Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-06-18

the gate, where he had been luunging
under the catdlpaS. and talking crops
and politics with a passing neighbor
since it grew too dark to read.
He was a good-looking, burly man,
intelligent of face aud pleasant of man.
ner, and apparently very well satisfied
with life and with himself. Like SO
many OF his type. lie was quite Il con-
trast TO his pale, plain, faded wife, who
looked years older than lie, though she
was i'll reality younger, and had feen
comely enough Wien lie vowed al their
marriage 10 protect and chez ish her,
and with all his worldly go DIS her 10
endow.
On this occasions, as Oh many o IL
ers, lie was in blissful ignorance of Miss
Bonnner's thoughts. Indeed, she was
a prime favorite with him.
Il like a girl that there's more TO
than just looks!' lie was wont to re-
mark; am this one is as pretty as
pink, besides
The new boarder I'll be around to-
morrow he went on now, amiably. L
met him i'll town this morning, and We
settled it all. He's a young fellow
from back in Pennsylvania-Willa Hard,
his name is. He's a minin' engineer,
and they say he's invented something
that'l bring in heap of money. Any
how, he's been overworkin', and come
out here to rest and look up some in
vestments he's got In coal lands.
never took much stock III edicated men,
but this one seems right smart. He'll
pay well, and if lie stays IA month, as
he said he might, his toard'l be quite
ii lit. AMI l must get me "a new sower
before put III The winter wheat. He's
stylish cooking, too. and L reckon you II
like him, Mss Ida
Not II emphatically, but silently,
declared that indignant young woman.
IL detest the man already, coming just
10 add TO poor, dear Mrs. Burnaby's
work and worry, without even consult
ing her, and 10 put more money in your
pocket, you inconsiderate, selfish,
greedy old brute!'
But Mrs. Burnaby herself seemed
very far from INDIGNANT.
'It'l be pleasant TO have your z
man about the house for u WHILE she
| observed when her husband had gone
| into the house to finish reading the
Weekly PdlLddi,an by the lamplight.
Seems like it'll besomethlng as if Tom
was back here again, after all
Ida looked wonderingly up at her
| hostess.
There was a tremor of Subdued but
| pleas Irable excitement i'll her meek
voice, actually tint Of co.or III her
sallow cheeks.
She went on speaking, while she kept
unconsciously laying plaits and folds i'll
her faded calico skirt with her nervou
hands-thin, hard-working hands, that
seemed unable ever 10 resign them
! Sc yes TO absolute rest
My Tom lie always wanted an edica-
tion, but his pa says, sc, that II wash [
any Use, ami he'd never pay out his
money for such NONSENSE. Tom might
/ have made his mark, too, If he could
have had a chance.
But there row,' with a sharp-drawn
breath as of repressed PAIN, Il told you
the whole story long ago, and it's no
use goln' over IL again. | couldn't hd'
told it even once, if you didn't, SOME
! how, seem more like girl OF my own
/ than just 4 boardeT.'
Ida nestled her hand caressiugly
i!.to the older woman's without a word.
She ew how much her companion
/ ship and her silent sympathy We're 10
her in her hard, lonely he, and that
knowledge, warming ler heart III her
own loneliness, had kept her under
| VI $. Burnaby's roof.
She knew also, AS had been sad, the
story of Tom, Mr.. BuI naby's only
child, "A high-sprl.ed, ambitious boy, at
u..ce too like and too unlike his father
1 TO agree with HIM who had left home
some thirteen years before, final act
J of rebellion at winch Ida did not in
the lea { wonder.
They'd had an awful quarrel that
day. Mrs. BuTnaby had told her. and
al last Tom sad, Sc, that he'd worked
for everything he had since lie was a
child, am yet his pa was always tauml-
ing him with bein' dependent on him,
am he'd see if lie couldn't take care of
himself. An, whatever happened, lie
declared he'd never be beholdin' 10 him
for another bite or sup. An when his
! pa said he'd lick such IDEAS OUT of him,
he jLst up an told him he'd struck
| him for the last time, an he bent and
! kis-el .ue-he WAS "A fun head taller n
| am, though lie WAS only seventeen
an said he'd See Inc again If lie lived,
an then he walked right out of the
house in his sliIt slee e E, Just as he'd
come from the lIay-iield, While his pa
stood staring, fairly took aIback by his
GOODNESS. I've never seen him snce.'
And she had dried some furtive tears
as she ended, and pat away with a last
fond glance the old t.n-type she had
been showing Ida, which represented
a red-haired, frrckle1, intelligent toy,
who was certainly not handsome TO any
but mothers partial eyes, that could
| also overlook his extreme gawk hess.
When Miss Bonner came III from
school the following afternoon. the
/ pleasant, cultivated tones of a strange
mans voice were audible from the sit
iing-room, mingling and contrasting
with Mr. Burnaby's.
Hes come announced Mrs. Bum
ably, pleasurably, looking up from the
chicken she was trying for tea. 'Alr.
BuInaby SAID | might set the table III
the dirins-room while he stays
More work aud more steps for lie {,
poor thingl' thought Lida. wrathfully;
and her MANNER 10 The innocent cause
of this extra work and her own wrath
was to the last degree forbidding, when
iutroIuctlons having been duly per
formed, she found herself seat d beside
him at the table.
Mr.. Willard, however, did not seem
10 be crushed. He made several ndly
attempts to talk to the pretty young
country schoo o-teacher, who met all his
remarks with curt Onosyllables; and
after his utter failure he calmly con-
tinued his general conversation with
Mr.. Burnaby and the hired man, in
which he courteously managed TO in
clude Mrs. Burn,by ais, who received
the small attention with gratitude.
1t does seem SO like having Tom
here again. only grown up she told
Ida, when the meal WAS over and her
lord and master had taken his new
boarder out TO SEE he Prrcleron colts
In suite of her deep d slike of Mr.