Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-02-08

Early to bed and early to rise Its
that confounded old woman has up and
died at last, and Nan'll be wanting me
to come out to the funeral. No-halloo
what does this mean -
Nancy was thrown from a carriage
last night coming from the depot, and
died in two hours. BETHIAH SAGE.
Twice Mr. Millingford read over the
words with calm deliberation, entirely
devoid of foolish and unreasoning grief.
Poor Man," said the three month old
bridegroom. Il hope she's made her
viii all straight and correct. ought to
have seen to that before!''
And he rang the bell for his coffee
and boiled eggs.
She may as well be buried quietly
out there" said be to himself. mo oc-
casiOn for the fuss of bringing on her re-
mains. l must see the lawyers at once,
and l dare say they'll agree with me as
to there being lao sense in my travelling
out there, at this dreary season eff the
year. What will Sally say ?"
30, dear, dear, what world this is :"
groaned old Betsey. sharpening her
kitchen knife Miss Nancy only been
dead a week, and that there bold-faced
Miss Archer coming here to see how she
likes the patterns of the chintz curtains
and the carpets ready. I'll give warn
in anyhow. I'll not stay in no house
where there's such COINS on ~
Even while Betsey was darkly sOlilo-
quizing to this effect in the kitchen, Ma
ry Jane. the new maid, was showing an
infrm old lady in a capped bombazine
cloak, poke bonnet and a green barage
vail into the ante-room adjoining the
boudoir. which had once been Mrs. Har-
ry Blillingford's.
Please, ma am. masters particler en-
gagged. said she. with a young lady
and lot o. furniture men. Would YOU
wait minute ?"
''Ies, I'll wait. said the old lady,
and settled herself in an easy chair with
both hands clasped over the handle of
her umbrella.
But which Mary Jane departed. she
rose quietly up, and crept close to the
door. which ehanced to stand slightly
ajar. And through the crack she could
see Miss Sal}ie Archer, in a superb grvv-
silk dress, an India scarf. and eyes and
cheeks obnoxiously brilliant, reclining
gracefully on low divan, with MIr.
Millingford at her side. and Veneer, the
upholsterer from upper Broadway. obse-
quiOusiy receiving her orders.
"The curtains and lambrequins to be
in rose color and gold.' said she a
can't endure this horrid sea-tint: it
would make Venus herself look dowdy.
And carpet in the new pearl-gray with
small set figures in pink, and a set of
satin-wood and pale-blue- in the library,
and"
But, Sally, darling. can't all these
things be just as we'll attended to after
We are married ?" catelessly questioned
the widower
81 prefer them to be done at once, >
said Miss Archer, imperiously. And
while we are about it. Harry, | don't
like the old fashioned shape of the house
intend to have a conservatory thrown
out at the south end
"I'll throw you out first. Miss SALLY
Archer. croaked voice of sti9ed fury,
as the boudoir door swung open. and
Mrs Nancy herself walked IN, fingine
aside the bombazine Grape and the poke
bonnet. Please to walk out of nv
house. as fast as Is convenient to you -
Nancy - gaspcd Ir Millingfcrd,
springing TO his feet while Miss Archer
burst into a succession of hysterical
screams. and covered her face with heI
hands. as if to shut ont the dreaded
presence of a visitant from ghostly
realm
''Yes. Nancy. not dead after all, -
she retorted. triu~phantly. 1T was my
cousin, Nancy Beams. that was thrown
out of the wagon and killed. not me. a,
you might have discovered if you'd tax.
en- the trouble TO come out there. So YOU
see, Harry. my dear. all your deep and
heartfelt grief Is utterly thrown away
And you and MISS Sallie Archer cannot
be married just at present"
Mrs. Millingford allows her husband
five hundred a year-just enough. as ht
grumbliDgly remarks. to starve on but
she won't let him set his foot across the
threshold Of the handsome house OF
Fourteenth street. where she lives like
an Oriental princess. with Hester Har
per to keep her company. Miss Sallit
Archer has left the city-and Betsey
tells the neighboring cook. over th,
fence, that things goes deal Smoother
since Inissis and her husband has agreed
to quarrel"
A woman OF Port Austin, Mich. late
ly sued liquor dealer for selling ardent
spirits to her husband, and the proc
was so clear that the defendant settled