Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-11-15

Ter Huldan has gone to her room. We
will excuse her tonight"
The next morning. however. she re-
pented Of this leniency. for when the
family filed In To breakfast at Q o'clock
Huldah was not in line. and the elderess
had vision Of her lying comfortably
sbed, forgctful Of precepts and warn
ings. She prepared 10 be very stern
with the irresponsible old soul, bet when
she went up stairs 70 pour incensed ad-
mention upon Huldah's head, she dis
covered the surprising fact that Huidah
was not In her little room. The place
looked tidy with its high bed. scrap Of
stove and dinity sash shade. But Hull
eldercss looked she found that Huldah's
two print frocks and linsey petticoats
( and long Shaker bonnet were also gone.
I Lucia had q sensation Of unpleasant
ness. 1t did not sit we'll with her con-
science TO think that she had driven the
old sister away. she sought 70 convey
some assurance TO Huldah. bat no one
seemed able to suggest, "a TO her where
abouts. anything more definite tLan that
she had likely gone TO ''her kin down
/ yender in Lincoln" Lucia accepted
with q sense of self reproof the theory
that Huldah had gone out into the world
/ In q mood of resentment. Others had
loft the community IN various moods of
revolt against the new elderess' high
! handed methods Commonly they came
back properly subdued by the GOODNESS
4 Of the world. No doubt Huldah would
also return, and when she did 50, Lucia
determined upon treating her little less
! sternly
But though she fixed upon this consid-
crate usage she found no chance for
practicing it, for weeks passed ON, and
no word came Of old Huldah- Summer
dotted its green garments for coats OF
russet. In West House yard the cherry
trees spread against the paling skies, and
mp the Shaker roads and around the
I stolid houses wintry winds swept cold
and snow came early that year, folding
in white the trim garden spaces. A cold
winter set in. The preserving kitchens
were shut and deserted, and the Shaker
women. gathering of afternoons about
7 thsir little heart shaped stoves, sewed
I
/ ly stuffed emery bags with thistledown.
They sat at their tasks more quietly
than had been their won't under the
placid regime Of Elderess Jane. Gossip
was frowned on 10y the new elderess,
who, by way of furnishing her house.
hold light entertainment. read TO them
/ while they worked from raoldy records
/ Of the spiritual experiences Of early fol-
lowers Of Ann Lee.
One day in January, while they sat
and listened. q knock sounded at the sit
ting room door. A lank fellow. bundled
In wool scarf. stood on the threshold.
"Howdy.- he ssid. smiably nodding ut
Lucia. who looked up with calm. dark
eyes and smooth. soft irs which silently
questioned the intruder.
You're THE new clderess. reckon
promised the man. Il used 10 know
Sister jams right well. I'm tho tollgate
man. ! was jest godn on 10 Harrodsburg.
and laid of 20 stop in and tell You
some ones hvin in the old log house
down on the river. | knowed IL was
Shaker property. and / jedged you'd
want 10 know. W wife she see smoke
comm from the chimney. and she he'd
me climb mp the bank 70 see who was
living there. | couldn't raise no one.
But m wife she says she sec a woman
sneak thoo the bushes up there with n
pa.-el Of fagots didn't know tut you'd
want to bear IL any one was hvin In one
~ your houses ard a-stealin your tim
Der. Ne aud M wife we're always glzd
a ~ 49, "a s-.sr..4 sssr.a
One ~ rho shaker women uttered an
exclamation: Law me. who ever hes
10 he IN that old crib must b. poorly of.
n amt ft for frewood aud half = mile
from q hvin cr1tteri I wonder Who
Why. Law me- 4 couldn'; % old HuliahT'
t'l~ia started 500 went o. her peo-
pie. she said sharply. And then. sud
denly ~nongh. .ke said 10 the tollgsss
man. will yUu take me to the plaoef
Sosne oue th~re may ned help Sister
Ro~~. t~ll AhTAfn 90 hitch mp
The sprsRg wagon. however. could so
only - -. part u taa wsv. AZ The
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