Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-06-18
withdrawn says Til, please, HUFF,

'Oh, we can't spend money in SO
lavish a way as that at present She
must wait"
well" says the blooming wife, un-
concerned one way or the other. IN
go and send her of.
She left the room and did not return
for five minutes. Il had to give her
the Clothes" said she.
"Did you? l thought you always
did,"
II mean, OF course, the Numbered
ones she had brought. She took them
in payment"
''Mercy"
Il can make my things last just
about month that way"
"But how am to manage with only
twenty-four shirts, and at least seven
thrown to the dogs u week."
That does seem problem" unused
Tiff, laying down Mrs. Browning's
poems temporarily on her knee.
Couldn't you buy a flannel shirt and
wear it ever 80 long?"
Couldn't you get bathing dress?"
demanded Huff. with whitening sar-
casm.
"Oh!' gasped Tiff. show fearful
you always are!"
Suppose the quarrel over, and for
day or two intense peace. Then came
an episode.
"Well, dears, how do you do?" The
speaker was a fine girl. joyous with
early morning air and unusual excite
ment.
Huff and Tiff were transfxed. They
were just starting out for breakfast
Il was determined to find you in,
and so l came at this hour" went on
the visitor. ut has taken US a good
while to find YOU"
chow dare you enter the same air
we breathe?" Numbered HUFF. striding
up to his sister and taking her round
the waist for a stout kiss. 1--WE ignore
your existence"
Papa says you must be married
over again; go through the form and
all the show and Importance. remark
ed Esther with the most fascinating,
lazy nonchalance. He said he never
saw anything go off so like cotton into
flames as you did, brother; just as
though any one was moro in love with
your Bessie Featherly than he was. He
don't remember forbidding the mar
riage at all"
please to tell my father" said HUFF,
severely. looking down at his wife,
who held her chin in her hand, that
l remember his forbidding it Cor as
bad as forbidding it) very distinctly.
And please add that from this time
forth. my father, yes and all the rest
of you is-are-dead to mel"
Dreadful words, those Will"
sighed his sister, glancing up with
compressed lips. Don't you think SO,
Bessie?"
Mrs. Tiff shook her head and smiled.
"Mr. Thwaite is never in the wrong"
said she and felt little awkward at
her own assertion.
Esther thought a moment, and then
said she believed she would not stay
any longer just now. When she had
bowed herself through the open door,
she stopped to throw over her shoulder
a roulade of genial laughter.
'By the way. WILL" she called 'if
we were in the fashionable set, what
a terrible notoriety you two wild things
would have! AS it is, it is like nice
play. Adieu!"
"YOur mother is woman DEAR"
answered Thwaite. as If that meant
unusual, "and it will take a
long time for her to come round as nv
father has done"
&4p,,t
can be. suggested Tiff.
In the evening they were sitting, AS
was customary, in the cheerful blue
tinted room, the door was opened |
hastily, and figure presented itself
which dashed their united calm, to
atoms.
1t was Esther. pale and trembling,
her ashen face emphasized by a black
veil around it and over her coiored |
dress heavy black shawl. Thwaite
hurried to her. and took her ungloved
hand in his. led her to an easy chair
and helped her down upon its soft |
cushions.
Dear sister," sobbed Tiff, "has
terrible happened?"
My father" said the white-faced |
girl, in low tones, shutting her eyes.
Father! father" cried Thwaite, |
leeply agitated, and clutching his sis
.er's hands in tirmer grasp. ''What
aews of him.
Dead"
The young couple sank on either
side of Esther, crushed and Mortified. |
Without opening her eyes. Esther
spoke on:
when told how you received the
owing message, brother Win in one
1hwaite's distress was agonizing. i
Esther stopped speaking. opened her
Eyes and leaned forward eagerly.
WAS it right to be so harsh and un-
yielding to your own father, WHIP"
Her brother had withdrawn to the
,ther side of the room. his face buried
n his arms against the wall.
.'Oh. Esther, have we no hope?"
Tiff sobbed.
why, yes. there is hope in this
.ase." Miss Thwaite said. in a differ !