Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-06-27
CHATTER MI.
Mr. srRANGFrELD's CONSTRUCTION.


with inimitabe wildneSS Of amaz'mcnt Her
face was puffed out with the force of her
surprise and she drew NJ breath until feel
ing Of sufFocation made her cry out
His wife-his uoIfe Jenny. do yuu say
she exclaimed in a tone almost a. deep as a
mans searching meanwhile her daughters
rountenance for any hint to make her doubt
the truth of what she heard
The girl fell upon her knees with her hands
ClaSped above head.
We were married when went to Sydeu
ham" she said. in a voice that hai lost nearly
all its sweetness My fear of father kept
NE silent But Cuthbert should have come
last night 10 claim me before thee and him,
and-Oh' my heart-where Is be now, and
why has he left mei'
With which, and with her fearless face in
her hands, she fell TO moaning-in her
humble, needless posture of woe, a piteous
light Then must her mother begin to
weep.
20, Jenny. what has thou been and done;
Q, my child, what shameful cour5ing has
made YOU st"op TO this decit, Alas What
a strange, wild thing to dor And with
streaming eyes she pourcd forth her nterjec-
tiOnS
ing cast herself down upon a kitchen chair
10 indulge in one of thos, aggravating fits of
whimpering. which seized her after every
collision with her mistress. overheard some
Of Mrs Strangfeld's startling CALCULATIONS,
To which she listened, with her mouth gradu-
ally opening and her head slowly lifting out
Of the greatness Of her arm sleeve; AMI heing
a blockhead as well as a slut for dirt and ig
aarb OF b,1r and
eager to show how forgivinS she was, and
how smart was the watch SIN kept over the
interests Of the family, the draggletail sped
softly out of the kitchen into the shipwright's
yard, and, deaf to various personal REMARKS
n her figure called slyly to her 10y the work
men. ran up 10 Mr.. Strangfird, and cried
put:
Master, if you want to do We shall see it
n tn parlor, There's bin a man, and
nlissus is calIin Miss Jenny bad words: and
.ich blubbcrin' as is goin on might fill a
copper!7
Mr.. Strangfleld looked down with a sCowi
Of surprise into the searnv face OF the hand
maid, and not choosing tn risk any questions
n the hearing Of tn, Inen-for Polls excite
rnent was something to balance n stout voice
upon-he sensihly concluded certain direc-
walked to his house.
On entering tle paTlOr he found Jenny
standing at tha table and her mother sob
hing in her handkerchief He was a man
with keen eye, but no sharpness of vision
lid he need to know that he stood in the
presence of a sorrow the like of which had
never before darkened his home In the
girls short recoil as he entered, the sudden
a., = -
whole character Of the face. the swelling nos
tril and passionate resolution of misery in
forming the whole figure of her, be read IL
For, in truth. in the blight aud shock that
had come to her with the news Mr.. Saunder-
son had brought, fear of her father WAS lost:
her recoil was an involuntary effort of in
stinct; firm in her misery she stood now. and
her eyes were steady on her fathers face.
Though his wife heard him enter the room
she would not lift her head from the hand
kerchief In her dread to tell him what
Jenny had done she gave the mischief a more
sinister aspect than it need have worn by
preserving her weeping posture and silence
He knitted his brOws and clasped his hands
strongly, to preserve an evenness of voice
and subdue the dull pain in his breast. Bu;,
DO what he would, he looked man striving
with might and main to prepare himself for
a shocking disclosun.
Jane" said he, in a low, hard voice, did
YOU not hear my footSt"irS' Why are YOU
wIld-lOoking"
He had turned his shoulder on his daughter
and gazed at his wife only.
oh, MIchael.' quaveri Mrs. Stran Zfield.
talking III her handkerchief Jenny hath
4 -. L
1t, and surprise makes a fool of me. But
thou must bear with her. MicheeL Deceit
,uly is she guilty ot-nothing worse, husband
You will show he- mercy. Michael, for is
not she cur only chiId' And the Lord truth
i in the saying that stolen waters arr
sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant
But he Enowcth not that the dead are
here. and that her gusts are i'll the depths Of
hell, =" quoted Mr. Strangficld, in his deep
tones What has our child been doing"
There was a short palr,", and then Mrs
SrrangfSd, removing her handkerchief from
her eyes and piteously looking ut Jenny.
ferbly answered. she has secretly married
the son of Dr Shaw
Now most certain il was that Mr. Strang-
ir!d had expected "A worse confession than
this; for il Is a truth not flattering to the
uintly severity OF such natures as his. that
their con lectures are apt to sink To the very
lowest deep of wrong doing, and stay there
until drawn up again by discovery into
pertinent bearings For "a moment, there
fore. he was visited by sense of relief; for
not instantly could his mind get quit Of tie
foul idea so Us to apprehend strictly the
meaning of his wife's words. But when once
mastered, it brought with 1t food of