The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01
A Postal Gard.

Good morning, Miss Laura" said
Mrs. Bender, stopping at the gate.
How are the folks today"
All we'll, thank you, Mrs. Bender"
81 didn't see any light in the best
parlor last night, Miss Laura; how's
that? Any unpleasantnessT
"None in the weather, surely" laugh
ed Laura.
"Ah Pm going down to the post
office; shalt look in your box? | sup
pose you want your letters early, and
any one likes to be neighborly."
Yes, thank you, Mrs. Bender. |
shall be in school till noon, and love to
find letter under my dinner plate, and
there'll be no one to 60 to the office, as
Miss Frill is here, cutting and basting.
Yes, / would be glad to have you look
in our box, not that | expect much of
anything"
Anything in box 297?' she asked,
having reached the office and secured
her own mail. A postalcardl well, |
neverp-as the clerk surrendered it.
Miss Laura Vaughnw she read, as she
trudged homeward. "Gracious! who's
writing to her on posta[card?
wouldn't thank my folks to write in that
public way Every body reads them, of
course; just as common property 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 Studio building
at Ii A. NJ, on Wednesday. NUNS the
word. Jack jack Who's Jack, |
should like to know? Pretty work, Miss
Laura, for a deacon's daughter What
next? An elopement, maybe. And
there's poor Deyens, too. 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. |
shall have to manage it somehow"
Mrs. Bender left the postal card with
the servant at Lauras door, and pro-
ceeded homeward Mr. Devens, as fate
had ordered it, boarded with Mrs.
Bender, 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
clicked 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
Have you seen anything of our
neighbors lately" she asked Mr.. Devens
at dinner.
q 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 a man might safely walk to Jericho
with her. Miss Vaughn and you don't
see SO much of each other as you did,
eh@
"Oh, don't We? May l trouble you for
the pepper Miss Prue|
Law, no trouble Mr.. Devens. If
you're going into the city tomorrow,
would you mind matching some fringe
for me?''
" wouldn't mind matching anything
for you, Miss Prue; but I've no more
idea of going into the city tomorrow
than of going to the moon"
"Oh, | understood that Miss Laura
was going, and / supposed didn't
know but"
Miss Vaughn hasn't mentioned the
excursion to me. Aren't you Mistaken
off his guard.
Would she be likely to mention it if
she were going to meet somebody in par
ticular%' put in Mrs. Bender.
Law, ma, don't worry Mr.. Devens.
q only said supposing' 1t is well
to be prepared for the worst, isn't it, Mr..
pepens?''
9 am not in the least anxious, l as
sure YOU" averred that gentleman; but
1t struck him a little oddly that he
should have heard nothing of the pro-
jected journey, since a trip to Boston was
a holiday affair to. Laura, which she
openly discussed for weeks before and
after. To be sure, there had been a
little GOODNESS between them, dating from
the time when he brought her a letter
from the mail, directed in a fine mascu
line hand, and she had refused to pratifv
his curiosity about it. He had spent the
next evening playing euchre with Miss
KING, and Laura had seen him 90 in for
that purpose. One trife after another
had helped to widen the little rift with.
in the lutte, and he had not been near
Laura's door for three whole DAYS
Hadn't he better step over this evening
and see hew she was enduring it? he
said to himself. And about this trim 20
Boston. How could she leave her dis
trict school? 1t was only some nonsense
of Mrs. Bender's, no doubt. But, de-
laying in the hall on Wednesday evening
to brush his hat, he overheard Miss Prue
saying to her mother: ELLEN Dow
taught school for Laura Vaughn to-day.
| wonder the committee JOINT complain.
1t is very odd about her going up to Bos-
ton. She requested Ellen Dow not to
mention it, too. And Ellen told me not
to say word about it, either, so don't
you let it out to Mr.. Devens, ma, Just to
tease him. | wonder if she met Jack.
Her father doesn't approve of him, so
she meets him on the sly" pursued
Prue, weaving her romance from the
meagre material in hand 81 wish you
would forbid somebody coming to see