The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1893-12-15
CHAP TT.

CHAPTER Ill
Mrs Jack lived in queer lite nook
Of Il street leading noWhither. and
bounded 1T an end by a high garden
wall, The other enc opened out OF
quiet street behind the High street.
The house she lodged in was an old
stone house of two stories. with il
green door in the middle Of it and
green shutters. blistered by the sun.
hooked back against the wall on either
side Of each of the ground floor viii
dows The green door bore n brass
plate with this singular inscription:
MRS. T. PETHERICk, II. n
Strangers might stare and smile
when they saw it. but did not every
man. woman and child in Codlngton
know that Mrs petheric< was the
widow of Thomas Pctherick. master
in the Royal Navy? And did they not
know, moreover, that when her htls-
band died she had the letters NJ, 4, S.
squeezed i'll between the rim of the
plate and the name OF /. Petherick:
And Was not that a measure Of simple
and laudable economy, much more to
be commended than the purchase of IL
bfand-neW door-plate which would
have been mere waste of money: To
be sure. and as to strangers in the
nfa1 place, strangers are very rare
birds i'll codlngton; in the second. if
Mrs Petherick, L. n. had caught any
such staring and smiling at her door
rlate it would not have put her out ut
all
The good woman lived on her pen
sion and by the letting of lodgings
Besides Mrs Jack and her servant and
nef clhld, there were two other lodgers
III the mouse. One was Il compostor in
,se printing office Of the Codlngton
'lfohlcle. Who slept in 4 garret ut the
Top of tile house and took his meals
Win MIS-. Petherlck and her son Tom
III the Kitchen. The other was a GER
talll Miss Barnasconi, teacher Of music
anu Singing, who occupied the parlor
anu Il tiny bedroom behind it. Mrs
''ack hycd on the first floor.
II certainly was a humble place. but
tiie Young widow thought it looked
siolhellke and cheerful when she Went
,i''o u hef sitting room where white mus
IN curtains were fintterin. at the open
"iiiioN. ana ! bunch Of buttercnps
''iiu ealsles We're arranged in a blue
'A!iii boNi on the side table. and there
as q shell 1ull OF books mostly school
l'i'Hes, WIN the name Of Miss Isabel
iisols inscribed in them in 4 series
- elaDoflta Hourishes made by the
Nii'ilis master, but with one or two
.usse'-eoated worthless Of sterling mer
- among the bright blues and bright
.e'lie's ana gllding-and Il little old
aa>ilohei upright pianofortn. with scat
''i'u sleets OF music strewn unon II
.'iid 8, one very small, suuare-toed shoe
.,i ..la' l,;'u I, lost lost strap, lying on the
threadbare carpet ~
All these objects. poor and co,nn,
- !, 'ney We're, looked pleasant IL Heu
,s. 10y Inc place was her home She
i'i lo'ihd Kindness there-more kind.
n'eS - 'iislh she had ever expcrjenced :,
1os - House. as she Thought With
,oile pl.'efhess, and then. for da not
s'nan ) .,1 ~ disguise Mrs. Jacks Httla
oi,ies, she was praised and admirnl
,.,,i ,,,1 pee.ed II her lodging in Old street
Wheieas at Perciful House there nnrar
49,. als sugar plums Of flattery forth
a,i1i; .1l.nS lor her. The widow had two
:. - ~.!Iiilal anu lndelible sins in the er.s
=, v.i ~, h.shands family The FIRST elm
w. ""s 'll'a' she had brought lack i,iu
ln.,i;, i" p,.nhs Or money; the second th,t
aespl'e iler poverty. She had ~ '''a.'
p'rl ~, oi gentlehood and rctinnman, 40
,,l niie,l could never be attained hr -, 49,
uansn''rs ua,'all 81 Nj John Lilly = 1,hnae 'ae
i,oaliS l'ales declared thar Rel, ..'1,.,
hna, in - alfs. But the airs had IN fa.t
,,,,n ,,'a siVen 70 her by Nature ana - H.. ~.
~, Wy pretty, graceful airs indaai
:, Mrs, ',l Ir'horick was very fond ',,i'eu ~ hoL
aoasef. 10 be sure, She had ofIN' na;., ~ ,ler
,a,1r1ea nat., Mrs Patherick's Son nar '1.l,er ai
l. pe,ea WITH her in the mattar .'ol - com com
s,n.rii snnp, at,lactlons. Mss Rarnascani ~, ~
and 'i'I I'm ms tress was her great fr;o'' ,'ic
.,'ln ,anroi h,edy' the Irish maid'sarraa1' r,ena'
v' hau 9. fa llef mistress and tyranzal ,nn', a.
~ ~ from excess Of deyot;an p.ef n
paels,'ht -, ~, as the petting and tha ,r' Dut,
,,isna inaa, pe i would not stretch ~ prnlse
nro'np NJ. y pay the butcher ana ~ iler
inlaw's 'h ho,,l came home from her father her.
come mar !, nttle girl and Riddy had pl's nn+
She sat = dnnn irom their afternoon ramble AR ye'
~ - down and took off her 'h1aplet bonnet