The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-04-16

had come to the sensible conclusion that,a
he wos going to live there perhaps all his
life. it would be quite as we'll to be friendly
with the people about him IA at once to
wait until he met them in the churchyard or
in q land beyond it. where ptop!o do not, l
am told, cut one another in the streets.
1t wasn't part of his duties rs minor canon.
Certainly not. Certainly not. A minor
canon duty was to help several other
canons. minor and major. to take the daily
SO. wee In the cathed al, at watch Il paid
choir and five old ladies. two of whom were
stone deaf, attended, and, when asked, to
appear at the episcol al teas. But go in and
out among the people? Oh! No. Had he
not been provided by a foreseeing endow-
ment with . residence in The Close?'
30 it came to pass that he called upon the
Dewberrys. | 10 get what his c rand was.
lilo wanted Miss DewberrY to rlay a few
tunes to the children at one of the Sunday
schools when he showed his magic lantern
views, or something of that SORT. But he
found them pleasant company.
There was q good deal of dignity of q
quiet sort about MIR. Dewbsr. y, not I'M
mingled with a certain air OF respect for his
visitor. Mrs. Dewberry was knitting. Miss
Dewberry was reading, and n very soft
light fell upon her face from the shaded
lamp. Yes! 1t was ali ve:Y pleasant, and
the Rev. 1ertius stayed more than the reg
ulation quarter of an hour. When he did
take leave he had mentally ilaosd the Dew
bsrrys upon the list OF townspeople to be
regularly visited.
Miss Letitia Rasper's new photograph did
not please her.
why don't you take me like Miss Dew
berry, Mi. Fean?' she asked petulantiy.
"BeCuuse that style won suit you," said
Dir. Fem. Il know what suits people dl-
rectly | see them. That's tho best | can do
for you. or course ! can take you any way
you ike, hut the result will be the same"
Miss Rasper looked even less pretty than
her photograph Just then, but all she saId
waB: VIII you let me SEQ tAat other mega
tiye-the first on9?"
"Certainly.'' sui1 Mr.. Fenn, and he went
ont of the shop, al he called his reception
room, into the studio
Miss RaSper took up q carte-de- vls,a,
which was one of several on view. and put
IL III her pocket. She wasn't going to let
every one that came IN smirk at her photo,
She told herself, but she was SO annoyed
that she did not notice that she had taken
up some one etso'B. 10 fact, RlIss Dew
bery's, and after fut ther consultation with
Mr., Fem she left the shoi.
As soon as she reached home she found
out Ler mistake. At FIST she WIS going IL
take 1t back, and then to put 1t INTO tho nee
finally she decIueI to keep it q few days. IT
Is really wonderful how people will oultl-
Slte TINS bosom com phulOnSilp OF WHAT
ever prlcks them.
After Il few days had run into n few weeks
it began to occur to her that the Rev. or
thus Cherry bounce wus coming into uude-
hlrably frequent contact with MISS Dow
berry. Not that there was aHtLing vely
noticeable If Tad not been that Miss Raspol
had made the habits OF minor chnons In
general quite a study. aud really NIGH,
have written Il not unlnterestlnG volume OIL
the subject.
"lhe minor canon Mt early morning ser.
vice, " mt b~eGkfasl,' and 30 forth. Foo il
one lady lad III DaukenhGIn WIS more per-
tinaclous lhEd Yegy ~pralsewcrthy OF h.r,
tool ia following In their fuotsteps-en-
Nlous people mlgAt call 1t wuyIayinR them
LzttIe has e AS her lntImatea y ofaueiy
Ca led heT. Certainty was Il lady. And tht
inlnor cAuon's housekee Eer. Mrs. Roper,
WAS I'm acquaintance OF hers.
MASS RaEprr had n cousin twice or thrice
removed, one M. Joseph kent-famuiarl;
called 10 hcnt-whose society WAS not OF
the most select order. still he WAS occa-
%sionaliy graciously permitted to visit al
Miss Rasper's mammals respectable domi-
cl!e.
On more than enc of these occasions j,
/, had said, more fully and more expregsivel,
perhaps than need was, that 'tuat thai
DeWbetry lDoouerrY he caI.ed 1T was -,
! pretty gal anu no error aud had Unlimited
| his of possessing one of her pho
tog'nphs ut all hazards. | believe he sail
hs'd bust himself if he didn't. And II
! Miss Raspcr WAS anxious. for the sake o
the family, setting aside it's genera
inconvenience, that this should nc