New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-09
THAT CAROLINY GAL.
MRS. w,NsLow's NEMESIS.

whereof he spoke when he said to Marietta that
. they couldn't hive with mar if>Thodor should
stop COMM there"
And now Thodor had stopped.
At first Mrs. Wnslow maintained a silence on
the subject. She kept saying that Marietta was
jest like her father n his folks, but William
was jest like her"
Although such remarks did not apparently re-
fer TO the discontinuance of Graham's visits, yet
Marietta and her father knew they were inspired
by that fact
The girl took the first opportunity to confde.
Of course within the precincts of the wood-house,
to her father that she and Thodor had both
thought il was best to break off the engagement
Mr.. Winslow was greatly FRUSTRATED BY this in
telligence. He did not want his daughter to be
married. but he would have liked an arrangement
whereby she might be continually courted by
Thodor. SO that Mrs. Winslow might be kept in
Q good humor
He sat down on the chopping block as if he had
no strength TO keep upon his feet Marietta was
standing by the door with the same square Of
blanket on her head that she had worn as a child.
Her father looked in q bewildered manner at her.
Does your mar know? he asked zoo
When he heard the answer no." he groaned
aloud.
Who's eein' to tell herr"
Marietta said that she had been thinking they
might get Bill to tell her. She was trying to
write to Bill. She thought he could fix mar
somehow lie always had and she guessed he
always would.
This reference to young Winslow seemed to give
some comfort to both father and daughter Mr.
Winslow was presently able to get of Of the block
and begin to chop trash" He expressed
the hope that "p'raps twas only quarrel, and
they'd make it up between um.'
But Marietta firmly combated that idea. She
said they want neither of um to blame {;
but they'd concluded the engagement would be
better broke than kept"
Mr. Winslow tried TO accept this as final But
he went round in such very visible state of
mental confusion that at the dinner table that
very day his wife made the intercession of Bill
supernuous.
She said she knew something was in the wind
She never knew her husband to look quite much
like a fool as he did at this present moment And
Marietta didn't look much brighter. She laid
down the knife with which she had been convey
ing squash pie to her mouth. The manner in
which she relinquished this implement made her
hearers know that the onslaught was to be fierce
and, possibly, prolonged
Marietta made sudden resolve
Her mother went OH to assert that she believed
that what was in the wind had something to do
with Thodor Graham and that gal there" point
ing slice of brown bread at Marietta.
IT then that Marietta acted upon her re-
solve. She felt herself becoming rigid, but she
was determined
Mother she said, Thodor n I've broken
it all of. We've made up our minds to be jest
friends.
This was so much worse than Mrs. Winslow had
imagined that she in her turn began to be rigid.
1t was several moments before she was able to
speak.
She placed the brown bread beside her knife.
She pushed back from the table. She looked over
at her husband who would not look at her.
Mr.. Winslow, she said, "was you KNOWN to
thisp"
Not until she told me- Jerking his head TO-
ward his daughter, but not raising his eyes.
do you know the cause?"
Only what she said"
The woman now discarded her chair entirely.
She looked very large in body as she stood there.
WELL she cried, II know know the rea-
sonl / amt er born fool, even if I did marry
one. It's that Caroliny gall She's the root of
il. Oh, the sly one She's ben settin' her cap,
I'll bet million dollars M Thodor's ben caught.
/ don't say I've seen her at 1t. She's too sly.
But she done il! She done il! I'm goin' right
over there this very instant"
Marietta bounded from her own seat. She was
terrified at this random guess OF her mother. But
she knew that if burglary had been reported it
was likely her mother would have maintained the
probability that Daily had perpetrated the crime.
The girl sprang at the elder woman and caught
hold of her arm.
you're crazy! she cried; "you shan't go!'
Mrs. Winslow thrust her child aside She was
H. LII L.Nvx lo~f
course he had been the one to break the engage
ment No girl In her senses would have let such a
"feller" go.
II amt crazy one grain" she answered Il
know what Pm about, if there amt anybody else
does. Marietta winslow, how en- you stand there
m hold your head up?'
She turned and FASTENED into her bedroom,
where she threw blanxet-shawl over her Shout
ders She emerged from the room in the act OF
putting a long white cloud many times round her
head. Her face was now almost purple from ex-
element.
Mother said Mr. Winslow, anxiously. "you'll
do yourself damage if you amt careful. You'll
bust something in your head
Don't YOU speak to me-" the response,
with great stress upon the hast word of her SEN
tence.
Marietta had disappeared. The moment her
mother opened the outer door the slri joined per
with her hat and jacket on. She was told 10
90 into the house this Instant But she ola not
obey She walked beside. her mother, whom
she informed that If anybody was going over
IN the Widder 'Bijah's that day, she was going
too"
This oman rebellion added to Mrs. Winslows
r.,. and astonishment. To use her own words,
.,.e felt an II the world was comm 10 an emu.
Oh. walked as fast as she had ever done in
her vouth when she had had less avoirdupois to
contend against. BY her side her daughter kept
on her way .,,.
II was not o'clock People had eaten dinner but
had NOT vet resumed work. The elder woman dio
not choose the pasture path, but went by the ROAD
Mr. Bailey; smoking his pipe in his yard' saw
-. L. Ue went 70 the corner Of his