Telegram-herald., 1890-01-14
HER CURIOSITY.
The Notifying Situation Into
Which It Led Mrs- Pryam.

Mrs. Pryara was q slave 20 her curios-
ity. She was always wanting 70 know
things IL did not concern her 20 know.
She spent much time ia useless won
derings about this and about that She
wondered what her neighbors had IN the
bundles she saw them carrying home.
She wondered what they had for dinner
and how much their clothes cost, how
much Mr.. Smiths salary was year and
whether or not the Browns had paid for
their handsome furniture.
Mrs. Pryam was also woman OF ideas
She had an idea that Mr.. and Mrs Jones
didn't live happily together. She didn't
know, but she rather thought that the
Greens were behind with their rent and
that the Blacks lived beyond their
means.
The arrival of stranger in the neigh
borhood gave Mrs. Pryam rich food for
wonderment, and she spent much OF her
time wondering who he was, where he
came from, where he was going, what
be wanted and II he had a family. II
nothing definite could be learned she
was apt to fancy that he was fugitive
from justice.
II follows from all this that Mrs.
Pryam was not O popular woman and
that her neighbors did not take her into
their fullest confidence.
A large and handsome house across
the street from Mrs. Pryam's having
become vacant, Mrs. Pryam began won
aering who It's next occupants would be,
and when after few weeks the house
was rented by a strange family Mrs.
Pryam gave herself up TO wondering
about her new neighbors.
1t was not many days before she knew
that the name of the family was Marcy
and that it's members were Mr.. and Mrs.
Marcy. an elderly couple, and their four
sons and daughters, all Of whom were
grown to manhood and womanhood.
When she called. which she did before
the family had been two weeks in the
house. Mrs. Pryam found the Marcys TO
be agreeable people and pleasant addi-
ton to the society Of the neighborhood.
Other people formed the same opinion
Of the Marcys and it was not long before
they became decidedly popular.
They were a kindly, cordial and intel
ligent family, as even suspicious Mrs.
Pryam admitted, and IL was some time
before she found any thing 70 criticise
in their daily life, although she found
much 10 wonder about.
Il wonder" she said one day to a
neighbor, why the Marcys always keep
the shutters of that pleasant little sec
ord-story room in the west wing Of the
house closed?"
~ never noticed that the shutters
were not kept open" was the reply.
Haven't you?" said Mrs. Pryam, in a
tone OF surprise "Why, noticed II the
frst day they moved in, and / couldn't
help thinking ita little strange. When
the Percvs lived there Mrs. Percy used
that room for a little sitting OF her
own, and I've heard her say that she
thought IL was the pleasantest room in
the house should think tho Marcys
would need u, large as their family is.
II looks so odd 20 see the shutters of
shat room alwavs closed and the others
always open--even % the attic shutters.
A
cys took the house. Isn't it strange
Mrs. Pryam had found so many natur-
a. things strange" that she could not
arouse her neigh bor's interest in the
very remarkable circumstance that a
certain window vas not used a. she
thought Il ought 20 DO.
But a. the weeks passed there was op-
= = n
grow. for the blinds - that window were
still always closed
I've seen Httla stresks ~ light
streaming through a. night sometimes, -
Mrs Pryam said one day % her hus-
hand
well. what = vou have, ny dssr7~
be said. laurhinglT. DO you suppose
the Nsrc7s ara snothsr tribe r. Benders.
and that they eutice strangers iuto hat
room and murder them
'Yon know d0n't~ replied Ms
Prvar1. rep-oachfully Z simply won
der vh7 thev done make any use ~
such desirable room ss thst when T've
Heard Mrs Marcy sa7 SHAT they were
rally crowded f9r room, large ~ ths
house Is
When ths Ma~-7s rad lived about Z
Months i1 their rev home ths7 gave =
fs-ze pare7 - wt.-h Al tae.r rsi-th ho-s
we've invited The i1~i-sticn gave M-s
Pr7ar r-es- ratsfarfio0 'ITs oftan
wondered Sad st- f tHev p Al go
ucstairs rocus as hsn8sona a-7 furnished
81 those 51ru-s+af-a. ar5 rc- I shsl.
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