Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-20


 heard that chain clank, an her heart begun ter beat, an she couldn't help thinkin' it might be a good thing eff the capn had got a anchor hitched ter her tool
 ''She didn't need ter take but one look at Stan ter know what he come for. He didn't waste no time bout it neither. There wa'Nt no putting him off; she'd got to come ter the pint, an she did.
 'She told him her fust dooty was to her father; he hadn't got nobody but her, an she knowed 'twouldn't be right ter go off an leave him. Then Stan he told her she needn't leave him; he wan't home much O the time, an when he was he could be with her, jest $ he allus had bin; an he did think-though he didn't say so-that eff he could put up with the cap'n he might do much for him.
 ''But Alice she told him her father didn't want her ter marry nobody, an eff she did he wouldn't have nothin' more ter do with her; an 'twasn't ez eff he was like other folks who had friends ter fall back or-ef she left him he wouldn't have nothin'; then she looked at him and she sez:
 "sEf loved man ever so much wouldn't leave my father ter go off with him, cause be has fust claim, sez she; an Stan he come a step nearer, and he sez:
 "'Do you love me, AliceF
 ''She knowed she got ter answer that ques- l tion and she knowed 'twouldnt do ter have
 him come no closer if she was goin' ter do her dooty by her father. She'd never told lio
 in her life, but she looked at him and si'
 said it slow, like ez eff twas lesson she
 sayin':
 "'No don't love you; you must go.' "'Twas queer, but Stan blieved her. A
 woman would "a knowed in a minute she I wasn't tellin' the truth but he trusted her as
 a angel, an he took her at her word.
 'tAn' the gate hadn't no moren banged
 arfter him when the old cap'n jumped right
 out O bunch of syringas, an stood in front
 on her in his tall hat, with valise in one
 hand and ombriu in the other, lookin big
 ger, redder, more bristlin' 'an ever; he'd bin
 there the hull time, an heard every word,
 but all he said was:
 "'Good grill Done right! That's the way
 ter serve young scalawags. Ye won't have
 no more trouble from 'em; yer old fathers
 come home ter stay.'
 "An' so he had. He'd give up the com
 mand O his steamship, an there he was.
 ''Well, Alice she took him inter the house,
 an she give him his supper, an mixed his
 rum punch fer him, an sot by while he J drinked it; then he wanted her ter sing ter
 him, and she went ter the pianner an played
 an sung him his favorites-an' he had deal
 O taste in musician all the while there was
 poor Stan's despairin' face in front her,
 an you'd a thought even the cap'n could a
 told her heart was broke by the way she was
 singin'.
 "An Stan he went off an jined party O
 naturalist fellers who was goin on three
 years trip to don't know where, arfter out
 landish species O spiders an caterpillers an
 sich. He didn't care where he went ter.
 "An Alice went on doin' her dooty, keep
 in things pleasant, an kinder maxim it up ter the neighbors when the cap'n quarreled with i Jam. hnt Sba na1ar an' tbjnnar ) day, tell she looked just like shadder O a girl; but she didn't lose none O her prettiness she couldn't; longs there was anything left ) on her twas 'bliged ter be pretty.
 "Well, after the cap'n had bin home year or two he began ter find it kinder tiresome ) he'd done everything he could think on ter his place, an twas then he took it inter his head to buy his monnyment; that kep' him ! busy for months; he visited every marble yard in the country fore he found anything ter suit him. He said his monnyment was like poor mans suit of clothes; he wanted jest the right thing, cause it had got ter last
 him.
 , ''He was pleased 'nough when he finally l got it sot up; he'd walk down with Alice l every Sabbath evenin' ter see it, an he r hadn't bin ter visit his wlfes grave fore
 sence she died he clean forgot ter have hel s name put on the tombstone. l "Well, things went on this way tell one . day he was took with a fit, and went ter lit :. beside his monnyment, and Alice was left tel l take her Sabbath evenin' walks alone. @ ''The minister had doubts bout the olc I cap'n's futur', an he told her so; but Alice
 she said he want so bad but she could low r him, an she reckoned Gods love an mercy'C n stretch further'n ourn, an she couldn't hell ) hopin' He'd remember what hard life tb
 poor old cap'n had had, an make lowance I fer him.
 r ''The minister he didn't say no more arfte that. guess he thought eff the idee was an. T comfort ter her she might ez we'll keep it, ,bu Il it sartainly wa'n't orthodox. d L. "'Twas bout this time Stan come home a older an browner an harnsomer'n ever H es was real shocked when he heard bout tn 10 cap'n, an' more still when he see Alice i 3, church. He'd thought she'd bin dyin' O $ broken heart all this time, but when he com D ter look at her-not that he s'posed thinkin' IS him had anything ter do with it-he reckone IS twas takin' care O her father,
 ''He didn't go to see her. He knowed b n was cured, but still he didn't want ter res 'o gettin' hurt agin; he hadn't forgot what er felt like, so he walked home from meetil Ill with Judge Perkins darter, an was arst le stay ter supper, an spent a very pleasar s, evenin'; an Alice went home an cried hel 't self sick-difference tween men an wome1
 that's all.
 t' "Well, twas the old cap'n's queer chara U ter that brought lem together in the flu. 'n place, an twas the same thing brought 'el CT together in the end; eff t hadn't bin for hil ss I don't suppose they'd ever noticed eac 'n other, an that's what folks git fer meddlil CT in other folks affairs.
 "'Twas one Sabbath arfternoon jest arfts Ill meetin'; Stan was walkin' in the cemeter y; with his mother-they was goin' ter see Q the grass needed cuttin' in their lot-an' IT. they passed by the cap'n's monnyment Sta ne happened ter look toward it, an there he s' ao some heathern boy had printed Rum Pune ,E, in big letters on the cap'n's urn. 'sy "Stap most felt ez if twas his own fathe !. it made him so mad; but he didn't say nothi n1 ter tract his mothers 'tention. He got hon ne M quick's be could, an he got some chemic ns stuff on rag, an some sand paper, an 'el was goin' back agin ter git them letters ( lsI fore poor Alice could come an see em; b III n somebody come in, an he was hendered tx oo t was pretty late fore he started. les ''She wa'n't there when he got back, an III warmed up that monnyment an he work c;~ ha