The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
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We'll, you shall nave q note Wy w.
morrow mornings post" replied Mrs.
Bunter. AZ may say" she added, chat
/ have heard q great deal of your firm,
MI. Pudster; and that l am conscious
that it does me great honor by thus
offering me a partnership in it,"
Indeed, madam, the honor is ours!'
said Nh. Pudster, bowling as he retired.
No sooner had he departed than the
widow burst into a long and merry fit
of laughter. Her first impulse was to
write and refuse the ridiculous offs
but as the day wore on she thought
better of the affair, and in the evening
after dinner she sat down quite serious
" and wrote a letter as follows:
MArADoR VILLA, CHELSEA,
August ), 1865.
To Messrs. Pudster i Maggleby, Il Mlncing
Lane, City.
GENTLEMEN: I have decided to accept the
very fiattering offer which was laid before me
to-day on your behalf by your Mr.. Pudster.
If he will call, l shall have much pleasure III
arranging pTeliminaries with him l remain,
gentlemen, very faithfully yours,
MARIA BUNTER.
II must, fall in with their humor, I
suppose, she reflected. "And really,
Mr.. Pudster is q very nice man, and
almost handsome; and Tn sure that l
shall do no harm by marrying him. Be.
sides, it is quite true that they must
want some one to look after them.
If they go on living by themselves,
they will grow crusty and bearish."
And Mrs. Bunter sent her maid out to
post the letter.
Three weeks later, the widow became
Mrs. Pudster; Mr.. Maggleby of
course, officiating as best man at the
wedding, add being the frst,to salute
the bride in the veStry after the cere-
mony. Thenceforward for a whole
year, the three members of the firm
lived togather in complete harmony; ;
and the pleasant history of their ex-
istence was only interrupted by Mr..
Pudster's enforced departure for De
merara in September, 1866. Mr.. Mag
gleby, it is true, offered to go instead
of hir1 but Mr.. Pudster would not hear
of it; and Mr.. Maggleby was obliged
to confess that business was business,
and that it was certainly Mr.. Pudster's
turn to brave the mosquitoes. And so,
after contiding his wife to the care of
his friend, Mr.. Pudster departed.
During his absence all went we'll; and
in March, 1867, he returned to Eng
land. But this time the heat had been
too much for poor Mr.. Pudster. His
wife noticed that he was looking I'M
we'll. M~aggleby, with sorrow, per-
ceived the same. Pudster laughed,
Nevertheless, he took to his bed; and
after a long and painful illness died.
The grief of Mrs. Pudster and Mr..
Maggleby was terrible to witness. Mrs.
Pudster talked of retiring from the
world; and Gideon Maggleby disconso-
lately declared hat he had no longer
anything left to live for. No one,
therefore, will be much surprised to
hear that toward the end of March 1868,
Mr.. Gideon Maggleby led Mrs. Solo
mon Pudster to the altar.
Solomon will bless our union" Mr..
Maggleby had said when he proposed
"Ah, dear sainted Solomon" Mrs.
Pudster had exclaimed as she fell weep
ing on Mr.. Maggleby's breast.
CHAPTER II.
Mr. Gideon Mageleby had been mar
ried rather less than two-and-twenty
hours, when at about nine o'clock in
the morning Of March %, 1868, he
walked into the room in which he had
SO often breakfasted and diiiedi with his
late friend and partner, Solomon Pud.
ster. Mr.. Maggleby, who was pre-
eminently a man of business, had not
seen fit To go to the Isle of Wight or Il
Paris to spend his honeymoon; and
Mrs. Maggleby, who was nothing if mo-
O woman of sound sense, had Loyalty
accepted the decision of her third lore
and master. They had agreed to stay
in town, and not to allow their new
happiness to interfere with their mate
rial interests In Mincing Lane. Mr.
Maggleby had determined, however
to make a holiday of the day after hi
wedding to stay at home in the morn
ing with his wife, to escort her t,
Madame Tussaud's in the afternoon
and o take i1er TO the piayin the even
ing.
With this comfortable programme il
his minds eye, Mr.. Maggleby cam
down to breakfast in his Powered dress
ing-gown. Mrs. Maggleby, he knew
would not be many minutes behind him
and he therefore rang the bell for tn
coffee, and turned lazily toward til
table, upon which lay two piles of let
ters. The smaller heap chiefly consis
ted of missives addressed to Mrs. Pud
ster, for the marriage of the previou
day had not as yet been noised abroa
n tine country, and Mrs. Maggleby ha
several female correspondents who com
municated with her much more ofte
than she communicated with them. Th
large bundle was made up of letter
addressed either to Mr.. Maggleby or :
Messrs. Pudster & Maggleby. the lei
ters to the firm haying been alread
brought down from Mincing Lane by
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