Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-18

l had. and she suffered want, as
she might have done if l had tried sOme-
thing else"
Delivering up the tablets at this
point, she laid her head down beside
her plate, secretly passed her fist be-
meath both eyes, and looked UP quite
self-controlled. While her guest
was reading and replying, she in
Won't you have some more tea?'
The passenger waved her thanks and
refusal.
COR cake, or anything?" buIletined
| Camilla.
The passenger repeated her signals,
and handed back the tablets, whereon
was expressed her opinion: "You ought
to have a good husband"
The following silent conversation
then took place, while tree limbs
creaked outside, and the caves over
flowed in cataracts.
Camilla began it, flushing hotly.-
perhaps you are a travelling agent
for good husbands?"
81 am"
"Cheep!" spoke out Jasper, in . tone
like shrill establishments.
"Then perhaps l can buy one of YOU
by sample. That's practical and bust
ness-like. But 1 do1't want one who
is ruled by his mother"
"Why do you object to the mother?
He would make a very poor husband,if
he had never been ruled by his mother.
You have had a sweetheart and quar-
relied with him."
"Creak!" uttered Tommy, making a
galvanic spring toward the mind-read-
ing guest.
och, no; he quarreled with mc-and
everything concerning me. He wasn't
in harmony with my environments. He
was rich and high-mlnded."
"Don't you think girls are very fool
ish and headstrong about their indie
pendence in these daysp"
"No, ma'am, I DON'T"
"Isn't it a waste for you to be sweep
ing out this railroad station when you
might be making his home happy?"
"His mother can make his home hap
py."
"May be not. May be his heart is so
set on you that her strict government
ava;ls nothing. May be, in fact, he
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instead OF his mother governing him."
"Ihope he does. I'd rather he'd ty-
rannize over her than owe. me-"
"Cheet!' broke out Dinkum, in hon
est reproach.
$50 he has other faults?"
"oh, yes. For thing his names
The passenger uttered that sound
which is best described as a snort, and
wrote rapidly in retort: "And q very
good name it is. You will find it in
every honorable position. So you don't
want him at ALP"
"No; you may keep him."
"Cheep!" uttered the three crickets
in concert, as if they had actually read
every stroke of the pencils.
"Hush, children!" exclaimed Camil.
Ia; "what do you know about lovers
and troublep She'll let me alone now
and unless you blab all I've told you
here by ourselves she'll v guess
what q dreadful thinking [ keep up"
$50 you are determined not to hav.
MI. Smith," the tablet conversation
went on.
positively" As Camilla wrote she
felt a shiver running between hel
shoulders. All the leaves Of her IA
miliar woods must be weighted with
water, and the hoary moss-cups ane
reaching roots lost in frozen rain. L
it were always late spring, budding
promising, stimulating ones own blood
life would not look so melancholy anC
long.
"Perhaps the Objectionable mother
who rules Mr.. Smith may drop offsomt
day."
II don't think she will. She looks Sc
healthy"
..Have you ever seer her?"
II have seen her picture?:"
"What was she like"
'She looked very much like you"
"Surely not like me! Remember J
am only the crickcts' gran'muvver
who has come to visit them, and no
such very lively company that l car
count on not being called cross.'
81 knew it all the time!" exclaimed
Camilla, aloud. "And you only did il
to hear what I said to myself!"
"Confessed!" said the elder lady
making her voice heard for the frs
time; and a low, solid, pleasant voice
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years to control and make the most O
itself.
"And you said he was coming her,
in an hour. 1t can't be to see me-.
haven't anything different to say"
"Hc sent me ahead to make peace
continued the elder lady, 'because i
appears to you that l began the war
My dear child, you have no son. Wher
you have you may be exacting in the
matter of his marriage. 1 have my
odd impulses, as the way in which
came here proves; but usually sober
conviction rules me. My sober convic
ton in this case is that my son is de
mined to have you, and you and I will
have to make the best OF it. Don't 70,
think you a take me as a mother-in
law"
Camilla extended her hands arount
the cage of crickets, drew her finger
across the wires. but said nothing.
81 did not know what a nice it'll
woman you were," SAID the elder lady
looking at her watch, ''nor what a poo.
! substitute you have for a family in tina
cage of crickets."