The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-07-12
NORRIS STEVENS COUNTY,

| ", shrugged her shoulders in mockery. her
pale lips smiling, her lustrous eyes glancing
scornfully over her husbands head.
"Do not keep me waiting for your answer"
| he cried kneeling before her.
"Why, certainly. have money" answered
she. "How could / have pin monev else7
Huff. you are beyond your depth, think"
"Bravol we are saved" exclaimed
Thwaite, springing up and Waiting . % FEY
| "How came you not to mention it at once,
last evening? Give me your purse without
| delay, dearest Tif, and let us start at once
for our pretty little table at the restaurant"
| Tiff walked over to the encouraging figure
her sloping waist.
"Hnff Thwaite," she demanded, ''do you
support us?"
II say we're in q deuced Ak, and any money
| would be rather acceptable. Haven't you
pins enough? Or are you in q condition to
| starve another twentyfour hours?"
"Huff Thwaite, ] nevsr could have believed
it."
"What?"
"That you could not take care of me" She
began to cry, and spent all the tears she had
longed to shed during the day, but would not
shed them because Huff was taking care OF
her.
He was wretchedly hungry. His pulse was
awful high or low, he did not know which,
/ and as for his wife, she might die before
morning for want of an oyster patty. Upon
the top of these dire facts lay the purse in
her pocket or upper drawer. He was deeply
angered. Something whirIed around his
heart and sent the blood to his forehead, and
he bit his lips before he knew that he was in
clined to He sat down in bowed position
his thumbs in his pockets. He heard
| tue light pattering of a spring shower in the
gathering darkness, and he also heard his
| wife feeling about in the next room, turning
a key and coming back to where he suiked.
She said, "Here!' dramatically. He looked
up and saw pretty purse before his nose.
| The next instant Tiff Thwaite was looking ut
! her husband in blank dismay. Huf had
risen with bitter and graceful elegance and
| the purse had skinned through pane OF
| the window with q twinkling crash.
| Tiff turned to the sofa, and threw herself
| down at full length gloriously wretched.
| Huff vanished. He went out into the driz-
| zling rain to hunt for the purse He struck
matches that sizzled, and was several times
| on the point of being run over by vehicles,
| and there is scarcely any doubt that his mis-
| fortunes were further augmented BY the use
| of words after which the faithful historian
draws an exclamation and supplies by
blank All in a moment, however he thought
| he had stepped on mouse and then he
| knew that he had come upon the plush wal
l
| ing to find, perhaps, a few gold pieces; but
| his luck was far better than he had expected.
| What could Tiff have been thinking OF to for
| get about it or withhold it, dear little goosel
How could her charming ghost have profited
| by her pin-money, supposing they had been
starved?
| In a couple of hours more Tiffs headache
| had gone off like the mist and they both looked
| even gayer than before the terrible ordeal
| of that day had set in.
1 At nine o'clock there came knock at tho
door. servant stepped over to Mrs.
| Thwaite and said something in low voice.
| Mrs Thwaite replied in the same manner.
| Who could have supposed that there would
| he a serious sequel to such slight Occurrences!
! When the servant had withdrawn, says Til,
| "Please Huff, hand me $5."
Certainly, Tiff. But ON second thought, ~.
member how careful we must be for month.
II wish you would reflect that the laun-
dress must be paid"
:'Oh, we can't spend money In so lavfBh q
| way as that at present She must wait"
"Well," says the blooming wife, unconcerned
one way or the other, "I'n go and send
her off,
She left the room and did not return for
| five minutes. Then, after sitting down
again and reading few pages Of Mrs.
| Browning, she looked up with smile as II
at some ioke, which was inexplicable under
| the circumstances, 81 had to give her the
| Clothes" said she.
"Did you? thought you always did,"
81 mean, of course, the laundried ones she
| had brought"
| weren't they just right?"
"Huff, you are getting obtuse. She took
| them in payment"
"Mercyl'
81 can make my things last just about
month that way"
"But how am to manage with only twen-
| ty-four shirts, and at least seven thrown to
the dogs a week?"
''That does seem a problem" unused Tin,
| laying down Mrs. Browning's poems tempor-
arily on her knee. Couldn't you buy q fan.
mel shirt, and wear it ever SO long7"
Couldn't you get a bathing dress?" de-
manded Huff, with withering sarcasm.
''Ohl" gasped Tiff, show fearful you always
are!''
Suppose the quarrel over, and for day or
two intense peace. Then came an episode.
"Well, dears, how do you dot" The speak
| er was fine girl, joyous with early morning
air and unusual excitement.
Huff and Tiff were TRANSPORTED. They were
just starting out for breakfast.
81 was determined to find you in, and 80 I
| came at this hour" went on the visitor. ct
has taken q good while to find you, since
papa would hear of it. The detective says
you drank Steinberger Cabinet yesterday"
"How dare you enter the same air We |
breathe?" thundered Huff, striding up to his
sister and taking her round the waist for q
SUOuU KISS we ignore your eXl6UcuCe.
"What a lovely rooml" exclaimed Esther,
sitting down with Tiff upon the sofa, with
sweep of the eyes, and then bending sideways
towards the brides cheek until cheeks and
lips met. "You, dearl"
"You love" said, Tiff and they embrace.
"Papa says you must be married over
again, go through the form and all the show |
and Importance" remarked Esther, with the |
most fascinating, lazy nonchalance. HE |
said he never saw anything go off so like cot |
ton into flames as you did, brother; just as |
though anyone was more in love with your
Bessie Featherly than he was. He don't re-
member forbidding the marriage at ALL"
"Please tell my father" said Huff severely, |
looking down at his wife, who held her chin |
in her hand, "that remember his forbidding |
it Tor as bad as his forbidding it) very dis |
tinctly. And please add that from this time |
forth, my father, yes, and all the rest of you, |
is-are-dead to me!'
sDreadful words those, WILL" sighed his |
sister, glancing up with compressed lips. |
"Don't you think SO, Bessie?"
Mrs. Tiff shook her head and smiled. "Mr. |
Thwaite is never wrong" says she, and she !
feels q little awkard at her own assertion.
Esther then thought moment, and then |
said she believed she would not stay any |
longer just now. Huff said that he would see |
her home, and then reflection that he could |
not very well carry out his intention. Esther |
upon this explained that she had come in |
the carriage. When she had bowed her |
self through the open door, she stopped to |
throw over her shoulder roulade of genial |
laughter.
"By the way, Will," she called, il we were |
in the fashionable set what o terrible notori- |
ETY. you two wild things would havel Al tits,
it's like q nice play. Adieul'
Il wish my mother would come now" said |
Tif, after the door had closed upon her hus-
bands buoyant sister-who was also Q
school friend and after q pause, or some
thing equivalent to one. Huff had not de- |
scended to the carriage with Miss Thwaite,
for fear of catching sight of the world
dreaded grin on the fOotmans visage.
"Your mother il woman, dear, answered
Thwaite, as il that meant something unusual, |
"and it win take o long time for her to come
round as my father has done.
But you are unrelenting a. you can b.,
suggested Tiff.
HUFF would like to have said that -
young husband he could not be otherwise
than he was, but a. he felt that this might b
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