The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-01-11


"Matter enutf!" SEE she; no wonder there
is earthquakes and jars! heard the news
jest before started, and it made me weak as
II cat =; had TO stop to every house on the
way down to rest, and not a soul had heard
OF il till | told EN-. Such turn ms il gave
me, | shan't get over it tor week but it
is jest as alwss told you; always said the
minister's wife wasn't any too good. 1t didn't
surprise me, not Bit"
"You cant tell me one word against Mary
Linden that | will believe" said Maggie
Snow.
You will admit that ;he minister went
North last Tuesday, won't you ?"
seven wimmen spoke up to once, and said,
Yes, his mother was took sick, aud they
tclcglaphed for him"
so lie said, sneered Betsy Babbet, $50 he
said believe it's for good"
ION, dear !" shrirked Ophelia DobLs, ~
shall faint away kctch hold of me- solnC-
body"
"ketch hold of Yourself" said !, severely,
aud then seq TO Betsy, Il don't believe he's
run away any more then believe ! am the
next President of the United States"
~ I'll. if he haiD't, he'll wish he had" seq
She. Ills wife came night before last on
the cars"
Four wimmen said did sheY" two said,
"DD tell" and three opened their mouths
and looked at her speeches. amongst the
last was Miss Deacon Graves spoke in II
koIeclcd manner, and seq |, What Of it?"
Yes, what of - said she. Il believe
the poor man mistrustcd it all ou', and run
away from trouble and disgrace"
How dare you! tzMaggie Snow, speak
the word disgrace in connection with Mary
Linden"
How dare 2" SCI Betsy Bobbct. ASK
Jake Coleman, MS it happened got it from
his own mouth, it didn't come through two
or three
Get wEat?' scz "if you can speak the
English language, Betsy Bobbet, and have
got sense enuti TO tell II straight story, tell ii
and be done with il, sell.
"Well, jest as came out of the gate to our
house. seq she, Jake Coleman came along,
and SCI he, Betsy, have got something to
tel YOU SCI he; Il want to tell somebody that
can kept it it ought to be kept SEE he, aud
then he went on and told; SCI he, Miss Lin
den has cot home, and she didn't come alone
neither Sez ], What do you mean" He
looked as mysterious as a ghost, and SCI he,
Imcan what ! say SCI he; Il drove the car
rage home from the depot and SEE he, 'as
my name is Jake Coleman, heard her talk
ing 10 somebody she called Hugh, you know
htl INsuuill hdlllG 10 SIhllCS ~ HtuTu
her tell this Hugh that she loved him, loved
him better than the whole world" And
then he made me promise not to tell but lie
said he heard not only one kiss but fourteen
or fifteen. Now" says Betsy, what do you
think of the minister's wife,"
Good henvcus!" cried OpheliA DObbs,
IAN | deceived? is this phantagOry of the
brain, or have got ears? Have | got ears ?"
size kOntlnude ating wildly at me.
You can feel and sce,' said l shortly.
"Will he live with the wrctched Crealure?"
kontinude Ophelia. mo, he will get di.
vorcemcut from her; such IL tendcr-hearted
man as he is, too. II ever II man wanted
comforter in N tryin' time he is the man, ind
tomorrow will 90 and comfort him"
Il guess you will find him, first" said
Betsy BObbct. Aud guess if he was found,
there is II certain person he would be as glad
to see us he would another certain person"
"lhcrc is some mistake" said Maggie
Snow. Jake Coleman is always joking"
at was II male" said Lucindcr Dobbs, else
why did She call him Hugh? You have all
heard the minister say his wife hadn't a rru-
tive on earth except her mother and maiden
aunt it couldn't have been her mother, and
ii couldn't have been the maiden aunt Tor
her name was Martha instead OF Hugh Be
sides, she kuntinudc, for she had So harden
ed Ter mind with mathematics, that she
could grapple the htu!psi fact ani floor 1t,
so to speak. "Bcs Il So, srz sh", "the maiden
aunt died II year auu u hatugD, that settles
the matttI couclGsiycy it was not the maiden
aunt
IL have thought something was on the
minister's mind all the spring, said the wild.
der Tubbs. II have spoken to sister Ann
about it II number of times" Then she kinder
rolled up her eyes, jst as she does in class
M etln, and stz she, at is M awful disp IL
sntion, hut hope he'll turn il INFO means
of grace; hope his spcril"ol strength will be
renewed. But" SEE she, Il have bDrrycd
good deal of trouble about his bein' so hand
some; have noticed that handsome minis
tiers don't turn out well lhcr most always
have somrthin' happen 10 'cm sooner or later;
bUr | hope he'll be led"
"WeII, never thought that Miss Linden
was any too good" said Betsy Bobbet.
"Nelber did !, said Lucinder Dobbs.
"SEe has turned ont Jest as | always
thought she would" said Ophelm, and have
jcs Us good an opinion of her as | have of
them that stand up for her"
Maggie Snow spoke up thea jest rs clear
MS II bell her voice sounded; she amt afraid
of nnyboiy, tor she is Lawyer Shows only
child, and has been to Boston to school. SEE
sac, Aunt Allen" lshe is a little related to
me un her mothers siic,) Aunt Allen, why
is it that, MS u general rule, the very worst
tulks are The ones to suspect other folks of
beng hady'
SEE ], Maggie, they draw their pictures
from memory" And SCI ], "lhey want to
pull down other tolkses regulations, for they
feel as iithrr own goodness IL in II to,terin'
condition, and if they fall, they want some.
thing to tall on, SO as TO come down easier,
like"
Maggie Sno y laughed and SO did Miss Ed
wards, and the Joneses; hut Betsy Bobbrt
and the Dubbs girls looked black as Erobi-
Gus And seq Betsy Bobbet to me, seq she
81 shouldn't think, Josiah Aliens wife, that
you would countenance such conduct"
81 will first know there is wrong conduct"
SCI |. SCI !, Miss Linden's face Is jest rs in
noccnt as baby's, and amt a-goin to mis-
trust any evil out of them pretty brown eyes
till | am obeeged to-"
Jest ut this minute the hired girl came in
and said supper was ready, and we all went
out to eat Miss Jones said there wasn't any
thing on the table fit to eat and she Was
afraid we couldn't make out, but we did have
splendid supper, good enough for the Zero
Of Rusty.
We hadn't morcn got up fro Al the supper
table and got back into the parlor, whta
we heard knock onto the front
door Miss Jones went and opened it,
and who, of all the live world, should walk
in bat the minister! The faces of the VIM
men rs he entered would have been Il study
for Michael Angelica, or any of the old paint
ers. Miss Jones was so frustrated that she
asked him the first thing to take his bonnet
off, then she betbought herself, and SEE she,
"How's your mothcr?' before she had sot him
a chair of anything. But he looked jest rs
pleasant aud composed rs ever, though his
eyes kinder laughed. And he thanked her
and told her he left his mother, the day be-
fore a good deal better; and then he turned
to Maggie Snow, and SCI he:
81 have come after you, Miss Maggie" SCI
he. "My wife came home night before last,
and wanted to see you 80 bad that told her
as | had business past your house, would
call for you as went home, and your mother
told me you was here. thinE know" SEE
he, why she wants see toyou so very much,
now she is 50 proud of our bows she can't