Smyrna times., 1891-07-22


Don't say didn't warn you !" said
she.
Patty came to her mother that night
just as the big kitchen clock was strik-
ing IL.
Mother" said she, "Arad Temple
has asked me to his wife.
Mrs. Greer looked up quickly.
"What did you tell him, Patty ?"
said she.
"I-said-yes Oh, mother, why
shouldn't 1? He is SO good, so nice
and he loves me dearlyw
"But your Cousin Classy thinks"-
Mother" whispered Patty, nesting
her head down on her mothers
shoulder, 81 did say something about
Lewis Hibbard's store. l made believe
l was angry, mother, and he looked so
hurt, and he let my hand fall so,
mother" with pretty piece of panto-
mimel, 'and he said, If you can't trust
me in everything, Patty, don't trust
me at alp And said that I'd trust
him. mother, to the very end. Did 1
do right ?"
WELL" said Mrs. Greer, tenderly
enfolding Patty within her loving
arms, tits just the answer 1 should
have made your father, Patty, when
we kept company; that's all 1 know.
And your Cousin Cassandra"-
"Oh, let Cousin Cassandra mind her
own business p said Patty coloring up.
"She always was prying, disagreea-
BILE old maid, and I think she grows
worse every year"
Miss Cassandra Greer heard the news
of the engagement with an omnious
shake of the head and the remark:
Its a dreadful resky thing.
wouldn't run such a chance"
Patty had it on the tip of her tongue
to retort that it was extremely un-
likely she would ever be called upon to
hazard any such danger, but she
thought better of it and didn't. She
was so exceedingly happy she could
afford to be magnanimous.
ME and Mrs. Squire Rudder and
Miss Betsy Hall and some of the other
Church ladies" said Miss Classy, "were
gwine to git that place of Lewis Hib-
bard's shut up. And 1 don't think
none the more of Arad Temple for his
going so much there. But law! Patty 3
completely infatuated with him, and
there's no use talking to her bout it,"
Patty" " said young Temple to his
fiance, the week before the wedding
you have trusted me, and you have
done right. But 1 don't like to see the
troubled look on your face whenever
that old medder gives tongue on the
subject of Hibbard's store. I've been
there a good deal, lately, Lut I've
never spent cent. I've been earning
money instead, at my trade, putting up
a new barn and line of sheds at the
rear-9nd that was my business there
But wouldn't please Cousin Classy so
much as to tell her that. Isn't it
strange that people can't mind their
own business ?"
"Oh, Cousin Cassandra never eouldr'
laughed Patty.
Patty was sewing the last heurette
of white ribbon on the unpretending
wedding gown of snowy albatross,
when Miss Cassandra came in, rather
hurrid, saying:
white may do very we'll for you
but for woman o. my years, 1 sort o.
think that dove color would be more
suitable. How many yards dye think
it would take, Patty, for a wedding
dress for me?"
The girl stared.
"Why, Cousin Cassy," said she, "are
you going to be married ?"
Miss Classy giggled.
II am" said she.
ITO ParsOn POoley ?"
The lady shook her head.
'He's too bigOted. I wouldn't hev
him" said she.
"Peleg Rudder ?"
ia, ne What would I want Of
him ? He's most beggar."
"Who is it, then ?"
He's a good, prosperous widower
and a man that has buried two wives
will know how to take care of the
third and in his business he needs O
stirrin' helpmate."
"But you havn't told me who it is
yet" persisted Patty.
"Hain't [? La me, how forgetful
I !" simpered Miss Cassandra. "Why
, its Lewis Hibbard !"