The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-22

station, and the train gone like flash
she realized for the first time that
she had task on her hands such as she
had not contemplated.
1t was all well enough to become
violently and righteously indignant at
Mr.. Pilsbury's outrageous desertion of
his wife and family, and to vow ven-
geance upon the prepossessing servant
girl, who had disappeared as suddenly
and as mysteriously as he had-and at
the very same time, too But that
neither brought the deccitful husband
within range of Mrs. Bob Pilsbury's
thoroughly prepared tongue, nor the
saucy and pretty face of the house
maid--though Mrs. Pilsbury strenu-
ously denied that such a creature
conld be prctty-within reach of the
Lady fnger-nails-supposing. of course,
that the charming little mistress of Rose
cottage could so far forget herself.
But there she was, was Mrs. Pilsbury,
and Portsmouth was not Cidervillc.
Mrs Pilsbury was made painfully
aware of this latter fact in about three
minutes, when she perceived thai not n
single man. woman or child in all the
crowd at the station seemed to pay the
slightest attention to her-something
that she could not remember ever to
have happened to her - ..ome, ''in her
born days. as she afterward expressed
it. No. she was in a real city now,
where every body did not know every
body else, and where nobody at all
knew her, or cared IA button for her or
the great wong that, but day before,
had excited all Ciderville and the sur
rounding country.
But Mrs Pilsbury was shortly moved
to action by the recalling of the taunt
of that hateful Mrs. January--that
''she would soon settle, her husband, if
he had eloped with the scrvant-girl,
with something more effective than
tears
Mrs. Pilsbury waited a moment, till
the busy ticket agent seemed to have a
seconds rest from the inquisitions of
the ever-inquiring public, and then ap-
preached him timidly with the direct
question:
''Did you see tall! dark-looking gen.
tleman with side whiskers get off the
early morning train from Ciderville?"
accompanied by rather pretty
looking young lady-tall and blonde,
and"
Mrs. Pilsbury had to catch her
breath.
''Yes!' was all she could gasp, though
she wanted to deny the 'pretty-lools.
ing part.
And wearing a light blue hat,
with large ostrich feather?"
again, and this time harder
''And did she have very pleasant
smile?" asked the ticket agent, evident.
ly interested.
This was too much.
1.-The hussey" exclaimed the indig.
nant little Mrs. Bob Pilsbury, very
much to the astonishment of the man
of the tickets.
Before he had an opportunity, how
ever, to elicit further information than
the mere fact that the tall blonde
young lady was, according to the
sweet-faced distressed little woman al
the window, 'hussey," Mrs. Bob hae
disappeared through the door,
A sudden rush of the throng, anG
some screaming on the part of the fe
male portion OF it, had caused her tc
run suddenly out into the street with
the rest to see what the excitemen,
was.
FLAMES were bursting out of the up
per window of large chair-factory on
the block below, and engines were
tearing down the street, followed by
the usual crowd. Soon the street was
sblack with heads.
One of those heads belonged to this
husband of Mrs. Bob Pilsbury. Though
only rear view was obtainablc, the
excited, euterprising little mistress oi
Rose cottage succeeded by hard push
ing in getting SO good rear view thai
she could almost have thumped Mr..
Bob with the end of her parasol.
But her moment Of triumph had moi
yet come. The derelict husband disap
peared from her field OF vision quite az
suddenly as he had appeared thereon
and Mrs. Bob was bewildered.
The 6re belched forth from the third
tstory, and-horrors!-.three girls faces
scaine for an instant to the windows oi
tie fourth, and then drew back!
Mrs. Bob was all Of treinble. Shs
hnd never witnessed such sight be
z 3nrs bhe sdmittNd, when xftsrwsrdl