The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-04-24
A POSTAL CARD.

GOOD morning, Miss Laura" saiC
Mrs. Bender, stopping at the gate
How are the folks to-day ?"
"All well, thank you, Mrs. Bender.
I" didn't see any light in the bes
parlor last night, Miss Laura; howl
that? Any unpleasantness ?"
"None in the weather, surely. laugh
ed Laura.
"Ah d! I'm going down to the post
Office; shall I look in your box2 1 sup
pose you want your letters early, and
one likes to be neighborly."
" Yes, thank you, Mrs. Bender. ]
shall be in school till noon, and 1 love
to find letter under my dinner plate,
and therell be no one to go to the Office,
as Miss Frill is here, cutting and bast
ing. Yes, would be glad to have YOU
look in our box, not that expect much
of any thing"
ANY thing in Box 297 ?" she asked,
having reached the office and secured
her own mail. GA postal card well, l
never !'-as the clerk surrendered it.
"Miss Laura Vaughn |" she read, as
she trudged homeward. Gracious
who's writing to her on postal card ?
| wouldn't thank my folks to write in
thatpublic way. Everybody reads them,
OF course; just as much common proper
ty as a poster. Ahem You can hardly
help reading one; he who runs may
read-you see every word before you
know it. Don't fail to be at the Stu
dio Building by IL A. NJ. ON Wednesday.
NUNS the word. Jack. lack ! Who's
Jack, l should like to knowa Pretty
work, Miss Laura, for deacon's daugh-
ter What next? An elopement, may
be. And there's poor Devens, too 4! He
ought to be told of these goings on, and
put on his guard. It's duty not to
allow the young man to remain in the
dark. 1 shall have to manage it some
how"
Mrs. Bender left the postal card with
the servant ut Laura's door, and pro-
ceeded homeward. Mr.. Devens, as fate
had ordered it, boarded. with Mrs. Ben
der, and had been making himself too
agreeable to her young neighbor, when
she had other views for him-when
there was Prudence Bender sitting at
home at the piano, in her black silk and
clocked stockings, waiting for something
to happen. Mrs. Bender had somewhere
read that the fate of future generations
had been decided by the toss of curl or
the waving of ribbon, and she was de-
termined that neither curl nor ribbon
should be spared to favor her case.
tHave you seen anything of our
neighbors lately ?" she asked Mr.. Dew
ems at dinner.
II met Miss Nell Newcomb this morn
ing and walked to the mail with her, he
answered, evasively.
Oh. mean those on the other side
Of the house," Miss Nell was engaged,
and man might safely walk to Jericho
with her. "Miss Vaughn and you don't
see so much of each other as you did,
sh ?"
"Oh, don't we? May 1 trouble you
Tor the pepper, Miss Prue ?"
Law, no trouble, Mr.. Devens. If
you are going into the city tomorrow,
would you mind matching some fringe
'or me?" sea
~ wouldn't mind matching anything
or you, Miss Prue; but I've no more
dea of going into the city tomorrow
han of going to the moon"
ooh, I understood that Miss Laura
vas going. and I supposed-I didn't
1now but" a
" Miss Vaughn hasn't mentioned the
to me. Aren't you mistaken ?"
off his guard.
"Would she be likely to mention it
f she we're going to meet somebody in
particular ?" put in Mrs. Bender.
claw, ma, don't worry Mr.. Devens."
"I only said supposing.' II is well
o be prepared for the worst, isn't it,
dr. Devens ?"
"I am not in the least anxious, as
ure you," averred that gentleman; but
t struck him a little oddly that he
hould have heard nothing of the pro-
ected journey, since trip to Bosten
vas holiday affair to Laura. which she
openly discussed for weeks before and
.fter. To be sure, there had been lit |