St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-01-08

never met him to my knowledge.
must have seen him thousand times,
bat do not know his appearance
That is strange. Neither do l.
is it possible! Two men SO well
known as we, who have been so long
in Warmingham, not know John Fem
shave! 1t is almost past belief . said
Ware.
1T all comes of his spending such an
Internal lot of his time over those
ducks. There's another reason, too,
Ware. You'll find all the retailers of
the town know everything about him,
as he must go into their shops to order
or to pay but we, being in the whole
sale way, why, he doesn't come our
way, except in social way, as about
this club
'True-very true said Ware. And
the two wholesale dealers of Warming
ham walked on in silence, feeling for
the first time that it was rather IA dis
tinctiOn not to know even the appear
ance of John Fenshawe.
Suddenly Gardiner seized Ware by
the shoulder, and, pointed to tall
white marble headstone, part of which
seemed to move.
'What-what is that 2
Ware was mute for moment.
Something did move. Then Ware
laughed softly, rs though he had not
been in the least alarmed.
1T was an owl perched upon the top
of that white marble headstone, and
now the owl has flown off. By the
way, whose headstOne is that 2
Il don't know answered the tanner.
Often as have been across this burial
ground, l have never once been among
the graves
That day week came, and in the
mean time nothing had been heard of
John Fenshawe. The hour of meeting
came, and still he had not appeared at
the town hall. fit had been possible
to cherish anger against John Fen
Shave, the promoters of the Warming
ham Club would undoubtedly have
felt more than Indignation. 1t was
true no circular had been addressed to
him, but it was equally true no circular
had been addressed to any other man
in town. Why could he not come
without formality, us they had come?
1t was impossible that he could be out
on solitary shooting expedition all
this time.
The meeting did not last long, and
broke up in very bad humOr. Neither
Gardiner nor Ware said anything OF
their conversation i'm the churchyard
that night week. AS they were but
tOning their overcoats in the hall be-
fore going ont, Watkins the grocer
and Johnson the boOtmaker passed
by them, and Ware and Gardiner
overheard the following dialogue:
by the way, Watkins, does John
Fenshawe deal with you p
No; do not even know him by APP
pearance. But every one else knows
him WELL
Il candidly confess | don't. Never
saw him to my knowledge
Gardiner looked ut Ware, and Ware
looked at Gardiner. Neither knew
to smile or shudder, and each
.on tented himself with "a look of blank
1t was windy moonlight night,
without IL cloud. Gardiner and Ware
walked OH in silence until they once
more came to the old churchyard. 1t
vas matter of etiquette between
them To say something when they were
that ground of gloomy memo
ries.
What a queer thing this is about
John Fenshawe = said Gardiner.
Very. | always heard he was the
last of his line of the Fenshawes. He
can't have left Warmingham on the
sly to get married and keep his line
llive?'
AS Ware was speaking, a gust of
wind blew off his hat, and carrying it
tlong the top of the graves, ultimately
1attened it against IL tall white marble
ieadstone. From this headstone an
owl now rose, and, tapping its
wings, flew swiftly away.
Ware ran after his hat. When he
got to the white marble headstone
against which it was fiattened, Gar
liner criedout,
See whose stone that is, now
Ware, by the aid of the moonlight |
cad out:
'"Sacred to the memory of John
of Warmingham, the last of
lis branch OF the Fenshawe line, who
departed this life in the year 1901, and |
II the seventy eighth year of his
lge."
Next morning it was known about
he town of Warmingham that, judg
ng from analogous cases, there was no
likelihood of John Fenshawe coming
,ack soon. from the expedition upon
which lie had set out eighty-one years
go. [Tinsleys' Magazine.
The Great Question for the South.
We quote the following from the
pening paragraph of IA paper, by Mr..
George w. Cable, in the January Cen
ury, entitled "The Freedman's Case
n Equity" in which the relations of