New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-27

] his hand, saving:
| VIII You allow mc?" He placed his fingers
on her wrist. She hardly knew that he did so.
He rose. saying:
| III you have any message for the telegraph
Office. | am going to Merrill and will take it,
The message sent TO Mrs Ferdinand Foster
at Tampa, with request for a reply. 1t was
| not until next morning that reply came from
hotel clerk that Mr.. and Mrs. Foster had gone,
had talked of going to Havana and New-Orleans,
! but he knew nothing definite
SO it happened that the younger daughter was
not sitting with her sister and the two boys in the
mourners room at the little house. The minis
ter read from the Bible; he made few remarks
and then he prayed, standing in the small front
! entry between the two front rooms
lie did not speak very loud and Rowena was
thankful for that. She did not listen to anything
ne said Mterward the four principal singers
from the choir Of the "orthodox church sang
The mistakes of my life have been MANY" and
George Iownshend played an accompaniment
| upon Sarah Kimball's mclodeon. Then a man ap.
peared IN the door way and said that the friends
could now look at the remains And they would
! please pass out at the back door
Rowcna sat between her two brothers. She
had not put on Grape. She wore black But the
absence of Grape condemned by a great many
who glanced at her as they moved slowly along
to the side of the coffin.
I When they had reached the yard they would
turn and say TO each other:
Il wonder if Roweny'll stay here long ~ and
" L don't see her husband" Then some one would
remark:
Il think Mis- Tuttlc looked real natural
AT last, when the room was empty of all save
those three, Rowena rose. Nathan Henry silently
TOOK one of her hands. Martin. on the other side
4 a. fo11 Cfl, Il.
with the violence of youth
But Rowena did not sob as she looked down At
that face
The three turned away Once more Rowcna
bent forward Then she drew herself up She
heard some one reading names from slip of paper
1t was the list Of the order in which the mourners
would go TO the grave
Her name was first. but she did not quite un-
derstand it until the man who had charge came
and whispered to her
She and her brothers followed him. Jim Towns
bend was standing by his horse and carriage and
he helped Rowcna 10 the back seat. Nathan
Henry, still shaken with sobs. sat down beside
her. and Martin took his place by jim. who was
to drive.
The horse slowly stepped along to it's place
near the hcarse. AS it stopped to wait a small
object dashed out of a just-opcned barn.door and
ran 10 the carriage. As it paused for an instant
vibrating and looking up. some stepped toward
it.
But Marmaduls drew his little frame together
and capcd
Let him stay want him." Rowena said. in
sInothersd voice.
She took the dog in her arms and bent her
face 10 his head.
The procession crawled over the wet road
When it turned in at the graveyard n blucbird
swept down on the top Of a granite post. From
this post swung the black iron chains Of the on
closure. He Hrted his wings lie called Dearic!
Dcarie!" Then he flew away
George Townshend remained at the Tuttle house
when the Others bad departed. She said she was
going to stay all night Rowens thanked her.
For once Georges tongue was quiet. She helped
Mrs. Niece get supper. There were no relatives
who stopped for feast. much 10 Mrs. Mc''ees
disgust. Rowena had announced that she would
have no one invited TO stay. And she said II with
such firnnass that the housekecper dared not dis
obey But she took occasion 10 explain the matter
with comments, tO several cousins who had driven
five miles and who would have been obliged TO
20 back fasting if Mrs. Warner had not proposed
that they come over 10 her house. II was not the
same TO them however if they had been at
the house Of mourning.
They said. with some bitterness that they sposed
Rowenvd got her head full Of strange notions
And where was her husband anyway? 1t would
have looked very we'll if he had been there
Mrs Warner Explained that Mr.. Bradford was
in California on business. And she artfuly addcd
that Mr.. Bradford was one Of the incest men she
.,er mot md that he seemed 10 think that nothing
was too good for his wife.
She that was Mary Jane Jcwctt had come 70 the
funeral She had tried 10 get where She cS"Io
shake hands with ROwena, but could not.
Size thought Of that paragraph in The Daily
Blank" .,
She looked through the door into the mourners
roor She saw Rowena sitting between hcr TWO
brothers. ,.,,,
With some boodthirstiness. she said 70 "e,Sei,
that she would like 10 chop OH ahyoouS "'"'
who talked about that woman
Tho DAYS followed each other now WIN sch'c
OF uniform desoation. ,o,,iro
AnriI came quickly. The robins were noPP'"o
,,,t il tho grcot ward Of the farmhouse
Whom neonlc asked Rowcna if she should stay
.horc eb. ALWAYS replied that she had lo''''" Nv
plans. -. ouo arranged for
,a;. echoolinc AZ an academy in to"h 1"o"S
,,,ort, miles away. They would 90 ai'ei "',
~ hod ,yr;ttcn 10 Keats the day following inc
funeral When the time came when rt". ion
him should be due she was snrpIiSe' '""'
came. -. honiebr,cnt IN n
She took her easel from its bahis"n.'"O - en-
closet She set up canvas "Po" ' ",
brought ont her sketches OF tl"' s'u". ~ hod
She languilly began 70 mix paints p", -" .inrs
no insrirotion She looked duly at 'he coioi'
n rrp ,roro NOT what she wanted. But al one
flno,oon and the next end the next shc sac
hor easel with her palette on her thumb ana
diec,cnt brushes in her hand Az l'St sue f'i'
II am not in the mood As she was . cca% %n
l~.,a Coorc,e came in. She came every day.
chc told her husband she was worried "'o"'
Roweny. ,., O., do, she