Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-05-28
Burglars.
BN MAKY kIIE DALLAS.

Now, see here said Deacon Parlev TO
his two daughters, things kinder looks a.
If ! wouldn't be home tonight, and there's
all them contributions for the yeller-fever
sufferers up chamber in the Ted closet tar
nation fool was TO take charge of EN- >
There i about two thousand dollars alto
gether, and that's enough to tempt thieves.
Ef your ma was to hum. wouldn't feel
skeered. She's a woman Of sense and ex-
perience, but Sarey Ann had to hev her
twins just on this partickler occasion, and
there i your ma of for week. :"
Why pa, nobody knows the money is
here" cried the second daughter, kIttv.
They'd be more likely TO expect To find it
al the store in the safe
That's just why fetched it up" said
the deacon. II hey got to produce it up
to the church meeting tomorrow. and I'd
feel pretty curtis ef had to 90 and say
twas stole-and them boys is SO long
tongued and gabby. Can't sell pound of
-four without tellin' all creation all they
know SO | led them to believe I'd put it
in the safe, and made lot of fuss about
their lockin' up keerful, and meauw hie
hum fetched it,"
We'll, that was cute. said Kitty.
Leave pa alone fol- fixing things" said
Matte.
The two girls were remarkably fond of
their father, and believed him the wsest
of men As he got ready for his Journey
they hovered about him, bringing him his
gloves, tying his Sunday cravat, putting
little daintles in his travelling bag, filling a
small bottle with lemonade, in case he
should grow thirsty, parting his hair so
that the bald spot on top wouldn't show,
and listening to his counsel.
"Ef amt 10 hum" SAID he. you'll find
the rife and the pistol loaded; but guess
the bolts and bars on this here house is all
good. You jest see to them. and it's all
right. Fasten up early. Don't go awav
nowhere, and see you don't let no beggars
in"
All Of which the girls solemnly prom
ised, and kissing their father, waved their
kerchiefs from the porch until he vanished
at the turning of the road that led to the
station.
Usually the Farley farmhouse boasted
both maid and man. But it SO hap
pened that the last man had fallen in love
with the rosy-cheeked help" and that
they had married and departed together
only the day before. The new servants
had not yet arrived and the farm was in
lonely place, and the mother-as the dea-
con had said was at her daughters, where
two little strangers" had arrived toge:h-
er.
Still the girls, healthy, merry, and not
al all imaginative, felt no alarm. They
had pickup dinner in the kitchen, and
they took their crochet work and couple
of novels on the porch in the afternoon
I'm get tea, Kitty" said Matte, as the
sun began to set. II know you want to
finish that blue row."
And Kitty answered =
Yes, | should like TO. Matte. if you
don't mind"
However when Matte had gone kitch-
onward, it occurred to Kitty that there
might be letter at the post-Office for her
The young druggist spoken of in the
neighborhood as Kitty Parley's steady
company" lived in New York, and mis-
sive was to be expected from him at any
moment. Therefore Kitty thought that
| she would run over to the Office while Mat
tie was making tea. So she caught up her
shade hat and started off down the lane,
taking short cut over the meadows.
Matte at the same time having put on the
kettle, believed that she could just step in
to the next neighbor's and get some pat
terms she had been promised before the
water bubbled. The neighbor's back door
was only across two vegetable gardens, and
Matte did not need hat, for the sun was
quite gone. Away she went, with her
light step and quick movements, never
guessing that her sister had left her post.
So it came to pass that the house was de-
serted for the space of an hour; for when
Kitty got TO the Office the mail was just in !;
the letters had yet to be sorted, and while