Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-07-04

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1t was a arm June morning, and
birds carole in the tall elms along
GrUNe street Housemaids were opening
parlor shut rs or sweeping of verandas
with a snat q Of song OF the lips, and that
peculiar fiji Of the broom that betokens
fine weather and a light heart. The
milkman's wild cry wa expiring at n
end of the long street Just as the news
boys shnn yell broke the silence at the
other. Shadows lay cool on the brown
road, and the town gardens exhaled their
sweetest odors.
1t was lust at this moment that Mrs.
Northup's lodger turned into Grove
street on her wayto the pOstOfhce. Mrs
NOrthup's house was not on Grove street
There were no such humble little houses,
with a garden the size Of a pOckethand-
kerchief and a bit Of drying lawn at the
back, on that fashionable thoroughfare.
All the jewellers on Grove street were
carriage people, with ample incomes and
everything handsome about them. Mrs.
Northup was only the wife of a conduct
or on the Applicable line, with a salary
Of less than a thousand a year. Her
house stood in Ford's alley, and the bit
Of garden above mentioned abutted on
the railway, so that the house was shaken
by passing trains many times a day.
The alley was filed with small mechan-
les houses and stables, and vas not a
c-onspicuously clean little street, and the
nearness of the main line, where day and
night the trains whiZzed past, and steam
whistles emitted unearthly shreks,
made it not an ideal country residence.
But Mrs. Northup's house was a shin
ing oasis amid the litter and disorder Of
Ford's alley. Northup was what the
n~eighbors called a snug man, fond Of
delving in his garden during his spare
time, and with an inherent streak Of
neatness, much furthered by Mrs. North
ups good management. As Northup was
away much Of the time and there was
only one child, Margery, a quiet little
maid Of five, Mrs. Northup let two Of
her rooms to dodgers. 1t was the new
ledger who had the west corner room
Mrs Eorthup gazed after now, as she
walked away toward the turning Of
Grove street. A reserved, quiet young
girl, Mrs. Northup could make nothing
Of her, and the expression on the good
woman's face was puzzled and dissatis-
fed.
Miss March seemed always 10 be writ
ing, and the landlady when she looked
into her room saw her dodgers dark head
bent over a table covered with papers
between her AID the light. But Mrs
NOrthup had confded that morning 70
John, while in the act Of shaving, that
the new lodger, though she kept 50 close
and said nothing about her folks and
never made free with anybody, was a
perfect lady. Though she had been In
the house a month. John Northup bad
only caught sight Of the young lady two
or three times as she passed. in and out Of
the little garden gate, but his wife had
impaired 70 him all her ideas concerning
the new ledger, until he felt a mysten-
q respect for this girl-as if her pres
ence in his household had raised the
standing Of his family in Littlefeld.
pays her rent right on the nail, said
his wife, as she served his breakfast, "and
has got a brother at college named WILL
ard. There are only two of them in
the WOflu, anu she eAprCS NAAdTu W 10
great things. Imistrust she is helping pay
Wizards way by her writing, and don't
let him know what a struggle she has to
live and keep soul and body together,
poor thing. DO you know, John, | wake
up in the night and think about that girl
sometime I've noticed marks Of crying
round her ewes. and its been borne in
on Ule She Is very DOOR"
"You always was soft hearted, Nelly"
the lacouic John responded, as he took
his hat TO 20 20 the station.
On this fine June morning Mrs. North
up watched Miss March as she went
down tine aley-a tail, slender young
girl, with abundant brown hair and
large gray eye~
"She's got style, thought Mrs. North
up, IF her dresses are poor, sleasy stuff,
all black and without a fril OF plat. /
never could get my dresses to set like
hers anyway whatever. But its her fig
ger, l guess. Yes, she has got a beauti-
full fgger, and / am dumpy, and always
MAS. Audible becomingpess Of that