Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-06-21
Here Dorothy turned over the letter

(Stfanye now lnconSluefale some peO-
pie areD and all could see was.
.P, S. AS you take this part of your letter
most seriously to heart, please consider the
above u business document of the highest i'm
portance requiring prompt attention.
H.. H."
Now what there was in that letter
that didn't see mi ght have been the
most important of anything in it. and
the most provoking part of it all is
that l have some affairs of my own
that must attend to. even if | don't
watch Dorothy. But this morning,
after l had gone home, | happened 10
see among the news items in the
Gazette that
MIR. and Mrs r. z. Hutton are at
the Vendome for few days"
Alack! alack! then he's married after
all, and Dorothy in her studio is ;fnk-
ing too much about him. What Shall
do? | think minute, and then pick
up the paper and fold it so that his
name can easily be seen, and then /
slip into the studio while Dorothy has
gone to speak to her mother. lay it
near the easel. and hide behind the
door Now don't like hiding behind
doors, but how should / ever know
whether Dorothy read that paper or
not If didn't?
Well, Dorothy came back and sat
down at her easel without ever glanc-
ing at the paper. She was greatly
Interested in bit of woodland.
she WAS sketching. and worked for an
hour without stopping. How my poor
legs did ache standing there afraid to
move! For Dorothy can't bear any
thing that's mean. and, if she found
me. she'd never speak to me again.
Oh. dear, feel rs the boys do in
school who shy spit balls at the stud
ious ones. I'd be willing to do any
thing TO stop such amazing and ill-
timed industry. There, she's begin
ming to bite the end of her pencil. l
think she's going to stop. Yes, her
eye has caught the paper, and she
takes it up and reads that item about
MRS. Hutton" aloud.
Dear me- she says quietly. Il had
no idea he was married" Then with
out a frowu. or sigh, or another
word. she falls to work again. and
draws for another hour. My poor
legs! l shall drop! All my sympa-
tiies. too, wasted on that heartless
girl. She deserves to be an old maid
and hope she will be. What on
earth can do! The children will be
ut home from school. and no dinner
ready. 1t must be II. aud I've stood
here two good hours.
dorothy. Dorothy. come out for q
race" cries BERTHE at the open window.
BLESSINGS on thee. barefoot boy."
.nsxsarS nnrnfhr and
l start, too, and rush home to find
nav hungry children. House is empty!
Have they gone back to school?
glance at the clock. Ten O'Clock.
Mercy on me- have only been gone
fifteen minutes and SUFFERED all these
agoaies.
Nov suppose YOU will say l am a
very imaginative person. and you
won't listen to anything more that l
have to say. Well. can't tell you any
more about Dorothy, for my brother
Isaac has come, and ho says that his
wife is sick. and he wants me to go
and spend the Winter with them and
shut up my house. I've decided to
90. for Dorothy isn't worth watching.
she is SO cold hearted. No sentiment
about her at all.
(Six months later.)
Isaac's wife is dreadful feeble
thing. and was so busy l didn't have
time to think much about Dorothy.
But in the Spring. Isaac went over to
see il the house was all right, and he
said there was young fellow courting
Dorothy He said he called on Mrs.
Porter. aad saw the young man
himself. said Mrs. Porter called him
Roy. but has last name was Dutton.
Hutton. YOU mean," cried J. Roy
Hutton. r L. Hutton. l must go
home and see about it. 1t is u wicked
shame; that girl is deceiving hei
mother. aud the man has Que wife al
ready"
"Nonsense." said," Isaac; '.have you
ever seen him?"
I didu't take much notice of Isaac,
but left the children and started home.
Opened the house and made myself
comfortable. and then dropped in to
see Mrs. Porter. hadn't been there
more than ten minutes before Mrs.
Psster said:
II suppose you know Dorothy is en-
gased?"
said L getting angry. Ito engage her
self to man that has one wife al
ready but l suppose they'll live il
Utah.
What do you mean?" said Mrs
Porter. farming red in the face like 8
turkey g"bbler.
..Whv.- said |. very loud. dorothy
knows ke's married: she saw about his
wife iu tive paper" wasn't going t.
be put d0gH by Mrs. Porter, not l.
II dou't believe one word of il" cried
Mrs. Porter
ASK Du<aaAv." said l. thinking
that would ,o&snwince her.
Then Mrs. Porter was mad, and how
she did talk. She told me that | was d
meddlesome gossip. interfering with
other peoples 4E<iuess instead of stay
ing at home to take care of my child
rem, and-well ixSt ut that moment
Dorothy and Roy came in, and Dorothy
looked from one I" the other and said;
whats the lnattcr?"
.Why. this-woaaan here" said Mrs.
Porter. as if she could think of moth
ing quite contemptuous enough to call
me. 'says that Roy is married. and
that you know it,"
"You have made some queer mis-
take" said Dorothy, xs pleasantly as
possible. Wont you tell us all abou
/ it?"
was so thunderstruck at the way
that Dorothy took it that l could no
say word.
Come, come, want to know whel
married and whom?" said the youn:
man. laughing.
''YOu ought to know" said l indig
naatly, I'm sure don't saw il
the paper about Mrs K. p. Hutton
staying 1T the Vendome. and l knew
/ Dor.tAy had been writing goo,
Maxy letters to Mr.. Hutton, aud
thought she mightu't know he wa
marriAd, aud SO showed her tn
paper. and now she is engaged to you
just tire same"
WINS is this fellow" cried Ro
ii-teely. entnng TO Dorothy.
My c~usia,n said Dorothy. 'four o
five times xeaaoved, who is writing