Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-23

she put the blame where it belongod-on
lLery's shoulders.
..For II it hadn't been for you. my dear.
we should never have known him. never
before knew superinteudent-socially.
mean
~ don't know that it's SO deplorable. )"
said. ..It's the family way. and we can
afford TO overlook his poverty. since he's
| really very much IF = gentleman. I'm
sure - Aud I smiled Al Lefty. for we
we're reconciled now. and she had run IN
10 h w us how the baby was learning to
take steps.
Thai must be such consolation. said
Lefty. flushing, and taking it wrong. as
might have known she wouli-"to Annie.
/ mean-that she il only following in her
broiher's steps; but should think. out IT
regard at least to him, and courtesy To
me-"
..Why, never meant to reflect on you, y
I cried I'VE never dis ,pprpved-"
"You never had chance; and 1t
wouldn't have done the least god If you
had she cried. d@fiantly.
..No, ind-ed'' Pam said. coming to nv
rescue ..R ID WAS too thoroughly in love
10 mind if we had talked all day at him.
It was clear case OF bewiichment."
..I'm much Obliged, I'm sure,' Lefty
said. picking up Harold; ''but ii you mean
to intimate thai I tried-lhat we tried-to
capture my husband"
III only meant to initiate" Pam said,
sweetlv. ..ihat you were then, as you are
still. so very pretty that Rob"
,.Oh. then, I've nothing but my pretty
face"
(Which baby has Inherited" put in.
Really, dear. the child grows more like
you every day of his life
..He's the image of his father" cried
Lefty. Eyes. mouth, everything.
wouldn't own him il he was not. And
you know you only say he resembles me
to tease me-"
That was perfectly absurd. for the child
was Dent all over. more's the pity; but
you might as well have tried to reason
with tnrkey-c"ck just then. She swept
up the baby and was out OF the house while
We were laughing at her vehemence. We
never could get into Letty's feeling about
it | suppose. We thought by this time,
married two years, and sure of our al
feciion, she ought to take things more
lightly; hut it WAS plain she did not. For
-he talked so to Rob about the certainty of
martial shipwreck il rich woman married
poor man-ttough it wasn't all sunny
seas the other way either-that he made it |
his luiy tn di-c"untenance the whole thing. |
lie sent Frank Truman off to the west tor
n few weeks TO look after some business |
for the firm, and in the meantime he
brought down old Talbot. senior part |
ner in the Tackahoe mills, where we had |
a third interest, to console Annie. |
.hould have thought Lefty would have
liked the other match better; but she |
seemed to think that If Annie married this
old widnwer. who was as rich AS all of us
PM together. that would balance things
perfectly. And As Frank. when he came
back. was too proud to speak. and none of
us fell sure it was indeed matter of life
and hea h with Annie. and so inclined to
let things take their course, we were pres
emily in rs pretty "A snarl as heart could
wish. TackahOe was only ten miles off.
and Mr.. Talbot used To drive over once or
twice week: and when he was not at
our house he was at Rnb's. He was real
ly rather nice. though being twenty or
more years older than Annie. it didn't
seem reasonable match, and sometimes
wondered if he didn't have an eve on
Pamela. or it he couldn't be brought |
around to that. Pam was stately and i'm
pressive. and much better suited in years |
and dignity. 1t would have been per-
feet match for her; and then little Annie |
could toxic Frank. and the double we'd
ding would prove our democracy beyond
dispute. Pam was gracious to him, too
all on Annie's account she said; and the
queen dowager pretended to help, so that
II. 4 L l.
And it was while we were all in this
tangle that Harold was lost.
(To be continued.)