Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-25

| Hubby had, later in the evening. made
oYertures for a reconciliation, but Sam
had rejected them angrily, and she.
conscious that he was quite as much to
blame as herself, had tried no more.
Be it observed, that a word of explana-
ton would have cleared everything.
! Hubby did not know of the uncertainty
about Sans being able to come. and
supposed he had chosen Mehitable in
preference to herself.
Sam did not know that Hubby had
put Jim Furness off twice, waiting for
his invitation, and had only accepted
when she had given him up. Lacking
the explanation, the two went home
thoroughly unhappy, Sam leaving first
and taking the unfortunate Mehitable
with him, while Hubby made herself
anything but agreeble to Jim. Since
! that evening Sam had not been near
| her. What made things worse was
that the Sunday evening after the quilt
ing had passed without his coming, and
that, too, when Hubby had been moral
| ly certain that he would call as usual
and make it all up. 1t was now Tues
day. and she was feeling very sad in
deed.
Having fnishhd her pies, four of them
standing there in row looking good
enough to eat before they were cooked,
Hubby put them into the oven, and,
taking her sewing, sat down. AS she
worked she thought of Sam, and bitter
ly blamed herself for what she had done.
She argued out in some way
to the conclusion in her own
mind that the fault was hers only, and
she somehow admired Sam for getting
angry. She had barely arrived at this,
and had only just made up her mind
that she ought to make the first over
| lures towards a reconciliation, when
| she heard a somewhat hesitating step
outside on the porch; and then, after a
moments pause, a knock. Now, l do
not know why, because, moment after,
| Hubby declared that she had no idea at
| all who her visitor was, but it was GER
tain that her heart beat faster. She
called out: ''COme in,' and the door
opened. There, awkwardly enough,
stood Sam, looking decidedly sheepish,
and wiping his feet with great zeal.
Hubby gave but one glance at him, and
her eyes grew brighter. Curiously
enough, too, she instantly abandoned
her idea of making the first advances,
and rather thought Sam was going to
have somewhat uneasy time of it.
''Oh?' said Sam; ''haowdyen'
''Howdye, Sam"
deacon t'hum?'' said Sam.
Cunning Sam, after watching the
stout form of that good man pass your
shop, and finding in that reason for
! leaving that sash unfinished on the
| bench.
He's just stepped down t. Mrs.
Baillie. TIL squirrels sick,'' said Hubby,
as innocently as though she did not
know the road and what it led by.
''Du tell!'' said Sam. What ais
him?''
''Infuenzy, I've heard. But come
in, why don't you, and rest spell?"
81 sorter called t see your pa, but
"Oh! Well, he'll be in t morrow.
P'raps you'd better come back" and
Hubby turned indifferently away. De
cidedly the idea of reconciliation was as
though it had never been.
Sam found that there was but one
| thing to do, and that was to knuckle
down at once. He cleared his throat
uneasily, looked around, wiped his fore
head with his red bandanna, and then
said:
EFF you'n-er- air, eff you don
mind, [ guess I'll sorter wait naoew."
''Just as you please" said Hubby,
coolly; ''you might as well come in and
sit. :"
Sam came in, and taking chair, sat
down, placing his hat upon the floor.
He then folded his hands upon his lap,
and having done so, became suddenly
conscious of the size of his feet; they
seemed unusually large, he thought.
i |.
TALLY hide them under his chair, and
having done so, felt, for the moment,
better. In the meantime, Hubby went
bustling about the kitchen, glancing
furtively at him now and then. Sam
missed his hat dreadfully; his hands had
suddenly grown large and looked, oh,
so red! He would have given worlds to
have picked the hat up and covered
them,' but he did not dare. He was very
hot; the perspiration was beginning to
stand out on his face, and he wanted to
wipe it. Unfortunate one, his handker-
chief was in his hat. He coughed, and
Fpassed his hand over his mouth, hastily
replacing it in his lap, though, as he
caught Huldy's eye upon him. Ee
wished he had not come, and would
have left could he but have thought OF
an excuse, when Hubby took pity Oh
him and said:
-''Sam, wish you'd fetch me a pail o
water while you're waitin'.''
Sam started to his feet with look Of
gratitude that was almost painful, anG
Selling his mentally resolving he
would not let go of it again-he took
the bucket, and went toward the we'll
ovoY which tho bimh sGcNVoaD1i nOiOteC
skywards. Hubby stood at the door
looking after him with something of 6
malicious twinkle in her eye; or per
haps 1 should say mischievous one
with a kindly undertook. When be
came back she thanked him, and asked
him to come in more cordially than be
fore, much to the relief of Sans spirit
But she did not think he had yet beer
punished quite enough, and so when she
got him safely seated beside her and haC
fa1-au M bo1s coy1yiDOr aOroin she h0Oan