The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-08-21
DlNAH AIMS REVENGE.

Not a word, mind, to Dinah Ami
Dmah Ann herself, the speakers wife,
having strolled down the garden in the
sweet stiffness of the summer night,
heard these suggestive words rs the gig
pulled up at the gate, and her husband
descended from it, She was pleasing
+ little woman OF seven or eight and thir-
+ ty, with a dark brown eye, a bright,
fresh face, and natural propensity to
! { Ike her own way, In the house and out
Of it. Drawing back from the gate be
hind the well kept hawthorn hedge, she
waited for what was to come next.
8 Not a word, for your life, mind, to
Dinah Ann
''No fear" replied voice, which she
recognized as that of her brother, Harry
Leete; Z" | know what woman are. Shed
be for revolutioniZlug the house, and
herself too, once let her get IN inkling OF
this. No fear, James! Take care, on
your side, that you don't lose that-or
let Dmah Ann find it.
:" I'll take care. When are you com
ing TO smoke quiet pipe with me |
shall want your advice as to-"
q One Of these evenings" interrupted
the lawyer, as he drove on up the lane.
" Good ni2htn'
James Harbury, substantial farmer
ana agriculttrist, came through the gate
and turned to fasten it. Had he turned
the other way, to tie left instead OF to
the right, he would have seen his wife,
standing against tie hedge as close as
She could, almost into it. He did not
see her and went straight up the path
toward the house When his footsteps
had died away, Mrs. Harbury wound her
light summer gown over ler black silk
apron, caught hold Of her lilac cap
strings, lest the cap should fly oil, ran
swiftly up the narrow sidewalk, got
round to the back, went through the
house, let drop her gown and entered
the sitting room, all calmly, nearly as
soon as her husband.
Got back, she exclaimed with a
look Of surprise.
"Just come, replied the farmer,
" Harry drove me in his gig"
"What brings Harry up here in his
gig, at this time ? and Why did you not
come back with Hall p inquired Mrs.
Harbury, who liked to be at the begin.
ming and the end of everything
. Harry had to come, said the farmer,
who seemed to be walking about rather
rcstlessly-and who never thought OF
refusing to satisfy his wife's questions.
" He got a message from the Down
farm, to 90 over there without loss OF
time. | thought [ might az well come
with him, Dinah Ann. AS to Hall, !
left him stuck in the 5ap-room OF the
Tawny Lion he didn't order his zig tc
be ready before 10 o'clock.
just like Peter Hall! You'd have
taken the rcins yourself, James, Ireckon,
had You come back with him.
''Oh, he'll not get rs bad as all that
But, | say, Dinah Ann, it's q sad thing
about Partridge nj the Down Farm. \
day or two ago he went ont with his hay
understand you know what a man he is
to work, when he does set about it-got
into a heat and drank lot of cold cider
1t stuck to him, for death, they say
and Harry has gone to make his Will. .
''What a dreadful thing," exclaimed
Dinah Ann, who had a feeling heart,
with all her curiosity.
AYE, It's. [ think I'd like a snack OF
cold beef, Dinah Ann, though it IS late.
I got talking TO your brother in his
office, and missed my tea, so I've had
nothing to eat since one o'clock dinner.
While Phoebe puts it, I'll Just go and
take a look Mt White Bess.
"White Bess IS all right, said Mrs.
Harbury " So much better that Evan
thinks You might have ridden her Nc
need to go and see her now"
Better, is she. / should like to give
her look.
He took up his hat, which still lay on
the table, and went cut. Mrs. Har.
bury's eyes followed him; they were full
Of speculation, and her mind also
= don't believe he has gone to look
4 at the mare, " soliloquized she. He'd
not disturb her now he hears she is al
right. And how absent and fdgety he
seemed. There is some mystery agate
and | should like to know what it IS.
wonder whether-I should not think
no, [ should not think he can have stoieT
out to meet somebody" she concluded
her tone dubious, in spite cf the stress
laid on the "not.
Stepping lightly into the kitchen an6
giving her orders to Phoebe about the
supper-tray, she caught up an old wa
terproof cloak that hung in the back
! passage, threw it on to hide her light
dress, and crept ont after her husband
It was very light and beautiful night
in, fact 1t could not be. said to be yet
as dark as it would be-aud that is never
dark in the fine nights of summer.
For him to lose his tea, ran hel
thoughts, "of al things! 1t must be
uncommonly urgent business to induce
James to forego a meal Of any kind.
DO wonder what secret they have got be
tween them. Not n word, for youl
life. mind. to Dinah Ann, cries he Ne
fear, answers Harry, | know what
women are-and she'd be for revolution
ling the house, and herself too. Yes
that | should; but is them that I should
revolutionize. not myself. she cmphat-
ically pronounced. 1t may be that old
love affair cropped up again,-that
woman who threatened 10 bring an &c
ton for breach of promise when James
married me. Perhaps she has beer
writing letters to him 4? Mind You don't
let DInah Ann find it, says Harry. O.
perhaps perhaps James has been fool
ish enough to let her meet him, Harry
not a married man himself, and alawver
would lend himself to any earthly thinG
thing without scruple. All lawyers do.
This rural district, remote from the
haunts of WHY men OF the world, wa:
given over entirely to farmers and farm
ing interests; slmpie-Inindeua and simple
hammered people, who lived out theI
uneventful lives in the routine 81 tlei
daily duties The small market town Q
Northam, four miles distant, was sleep,