Ellsworth American., 1877-06-14
Misefll llaneous.
Married People.

Mrs. Danford went to the depot to meet
her husband when he came back from the
West. Three years ago the firm had taken
him from his desk as book keeper and sent
him out ON collecting tours; he had been
coming and going ever since. but his wife
never could get used 10 Il. Before that she
never left the house except TO go 10 church
or market, bat Row she wen. 10 the depot
whenever he was coming home, after even
days absence, once going TO Harrisburg.
when the train was delayed there, In the
middle Of the night. Her children thought
their mother had all the good sense and
even temper there was in the world but
her husband knew that nobody was so ex-
citable and weak a. she. II was curious
10 see how she could single out the stopped
red headed little man in his linen duster
among the thousands pouring out Of the
depot. and how. though she was one of
the timidest women alive. she would go
straight to him, as though the men about
her were so many dead trunks of trees.
He always explained TO her how IL was
impossible for her to 90 with him now a.
she used 10 do on those little excursions
when they were first married.
We haven't the money. Lizzy and then
who would stay with the childrenr"
"Oh yes, | know. Richard, that can't
60"
or course she knew, ard he knew that
she knew. But he explained it to her ev-
erytime II he noticed that her laugh was
not steady, or that her chin was qulvering,
he would. 90 on making droll adventures
out of every little happening of his Jour
ney. until she laughed in good earnest. and
gradually the talk would slip back to those
old jaunts of theirs the time they went
trout fishing up TO Nittany, or that week
they spent in Baltimore when they were
snow bound at Havre-de Grace. Elizabeth
could remember every excuse the fat old
conductor made. She had travelled very
little.
I'm about ten years Charlie will be in
business, and shall have made nv pile.
and We will take Nelly and go to Europe"
That was Il standing joke between them.
But they seriously did hope that the time
might come when they could afford to stay
together. The worst pull will be over
when Charley has his schooling" Dan
ford would say land then | can save up
and go into some little business of my own.
III never leave you then, Lizzy."
He knew she needed nothing more than
that to make her life entirely conented.
Yet anybody looking a. the two would
wonder how the insignificant ugly little
man had brought woman Of so mneh
finer grain than himself to love him. But
he did not know what anybody thought of
his wife or himself
They rode home together this evening in
the horse-cars. she carrying his overcoat
while he took the valise. The ride was
long and the car crowded. for il was rain
ing. During the month that Danford had
been gone. the family had taken possession
of little house which was TO be their
home. lie had long ago joined one of
those building societies by which in Phlla-
delphia. man, so easily secures his own
house. Instead Of building a new one, he
had, to please her, bought one of those old
stone cottages On the outskirts of German.
town; its hip-roof and orchard of old apple
trees gave il picturesque dignity beside
the staring blocks of its pretentious neigh.
bors.
Mrs. Danford, in a half-whisper. was
talking all the way, not giving her husband
a chance to say word. She as an ex-
ceptionally quiet person with everybody
but Richard. but with him the most invet-
crate of takers.
And the parlor carpet-you would be
astonished to see how beautifully it fits:
but l wrote to you about that. And
took the shelves out of the linen closet and
made OF il work-room for Charley-hs
books and printing-press and rubbish, you
know; and the room with two windows is
to be Nelly's-"
"Baby's!" Danford chuckled, knowing
that his wife, although baby was four years
old. meyer slept until the little hands were
nestled in her bosom.
''She must have a room OF her own soon.
You will give her that one? promise me,
Richard have pspered it myself-pale