Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-10-17
SERVED HER RIGHT.

solved to run In at the Dale MANSION
and invite Margaret TO attend. Pre-
Stunning upon her intimacy she ran
upstairs tapped at Margarets door
and hearing no response, opened the
door and entered.
No one was there, and sitting down
for u moment her attention was at
tracted TO some packages Of paper ly-
ing in a work basket She took them
in her hand and read on the margin
OF one, Compliments OF Dr. Nc
Croud and dallying a moment longer,
abe went away
Margaret Dale was true scion OF
IN old Knickerbocker family, and had
sense OF pride and justice i'm about
equal measure. At this time she was
pnly convalcsccnt from very severe
and dangerous Illness, through which
she had been cared for by DR.. Nc
Croud "a sturdy old Scotchman, old
enough to be her father, with some
extra years. He took her on her first
rides. and now and then brought her
English and Scotch papers to read;
and they were these which Mrs. Samp-
son had seen in Margaret work
basket
II "a ouite unnecassarv IN onoIvze
the character of Mrs. SAMPSON. She
has her counterpart in nearly every
neiphborhood. but aourishes best in
small VILLAGES. She possessed n lively
Inauguration was fond of gossip. not
from any wrong motive, but INDUCED
In many careless. thoupbtless remarks.
Gosgip is alwavs n patch-wory bust
ness and nobody had a greater faculty.
for putting this" and ,thatu together
than had Dame Sompson. She knew
--evervbody llpew--tbat old DR. Nc
Croud lived unhnppilv with very I'M
bappv wife The resncctive families
Of eecb come over from Scotland To-
getber Win tho vo,ng naonIo- -thon
very vo,intr- afioicod The vappg man
began his bnttle with life brayely and
.ftar much berd ,sn,,l, ana irterco,,.so
with tho world ana feoIing the new
deyelonino NJ Ria powers and feelinos
discovered thot bis Gancee woa not mt
ali the woman Ia sotisfy either his
bend or his bcort Bpt he was hon
ornhle. He meant TO do what be be-
Iieved IN he r{obt lie toid tho girl
that he no longer loved her. but would
keep his enpa gemept to marry her II
she insisted upon his 80 DOING.
The pir ala insist as well as her
nororts ana tbsv wera married. So
T. WINS not at an remarkable that Mrs
McCroud should he n very pnbanpy
womop ar ,bat peonie should talk
abopt nr AIcCropd,s domestic ipfelici-
tie. Bpt no one could point TO a
sinyle fact regectinp ,pon his honor
as n man or n physician. Tbon Mrs.
Somnsop Ken ewl Ms aid everybody else
tbot 1Io,re,,at vas nm heiress cared
vorv littIe for mon ard had Discarded
wmld-bc lovers bv the dozen. She
had a. .trong viaorous mind with vr~v
Uttle sentiment which. however. ia an
sxcelI,ri thinp In woman. opd tho
stpudv rood sons, and lack of nonsense
Tint cbaracteriled the straightforward
Scotch doctor made him peruliarly
accountable IN bnr both MS pbysician
un6 frieod
p,,,tir,r ,vlot sbe l,rev NJ both To-
eetbor ma naainp wbnt her imoufna-
don coptrihnted Mrs. SAMPSON CON
oIndo3 ,h,t sb, had rno5e a social dis
covory ana al nm tbe afternoon Of
hsr scv.ine rar4v led the conversation
,ro, lr,yrsrst Dale bcr Hines, her
vonaorbl recovery i'm which OF
conr.s tha other radies Joined.
Ato, NI,rggr.t b,3 h,s1 prettv
,naron,-rI, discussed Dome SAMPSON.