Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-19

No. SO Main Street,
SALT LAKE CITY

piled his sister, coloring violently as she
turned 70 leave the room.
"Wall a minute, Sis. | heard today
that he's waitin' on Susan Olney. but
they'll be here to-nigh, and you can
Judge for yourself"
won't believe IT," exclaimed
Patience. as her brother Bill comm,
YES, but IN wager big red pippln
that she'll come with Dave Siratton.J
The day had been bitterly cold and
the mercury fell still lower as night drew
on. But the Whitcomb boys Kept the
large fireplace in the long dining room.
the fore room" and the "end room, {"
well piled up with good sized logs, and
the blazing fires sent warmth and light
to every corner oi those apartments.
And now the young folks began TO
arrive. Rosy.cheeked girls in Shawls,
cloaks and uppits, stout boys in round
jackets, and stouter boys In sack and
tailed coats. Mr.. and Mrs. Whitcomb
sat in the fore room with some OF the
middle aged members Of their dinner
party, who had been invited to remain
to supper while the young folks were
gathered into the end room waiting ill
the table should be ready, in the long
dining room,
Here's Dave STATIONS bells" said
Ruben as merry tinkle was heard
coming nearer, aud few moments later
Dave STatton, his sister Esther, Susan
Olney and two strange gentlemen were
ushered in.
One OF the strangers was young man
OF some % years. lie was OF medium
height aud light build and his counte-
nance was singularly frank and winning
The other, was a tall, stout, old man,
and though the SHOWS OF many winters
had heavily bowed his form, his face
was remarkably smooth and unwrnkled
and his features singulary bold and we'll
defined for one OF his years. His long
white hair fell nearly to his shoulders,
and beneath his bushy, gray brows
peered out large, dark eyes OF piercing
brightness. His dress was very odd aud
strange, being many, many years behind
the fashion OF the time. lie merely
made a comprehensive bow to the COM
pany in general as he entered and
selecting the cosiest corner near the fire.
place, he placed therein a great club-al.
most a log-which he carried. and touch.
ing some secret spring contained within
It metamorphosed II into quaint oalien
chair, upon which he sat down. Taking
from bis pocket small book he began
to read II so intently as to seem obiivi.
Gus Of all around him.
~ don't know what to make of that
old chap said Dave Strauon, anxious
TO account for the presence and strange
conduct OF the old gentleman before in.
PRODUCING the young one, that's lust the
way we found him sitlin At the cross
roads on our way here. Don't be afraid
OF hurtin hi, fcelins by talkin' abou,
him, for he's just as deaf rs post. lie
was holdin' up his book Just as you see
him nov, pretendin' to be rcadin' by the
moonlight, though know he couldn't
see line He hailed me and said he'd
been set down there by the Grantham
coach, but somebody he'd expected to
meet him hadn't come, an he thought
'twant no use to wait for EN- any longer
I Said he was aieerd he'd freeze to death
out there, an could he hire a bed and
place for the night We was too far
| from home TO turn back, an as |
couldn't let the poor critter freeze, why
! there want nolhin' fur II but TO take him
| into the sleigh an fetch him here"
Everybody having declared that Dave
had done Just right, he introduced the
/ youngest stranger as Ezekiel Perkins,
/ who had been engaged to keep the dis.
trict school, which was to open on the
morrow.