Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-29
Mechancsown Frederick County, Maryland Thursday May e. 1890

busted with Hour, Already at the very
minute I want them. 'Tain't right to
have no drawback in this cake. Be
spry, and you shall have the biggest
slice to dream over tonight. Dear,
dear 1 do hope there won't be no heavy
streaks in it There was in Nancy
Parsons, an she died in less'n a year,
said Aunt Hetty, beating brlskly the
foamy mass and busting the spice in
carefully. I'm afraid these eggs ain It
none too fresh. alters do like the old
white turkeys eggs fer lucky cake, but
it amt the right Of year fer EN-. Land
sakes, Kate! you are most es dreamy
es Mary. Hand me them raisips.-
You amt fit to dust'em, l know fur If
you get the leastest mite of -four more
than you need, It'll make heavy
streak. P'raps you kin beat these eggs.
Beat them the same way all the time
mind that. now!
And Katie. sitting by the window in
the winter sunlight, thought the world
Garden of Eden.
"There that's all you kin do, child,
said Aunt Hetty, taking the yellow dish
from her hands. "Run an tell your ma
not to worry one mite. Everything is
comm on jest es nice es kin be. Why
what! What ye lookin fur? Lost
anything
"No-yes-noP' p stammered Kate,
cropping among the chars and under the
long table. "1t's all right aunty-I
mean it's-it's nothing; and she flash
cd out at the hall door, leaving the
good lady to wander over her disturbed
manner and white, startled face.
Straight to her room she ran, with
beating heart and dim, misty eyes.
She would look for 1t again, when
Aunt Hettv and Sarah Ann were gone.
Oh, what would Charley say? The
pretty, new ring, with the one pure
pearl and the true.lover's knot, was
lost!
Charley had wanted to exchange it
for a smaller one. but no luck ever came
of exchanging an engagement ring
and she wanted to wear it, to know
that she really had promised to be
Charles wife in the happy spring time.
But it was worse than exchanging it
to lose it, and Charlie would notice the
loss at once.
1t was Il very sorrowful figure that
crept to the hall door to welcome Char.
lie in the early evening darkness, and a
white, troubled face looked up TO him
in the wintry moonlight that shone up
on the newly fallen snow, and fell IN a
broad, mellow line upon the floor.
"Just splendid night for the we'd
ding, Kate he whispered, clasping her
hands. II wish that you and l were
gong with them tomorrow but you
won't keep me waiting long? Why,
where is your ring: Too precious to
wear, eh p
"It's--it's gone, Charlie - she
sobbed.
That was the beginning, and loyers'
Quarrels are much the same the world
over.
They quarreled fearfully, Of course,
and all because Charlie was sure that
he had seen George Lyon have the ring
he had given to Kate as loves pledge
and she could not prove it false, for she
did not know where it was.
That is, Charley quarreled, and said
many hateful things, to which she re-
piled only by sobs; but, then-he was
IL man, and they will be unreasonable.
"But-but you'll stay to the wedding?
You--you are the best man, yoa know?
she faltercd at last.
Certainly, l shall stay. As we have
tcld no one yet, there Is no need Of
making any bigger fool Of myself. Or
course l shall stAyl' he answered bit
terly, and strobe into the parlor, where
the family were beginning to assemble.
Neither of them could remember
much about the ceremony, and certain
ly their gloomy faces were a marked
contrast to those of Amos and Mary.
The first that Charlie clearly realized
he was sealed by Kate's side at the
wedding supper, and Aunt Hetty, all
fuss and hutter, was distributing the
lucky cake.
81 told ye you should have the big
gest piece, Kate, an here It's" she said,
laying great slice beside her plate
can here's another fer you Charlie
Turner. May it be lucky fer ye both"
"Thank you, Aunt Hetty! l hope