Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-10-07


I" You needn't look at me, | sha'n't.
My will was made years ago. But ]
should think" she added, refectively,
"that If a young man had any push, he
could find way to support himself and
awife too. If wanted to marry Sarah,
I'd emigrate, but I'd do it. But there
what do / care? What should do, to
be sure, without herP No, let Arnold
Parnell marry En- or Kate, or any
other baggage. My Sarah's too good fol
him." 7t75
II quite agree with Miss Dehone, u
said mamma, who had walked from her
nap on the lounge. eff young man is
worth marrying, he will find out a
way"
i 4" / suppose he will" said /, 'sby the
time they are both gray-headed."
i"Dear! deari' said Miss Dehone.
"fWhat a world it is!'' And when Ar
nold's gig stopped at the door that
night, the old lady hitched her chair
round and deliberately turned her
shoulder on him, having first fitted on
a pair of dark blue glasses for the pro-
lection of her eyes from the fire, and
leaned back in her chair to enjoy nap.
Arnold and Sarah sat down for game
of cribbage, and perhaps the sound of
the mOnCtonOus enumeration and itera-
ton lulled her of-and perhaps they
! didn't. At any rate, she soon gave audi
4 BILE testimony to being asleep; and /
went into the back parlor, where NAM
ma was playing whist with Kate and
two dummies-for En- and Fred Mallows
were so taken up with each other as to
be no better than dummies. 81 declare, -
said mamma. as En- trumped her own
trick and Fred placidly revoked, :" had
as lief play with two figure heads.
Pray, Mr.. Mallows, do you follow Pole,
or Cavendish, or De Vautre, or"
:. follow my partners lead, said Mr.,
Mallows.
went and looked on at the play; and
as they grew merry and forgetful, /
| glanced into the little mirror that re-
| tiected a corner of the other room, be-
| ing the only one in the range of its pic
ture, and | saw Arnold's hand pause in
movingea peg, and close round Sarah's
half-suspended one-and there was no
more cribbage played in the front par
lor that night. And by-and-bye, when
Sarah came to bed, l pretended TO be
asleep, but for all that / saw her cheeks
the color of two carnations, and hereyes
shining with such sweet light in them
as she put down the lamp and stood
leaning her arms on the bureau and
looking in the glass. "Oh!n she muir
INJURED to herself ''And it will be an
old, old woman's firstr' And l heard
her crying softly to herself whenever l
woke up in the night, as / had never
heard her do before.
But the next morning there was no
time for sentiment. Miss Dehone was
i'll And after no end of running with
h1+ a.. ali Lo+ H.
it was a case for a doctor, and / mnst
send for one.
Why not have Arnold?" said /.
Arno1di' she cried, with contempt.
'fDo you suppose want to make
clinical lecture of myself for that boy?
Do [ want to be subject for young
chattering Mallows there last night.
after you went up, telling of Arnold's
taking that Irish baby up to his own
room to get well; and of his transfusing
blood from his right arm for that dying
woman-but you see she died-and he
hadn't any right to do it. And | can't
say when | have felt more indignant
than went he told of Arnold's taking out
Il screw in the life-boat in that Septem-
Der gale to rescue the people on the
wreck of the Sariana. Suppose I'd been
one of his patients, and he'd risk his life
so in the very middle of my case"
"How did you hear all that, Miss
Dehonep / thought you were asleep.n
II woke up"
ssPerhaps you heard something else?n
81 heard a great deal else," said she,
with some emphatic mods, and her little
black eyes sparkling like diamonds.
s'And saw too"
Il don't see what there was to see."
''Just as good as a novel, my dear,
just as good as a novel-a real live
novel. too"
"Do you mean Sarah and Arnold?"
She nodded again.
L don't think you had any right"
/ began.
Now you stop just there!" she cried.
''That's my affair, and not yours. If l
can square it with my conscience, I'm
not obliged to square it by yours Then
the little sprite looked up at me withIthe
oldest, eeriest laugh Do you want to
know how l saw them?'' she said
Then you put on my glasses. I'm about
done with them" And she thrust the
blue spectacles on my nose, tilted at an
abtuse angle, and | saw the whole room
behind me reflected in miniature in the
blue glasses, as if they were a Psyche
mirror.
"Oh, how meanp' I exclaimed.
Pshaw! Why should they mind me
any more than an old tree? | am an
old tree / saw him kiss her hand; and
-and l should have seen him kiss her
| lips, guess-her beautiful sweet slips
if / hadn't shut my eyes just then. Oh,
| yes, have a little conscience. You are
going to warn them about me? You'd
better not. The motto on one of our
! first coins was, mind your own business
| I'll give you one Of them for your col
lection if you'll hold your tongue. And
I'm glad you think it's mean, too; but
then it isn't wise or respectful for you to
say so," said the midget Arnold?
No, l want Il practical man. He's hand
some enough-oh, he's very well-look-
ing; handsome as Sarah; handsome
like King Saul. But like an ugly doc
tor. And my throat's all filling up.
wish you'd hurry. Whois the best doc
tor here-I mean the oldestP Who has
the widest practice? / want him." So
/ / sent for DIR. Burns; and the little crea-
ture insisted on seeing him alone, and a
sweet time, we thought, he had of it
with her.
Hes an old man, very old man,
together too old to practice, and / told
him so. If / like an old doctor, | don't