Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19


PAPER.
trlhed the ladies by an exclamation of |
profanity so awful in it's character that |
they, poor pious souls, paused aghast in
hopeless wonder.
pal" calculated Jane, in shocked
surprise.
Mrs. Evesham was too Mortified for
words, but held up her mittened hands
in deprecating agony.
ut is all the doing of the woman
who married my poor brother Henry"
Mr., Evesham explained, his checks
tingling with confusion.
What, in the paper?" Jane asked.
forgetting her papa's improperly in
her curiosity to learn the news.
YES" the lumberman groaned, half
column of it,
what has she done, Isaac? 1 wish
| you would not startle me so,'' gasped
Mrs. Evesham, feebly.
Done! l don't know that she's done
much. 1t is just because she has not
done something that she is bringing
disgrace on the family name. Never
read of more shocking instance of
feminine moral obliquity. Here one
of her precious boarders suddenly dies,
and instead of affording the legal au-
thoritics all the assistance she can, she
is so rcticent that she brings down upon
her the reproof of the coroner, and the
Daily Herald speaks of her as re-
| luctant Witness"
"'What can be her object?" queried
Jane, aghast at the thought that her
gentccl associates would learn that her
aunt kept Il clearinghouse.
ooh, some silly sentimentalism, you
may depend on it," Mr.. Evesham
snorted; "the woman always was
fool
won't you read the article, PAP" his
daughter asked.
''Yes, do" pleaded his wife.
Thus adjured, the indignant gentle
man read in hard, dry, monotonous
voice the long, sensational account of
the catastrophe, which had lost none
of its suggestive mystery in the graphic
description of the reporter.
GLOW dreadfully shoclzing!' Jane
gasped. She was not thinking of the
sudden death of the hapless man nor
the trouble of her relatives, but how
her dear friend Sarah Goodchild would
gloat over this exposure of her family
affairs.
'What are you going to do about it,
Isaac?" Mrs. Evesham asked, meekly.
I 'Do! I suppose 1 must go to New
York and see the silly creature through
the mess she has got into. After all,
she is my brothers wife, and l do not
propose to have her drag us into fur
} Their disrepute if 1 can avoid it,
For a moment a softening smile
played on Mrs. Evesham's features, as
she called to remembrance the pretty,
blushing girl-wife her brother-in-law
Hal had brought with such pride to
, show them sixteen years ago-nay, she
: was even touched with slight pang of
+ remorsc, for had she not promised the
handsome scapegrace that she would be
friend to his "wee wife, if ever she
needed one?
Isaac" she said, timidly, pursuing
this line of unaccustomed thought, ''dc
you not think we might do something
r for Esther and her children?"
: Certainly I do" her husband
snapped. "When 1 said 1 was going tc
New York to see them you did not sup
pose I was intending to take so long &
journey merely to make morning call
= did you?''
! "Ah, am glad of that" Mrs. Eve
q sham exclaimed with unwonted anima
= ton.
y eyes," the lumberman continued
= glowing with the conscious pride O.
- doing good action, esther shall have
the best advice it lies in my power tx
give her"
: But something more than advice,
hope,'' his wife persisted.
"Why, yes!' the rich man said. &c
y y had perhaps better not go empty
10
and things you and Jane have dont
= with and l will take them with me
. They will cut up splendidly for thu
= little girls"
For a minute Mrs. Evesham's fac,
~ flushed an indignant objection, but tn
:. long force of habit was too strong TO
:. open opposition to her husbands judg
= ment, so she sighed faint acquiescenc
a. and departed to prepare the parcel.
"A 1t was on the very morning of TIN
10 trial that Mr.. Isaac Evesham put in a
te appearance at the widows house il
4 Forty-ninth street, much to the dis
,r comfort of that unfortunate lady, VIII
IN had really never appreciated her well
TODD brother-in-law, whose interest i
m her affairs had never manifested itse]
h. in any more substantial way than
m dictatorial interference, which she wa
"A ungrateful enough to deem impertinen
e. ''This is most dreadful occurrence
as Esther he said, with solemn wag
as his head, while he patted the children
IN cheeks with his hot, f1abby hand, "br
10 blood is thicker than water, and coul
n not see my brothers children dragge
i'd into this newspaper notoriety withor
tA an effort to rescue them
ct He disapproved of everything she ha
lis done, reprobated her care1essness in +
of ceiving inmates in her house of who
w. she knew nothing, rated her worse tina
he the coroner had done for permitting tt
Co. stranger to take the photograp
thought she was foolish in receiving IL
PENMANSHTP