The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1893-03-23


arb, hoy, diinl ltor nothing stoi
en- bu, itoashi he wss . pretty ooors
bic teller dii that. snd. II I am bssf
| am honest 90 st.islt. you neve
haerd Of me going crooked. eb. Loyf
selh's open oounienspce vas turned o.
him With ress ufiss smils. Ny is,be
respected you, cir. be said a. IL ihi. iadg
menl sss husl. ltvato accepted by ih'
eli man. snd alter cordial roi be turned
away. aud vet, seross los TO hn ovr
farmhouse.
Seth LEI, 10 himself. sss ior the momesl
overuh uhelmed With . sudden sense OF rec.
possibility. Be leaned his bead on his
arms with hopeless dioop OF his shoul'
ders. pitliul when seen in oae 30 youns.
For the moment be felt that the world
was hard place for ,be psnpisss orphan,
just then persnt tsli tapping at the vic,
dow pane attracted Lis sthniion. He
glanced upwards. There Was 70 faded
Auut Jem, almost hidden Lshind the
superb callss 10 the bos window. She
DO ided aad beck oned 10 isntsstic fashion,
aud the boy reluctantly obeyed her de
psnd.
NJ hlns be doing pntty fair. va ber
remsrk rs he entered the par or. I've got
uncommoa good luck with my flowers,
anyway.
Seth felt irri,ated by this intrusion OF
Aunt Jem's hobby at s, serious moment,
and the sensitive oldladys face quiyered as
she read the unspoken thought. Dan. he
was fond Of my flowers, shs filtered. /
pm, my beau'ifullsst lily In bis band this
noon beft re-b, fore
saw it, said Seth, his heart melting at
sight OF her tears.
Wa l. 1t sll come 10 me since thea like
fash. | siDt no kin to you. Seth. nor to
no one My folks /, all gone; ut Dan,
be WAS always ODD u II fri niless. He
fetched me over Lee. and give me this
bow window for my flowers. 'Twant for
nothing. Meth r. though he didn't see it
when he opened bis hspd to the lon,ly
old woman. guess there sin't no one in
the counlry's eot my luck agrowing a howI
ers. Jest you lt ok ct these ere fuchsias,
Seth; and here's gtranium. fourteen
blooms as oil be out, come Sunday.
Aunt Jem, be said. ] m oil wrong today
can abide the smell OF them. II kind
OF makes me sick I'll look at EN- to omor-
row. aud get out OF doors for while now.
Aunt Jems incoDsequent face took oa
re,olu,e look.
No. you don't she said. catching bis
arm. I'm slow, Seth. and you've got to
make lowance; bntit come to melville
they were talking you deaf about the NOR
tgage. Seems like the Lord sent the
the Il ought. Goo1 things come from
him, Seth, and | guess this comes sloug
with the rest.
The beWi dered boy acoustic ed TO
look upon the qui woman. TO whom his
v
creature to be cared for ike a child.
thought she had suddenly lost har resfon,
and stared blankly in the eyes afre with
new light
Auot Jem, more nervous than ever. babi
bled oo; but iome words that she said
caught Seth's attention. and be began to
strive to unravel her meaning from her in
consequent snsrl OF wording.
I've known it. come Christmas, bout q
year. Dick Lc comis, be sint got my luck
with fowers. There's ZONE as has, snd
more as hasn't Deacon Smiths wife, she
told me, q year back, Jemimy. she says,
there's thom folks living to the hotel, sl.
ways wanting bouquets Seems like they
can't get on without EN-; and LOOMS. he
drinks som and be sin't got no luck.
and. anyway, he amt got EN- 10 sell. Wall
she says, Deacon Smiths wife do say as
flowers them 10 ks must have, and they be
sending 10 Bosioa, sure's you're alive,
s th, for bouquets every week.
Here Aunt Jem paused 10 her incober
ent haraDgus, brealhless. aud mildly re
turoed Seihs blank stare
So you sec, shs coItinued. it comes to
me like a nh;,nd that's what / Gale for
you for, Sch 1t seems unfeeling like to
be talking tf blooms hen you've just
buried your isther, but we've got TO go
on living, and tears sol't pay tf your
mt rtgsge.
Here tears oil fiom b Z reddened lids, |
and she Il ,ckeDed ter grasp Of Seth's srD |
While she wiped them away witn her ar, |
ron. The boy. eyeo 1T til, crisis, could
not clip the lit urlon OF the thought %
to the reason Why everything about Aunt
Jem wore The same faded complexion.
According 10 LOOMS prices, she con
tinued. them lilies there ought to be
worth q quarter piece. l sm going 10
fetch EN- TO the hotel tomonos morning,
with IS many small posies Ne ! can make
wi,h the rett Of tue o5ms. Thsts what
mean, Seth; and iht res the touth piazza
opening n the setiingi gio)m. Guess you
could liz IL with glass. Aud then there's
csrpeLteriDa; Josiah, hes real cute ct
iixin's. An plants il heavy, II Pete and
Thomas d 90 the liitias, P,liy. she II
help me iistt aioag. and IN summer there
The flower beds. Seems TO me.if Boomis
makes any kind OF = livin and doot take
care Of things we'd ought 10 do somethi
ing--
BY this lime S,th's omipently practical
mind had mastered tue central lea. and
tue orisinstor Suddenly found h,rself
Lugeei up 10 bis armr, torn iorcibly from
har stronghold Of c.ilss. and carried to
the string room. where the rest Of the
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