Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-29

and mother. No psalm was sung, no ''voice
breathcd DER Eden," but the Sisters of Mercy
intoned the responses with vociferous ardor,
and the penitent took the liveliest interest in
the ceremonial, expressing her interest in gig
giles and suppressed "Oh. my'sr'
Finally, after ''amazement," the parson clerk,
bride and bridegroom, and witnesses adjourned
TO the vestry, where the vicar made his Gus
tomary joke about the lady signing her sur
name for the last time.
The bellringers knew nothing about the we'd
ding, and having deem unforewarned were not
present to ring peal No carriages with
white favors to horses and driver was at the
door of the church-no cab was kept at Mer-
gatroyd-no rice was thrown, no slipper cast.
The little party walked quietly and unob-
served back to their house under umbrellas
and on reaching home partook of breakfast
that consisted of fried fish, bacon, eggs toast
butter and homemade marmalade. No guests
were present, no speeches were made, no
healths drunk. There was to be no wedding
tour Philip could not leave the mill, and the
honeymoon must be passed in the smoky at
mosphere of Mergatroyd. and without the in
termission of the daily routine of work.
As Philip walked home with Salome under
the same umbrella from the points of which
the discolored water dropped, he said in low
your mother to manage her affairs for her. She
has accepted my offer, and l have looked
through her accounts. She has very little
money"
Il do not suppose she can have much; my
poor father died before he was in position to
save any considerable sum-"
''She has about $500 in Indian railway bonds
and a couple of hundred in South American
loan, and some f3O0 in home railways-about
f1 500 to 81 800 in al-that is to say she had this
little while ago.
And has it still, no doubt"
mo; you yourself told me she had met with
losses"
"She informed me that she had, but cannot
understand how this can have been. doubt
entirely that she met with losses"
''But she allowed me to see her book, and
she has sold out some stock-in fact, between
two and three hundred pounds worth. She did
that almost Immediately after my uncle's
DEATH"
'But she has the money realized, 1 suppose"
''None at all. 1t is gone"
"Goner'
"She cannot and will not account for it to
me. except by the vague explanation that she
had a sudden and unexpected call upon her
which she was forced to meet"
"But-she said nothing about this to me. 1t
is very odd"
at is, as you say, odd 1t is, of course, posi-
BILE that Janet may have had something to do
with it, but cannot say; your mother will not
enlighten me-"
Il cannot understand this" said Salome,
musngly.
81 regret my Offer" said Philip IT would
not have made it if had not thought should
be met with candor, and given the information
desired"
When Mrs. Sidebottom heard that the mar
riage had actually taken place, then her moral
sense reared like a cob unaccustomed to the
curb.
"It is a scandal p she exclaimed. land so
shortly after my sweet brothers death. A bag
mans daughter, toow
"Uncle jeremiah died in November" said
the Captain.
"Well, and this is March. To marry a bag
mans daughter in March 1t is a scandal, an
outrage on the family"
my uncle would have had no objections, 1
suppose. Philip is as good as Mr.. Baynes."
"As good How you talk, Lamb. as if all the
brains in your skull had gone to water. Philip
is Pennycomequick; and Baynes is of course,
a Baynes."
What of that ?"
'Mr. Baynes was manufacturer"
$50 is Philip"
"Well, yes; for his SINS But then he is allied
to us who have dropped an n, and capitalized
@, and adopted and inserted a hyphen. Mr..
Baynes was not in the faintest degree related
to us. Philip has behaved with gross indecency.
A bagman's daughter within five months of his
uncles dearhi Monstrous. II she had been his
social equal we could have waived the month