Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-08-19

instalment of virtuous indignation,
and was about giving the old gentle
man piece of my mind. when he
babe me shut up, while he wiped
away the tears of hilarity and COM
forted me by saying, Bird, my dear
fellow, it is all my fault. / utterly
forgot to tell you that the girls are
twins, and so terribly alike that you
can't tell one of them from both
The next day brought wonder
ing letter from Miss Maggie, asking
what had caused my sudden and un-
accountable departure, and desiring
to know if I was a Son of Temper
ance, whom she had inadvertently
Mortified and insulted by sending him
cake and wine, and would Mr.. Adalr
please tell her what it all meant, any
how.
"Now, here's your chance, Bird,
said the old man, handing me let
ter. Just take my team and have
another drive down there. You can
fix up the mistake, whatever it is, in
a jiffy, and get what [ want this
time, sure
Away / went, and in due time
was in the Van SERVER parlor. l
took critical look at the young lady
as she came forward and offered me
her hand, which / lost no time in
taking. I was sure of Maggie Van
SERVER now.
ssI'm very glad to see you, Mr..
Bird. Pray what made you leave
so unceremoniously on Monday
"Well, Miss Maggie, | thought it
was about the best thing | could do
under the circumstances"
ssWhat? Just because [ offered
you a little wine and cake?''
''Not at all. The refreshments
were as acceptable as they were
gracefully rendered.
''Then why did you go away be-
fore [ returned?''
81 didn't go away before you re-
turned. I stayed until you came
back, and, practically, turned me
out of the house,
81 turned you out of the house J"
she exclaimed, in blank astonish-
ment why, I never did anything
of the kind
81 am sorry to contradict a lady
but you certainly did,
By this time | had forgotten all
about the twins in the case, and Miss
Maggie's brow darkened ominously
as she said gravely:
s'Mr Bird, have you been drink
ing? | wish you to distinctly under
stand that I am not a story teller
and / say / never saw you after /
went out of this room after the pa
pers."
sMlss Van SERVER, want it equal
ly, distinctly and emphatically borne
in mind that L am not liar, and II
YOU had not in effect turned me ou
of the house, pretending to know
nothing about me, I should not have
gone away"
Then Maggie's eyes flashed as sh'
retorted:
"And you cannot oblige me NOR
than by going away again"
1 was half way across the yar(
to my carriage, when [ heard tear
fully penltent voice, crying; ooh
Maggie Call him back! Don't lie
him gol 1t was that did it -
I turned in considerable astonish
ment, and there stood both girls O
the porch, looking so terribly alik
that, staring at them in semi-idioti
: wonder, | could not for the life @
me told which was the other. liner
| Is but little more of it. The stor
of how Laura s'fired me out" an
concealed the fact from Maggie, ha
I to be told numberless times, unit
the moon shone brightly down upo
my pleasant reflections as l pursue
/, homeward the lonely road that wa
not lonely at all.
"Well," asked the writer, sis tn;
e all there is of it,"
n eyes," said Mr.. Bird, with que'
: smile, Except that | am the unc
e of of those two girls who have jul
e left us, and the mlschievous Laul
, is their aunt"