The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-03-29

! IffHN5 OF -FOUR years one way or UnB
other don't make much difference" re-
marked the stout man with the bristly
hair. "Our last was 90, and she had a
pretty tidy notion Of her business, too,
only
Miss Maroon looked surprised.
'I thought understood you to say that
the gentleman had never been married, I"
said She
"No more he has" said the man. 81
aint talking about wives. I'm talking
about nurses"
"Whatr' cried Miss Maroon.
The stout man looked hard at her for
minute or two; then he plunged his
hand deep down into his coat pocket and
extracted thence slip cut from news
paper.
"It's all writ down here in black and
white, plain enough" said he;
WANTED, an experienced and Trustworthy at
tendant for gentleman of infirm mind. To the
right person liberal remuneration will be offered.
! Apply on Wednesday next between the hours of
! 10 and at the Wedgewood house, Inheld-on-the
Hudson.
''You see" he added, as he refolded
the paper and returned it to his pocket,
1--WE didn't exactly like TO put it down in
the paper as he was crazy man"
"But that isn't the advertisement l
saw at all" said Miss Maroon, rowing
alternately pale and red in her conster-
nation.
1T was in The Daily Visitor" said the
stout man, "as we put our notice"
"And it was The Morning Patriot that
l saw" cried Miss Maroon. ga Mr.. De-
lano st. John, of st. Johnsgrove, Infield-
the-Hudson, who wanted"-
"a wife," said the stout man, with
twinkling eyes. 81 thought sol 1 seen
his carriage go by half an hour ago, with
a pretty little black eyed woman, in
cherry colored ribbons and"-
"And Rob Roy plaid polonaise9" al
most screamed Miss Maroon. "And a
black parasol lined with scarletP'
"Some sort Of rig of that descrip-
tion," said the stout man.
"The bold, pert, unfeminine thingl'
said Miss Maroon, vehemently tanning
herself. "I've seen her, this long time,
walking up and down the piazzal She's
the very one that came down in the
stage with mel And here she has
whisked off with the advertising man,
and left me all alone and desertedr'
"She's got the clear start of you, it
seems," said the stout man, as he rose
up and looked around for his hat.
"Well, If you don't like the idee of my
situation"-
81 decline it, most certainly" said Miss
Maroon, precipitately. "Landlady"
"lt would not be such bad idea, u
coaxed the stout man, ''if''-
"Landladyr' repeated Miss Maroon,
more energetically than ever. And the
stout man went out, thrusting his hands
into his pockets as he did so. The land.
lady hustled in.
"a carriage, please, to the railway
depot" said Miss Maroon.
won't you wait for the stage, ma'amP'
said the landlady. "It'll be along in hall
an hour"
II wouldn't stay here another five min.
utes for all the gold Of Golconda," said
Miss Maroon.
So the rickety one horse chaise of the
establishment was geared up, and Miss
Maroon, shedding secret tears of vexa.
ton and disappointment behind her veil,
went back. And when her nephews and
nieces asked about her sudden journey
to Inheld-on-the-Hudson, she told them
that she had been to look for summer
board.
"And weren'tyou suited, auntie, dearY'
said the youngest and prettiest of the
nieces, who had seen The Morning Pa.
triot, with the printed slip missing from
the list of advertisements, and could put
two and two together as well as any one,
And Miss Maroon answered, sharply,
that she was not suited at all.-Henrietta
Gregory in The New York Ledger.