from the window. He couldn't
stand that, not by no manner of means /;
little knowing, poor soul, that the eye
that had bewitched him did not carry
half way across the street.
"That is excellent, excellent " said |
|, for we we're now evidently coming |
10 the pith of the story, "but they no
doubt met at last?"
"You shall hear-you shall hear"
replied my landlady Z" but I must first
tell you that one day when he had been
driven away out of full sight by the
full length of the young lady, went
put for couple of chops for their din
ners. Well, I was gone ever 30 long,
Tor was not 10 be done out of penny
|, pound so easily; but in coming home,
,s the young lady was sitting sewing
away, thought I would just pass by
,he other side before walking over, and
70, mister, while going by the house,
looked in at his window and there was
night to see ! He had retired to the
back part of the room where he was
sitting, his back to the wall, his two
elbows on table before him, and his
chin resting on his knuckles ; and thus
had he been staring, for two hours,
probably, right across the street, un-
seen and alone, with that young lady
before him like a vision, as it were, of
his own calling up. As for the meeting
Of the two"
"Stop, ma'ami Before you come to
hat describe the young man."
"The young man, if he were a young
man, was steady, grave, sedate, quiet
who might have been all
ages from twenty-five to fifty. He wore
black clothes and a white cravat; his
hat was always smooth and glossy; his
boots looked as if they had been French
polished his hair was brown and
,ombed smooth, and he walked as if he
was measuring the pavement with his
steps. Heleft the house at one hour and
at another, neither a minute
earlier or a minute later and he in
1ulged his poor heart with the young
ady for the same space of time every |
lay.
And the heroine? ?"
"The what, mister ?"
"The young LADY, beg pardon"
"Oh, she was nice sort of person |
If two or three and twenty light-hesrt
ID, but quiet in her manner, with good
pretty enough features,
;aking them all together, and light blue