New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-25

lie looked toward his cabin. thinking to call
his wife TO bring him Il Goa from the hearth bu'
no one WIS visible He pat the pipe in his pocKc'
The path such IT was, wound AMONG the Stump-
of pine tree, directly bv where he sat.
Mr. job Maine d not seem TO be in a g9od
| humor to-day. In IN" morning he had asked Mrs
Gerry t. a.lvarcc him another months rent.
AS she had ALREADY uoid ahead for two months
he had refused 10 grant her landlord tbs iavor.
lie was tanEn. row ;ha' he should like 10
| go and tell tha Glni'" woman 70 pack mp h"r
buds ard tramp Still Mr. Milne had sense
enough to know thai she probably would neither
pack ror tr!mp at present. And it WIS consid-
crablc 'Ioulc TO tell Lcr.
He had already brought in a bill Of 81 for the
nieht and day IN when SliS Gerry ana n'r
root receiving WHIT b" bud 1t their first nicotine
called Southern hospitality" At the end OF
that time Mrs Gerry had absolutely driven Inn
forth 10 Augustine for Ter trunk. She had sald
thai another tw"nty-four hours spent with Mr.
Maine and his vie would kill her. even il her
daughter survived
And Sir Maine had charged 81 for getting IN"
trunk ana ~ for ALLOWING Ms Gerry - slt IN
the cart with lilr. while lie null took them by
imp'rc"p'ihlr dclrecs into The city aad back
ngain.
Tie eeutlcman ">pl~ircl that it wa not so
much tie mere act of driving Mrs Cory into
town and getting her trunk that WIS worth money
n. that hi. time VIZ. valuable y Wns CnVs Job
he sold. and 'ha' day. he asScriol he had aimed
~ loin, u number of things. II" rcmarN'l mar
tile s,.o>up oi The year 10 was JOS : hurried =
~" could b. wlcrca' Salomc laughed in aG carc-
speaker "'rr ON" If tii' actors
Bat Mrs Gerry was not cnr-frcc. an she had a
wild wish NJ ia" moment to 70" = man ana !" nay"
F, stout wlip IN her hand AMI 10 lay that whip with
tLc ufu,St 81 l..icr over tai, creatures shoulders.
Wlri ,l.. had first Thought was lazy good
natnr. in Mr. N'in" 81 som discovered 10 ID"
only the uDrl TINT would moi :'~' % active anger
or 80 activity Of any Kind.
Mr. Main" icr1u Immediately 10 tell lnncni'-
Is All sh" Lad endured since h"r mairifg". she
never spoke on any other ~uhi."f bat tli- cndur-
rrD- and -. iic rr'o. fhoY' vas in her pr"sc1t
c.rdi ion nnl her condition when 81" was vounS
S,lomc would lool, at her with incr"lulous
Wonder r. lcr heart ,hc did not believe that
Mr. Nlir" had evr hcrn vouus girl.
~" woman would sit At on" side of III" fireplace,
for ~ seemed - want = fir whether the day was
lo, or copl and tell what luNuri's la. been he's
Whom sine wa- vounc hcfo' thur wah."
She never flil"i 70 aesert that her family vas
ON" Of ;lc " iu~t families down In Alnb3wm.
h'd Furthermore she alw1rs sad tla' h pa 'c1ts
lpl opposed her marriage but that she hal married
Sr'om, would Tool, IT he speaker and thcn ont 70
'h" pine lo. 1T tia" -pcrh'r's husband who had
bon married lnr love"
r cn the c',l would ehul1nr One day she asked
Icy mother If II wcr" pn.>ih'" that Mrs Maine
could ever llv" loved. or II Mr.. Main" could ever
lave inep'r,l tiot s.ntmcct
R..nu.". -lc sad cmphltioally. " il that has
h.c' po,si'l. II wo7 b. god thin: 70 di" before
fhrt KIND of q dI-,l 'u-ipunrni corue~"
Mr.. Cc r. l,u-hcl and replied tlat ~h' f'lt posi-
tive fhpf Mr.. Maine hal rcrcr belonged 10 4 first
family IN hiahana or anywhere else: but ~ for
love- why. that was too mysterious subject 70
di,'rea
There was Gala an" said Salomc NJ ditativclv
Now - she walking along th" path with
SOMEONE uiit. different from talnan. IN" sight
Of lob Maine ON thnt log gave her shock.
-" stopped and laughed somewhat nerNouSly.
What + il o." n~lSel Moore.
Won s"' thrt man ~
Nriur9 Yc>
WELL" mugiing AMIN. and shnddcriNc also,
his wifi, Las told me s'or" of times that she
married that man fur love-