Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-12-08
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haps you had better get any ulpre.-
The flowers don't bloom very profusely,
and my daughters like them for Their hair,
Besides, Mr.. Charteris doesa't approve OF
the whole neighborhood running riot
through his grounds. n...-.-..
''Jetty's deep blue eyes ias''esf.s
Madam said she, did Mr.. Garter
tell you to say this?"
sN-not exactly faltered the sour-yisaR-
ed widow; 'but-"
"Then.'' said Jetty,.s'you haW been
guilty of a very rude and unhospltable ac-
tion!''
Aud, finging her white buds and BIOS
SONS on the tiled fiHer of the greenhouse,
she walked out like princess.
"Well, 1 never.!'' said Mrs. Copman,
scarcely knowing whether to be most in
dignant OF surprised at this imperial con
duct - *
While Jstty Lane hurried on, never stop
ping to shed the tears which seemed to
scald her resolute eyelids until she was safe
in the little hazel copse; and once there.
, under the cool, quivering boughs of the
trees, she burst into a passion of tears.
MISS Lane! Jetty!" uttered remon-
strating voice.
Eyes, know, ''said Jetty, laughing and
F! soothing in the same breath sI'm very
! foolish. and ought to know better. But
il isn't pleasant to be turned out of a
placa.''
"What do you mean?" said Henry
| Charters. gravely.
And Jerty told HIM ALL
A dark frown gathered over his counte-
nance. He had known that Mrs Copman
and his three sistersin-iaw were selfish,
arrogant and domineering. He had been
quite aware that he was little more than a
prisoner of state in his own home; he had
j even formed some vague idea that Arabel-
Ia, the youngest and least hard-favored of
the three, had designs on his heart. AS
far as he personally was concerned, it mat.
| tered not one straw. But now that inno-
; cent, dewy-eyed Jetty had been thus ruth
lessly attacked, things assumed quite a
/ different aspect. He looked down upon
the sweet, blushing face; he took both thc
| little hands in his.
"Jetty," said he, this in an uneven
battle. One widow and three resolute
spinsters against an unprotected specimen
of the genus homo. Yet think if had
an efficient lieutenant I could defeat the
enemy yet. Will you join the ranks?"
III don't think 1 understand yonl''
faltered Jetty.
You are eighteen-I am thirty" be
went on, And yet, Jetty, l feel young
enough in my heart to be your MATCH
Dear Jet:y, will you be my wife? Do you
love me. Jetty?"
And Jetty bravely answered:
Yes. l will be your wife, Mr.. Char
teris. 1 do love you, and,' she added, art
lessly, II have loved you ever since I first
came home from school, and met yon at
the Sunday-school picnic under the maple
trees''
MRS. Copman AMI her three daughters
had been to New York to order their
spring wardrobes- charged to Mr.. Char
teris' account, Of course-and it was late
on the afternoon of the third day of their
absence when the returned, cross, ir1ita-
BILE and tired-Marion shade redder-nos-
ed than usual, Arabella more pettish, Mel
icent more blowZy and coarse.
To their amazemeDt and indignation
the sound of one of Schubert's Nocturnes
foated out from the parlor window as they
advanced.
"Who is presuming to play on our pi-
ano?" said Mrs. Copman in rage.
"And the windows all open, too-fadlng
the parlor carpet!" screamed Miss Nell
cent.
'As sure as you live. mamma" gasped
Arabella, tits that bold parsons daugh t.
er-Jetty Lane!"
The impudencc Of some people ~
cried Marion. ''When Mamma as good
as ordered her off the premises not month
ago!''
Henry" said Mrs. Copman, sourlY, as
she caught sight of her son-in-law, serene
ly smoking his cigar, just inside of the
easement, why is it that the carriage was
not sent to meet US? Why are we CON-
PEELED to walk all the way from the depot
in this boiling beat?' And what is that
woman here forp' as she caught sight OF
Jetty's white dress in the background of
the large. dim room.
1.-The carriage was not sent for YOU"
said Mr.. Charters, calmly, "because Mrs.
Clarteris was using it,
"Mrs. Charteris!' gasped the widow.
dropping at least half dozen of her par
cells in the path, while Henry led forward
the lovely young bride. all in white, with
cheeks like pale roses.
''Mrs. Charteris,' he repeated. my
wife! Let me present you and the Misses
Copman to her."
And that was the end of the complica-
ton. For, Of course. Mrs. Copman and
her daughters were too high spirited to
remain under the same roof with such a
dimpled and lovely young usurper. And
they removed all that belonged to them.
and good deal that didn't, from the
house the next day. in high dudgeon.
To think what fools men are!" said the
widow. ''When dear Henry was so COM
Portable with me and the three girls"
But, apparently, dear Henry was of
quite different way of thinking. For as
he stood with Jetty on the terrace, watch
ing the carriage drive away which con-
tanned the widow and her daughters, he
said:
MY dear, feel as if nightmare were
lifted off my life. And now-ne,o We can
begin to be happy.
CHINA is something of country. 1t
has four canals, equal to all the rest in the
world. Some Of them are five thousand
Vears old. The lon ast moo dur six hundrad