Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-20


wounded and very siek.'
Well, marnar's crying - sobbed
Maud, with unansw cradle logic, while
| Victoria, after suffering enuneiation of
the words, 81 IN crying because he IS GO
ing to die, wound up with sudden dec
laration of rights by saying she didn t
care whether auntie liked it or not, she ID
| cry all she wanted to; and, taking a fresh
start, the six-year-old maiden howled
afresh.
1t was too much for Miss Forrest 5
scant patience. Selling the little inno-
cents in no gentle grasp, she lugged them
down into the vacant dining room
on the south side of the lower
/ hall, turned the key in the door
and babe them MAKE themselves COM
Portable there until she chose to let them
out. If they must howl, there was the
| place where they would be least likely to
disturb the sufferer at the other end of
the building. After which unwarranta-
bic piece of assumption OF authority she
! returned to her unhappy sister-in-law.
| 4 declare, Fanny, you have absolute
/ " no heart at all, sobbed that lachry-
NOSE lady, as she mingled tears and
SMILES with frHitless efforts to hush her
| infant VIII what have you done
with my children?''
''Shut them up in the dining room un-
| til they step their noise, answered Miss
Forrest calmly.
You have no right whatever to pun ish
my babies, Indignantly protested Mrs.
Forrest (and every mother will agree with
herr. lyon are always interfering with
| them, and l shall write to Capt Forrest
this very day and complain Of it, -
81 wouldn t if / were you, Ruth, be-
mis- inf yUQ
never took any notice of them-no mat
ter what they did.
Gwen, you don It., - sobbed the lady
of the, house, abandoning the original
line of attack TO defend herself against
this unexpected soFtie Then, suddenly
recalling the more recent injury At
least you don t when you should, and
you do when you should not. Let me go
to them instantly CeIestine, take
baby. But Celestine had vanished.
''Give me the baby, Ruth, and go by
all means. Then we can restore quiet to
this side of the house at least and she
took with firm hands the shrieking infant
from the mothers arms. Mrs. Forrest
rushed down the hall and melodramatic-
ally precipitated herself upon her off
spring in the dining-room. In two min
utes time the babys wailings ceased,
aud when Mrs. Forrest reappeared,
ready to resume the attack after having
released the prisoners, she was surprised
and, it must be recorded, not especially
pleased to see her lately inconsolable in
FAINT laughing, Growing and actually
beaming with happiness i'll her sister-in-
law IS arms.
81 suppose you've been feeding that
child sugar, she said as she stopped
short at the threshold
''The sugar is IN the dining room,
Ruth, not here. -
'sWell-eandy, then, and you know
d as soon4you gave her poison -
''And yet you sent Celestine to my
room for some for this very baby yester-
day
~ didn It. .
Then, as have told you more than
once, Ruth, Celestine's statements are
unreliable. found her in my room and
she said you sent her for some candy for
little Hal and L gave it to her. l do not
at all like her going to my room when
I'm not there
''You are down on Celestine simply
because she is mine, and you know it,
Fanny. 1t is so with everything-every-
body that is at all dear to me. That is
enough to set you against them. My
bondage when she was a mere baby Ca
favorite paraphrase of Mrs. Forrest g for
describing the fact that one of that dam
sci s parents had officiated as cook at q
southern hospital where the chaplain
happened to be on duty in the war days.
Her mother lives with his people to this
hour and she has grown up under my
eyes and been my hand-maiden, and the
nurse of all my children, and never a
word has any one ever breathed against
her until you came-and you are always
doing it -
Pardon me, Ruth. have only twice
referred to what l consider her shortcom-
ings. She was very neglectful of you
and the children at Robinson, and was
perpetually going out in the evening with |
that soldier in Capt. Terry's troop, and
now she is getting 10 be as great a CAD
about here. That, however ; is none of |
my affair, but it is my right to say tEat I |
do not want her prowling about among |
the trunks and boxes in my room, and if
you do not exert your authority over her
must find some other means of making |
her respect my wishes. -
81 suppose you will try and blacken
her character aud have her sent out of
the post and so rob US of the last relic | |
have of my home and f-f-frlends, - and
Mrs. Forrest began to sob afresh.
"Hush! Ruth l have the doctor in
the hall below. For goodness sake, do
try and look a little less like modern
Niobe when he comes up. Here take ba-
by, - and she Rugged the little fellow
close and imprinted a kiss on his dimpled
cheek. 81 must run down and detain
him moment until you can get straight
ened but
Nothing 10th was Doctor Bayard to
spend some moments in tete-a-tete con-
verse with Miss Forrest She ushered
him into the dining -room-the only re-
ception room the two households could
boast of under the stress of circumstance,
and most graciously received his COM
pliments on the ''eonquests of the pre-
vious evening. t'Not only all eyes, all
hearts were charmed, Miss Forrest.
Never even in the palmiest days of Wash
ington society have l seen more elegant
and becoming toilet, and as for your
was simply divine. - The
doctor looked, as well as spoke, his we'll
turned phrases. He was gallant, deb