The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-27

do you know where she is, susan ~
mo. But would to God I could
know"
"Would you help her if you could,
whether Solon knew it or not ?"
81 don't know as I'd dare to try that.
[ never disobeyed him in my life."
"Have you always done just what
your conscience approved in carrying
out your implicit obedience
'tNo, can't say that have"
"Then you've stultified your woman
hood and let the will and conscience of
another hold your own in allegiance, Su-
san. Is that right ?"
"I don't believe is"
"Then, take a friends advice and
never do it again"
az don't think I understand YOU"
"Do you know where Edna is, did you
say?" asked Aunt Judy again.
"Alas, no."
"She's at my house."
Mrs Rutherford turned deadly pale.
"And John ?"
'Is with her, and they've made it up"
"And what do you intend to do with
them, pray ?"
"I've set them to work, and 7 NJ 60
ing on a visit to my relatives in the
South. l mean to let ''em try house
keeping on a small scale till they get
able to do better"
80, Judy If Solon would only help
em, or let me! There's no kind of use
in our holding out against them. If
he'd minded me in the first place, I'd
kept Edna out of the boarding school,
and then she wouldn't have run off and
been disobedient. She told me once in
vacation that the beaux were all the
girls thought of or cared for in that
school,"
"Do you know what I'd do if I were
you, Susan ?" and Aunt Judy laughed
melodiously as she fidgeted to another
chair, planting her ample proportions
in very close proximity to her friend.
"Not being you, Judith, how should l
know ?" was the quick reply.
"Would you like to know ?"
'Pd like for somebody, or anybody,
to light me through this trouble" and
Mrs. Rutherfords checked apron again
sought her eyes to hide the falling tears.
"If Edna was my daughter, and the
wife of a rich man, whose riches had
mainly earned myself, as you have, I'd
teach him a trick worth dozen of what
he's up to, Susan"
"How ?"
Mrs. Rutherford could not even see
as through glass, darkly.
"Fd go to the bank and get the
money" said Aunt Judy.
"Where? What bank ?"
''The st. Louis National. Solon has
cords of money there, gorging itself t.
repletion on compound interest and do
ing nobody any good"
: "But how would you get it ?"
"Go and demand it as the wife of So
Ion Rutherford. They won't imagin,
3 but it's all right, and they'll be afraiC
D of offending your rich husband if they
s refuse it; so, as a bird in the hand
, worth two in the bush, you'd bette
e go while you're in the notion and secur
s your cash."
t 'But how can leave home ?" aske,
r Mrs. Rutherford, in fright.
D "Fll stay here till you return" sal
o her friend. "Pm in no hurry. There
e the boat, now, and you'll be compelle
v to hurry up. The dress you have on
all right. A clean, well-starched ging
= ham is good enough for any farmer
It wife. Here's a clean. collar, and here
d your cap, and you may wear my sill
= mantilla. Now you're ready, and here
o money to pay your fare and hotel bill:
You'd better stop at the American Ex
st change. They're used to farmers there
l. And don't you come back without tina
o thousand dollars"
it ''But SoIon-wha3ll he say ?"
er "Just nothing at all. Or, if be doe
=, fume, it won't hurt him, or you, eithe
Just leave him to me. plls manag
l. him.
Is Before Mrs. Rutherford had time
reflect, she found herself on the steamt
le and going rapidly down the rive
= Then, after it was too late to retract ht
le resolve and its consequences, she bega
10 to grow timid and regret her course.
1t Aunt Judy had no sooner gained ten
D, porary control over the home of Solo
sr Rutherford than she began collectin
Il the various articles of wearing appar
le that belonged to Edna.
ar ''pll see that the silly child has I'll
s. rags, at all events" she said, lookin
Il wise and smiling to herself in perfe
a complacency. "Dresses enough to stoC
rs a secondhand clothing store, and a
IN going to waste unless Edna gets 'em,
IS she continued, while she fairly huggt
w herself with delight. "And here's shee