Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-10-19
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IAncy, Angrily, IS her most intimate
trend, Mr. Lucy Jones. ran into their
boarding house With a piece Of news II
which they we're both deeply inter
ested.
wins, shall you 60, Isabel go
away till she returns to New York 2"
asked Lucy.
Isabel looked keenly at her.
That is not your own idea. Lucy.
Who told you to ask that question
mo one. Ihave heard so many PEG
pie wonder whether you uouId 60 or
stay, that the words slipped ont of my
mouth before thought"
"They talk then about it?"
"Who CAT help talking, Isabel Twin
sisters, parted in anger. and never
speaking or writing to each other in all
these years-fve, is it not 2"
NEARLY seven. Lucy"
"Aud then TO meet at last, and in such
way, by the grave of your own moth
eri You would talk about too, Isabel,
if the case were not your own"
"Do you know when she is coming p
asked Isabel, after slight pause.
Tomorrow night, You know that
tie graves are to b. moved on Wednes.
Little more was said on the subject
till the two friends had finished their
toilet and we're ready for the tea-table.
Then the pretty little widow said coax
ingly: 49,, x ~, . u,, uon
quarreled with Serens?"
aha An 80 lak-aav -, an1 ~ a
man I loved. She lied to him and to
mo, till We were on the verge of part
ing, and then she kept back. and finally
destroyed, . letter which he had oon-
hded to her keeping-s letter which
might have made everything right be-
tween us again. I accused her of this.
She owned it, and triumphed over me-.
I have never spoken to her since"
'But why should she wish to injure
You Z" asked the surprised friend.
''That Heaveni the reason has never
been guessed here, or you would have
been told. MY kind sister loved this
man, too" said Isabel, bitterly. Low
ed him and won him from me by mere
falsehoods. She IVES his wife for three
years. but for four years past he has
been free from her, and If the bless.
ed ones in the bettet land still see us
and care for MS, he knows now that I
have never changed. This is strict con-
f1dence a. between true friends, Lucy.
And now never speak of this again to
me II you really love me-"
''And this is why she never married,
and when she seems 30 Indifferent to all
these men who crowd around her so
continually" thought Lucy to herself,
- she watched her friend, later in the
evening. the center of attraction to all
the gentleman who thrqnged the long
drswing-room of the fashionable board
ing-hOuse, as soon as it became noised
about that Miss Lancy had quilted the
seclusion Of her apartments for time.
-
On Wednesday morning the town of
Glendale was all astir. The old "West
End Graveyard" which had been used
from the death of the first settlers, was
to be turned into the engine yard for
the new railway which was to be opened
early in the autumn, and the graves
were opened on this day, one by one, in
the presence of the families and friends,
every crumbling relic of mortality be-
ing reverently transferred to new cof-
fins, to be carried to the new burying-
ground in one general funeral process
sion, at nightfall; in which procession
the whole town stood ready to join.
Much Of the needed labor had been
done by the sexton and his assistants
before the one solemn day of removal
arrived.
On Wednesday the younger men of
the chief families lent their aid. The
work went quickly bat reverently on.
and as the sun shone ont brightly from
the dull gray sky for few moments be-
fore setting there remained but one
grave open. 1t MAS the last resting
place Of Evelyn Lancy. the mother Of
the twin sisters Who bad stood amonS
the erowd Of spectators all day long.
without once speaking or even looking
a each other. although ihey both con
vesssd readily enough with their MANY
uuanal friends-
A each grave w.s olened the family
% whom n belonged sdvabced 90 the
brink and stood io'oking dosn upon if-
coGln. or lis srssf~rexl relics, IN sllenre
O. In tears-
There ~ese nzany pr~s<zs ~ho had
knosn md lowed Es~iyn wyba-s In
lar g4riAsesa. snd Es~isn Lan~y - (.
vife ssa . m0sA~r, bgf ne xna0ng
th<1 claimed kIDas~d tia<sd ~Esk the
nee sxssDcs V , tsurn f@railr. AID. - the
seed es~xgy @.n ssspf~& fsrs4sd to coa
dnef the surviving rel~fIxe- 50 the
grave. every eye szrssi IN the tee t-.a-
tzsl sesp~n sa.a&xng vIsk ssers~s fsu~-
- dosn<.sa eses. . fsrsi~ Sssaxnr-
apnss
The svins rssrnbiea e.eh csher pre-
ein<ly in helxht- kxxs<. ssd - th- s-e-
er~l casss~<< ssd ezrn a the nsrk and
hnaA-
Bet S<s~nA. shs vss tie elA-S b. .