The herald., 1894-04-15
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Of miscellaneous objects in his pockets.
evidently nothing remained but to bur-
den his stomach and this he proceeded
10 do in sullen and desperate manner.
Having thus brought himself to an even
keel. ho pauAed and looked at me. My
fcntures woro their usual winning smile.
which il IN invitation to confidence that
would bo worth good deal in the con-
fdenco trick line.
u don't SEQ what could havo done
with it, muttered the stranger, and
then he began to rummage around his
pockets. / caught hurried glimpses OF
muhy queer things. Among them were
two gloves, one male and the other fe-
male rolled together; small hand mir
Ioi, screw driver, an iron caster that
might have como OFF tho leg of bed, a
soiled collar, several mantel shelf orna-
ments and bottle of brown shoe dress
ing Lastly no produced three gildedl
balls and laid them on the table.
lyon can't commence business here
without license" said |. a
"These things came off the end of cur
tain poles-pourchairs, you know, as
tho French call them," said he.
si"We wanted to move the first of the
month" he croaked, "but one thing
AMI another delayed us. The principal
trouble was that we couldn't get man
with van TO move us. Three days ago,
however, induced an old fellow out
there to mako beginning with us. We
had our place in town engaged, and the.
rent had begun to run, so thought we'd
better run after it before it got too far
ahend of us. Ii
.''The cid follows name was Wenner.
He came round with his wagon Tuesday
morning just as was ready to leave
for town. my wife was pumping air
into my ears so that could run for my
train without getting out of breath.
That is the way I playfully refer to her
parting admonitions. l explained to her
that Mr.. Wenner could take only one or
two loads that day, so she'd better send
ornamental than useful things. And
for heavens sake, / added, don't pack
away my pipe and tobacco the first
ttling, as you did the last time we
moved.
"When / got home that evening,
found my wife weeping in the midst of
our dismantled home. That dreadful
old villain, Wenner, said she, hasn't
kept his word. He's moved only half
nnr things
Well said 1, that's all right.
He'll come again tomorrow and get the
rest. Let's have some dinner and try to
forget our sorrows. rAsg sss
''She looked at me rather strangely,
but made no objection. She put the din
ner on the table, for we had sent our
servant away, and we sat down to eat.
While we were thLJ more or less pleas
antly engaged my wife's sister an
nounced herself. She had come to take
us by surprise. They're a surprising
family that I've married into, but
they've ceased to surprise me. I'm be-
yond it. Whatever crazy trick they do
I'm expecting it. This refers to the rest
of them, not to my wife. She still has
latent possibilities which could amaze
anybody. One of them developed after
dinner that night.
"She called me aside and said: John
ny, it's perfectly awful! Do you know
there isn't bed in the house?' What's
become of them?' l asked. Sent 'em
all away by Wenner, said she.l Lis-
ten, Johnny, and don't be angry-it
won't do any good. That man promised
that no would move all our things to-
day. / thought we could get into=our
fiat this evening. And l said to myself,
What shall we need mostf Why, the
beds, of course. So l sent them all of
ON the first load
Then We'll have to go to London
and sleep in that fiat. said I.
g. But listen, Johnny, she said.
'There wasn't room for the mattresses
on the first load, so sent them on the
cecond.
p" Well, what of it?' an$s
They didn't get as far as London,
she walled 'Wenner's got that second
load in his warehouse. sent little
boy over to sec about it..
"This staggered me. So our beds
are in London, gasped, and our mat
tresses are in Wenner's warehouse on
the other side of the forest? Suppose we
go and sleep in his warehouse9'
She said that was very bitter and
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we could get along very we'll for one
night if / wouldn't make such fuss.
There was one old mattress in the site.
She and Lizzie would sleep on that, and
could have little canvas cot. 1t was
very nice, comfortable bed, and she
knew it. She was logically convinced
of it because she'd had to go over the
arguments with our servant almost ev
cry day since the girl began to try to
sleep on root. Say, did you ever try to
sleep on canvas cot? 1t looks easy, but
1t isn't. / retired at midnight in the
north room. One Of my wife's relations
had it last winter, and he called it the
blue room, because that was the color
OF his nose every morning when be got
mp and scraped the frost off his looking
glnss. But 1t was a warm night, and
! never thought about being chilly.
We'll, Bir, it came on cold an hour
o. two after l retired. felt it first
on my feet. They hung out over the
lower end of the cot. and there was
CRACK in the floor rignt under them. Of
course the carpet had been taken up, 30
when the wind came round to the north
it camo straight up at my feet. hadn't
q very good assortment Of bedding.
Most of our stuff had beon sent over to
.Nenner's warehouse. l had a sheet
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