Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-07-27

Yes, deceived you. DO try and be calm.
felt it my duty to tell you. Mrs Turner
says she romombors having seen him in Bos-
ton, and his name isn't Farebridge at all, but
Sweester."
but he had it changed, " Margret said, not
at all understanding Miss Sparts drift.
But that isn't the worst. lie is married
already"
Married !" echoed the other. why"
But he has committed bigamy," ejacu-
lated Miss Spart. "lIe has"
But her listener, upon whom the situation
suddenly dawned, burst into laughter which
prevented farther speech-a tide of laughter
which she could not check, with which she
struggled in vain for a moment, and then
turning her back upon Miss Spart and 20
liteness, she fed to her own sitting room.
and laughed herself into Mysteries. irving to
give her husband an ineligible account Of
the charges against him.
VII.
II was impossible to make Phil take things
seriously. Tho more severely virtuous the
lady boarders looked, the colder the Rlapcos
which followed himself and his wife, the
droller the affair seemed to him, and the iol-
lier he appeared. He scandalized Margret
by chuckling in the very face of Miss Spart.
who cut them both dead after Mrs. Merry
WohthSA abrupt ulBul from uer CDAmDer.
He had taken the landlord into his confidence,
and the two men would be seen Whispering
and nodding together like arch couspirators,
and only the fact that his wife was unhappy
cast any cloud over his boyish iollity
Never mind, Margie," he comforted her !;
'the Grays are coming this week Wen be
very exclusive, and associate with nobody
but them
And in day or two the Grays did arrive.
The Farebridges we're out driving when they
reached the hotel, and almost the first ques.
tion Mrs. Gray asked Of Miss Spart was,
Where are Mr.. Farebridge aud Mrs Mer-
ryweather :"
1T isn't Mrs. Merryweather any Logger"
Miss Spart replied pulling terrible face
''it is Mrs. Farebridge."
rs itI" returned Mrs. Gray lightly. at
doesn't matter. But where arc they Z"
81 don't know, hesitated the spinster-
"or, that is, 1 do not care to know; but
think they are driving together"
How funnily you speak Don't you think
Margret is lovelyy"
"Ahem! Handsome is that handsome
does, Miss Spart observed, with a conspicu.
Gus lack of originality.
Mrs. Gray stared in amazement. II think
We can not be talking of the same person"
she said, rather coldly "The people of
band and myself have in the world"
But" gasped Miss Spart-"bigamy 2"
"Bigamy p echoed Mrs Gray 'what
has bigamy to do with it?'
Everything. The man l mean has com
mtted bigamy, and l don't see why he isn't
arrested for it. And his wife-or the woman
he calls his wife-knows it, for l told her my
self. He came here, and they pretended to
be strangers, and the next day they went of
and got married. And told her"
"You told her - exclaimed Horace Gray
who had thus far remained a silent listener
of the conversation, and he burst into laugh.
ter as boisterous and unquenchable as Phirs
had been.
"Oh, that is too much That is beyond
everything l ever heard"
In the midst Of this outburst the offending
Farebridge and his pretty wife drove up TO
the piazza, and Margret, at the imminent
risk of her neck, flung herself out of the
carriage into the outstretcbed arms of Mrs.
Gray.
phil, old fellow, cried Horace Gray, loud
enough to be heard from one end of the pi-
azza to the other, "how are you? l hear
you've been committing bigamy"
Bless your ugly mug" responded Phil,
joyously. 80 l hear, myself. Good lark,
isn't il :"
And in half an hour everybody knew all
the details of the affair, for the landlord con.
sidered himself released from his bond of se.
crecy and although some sharp criticisms
were made behind their backs, Mr. Fare
bridge and his wife encountered nothing but
the most deferential and apologize manners
thereafter. As for Miss Spart, she 20 far
humbled herself as to remark
Il am sure, Mrs. Farebridge, it was strange
you thought me in earnest about your hus.
bands being a bigamist. You must have no.
tieed that l was hurt at your suspicion"
But in her heart of hearts she never for.
gave either Phil or Margie. .-Hdrper'S Bdzdr