The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-06-22
"Did you lose any thingp" he asked.


"No," was the prompt reply.
care you quite sure, madam"
"Perfectly. know I did not;'' and
Mrs. Nagus got q little red in the face.
She did not like to be questioned she
always knew what she said.
al think, though, you left a muff on
your seat"
"No, I didn't" was the very decided
answer.
A sharp observer might have seer a
faint smile twinkle about the Judges
lips. Mrs. Magus, however, IA staring
straight at the conductor, who went IN (:
al found a seal.skin muff on the seat
where you sat, just rs the last passen-
ger went out. / always go through
the cars then. l thought it must be
yours, for no one had been in that seat
but an old gentleman who left at Tram
way. I'll bring it,"
"No, you needn't" said Mrs. Magus,
but the conductor went off without
minding her.
"What a persistent fool that man
isl" she said to the Judge; but the
Judge made no reply. How could heP
for the conductor came back from the
next car just then, bringing in his hand
Mrs. Magus's own seal skin muff. There
was no disowning it.. The muff was
hers. She had sewed into its lining a
bit of white silk with her name stamped
on it, in order that she might always
distinguish her muff from other peoples
mutis and there it was.
Mrs. Magus was COMPOUNDED. How
ever, her wits were quick. She determin.
ed to send the Judge into court alone, &c
explain things and make amends for hei
mistake, for she could not and would
not face Mrs. Basil, the Doctor and
poor Norah.
The Judge was at the car-door, talk
ing to a man who was to get out al
Morristown, the only station between
Hockanum and the city. He was very
much interested, evidently. He went
out on the platform with this man a,
the train slowed before stopping, and
he did not come in again at all. liz
explained afterward that in the heat o,
an argument with the man, he stepped
off on the Morristown platform, and the
cars moved off before he could stel
back.
Mrs. Magus was very angry, but SHE
couldn't help herself. She had to g
on now. She had to face Mrs. Basil
who only said
"Well | do declare! Wasn't it fun
nyP | was certain | saw you have it
but / was just thinking | shouldn't like
to swear to it."
She had also to face the grave, dis
pleased politeness of DR.. Brett, and thu
drawn, white countenance Of Norah
who looked heart-broken.
Worse than all, the police-judge TO
once sympathized with the defendant
and he suggested to Mrs. Magus that tn
poor girl ought to have some compen
sation for her Imprisonment and dis
tress. Mrs. Magus handed her a ten
dollar bill, which Norah indignant
threw after her; but DIR. Brett pickle
it up; and as the crest-fallen lady dc
parted, without a word or look of fare
well to Mrs. Basil or the Doctor, sh
heard, before she could get outside tn
door, a quivering, angry voice cry GU,
"Is it the dir-r-ty moneys goin'
make up to me for the weary night
that place, the sore heart, the sin | con
mitted hearin' all the bad words, an
the sorrow I'll have to hear folks say
That's Norah Mcguire, that was too
up for stalinP'"
No, indeed! Mrs. Magus might, !
her W phrase, be ''quite sure;" bt
nothing could make up to Norah fc
what she had brought upon her, an
nothing could ever make the Judge fo
get that his positive, self-complacel
wife had made a dreadful mistake. BIZ
the good of it all was the bitter lesso
Mrs. Magus learned-never to be tc
! sure.-Yo Youths Companion.