The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-02-24

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81 didn't ask any questions,
Uncle Nahum
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Faith came to her Uncle's chair
and laid her hand lightly on his
shoulder.
"That inst the worst of it, Uncle
Nahum want to marry him."
"Humph ~ snarled Mr.. Nixon in
high contempt. "And what do you
expect to live on Tshould like to
know?"
"We can both work." said Faith
bravely.
"You are more likely to starve,'
said Mr.. Nixon. "Mind don't count
on help from me. If you get married
you will do it at your own risk"
"Then you consent, Uncle Ma
hum ?"
mol" roared the old bachelor.
Nothing of the SORT"
"But, Uncle Nahum, l should
be wretched without Duke" softly
pleaded Faith.
"Fiddlestrings !" said the old man.
"And / am sure he couldn't live
without me-"
"Trash ~ grunted Mr.. Nixon.
"And if you please, Uncle" said
Faith, "perhaps L had better go to
my friend Violet Smiths to make up
my wedding things, since you disap-
prove so decided y of my plans. She
lives in New York, you know, and it
will be convenient for shopping
and"
'And for all other tomfooleries in
general" rudely interrupted the old
gentleman. "Yes, go to your Violet
Smiths house, but don't expect to
come back here"
"No Uncle" said Faith meekly.
"But Uncle you'll let me thank you
for your kindness, and"
"No. won't," said Uncle Nahum,
so short that poor Faith fled up stairs
in dismay and had a quiet little cry,
Notwithstanding she was very, very
happy.
For Uncle Nahum, brusuue and
grabbed, was all the father she had
ever known. But she packed her
trunk and went to Violet Smiths in
New York, which was all the pleas
anter, in that Marmaduke Bourne
had also taken himself to this modern
Gotham and gone to work studying
law as if he meant to take Coke
and Blackstone by storm. And Miss
Violet Smith, who was a sentimental
young lady, sympathized intensely,
and the young couple were reason
ably happy as many another has been
before and will be again.
But one day Duke Bourne came in
with a face full of tidings.
"Faith." said he, "haye you heard
the news ?"
"What news ?" said Faith.
"Your Uncle will get the start OF
us after ALL"
"What do you mean, Duke 2"
"Why, he's going to get married"
"Uncle Nahum :" cried Faith, in.
credulously.
."Yes, Uncle Nahum. That accounts
for his being so unwilling to get rid
of us-reh, little one 2"
"And who is the bride ?" question
ed Faith.
"Why, that's mooted point yet
Nobody seems to know. Some say
one and some say another, but the
general impression seems to he that
it is the rich widow who owns the
brown-stone block on the corner"
81 am sure / hope he will be hap,
py," said Faith, with tremulous lips
and eyes suffused with stears, "but
| think he might have said some
thing to us about it,"
people are not generally in hur.
ry to proclaim that they are about tC
make fools of themselves" said Duke
Bourne bitterly.
"What," cried Faith, laughing
through her tears, "that's precisely
what he said about u.s."
But the next day letter from I'm
Gle Nahum himself settled the mat
ter. He wrote:
'There is to be a big wedding at my house OIL
the seventeenth, and want you and Duke K
be here without fail