New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-16

II is like the frogs in the m0at AZ Augusuhc'
said Sa0me " How warm it must be down there
now! And DO you suppose it is Mrs. Job Maine
day for thur shakes p"
Tho girl laughed, and her mother laughed III
rcsponse They were very cheerful. And they
soon fell to talking about the High School ana
Salome said she must Turkish up her mathematics :
she was never strong in mathematics
Il hope you won't get too tired" said Mrs
Gerry. you are not used to being shut up In
o room all day.
"Oh. | shan't get too tired" was the reply.
" Tbercs lots Of work in me- It's time | was be-
ginning il don't you think so? Mother" catch
ing her mothers glance, you needn't worry one
bit about me. l long to work: and I'm tough
launching again: I'm what they call tough as
knot It's going TO be your turn to take things
easy now. / shall bring my wages to you ana
Won will save them. / shall have fifty dollars
a month. YOU know. How much do YOU think II
will cost us to livc-to be fairly comfortable?
needn't have beefsteak very often in these days.
I'm we'll
The girl Strengthened her slender figure. What's
good enough for you is good enough for me-
She turned toward her mother and suddenly
drew her mothers hand through her arm Mrs.
Gerry could not help smiling at the thrifty cacu-
lation as to ways and means.
How much do you think it will cost us to
livc?@ repeated the girl.
THE rent will be four dollars month";" was
the reply. twenty-five dollars ought to cover
everything But your Clothes
Il don't mean they shall be anything at pres
cnt. h. thankful ! am not van mother. Iheil
we can save the rest Of my salary toward what
owe Mrs. Darrah.'
YES, that is what I thinking. In two
wears if we are well, with what can help SHE
will be paid"
Mrs Gerry spoke with kind Of unconscious
solcmnty. The two women walked on IN silence
for a few moments The farmhouse to when
they were going stood before them, looking
black against the pale light Of the west. lher'
had come chill in the air, though the day had
been warm.
Il wish you had worn yonr shawl said MIS-
Gerry anNiously Let us hurry
Il am not cold; and | don't want TO hurry,
responded the girl She held her mother Da"K "a
little hesitatng before she said. suppose you
are very anxious about that debt, aren't you
"Ncs.r
20. knew that very we'll Then SaIome
continued in light tone, but we needn't WORT!
in the least Mrs. Darrah has 50 much money
that even Porta Nunally could not spend it nearly
all here III Dr 10 ldIlu uOI' III H'''i P"J So
"Salomc.7
No. repeated the younger woman with per
,i,trnt disregard, mot the least harm. I'm not
going 10 lie awake o. nights thinking of that
Certainly YOU need not lie awake nights, said
Mrs Gerry patiently "bnt we'll save all we can
Il is a lust debt And Mrs Darrah has been kind.
II is n lust debt" A triilc OF hardness came into
the speakers voice as she spoke those words a
second time.
Salome gazcd at her companion through the
gathering dusk Then she said, still lightly;
"Oh. yes, know it is just. But how unlovely
Justice j.. Mother. hate Justice"
Mrs TERRY made no answer. The two walked
quickly up the path toward the door of the house
The next moment Salome was seized upon by
tho thrreycar-old son Of the family, who had been
allowed 10 sit up for her return. The two were
instantly in the sayrst Of frolics. Salomes laugh
ter and song sounded through the rooms.
Mrs Gerry and her sistcr-in-law sat talking IN
q desutory fashion about what should be put INTO
the house at the Ledge The brothers wife was
going TO lend some old furniture which had been
her fathers. and which was now in the attic.
What good company slome is exclaimed the
hostess. -" do b'lieve my chi!1rund soon love
hers wells they do me Size ; real well now
ain she
Yes
I'm awful glad But somehow snd be kinder
fraid If she was mine 10 have her in such 9o0d
spirits jest hear her" as the child's laugh and
the girls laugh rang out from the bedroom where
il was supposed that the boy was being put 10
bed.
I'm sure | don't mean 10 worry because -
lone is in good spirits, answered Mrs. Gerry
There's worry enough in the world without GO
ng 10 meet il in that way.
but I'm always anxious when folks seem too
haPFIy .k.r o,u.ol with ,bc air Of having some
thing more 70 say. d" ! have heard, she went on,
81 that STONES ben disappointed S"ncc she went
south. Would you jest a. licvcs tell me If there
Was any young man payin' attention to her down
there
Mrs. Gerry could not help hestatine an instant.
She scented the question; but she must meet it
IL wasn't place" she said finally whore we
should be likely meet young men. Why, 1t
was the lon' soonest, most God forsaken spot you
can imagine.
odd SIome liked it, wasn't il?
She was getting well all the time, you know,
was th" answer
That does make a difference remember
when Robert Was gttin' up from that fever
And npw the woman was well started on a long
retrospect Mrs. terry yielded to sense of relief
but she could not forget that remark about her
daughters having been disappointed" in Florida
Who could have said such thing a. that? Who
could possibly know anything Of what had hap
p,ncd there? although Mrs Gerry not Il
woman of impulse, yet she was conscious now Of
an impulse 10 20 away To some place where III"
and her daughter were not known. But all
through those long, those intermindble months in
IN. south. she had hoped and waited for the time
to come when sl" could return 10 her native town
She desired with intensity that she might dwell
among those rocky pastures under that sky There
had hardly been an hour when size had not fought
against homcsickncss. The very balm Of the air
went against her, she would have said. Sl"
wished for that east wind which sweeps savagely
in from the coast.
Still Mrs Gerry would not have acknowledged
that she felt such "A longing. She considered it II
a weakness which she must fight down.
Saome often said that her mothers idea Of
being good was to fight some tendency all the
time If she did not readily find tendency n
little self ANALYSIS would be- sur" to reveal on"
But she said this sningy, and hanging tcndcrly
about her mother.
Now as Mrs Gerry thought of what her sister
in-law had ,lid. and heard Saomes gay voice.
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