New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-14
nAry TRBUNE SUNDAY TWENTYFOUK rAGLs

don't want you 20 leave the house, nor 1883 you
sticks Of furniture, but take me- go % mako
wonder that you can have the isos " ~, ~
such q proDosa so soon after my ielnor usa ~,
Moth-Mullcin's temper did not improve s ..as
winter She was subjec ted TO snsnts, eIo 1870, "a
the victim OF disappointment sne WE shs means of
earning a livelihood. Partly because sue wou is
NOT be indebted to Dick, but also peeau r., -, 10
could not afford TO be idle, she was e9 20 Sns ~.
solve to have sale at Christmas, ana 70 vas' ~
the cottage Though she made lgnt 10 Dic SI,,. -,
leaving. she was sore at heart When sne knew
that 20 she must the cottage all az once oee1 Ws
dear to her, and the retrospect oNet he Nd been
presented to her singular charms ohe n&a De ;n
very happy on the edge Of the wooG, anu very III
tere sted in her work collecting nous ana ou''ef
dies, o,,d NOT admit
IN herself that she had acted foolishly sne hau
triGcd with her chances and bad lost them. Nei.n-
or sam Underwood, nor Joseph Rlddie, no, no TOT
Resiamin Poison showed tokens OF renewing ne.
from her difficulties by offering her the shei'ef vi
ChristmaS Eve arrived she had been down 70
Greenbvtbe to see the auctoDeer. The sale was 20
take place two days after Christmas. u mlgns
not be on Christmas Day, and the day 1oiIowIns
was n Banl-holiday Moth had also been about
induiring for lodgings, and had been unsuccessful
Greenhythe is place which in certain seasons -
very full Of yachting men and their iamlnss
These guests are ready TO pay good price LOT
lodgings and those who have lodgings 10 let are
indisposed to let them for permanency at low
rent: they prefer o short and reh harvest 10
yachting time. Moth did not wish 70 leave tle
neighborheod because she desired still TO collecb
lepidoptera for her usual customers The pay was
not great, but IT was something certain. BESIDES,
it was an occupation she liked:
The days close in fast at Christmas, and, as II
happened, that Christmas Eve was murky. Inc
weather was rough, with d southwest wind, ana
heavy clouds dischargipg rain every now ana then,
and the darkness settled in earlier than Moth had
anticipated.
The wind had shifted little, frw points more
10 the north, while she out and after she lefp
Greenhythe on her way home-to q dismantled ana
solitary homc-the darkness fell like ink about her,
and storm Of rain came on, SO driving ana 80
cold that Jessie took II fuge from il in an old kiln
that stood beside the road The kiln-mouth was
large, vaulted and the shelter 1t afforded perfect
She retreated to the back part or IT ana seated
herself on on overturned broken barrow, TO walt
till the storm had swept away and the sIFy was
lighter
AS she sat there her utter discorsoiateness made
itself felt. She must vacate the cottage in three
days, sell al her furniture, and be homeless. She
had not settled whittier to go. 30 friends had
come forward 10 help her Her pride had offended
the young women who might have been her
friends, and her want OF consideration had alien
ated the men who might have offered her their
homes But IL must not be supposed that Jessie
blamed herself She was bitter ct heart agninst
all the world The fault was in her neighbors,
her suitors, her acquaintance, not in herself
Then as she sat brooding angry In soul, and
with knit brows, she heard voices OF men talk,
ing. and. a moment later. three persons entered
the old lSln-mouth As they talked she recognized
them.
II shy, Underwood said the voice Of Ben
Poison, we shall do in here. What slashing
showers II can't last long I've just mulched
my beds, and, darn it, this food will wash all
the goodness away into the runpels, and carry
10 10 the Thames. What l like IL q soft drizzle--
that. carries the goodness into the ground and
nourshes the roots
I'm glad TO be out of the Storm said the
third, and the voice was that OF the carpenter:
Since I've broke my leg 1 get twinges Of
rheumatic In it,
II guess il is Just as we'll you broke yonr leg
instead Of your heart about Miss MOth-Mullein,'
said Underwood
Rather So" was the reply. If I'd married
and cruel and self-willed. But Sam Underwood.
thought you were after her?'
so | was, but there were too many after
her, end she Kept S our oxford PHI tba scholar Skipping
Aud was after her too said Poison slowly.
r" say, mates, what larSs! she's been trying TO
splice broken ties She sent 10 say she'd be glad
70 earn few shillings by weaving strawberry
bottles; but wasn't 10 b. taken in by that |
answered that bought EN- wholesale, by the
thousand
There ensued a laugh
=" And she's been down every day TO my farm
for ha'porth OF milk thinking that she might
End me in the way some evening and the haporth
OF milk wonld bring the cow and the stable and
the house and the farm and Sam Underwood. L
keep out OF the way. ! see through her little
= And she has ordered OF me q couple Of boxes
for her clothes and them odds and ends as don
90 into the SALE" said Joseph Ruddlc. She
thinks we're moths TO be caught she's such a
dab hand az hunting; but we're wary cOves-eh
sam ell, Ben? In vain is the net spread IN
sight of the bird"
The rain is ceasing, I'm on said Underwood
so DO We" said the Others.