Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-15

queer little laugh. Miss jerks didn't stay
long, but after that Lucy talked about the
new engagement 3 if she didn't care
| straw.
"That was the winter your poor uncle
Jack died. You've heard tell on before.
He took too much one night and walked
off the edge O. the bridge and fell into the
river. He drowned before any one could
get him out. 1t most killed your grandma
and grandpa. Lucy never shed tear
| through it all, but you could see the poor
child's heart was most broken. Phil come
home to the funeral, and in the evenin lie
called to see Lucy, but she was in her room
and wouldn't come down. | s'pose she
couldn't bear to see any then that wasn't
friends with Jack. He left some posies for
her, two or three rose buds, and asked her
grandma to give 'em to her with his re-
CARDS. She was different after that, SO
quiet and sweet and patient, 1t made my
heart ache.
Zone night after the rest had gone to
bed and she was sittin' alone in the parlor,
| went to fix the fire for the night, and
found her sittin' with a book Phil had
given her in her lap. 1t was open at the
! fy.leaf where he had written her name
and From your true friend, Phil came
in so sudden that she hadn't time to shet
| it, and l saw a bunch o posies, looked Jest
like them he left for her, pinned under the
name. She shet the book quick and tried
to look material, but could see she'd been
cryin'.
Well, yer pad had been comm to see
your ma occasional all winter, and now he
commenced comm more frequent. We all
liked your pa. He was lawyer, and folks
said he was smart one, too. He was some
older'n yer ma, ten years or more, and
pretty quiet, butts clever mans ever
lived, always seemed to hev time to do
favor for anybody, no matter how busy e
was. Lucy didn't seem to care about hevin'
him come at first, but after while she
seemed to kinder look fer him and be dis
appointed if he didn't come, and one
mornin' she told us very quiet like that she
was engaged to John Parker, and that he
wished to be married some time the next
summer. Phil didn't come home after col
lege was over, but went out to New York
State to visit an uncle o hisn. He come
home to the weddin' though, and when he
congratulated the bride they didn't either
Of 'em look at the other. He just held her
hand mint and wished her much joy,
and then went right away.
"Wen, yer ma married happily. no
doubt. Yer pa worshiped the ground she
walked over, and she was always lovin' to
him as long as he lived. Don't let yer ma
know l told you all this. Psha: faint
likely she thought much of it. Most
every girl had more'n one love affair, l
reckon"
"'What become O. Bess and Phil ,
Well, Bess went into consumption
and died year or two after, and Pnil,
well, Phil went through college and
studied law afterward with his uncle, Mr..
Bird, Miss Margsret's father, in New
York, and after a while he and Miss
Margaret was married. Perhaps you've
heard your mother speak of EN-. They re
livin' in New York now l s'pose."
And the old man, who had even forgot
ten his usual giggle, so complete had been
his absorption in his tale, arose, and with
Good day, miss" slowly left the room.
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